Evening journal., 1889-03-21
CALM AFTER STORM.
The House Contemplates the
Damages.
j BATCH OF INTERESTING NOTES.

Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, March 20.-There is feeling Of
relief In the House over the passage of
the constitutional convention bill. The
act has been burden to the Republicans
from the FIRST and it was with the great
est difficulty that all the members could
be brought into line. and If 1t had been
thought the Senate would pass the bill
the House wouldEnever have allowed tito
escape in relation to the bill your cor
respondent has it upon pretty good
authority that it was fixed up at a con-
ference in Mr.. Bradford's house. at which
a well known Democratic lawyer was
present. and the latter was willing to
admit aud grant anything that Mr.. Brad
ford asked Mr. Bradford knew full well
that whatever glory comes out of the
passage Of the act viii come to him pri-
marily and his party afterwards There
is one thing that is apparent, the Repub-
Hcans are not happy over the result of
yesterdays vote Their whole action was
partisan and it was shown as the debate
grew to close. They would have much
preferred not to have had Messrs. Eckles
and Lodge with Them for 1t knocked all
their capital sky high On every hand it
was admitted that Messrs. Whiteman
and Armstrong had the best Of the argu-
ments. The Senate Democrats are iubi-
liant over the result and will show before
the session is over that they are the real
friends Of constitutional reform and not
the obstructionists that the Republicans
are.
INSURANCE LEGISLATION.
The valued Policy bill was to have
come up for consideration in the Senate
to-day, but was again postponed in order
to allow the insurance men a chance to
appear and present their case. The men
were to appear to-day, but were unable
to do SO, and telegraphed TO Senator
Richardson for more time, which he
granted He will push ii TO vote on
Friday at all events 1t Is looked upon
as highly probable that the bill viii pass
the Senate. What its fate in the House
will be is hard to determine. Represen-
tatiye Downham has bill in that body
that is much stronger than the Richard
son bill. He will not push 1t, however.
The insurance men expect to present
arguments sufficient to keep either bill
from passing both houses
OYSTER LEGISLATION.
The oyster men were here in force TO-
day to oppose the passage of an act in
troduced by Senator Richardson TO allow
captains Of oyster boats to employ their
crews from any place they desire. Under
our present laws captains and crews Of
oyster boats are compelled to be residents
OF the state. II it is discovered that
there is nonresident on the boat the
boat is forfeited to the state. The reason
for the passage Of this law Is said TO have
been that captains Of boats would travel
from place to place hiring crews wherever
they went, thus despoiling the oyster
beds OF the state Nearly every oyster
man from Little Creek were today In
opposition to the bill The Commit Zee on
Fish, Oysters and Game gave them
hearing Colonel Il. 4. Cooper and James
Pennewill represented them, and Secre-
tary of State Salisbury and General II.
r.. Kenney appeared in favor of the law.
On Thursday next those in favor Of the
law will appear and present the case.
This is tie biennial row that occurs over
oyster legislation and the members
usually expect to give three or four days
to it.
ANTI-CHICAGO BEEF.
The anti Chicago beef bill is commenc-
ing to excite attention and the next de-
bate may be expected upon that question.
Representative Whiteman received to-day
batch Of petitions for the passage OF
the acts At liberal estimate there are
not over !, 200 names to the petition and
the entire state has been secured to
secure these names 1t is safe to say
that there are not over fifty names Of
representative men in the entire lot
Upon the heels of the petition Willard
Salisbury brought down on the evening
train remonstrance containing the
names Of 2 900 citizens Of Wilmington.
On the list are the names Of nearly every
physician Of the city of Wilmington de-
claring that the meat is healthful The
names Of nearly every man Of prominence
in the city. 1t is without doubt the
strongest and best petition presented by
persons for an object this session and will
carry great weight with it.
COUNTY CONTRACT WORK.
Representative Eckles Is after the
Levy Court Of New Castle county. He
gave notice of an act in the House this
afternoon to compel any committee or
person having work to do for the county
to the amount of $50, to first advertise
for proposals. All claims are to be paid
in public. All bids are to be opened in
public aud contracts are to be awarded in
like manner.
BROUGHT UP
Senator Donahoe brought up with a
sharp turn to-day an act which ia effect
would have rendered useless the Game
Protective Association. The first section
of the act reduces the license for the sale
of game from $500 to $50. This is all
right as far as it went, but it was In the
second section that the mystery lurked.
This part of the act took away the right
Of the Game Protective Association to is
sue licenses. The Senate will consign the
bill to the grove that is kept there ready
at all times.
NOTES
Representative Gray viii introduce to-
morrow an act TO repeal the law that pro-
hibits political parades in the night
time
Representative Lodge has an act that
allows proof of the handwriting of at
testing witnesses to be sufficient for
proving a will where the witnesses are
@ither dead or out of the state
Colonel Anfengers speech upon the
temperance question on Monday night
kast has excited considerable comment for
It's excellence.
Professor T. r. Wolf addressed the
committee on Revised Statutes this even
ing against the reduction of the fee for
analyzing phosphates.
President Farra and Councilmen Quinn,
Chambers and Dillin Of City Council were
down this evening in the interest Of city
matters.
William p yoshell was here TODAY
securing recommendations for the posi-
fion Of United States marshal