Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-21


posted in the mansoleum by the follow
Ayes--Cranston Day, Eisenbrey, Elkin-
ton, Hickman, Higgins, Hutson, Morris,
Il. j., Richards Smith--10.
Noes-Chipman, jackson. Marvel, Morris,
r. r., Ridgely, Thomas, Tindall, Walton,
West, Speaker Sirman-l0.
ADDICKs GRIP SLIPS.
The House substitute bill for the one
which had been reported undiscoverable
in the Senate tgiving the Street and Sewer
Department control over the tearing up of
Wilmington streets by pipe and wire layers)
was also reported this morning to have
temporarily disappeared. This substitute
bill, as before reported, was in the nature
of a general law prohibiting any one from
entering on the streets of any city, town
or village in the State to lay pipes or wires,
without the written permit Of the duly
constituted authorities. Being in the
nature of police regulation, and not in
any sense an amendment to corporation
act, it only required u majority vote to
pass it. II had gone through the House,
however ny u two-thirrls vote.
Immediately after the reassembling of
the Senate this afternoon, however, Mr..
Ross called up the missing bill II was
read. When the enactlng clause had been
reached, Mr.. Pilling said that it merely
provided a check that had been put on all
charters separately as they came up. The
Wilmington Coal Gas Company, he said,
had come here for legislation this very
session, and this check had been at once
applied to its charter. The bill was Just
one and should pass. Then the roll was
called and the bill did pass, as follows:
Ayes-Hall, McMullin, Pilling, Richard
son. Williams-5.
Noes-Moore, Ross, Donahoe-3.
The speaker, however, declared tho bill
lost.
MIR. Pilling-Do you rule that this bill
requires a two-thirds vote?
Speaker Donahoe-I do.
Mr.. Pilling thereupon appealed from the
speakers decision and Mr.. Williams took
the chair and put the appeal. The vote
on sustaining Donahoe's decision was
Ayes-Moore, Ross.
Noes Hall, McMullin, Pilling Richard
son, Williams
So the decision was not sustained.
Mr.. Filling then wanted to know how
the appeal left the bill; whether it had
been carried or lost. To settle this beyond
controversy another vote on the passage of
the bill was called for.
Beforeths vote was taken, Donahoe made
one of his usual speeches reciting how he
had cared for and watched over the inter
ests of Wilmington and charging that the
passage of this bill would give the Street
and Sewer Department more power than
the Legislature.
The vote was then taken and the bill
passed by to g. Donahoe changing from
mo to AYE to qualify himself to move
for reconsideration. The bill, therefore,
did pass the Senate by two-thirds vote,
after all, and stands so recorded, as fol-
lows:
Ayes-Hall, McMullin, Pilling, Rich
ardson, Williams, Donahoe-6.
Noes-Moore, Ross
Chairman Williams having declared the
bill passed, Mr.. Pilling then forestalled
Donahoe's little game by himself moving
20 reconsider, following that UP by mo-
tion to lay the vote to reconsider on the
table. The vote was taken on the latter
motion, and resulted as follows, Mr.. Hous-
ton having come in in the meantime
Ayes--Hall, McMullin, Pilling, Richard
son, Willams-5.
Noes-Houston, Moore, Ross, Donahoe-4
So Donahoe, getting left in the minority
on the last vote, the bill has passed beyond
the reach of him or Addicks to undo it.
BILL LEE NOT HERE.
Bill Lee has not been here to-day and it
is safe to predict that he will not be here
and that he will keep very shady until
after the Legislature adjourns. | cannot
imagine how my dispatch to EVERY EVEN
ING got so badly twisted, | wrote "he has
not reached here, and the types made me
say Lee just reached here Another
case of badly blotted mot" somewhere.
STATE PRINTING.
Representative Eisenbrey's State Print
ing bill went through the House without
objection. 1t provides that no printing bill
shall be allowed unless accompanied by
the approval, as to items, of the proper
officers authorizing the same, and that not
more than two insertions of any executive
proclamation shall be paid for eunless
specially authorized. One paper has
charged for as many as 26 insertions of
such matter.
TURNPIKE REPORTS.
Two turnpike company reports were
presented by Mr.. Day this afternoon, in
accordance with statutory requirement.
The Kennett Turnpike Company, whose
charter dates back to 1911, made a re-
port covering the receipts expenses
and dividends Of the past 10 years; The
cost of the road was reported at $4,000;
the net profits have averaged only q per
cent The Wilmington & Philadelphia
Turnpike Company's report was for the
past three years. cost of road, S3i, ,936. .55;
net profits 8 per cent.
THE CIGARETTE BILL.
The conferrees on the Cigarette bill have
so amended it that there is no longer dan
ger of boy being sent to Jail for chew
of tobacco, Section 3 has been stricken
out entirely. Section 2 has been changed
so as to reduce the fine, for boy between
10 and Is years caught using tobacco in
public, to not less than 80 cents nor more
than 81. Section l remains unchanged
1t imposes fine of from SIS to S25 on
dealers who sell tobacco in any form to
boys under 16, except on the presentation
of written order from parent, guardian
or employer. The House accepted the
conferrees' report
HAS HuTsoN BEEN DoNAHOED?
Notwithstanding the committee on re-
vised statutes unanimously approved, as
far back as yesterday nooni the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Day to revoke the tax ey-
emption provision of the charter of the
Academy of Visitation-an approval in
which Chairman Hutson conclrred-Mr. |
Hutson has lot yet reported on the bill,
although at east three times urged by Mr..
Day to do so. Shortly before the after
noon adjournment Mr.. Day went to Mr..
to be informed when he intended to report
the bill. Mr.. Hutson replied that he
wanted to see Donahoe first. He had
made the same excuse twice before during
the day. After the adjournment Mr.. Hut
son left for home, with the unreported
bill locked up in his desk. 1t looks as
though he wished to hold it back until too
latS w pe dopcu oili put MI. IlutSOn can Ill |
afford to mar his legislative record by such |
an act.
ROAD BILL KNOCKED OUT.
Some weeks ago Representative Day
introduced bill providing that Jobs Of |
'turnpiking" or graveling on Brandywine |
hundred roads, where the expense will |
exceed $50, be put out at contract The |
bill went to committee and lay there Mr.. |
Day says that none of the road commits |
sioners want it passed. To-day Thomas
Weldin came down here. and the result
was the introduction, by Mr. Ridgely this
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