Evening journal., 1891-03-27
FIVE CENTS A RIDE.
Street Railway Men Surprised
AT the Amendment.
MILITARY FIGHT STILL ON.
Seventh Ward Bin opposed-D eIaware
and MARY land Canal-Tnsuranc Report
Railroad Deal Eavsred-AnthoRy dig
gins In sussex.

and M ary land Canal-Ensurauc Report
Railroad Deal Eavsred-AnthoRy dig
gins in sussex.
staff Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, March 26 The railway war is
over and Speaker Donahoe is happy This
morning Speaker Donahoe decided to push
the Wilmington City bill to its passage
Ia the Senate with all the amendments
he proposed. When ii came TO be acted
upon, be discovered that his suspicious
that the company and lobby had not been
acting In good faith from the start, were
well-grounded They had assured the
members of the General Assembly that
all the requirements necessary under the
Street aud Sewer Department of Viii =
mlngton were embodied in the bill In the
amendments and that any amend
ments from Speaker Donahoe were
useless. An amendment had been
tackled to the bill by the House commit
tee 1t pissed the House and came into
the Senate month ago,
When the bill was taken up to-day It
was discovered that the amendment had
been detached from the bill aud never
accompanied the bill into the Senate.
An immediate investigation was quietly
made il tine House TO trace the amend
ment It was found snugly lying in one
of the pigeon holes of the clerks desk.
When this discovery was made it con-
vineed the members OF the Senate that
the speaker had good grounds for acting
as he had done throughout They
determined to unanimously sustain him
The bill was taken up with Speaker
Donahoe's amendments and passed
unanimously. Willard Salisbury, Jr.
who is counsel for the company, was
sitting in one of the visitors seats on the
floor of the Senate, when the bill was
passed.
Early in the morning it was very
apparent by the looks of CONSERVATION,
that they had been surprised aud routed
when the clause Of the five cent fare,
became known TO them, 1t was entirely
unexpected and they were entirely un
prepared to fightit All appeals to strike
it out were in vain 1t was determined
to pass the bill with all amendments.
Speaker DonEnoe discovered that the
companies had made arrangements, to
exchange tickets, and feared the Front
and Union Company would raise the
fare to six cents.
The bill was sent back to the House.
The amendments were concurted in, and
that settles It,, as it is a House bill
The House to day passed the Front
and Union bin which has been bridled in
committee since January % 1t will go to
the Senate to- morrow and will receive
the same amendments upon its passage.
IL cannot pass before next week Now
the people Of Wilmington are assured OF
cent fares.
This ends the fercest fight of the sea-
son. At the noon recess Sen
ator Hall, that old and expert
enced legislator put his arms around
Speaker DoDahoe and exclaimed:
My dear speakers how proud I am OF
you; and how proud the people of VIII.
mington must be of you / can't see how
the people of your city can ever repay
you You are always fighting 50 hard fol
them"
The Military Fight.
The military fight was renewed IN thi
| OF the Committee on Federal Relations
reported that the committee had decides
to drop all the bills relating to the Della
ware National Guard, with the exception
of the bill known as the Eisenbrey bill
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and allows 81, 400 for the maintenance o.
a military system for the state. H,
| further intimated that the committee
had been deceived by the military
men in divers ways They stated thai
the Federal aid could not be applied t,
the purchase of uniforms This he sale
was not true The Federal aid could bl
applied to uniforms as well as cami
equipage He said that if the House hac
passed the bill framed by the military mel
it would have left the doors Of tn,
treasury open, as 1t did not repeal an,
of the previous acts of the General AS
sembly, simply providing that all act
Inconsistent with this act are hereb,
repealed. He presented the following
National Gaurd
ITO the Senate and House of Represen
tatives in General Assembly met.
1--WE the undersigned, officers of the
National Guard of Delaware, do endorse
and recommend the passage of an amend
ment to section 30, of the codified law,
of the National Guard of Delaware
limiting the appropriation for encamp-
ment purposes Of the National Guard Il
| IS, 000-and that all other laws. or parts
1
with the above amendment, shall main
/ in full force and effect"
It is signed by Surgeon William Mar
shall, Colonel George w. Marshall
Lieutenant Theodore Townsend. Captain
Robert G. Houston, Lieutenant a. NJ
Day. Adiutant Fl. L. Paige, Captain r.
g. Wesivell, Lieutenant J. ]. Foulk anc
Chaplain J.. S. Willis.
The Seventh Ward Bill
The Highlanders were here again to.
day working against the Seventh ward
annexation bill. They made three points
The first was that it was not desirable Il
the city of Wilmington; that it would
not add to the prosperity Of the city; and
the people Of Wilmington did not want
it The second point is that the territory
desired TO be annexed is owned and occu
pied largely by poor people whose homes
are not paid for, and while they can
retain those properties outside of the
city limits, it is doubtful they say.
whether they could within the city
| limits, because of the increased cost OF
grading. The third point they make is
chat while they are opposed to the exten
sion in this direction, yet they might
submit to it If 1t we're extended to what
they call the natural boundaries-the
creek and the Kennel pike That would
take it up to the Rising Sun lane.
Delaware and Maryland Canal.
The Senate committee on vacant lands
consisting of messrs. Pilling, Houston
and Hall, met at the Richardson House
tonight demanding an exhibition of the
books of the Delaware and Maryland
i Canal Companv and that the directors
show cause why the canal is not con