Evening journal., 1891-04-03
ROSS VERSUS COOPER.
Senate and House Deadlock
on Educational Bills.
GREAT COLONIZATION scHExE

For eussex County superlntendents.
staff Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. April 2.-"To bs or not to be,
that is the question" that is exercising
the would be state superintendents The
House and the Senate have locked horns
on the Educational bills. and it will
probably be several days before the lock
viii be broken. When Il Is broken the
Ross bill or the Cooper bill will be killed
The Senate yesterday passed the Ross
Educational bill. which provides for a
radical reorganization of the State
Board of Education, the creation of the
office of state superintendent; free text
books for white and colored school chill
dren aid for the building of colored
schools increased the appropriation to
colored schools to $40, 000 and contained
several other important features.
Il was taken to the House last evening
and it's rival, tho Cooper bill, was called
up to day. Asubstitute was offered for
the Cooper bill and passed This bill does
not provide for state superintendent,
nor will the House pass a bill that does.
It's text book features are. Ia the main,
similar TO the Ross DILL, but ID provides
that the county superintendents shall
have charge of the distribution of the
books and also Of colored schools 1t also
makes the appropriation to colored
schools SO, 600 instead of $4,000
This is what makes tho deadlock.
Senator Ross is welded to his bill,
which he has prepared with great care
| The Senate saw It's merits and passed IL
with but few amendments, the only i'm
| porfan one being the work of the VIII
mington school book lobby. which was
TO strike out the feature ordering the
| the state treasurer to buy books direct
| from the Publishers The Senate will
not see It's bill ignored. and the House
will not pass it without good deal of
buster. The fear is expressed that 1t Is
is simply to make a berth for some man
to crawl into, and is entailing an unneees-
sarg expense upon the state. Those who
know Senator Ross, however, and the
/ great interest he takes In educational
motives, viii not attribute snch a motive
| to him. he has said time and again that
the Jnly way to make good citizen Of
! the negro was to educate him and put the
schools for colored scholars under good
management and Oh a sound financial
footing.
THAT which God Has Joined" Etc.
There was another big fare up in th,
Senate this afternoon as is generally the
case, it was over divorce, and as is still
more generally the case it was q tilt be
tween Messrs Piliing and McMullin, anC
for once Senator Pilling carried hts point
The first case brought up TO day wa
that Of Sarah c. VS. William @. Conway
Mr. Piliing demanded the evidence u
the case was heard before the Senate hag
either committee or clerk there was III
evidence ia the Senate aud the Hous
, evidence had to be borrowed. While tn
! clerk was hunting up the evidence Mi
, | McMullin attacked MIR Pillng in hi
/ characteristic manner and Senator Pill
/ ling walked all over him. The evidenc
was produced and the case was vote
upon. The vote stood to and th
, bill was killed.
! Nothing daunted Mr.. Moore called nj
/ the case Of Lizzie @. vs.. Fletcher Z
Cooper Mr.. Pilliug demanded the evi
| dence in open Senate, and the clerk rea
it.
, Cooper was a native Of Smyrna, son o
highly respected parents He graduate
at tho Conference Academy at Dover
and went TO Wilmington as reporter o.
q the Morning News. While in Whining
/ ton he married young woman name
I Lizzie G Laws They were marrie
I June %, 1883. and lived together unit
/ January g. 1888.
Cooper left the Morning News an
went to New York where he worked o
4 various papers, at last finding STEADY
employment on the Brooklyn Eagle h
{ took his wife there with him. On Jsnu
! airy g. 1888, she went to Wilmington wit
4 her child on q visit to her parents
Shortly after she arrived, she received
letter from her husband, forbidding ht
a to return to him he told her he wa
tired of her; but the facs os the matte
I shown in The evidence, was that he be
! came ensmoured with q red haired fam,
, and took unto himself a wife in name,
! not in law
: This bill was Of such character that
was passed without any opposition, bu
the one solitary vote of Senator Pllling
Eight Thousand for Sussex.
The House Joint resolution appropris
I ting $9. 900 to be paid to the trustees
the Sussex County AlmsEouse, WI
passed by the Senate to day with Il
amendment that the money should be a
: piled TO the reduction Of the bonded Il
T debtedness Of the institution. Tv
years ago when the state bought the Ii
! sane Asylum at Fsrnhurst, the Gsner
4 Assembly agreed to pay Sussex coun
! 81 600 for the building for the insan
]. which was comparatively new. 1t hi
J never done so and this resolution b
4 makes good the pledge OF the state,
' two years ago.
J. "UneIe Davy'' and His Motion.
= Representative D. D. Marvel is a gel
eral favorite BE has true Santa Cla
look and is Familiarity known as "Unc
Davy." The House could not get Rlol
without him. Rosy, robust and read
he has one particular branch Of the Hou
ie work. He touches no other departmel
!, and has become an adept at It, He new
10 introduces a BILL he never calls one u
he never makes a motion outside Of h
y department. he has exclusive coDtr
OF adiournments with the eight d
! clock as first assistant. .The clock M
!, fail. but "Uncle Davy" never doe
I'd Prsmptly at 10 o'clock 'Uncle Dav
looks into the face Of the clock and &
clock looks into the face OF "UnC
Davy." There is always a mutual undC
m standing between them. AS the minu
o, hand points to the hour he arises al
10 says: "Mr Speaker, move that we
Id now take a recess to o'clock.
motion is never questioned, and the Ye
and nays have never been called upon
When he makes itiit is always in order.
20 The only diversion he has Is his sem
81 weekly excursions to the Divorce Cor
mittee room, and he sits back and as
haf rpnvrY1on mi tepm