Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-03-22
THE-LEvY COURT.
THE SESSION YESTERDAY AZ.
TERNooN.


AZ the afternoon's session of the Lew
Court yesterday, Mr.. Eliason from The
COMMITTEES to examine and report upon
the Delinquent sts Of Peucader hundred
reported IN invor OF an allowance for
William y. Bigger. collector, for errors
TO the amount Of e28, ,435, which report
was adopted.
As the court wss about to proceed
With the seleetion OF Jurors ior the en-.
SUNG year. Mr.. Wier arose and said be
would select none but the beat man Ia
gardless Of politics, 90 that there could
be no'excuse Tor the calling Of specIal
Jurors In the trial Of important cases at
An extra e1pepss 10 ths county.
Mr.. Jordan OF Mil Creek Hundred 70.
marked that 1t was very difiicult 10 get
men to serve a. Jury men, quito number
having spoken to him requesting that
their names be left out Of the iuty boz.
President Gruhb, Joining In the general
disc ussion, said that tho Superior Court
should exhaust the general Jurors before
they commenced summobing special
urors. He had no objection to special
juriss II they did not interfere with the
general jurors. Hundreds Of dollsrs were
wasted because general juries were kept
10 the court room while csse was going
On In which special Jurors were being
used. He knew OF one general juror who
had attended court for seventeen days
without being called upon.
Nj. Rothwell offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That the assessment Of
Honry Z. Mahatfy, on ton and one-half
acres Of land III the Ninth ward OF the
city o OF Wiimineton. bs reduced from
MIR. Roberts-I want to know how this
10 get up.
Pointing his finger at Mr.. RothwelI. be
asked; ''Were yon hero when that prop.
city WAS raised to vote In favor OF II?
How can you voc to reconsider when
you were not here to vote In the affirma-
tive? Tho resolution In out OF order"
Several members tried to be heard, and
everybody seemed to be talking at once.
and out iIers came running 10 to zee the
cansc Of the racket Mr.. Rothwell, rails
ing Ills stentorian voice above The sur
rounding din, shouted: ''rhlais no mo.
tion to reconsider; IL 10 . resolution, and
hiss nothing to do with : reconsidera-
tlou."
Mr.. Eliason. who also has good voice,
raised II above the confu, ion aud said
that Mr.. Rothw.ll's resolution was In
order.
"Of course 1t is," shouted Rothwell,
who ever heard Of . property ASSESS
ment being reduced 10 any other way" ="
squire Wtcr bobbod up and down aud
tried to get In word, but strong lunRs
prevailed, and the white haired leader ol
Appoquiniinink got tho ear OF tho court,
Tho resolution was entirely out oi order,
he knew II was. PoiptiDg to Mr.. Roth.
well, he SAID: "Young man. you'rs
very smart, but you a,n't as old as am.
You have some things 10 learn yet.
MAhafiy has never appealed from that
| assess ment aod we have no right to act
until he does. The properly 10 only as
tossed at $1,000 per acre aud that 10 u low
assessment after he has sold is feet
,quare Of It for SIS. / am not here Tor
fun. an here Tor business and mean
business"
Nh. Rothwell replied, and raised Mr..
Roberts Ire to a terrible pitch by saying
that he behaved like boy, and 1t was
very boyish like to raise property as
sesscd at 6400 to S2l ,00J when every body
knew 1t wasn't worth SIS much.
who do you call boy9" shouted Mr..
Roberta. II guess went to school be
lore you were born, young man, and
know my business, at least / ought to a
little more than 'fellsr' like you"
Mr.. Rothweli sawed the air with his
ARMS. while the bystanders convulsed
themselves with Laughter aud shouted:
IL didn't say you were a boy, but you
behaved like boy aud ! think so still.
Everybody knows the land ain't worth
that much and proposed that resolu-
ton to let us out OF the difficulty. There
are some choice spots 10 my fathers farm
TINT would bring $500 an acre. but that
is 10 proof that the whole farm OF 200
acres is worth that much per acre"
"Question," shouted Mr.. Rothweli.
Question reiterated Mr.. Wier.
"Quest.on," demanded Mr.. Eliasop.
The chair put the question, when ap-
parently all the members voted 'aye"
except Mr.. Roberts.
That gentleman wanted to know how
this thing got about Where were the
men now who were SO anxious TO raise
Mahatfy's as.essmenti
II call or the ayes and payP," said
MI. Roberta.
The call resulted as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Eliason, Mccall, Roth.
we'll, Sutton, Wier and President Grubb
-6.
Nays-Messr,. Jordan, Kiilgore, Rob.
erts hnd Shallcross a.
The court then adjourned until Tues.