The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-04-08

IN m srrf
po4Itions were revcrssd / would under no
eens'aer1iien Yield @ THE deNand and
tight thispowcr. Il hope that you will
| postpone the operations OF this bin until
the agents already elected by the people
2, New SastIo county have served their
elections by any such fundamentally as
thisn
LEVI G. birds REMARKS.
Levi 9. Bird spoke briefly, saying in cub
stanceifl can add but word There are
certain matters that ought to be looked
inso. lbeaieve In the Levy Court Us d
financial body, but not as political body
We are trying, ] assume. TO discover a de-
vice thatfwiH divorce that body from poli-
Let us seek to see that it Is done. We have
long felt that the Levy Court was cum
horsonie and expensive. 1 believe that
W out of every 100 Republicans favor
commission, / believe In three COM
missioners. why9 Because IL reduces the
expenses. You propose a receiver OF
taxes at s. 900 year and Il comptroller at
1900 That makes seven. There are
eleven now. Are you looking at tpurely
a. business coneern-as you would Ia
private lifc9
III there were only three commissioners
I would make one of them the receiver
endorse all that Mr.. Spruanoe has said
as 70 wiping out the body Of men elected
ny the people do not believe that such
tning VIII prosper. You defeat the Will
travel. presume that one and ali want
system that will reduce tho expenses or
the county. Cut some of those office on
and let the bill take effect when the peo-
| pie next have voice. Who 10 injured by
| itr i know dozens and dozens OF Demo-
Gratis who don't believe in wiplng out the
Levy Court. Why not let tho bill take
effect In 1882 Treat II as you would Q
business concern
| ENJAMIN NIELus' POINT.
benJamin Nields followed Mr.. Bird, ana
add anything. pay a tax now equal TO q
heavy gent. / come here as q taxpayer
am Republican and seek fairness and
business 81 the hands Of this body. In the
constitutional convention or 1s3I-and
again in 1S5i--the Levy Court was discuss
SGD. The question of having the members
appointed by the governor WINS taken up.
| The argument was that the Levy Court
should come from the people aud be cleo
ted by the people. They repudlated the
principle o. the governor appointing the
New Castle county contains over 5000
more fnhnhitants than Kent and Sussex
have together. We have seven members
In this body and three In the Senate. These
people are the agents. the representatives
toward those representatives OF $1,000
people2 They ought 10 be heard. In other
matters you refer to them. What interest
hte1 Aeht vi NuSetA COul1Iy III NOW lHtIi6
county as TO who shall pay taxes or how
much; OF who shall be brldgetenders OF
tax eollectorsS What interest have you In
that? n
81 ask you TO pause before you take away
from New Castle county what they done
an in favor of three commissioncrs--or
Ave IL you piease-but leave it 10 tho
people of the county to say. Make somepro-
vision in your bill for minority reprosen-
tation. There is none in the bin. Give the
minority representation, so that IL may be
fair. or the tivc districts proposed, three
by the Republicans The time may come
when all of tho districts Will be carried by
one party. Let the people elect, not the
governor appoint. Hear these gentlemen
from New Castle county and act accord
ing to their Views"
WASHINGTON HASTINGS SPEAKS.
Washington Hastings was the lass
speaker. He said: IL will say that / am
in accord with the views OF the other gem
tlemen. A vast majority of the people In
, New Castle county are in favor OF a COM
mission for that county. We recognize
I he Levy Court us cumbersome and I'M
wied1y body and believe that Il would be
better served by u smaller body.
zone idea has occurred to mo as | sac
here. That is thig We all desire--aii
good citizens dcsire-that our lawmaking
! bodies should maintain the respect OF all
! people. IL will he & dark day when the
people begin to regard measures passed by
our lawmalsing bodies with contempt II
this bill should become a law and while l
= do not believe that unworthy motives
would guide the passage OF it-nine out Of
ten men In the Republican party will be-
leve that Il Democratic LEGISLATURE made
I, the change for partisan purposes, Tho
! young men just coming into politics will
i, take their cue from what you do. They
I will say: That is the way to get into
power When your political opponenta
get Into power upset them. II is q bad .ex-
ample to set young men. large number
of men ask YOU to amend this measure 20
that Il will not go into effect until the ex-
plration of the term OF office of the men
who were elected