Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02


ever after il. This would be fair TO
every one and a great boon to our
Peninsula. As for us in New Castle, we
have almost no trees left now. Our only
salvation is to pass this bill Without
it, | think the peach business will go
down in five years. But give us this
law and we will start again on the road
to prosperity"
THE CITY RAILWAY BILLS.
These went through according to
programme, the Wilmington City bill
through the Senate this morning
and the Front and Union Streets bill
through the House this afternoon. The
House concurred in the Donahoe
bill and that measure is now a law, or
will be as soon as the bill has been en-
relied and signed. These amendments,
being the same offered by Mr.. Ridgely,
somewhat inopportunely, to the Front
and Union bill yesterday, place the
company under the control of the Street
and Sewer Dependencies to extension of
tracks, &C., require it to pave between
and for three feet on each side of its
tracks, and limit the fare 10 five cents.
Upon the passage of the Wilmington
City bill, Senators Pilling, Hall and
Donahoe declared that, II the House
did not attach the same amendments to
the Front and Union, they would see to
1t that the Senate should before 1t gets
their votes. The House did pass the
latter bill without the aforesaid amend
ments. Mr.. Richards, chairman of the
House committee in charge of the bill,
said he had no objection to the amend
ments but that the Senate had wanted
all along to tack them on and he was
willing to give the Senate the oppor-
tunity to do this. He, therefore, got
the amendments from Mr.. Ridgely and
handed them to Mr.. Pilling for use
when the bill comes up for passage in
the Senate.
The House passed this afternoon the
bill to divorce Lemuel ID. from Mahala
9. Jingle. Two years ago Tingle got
divorce, but three days later the Legis
lature repealed the act. Ever since it
has been mooted question whether
Lemuel is legally single or married
man. He asks this second divorce to
straighten out this tangle.
From letters received by Representing
tive Walton it is shown that Mary NJ.
Casperson, the woman whom George @.
Morton is trying to dispossess of prop
erty to which he has no legal or rightful
claim, is sister of that David Casper
son who was killed by one Buchanan,
about 1858. Casperson and Buchanan
lived on adjoining farms. They got into
aqnarrel oYera line fence and Buchanan
struck Casperson with hedge scythe,
wounding him fatally. Buchanan was
convicted of Granddaughter and sentenced
to five years imprisonment, but par
doned out before his term expired. The
affray took place IN what was then Apo
quinimink hundred.
Mr.. Ridgely introduced this afternoon
bill providing that future hangings
shall be conducted within an enclosure
sufficiently high to make them private
according to law. This applies only to
Dover, since Georgetown, as well as
New Castle, is already equipped for pri-
vate hangings, The sheriff is to erect
the enclosure and draw on the levy
court for the cost thereof.
The corporators named in the Dover
Electric Light and Heat Company bill
are Henry NJ. Hoyt, Henry H. Bingham,
William j. Pollock, Jr., J. Clayton Erb,
William p Anderson, G.. D. Powell, j.
s. w. johnson, Marvin d. Wheeler,
Daniel M. Ridgely, Thomas M. Gooden,
Richard II. Kenney, William r. Cahoon,
e. T. Cooper, Nathaniel b. Smithers,
Jr., Thomas @. Clements, Joseph M.
Chambers, d. NJ. Wilson, Thomas w.
Wilson, George Paris and Franklin
Temple. The bill provides that the
consent of the authorities shall be OBJ
tanned before operating in cities and
towns.
DOVER, March 30-Only eight members
of the House and three of the Senate
showed up at the hour of reassembling
| this afternoon, and the speakers, perforce,
adjourned their respective houses unto to-
morrow morning, without transacting any
business. Those present were Senators
Donahoe, Pilling and Richardson Repre-
| sentatives Cranston, Eisenbrey, Higgins,
Ridgely, Tindall, Walton, West and Speaker
| Sirman.
The few members present are beginning
| to speculate on how much longer this SEES
sion of 1891 will last. The outlook is that
it will run over into May and that, if they
are to wind up the business on hand and
in sight within five or six weeks, they will
| have to be more industrious and much
less deliberate than they have hitherto
been. lhus Tar the practice has been
with measures q pubic interest," II any
very marked difference Of opinion were
manifested when they were taken, up for
ilnal conslderation, to either lay them on
the table for future consideration or re-
commit them for amendment; but OBJ
yiously this course cannot be pur-
sued indefinitely, by the Interpretation
given to one Of the rules-an interpreta-
ton more rigid than IN previous leglsla-
tllres.all amendments are shut out after
a bill has been ordered to be read by par
agraphs for final passagei the theory being
that bill is or should be perfect as i
comes from the committee. Under. this