Evening journal., 1892-12-14
THE SIX ARE AG'IN' 1T.
Republican Commissioners VS..
st. Peters and St. James.
ANTAGONIzED BY JOLLs AND CLARK
spe"ker Donahoe and Bishop Curtis
Make Repeated Requests for Money
Appropriated for the Orphan Asylum
and Protectory.

Appropriated Tor the Orphan AsyIum
and Protectory.
When question affecting st. Peters
temale Orphan Asylum and st. James's
Male Protectory come up i'm the Levy
Court the Republican members. partien.
larly Commissioner Clark, are "agin" il.
This was never exemplifed more
clearly than yesterday. when Speaker
John p. DoDahoe addressed the court
and presented letter from Bishop
Curtis asking for the appropriations for
the two charitable institutions.
lie was again practically refused. The
matter was not put to a vote but the
tenor OF the remarks made by Commits.
siohers Jolls and Clark during the morn
ing debate, showed conclusively that il
was another case of six beat five.
ihe following is the communication
which was presented by speaker Donahoe
and filed by order of the Court.
Wilmington, Del Dec IL. 1892
10 the President and members of the
Levy Court of New Castle County.
GENTLEMEN AT your April meeting
IN 1891 when appropriations were being
voted upon special committee was an
pointed upon motion of Mr.. Clark. who is
now the Chairman of said committee. to
report upon the applications of st.
Peters Female Orphan Asylum and st.
James Male Protectory for the annual
charitable donation of five hundred dol
lars, but said committee has up to this
GATE tailed to make any report which as
consequence deprives these institutions
from receiving he donations for the
years 1889 and 1890; although the money
was IN tho county treasurer's hands to
pay to both these charitable institutions
for destitute orphans
Now, while no Christian will object TO
your honorable body in making chart
table donations, as has always been done
by your predecessors, as Levy Court
under your prerogative, yet every citizen
VINO pays a county tax may well ask.
why are those two well established and
worthy institutions prevented from
drawing the money that was appro-
priated to assist them in maintaining
and continuing their exemplary and
self sacrificing vOcation-that of pro
tecting, caring for and educating un-
fortunate and destitute orphans.
Now, on April of this year. YOU were
waited upon by very distinguished com.
mittee of both bench and bar TO aid SINH
lar Institution, TO which you granted
$2, 200, and not a citizen has as yet publicly
objected to your generous and commend
able action in so doing; but / will here
state that the last session of the General
Assembly refused you the permission TO
do this very act. You can see by refer
ring to the Senate journal, April %.
lo92, where, on motion of Senator Will
liams, the bill was laid on the table.
] have been informed by your attorney
Hon. f. G.. Bradford that if I could pro.
OTlpp Ianialufivn
ing your honorable body to nav the
money to these charitable institutions
the st. Peter and St. James. that he
would be very glad to instruct you to
permit the institutions to receive the an. |
propriations; and yet in the face of ad. !
verse legislation you have done what the |
Legislature refused you the permission |
to do.
Why is this discrimination made be- |
tween similar charitable institutions |
from the general taxes levied and col |
lected, and appropriated by the Levy |
Court of this county, All of these in |
stitution are chartered by the Legisla-
ture, and no discrimination was made by |
it between them.
st. Peters Female Orphan Asylum was |
the only refuge organization in this state
for the protection and care of unfortun.
ate orphans.
You were informed by highly re-
spected friend of mine that charity was
dead ! sincerely hope he did not mean
IL; but here make the assertion that
charity and mercy tempered with strict
justice will always continue in the
human heart until time is no more. |
think that no higher or more honorable
can ever be cultivated
toward mankind.
As TO the remarks made that no pro
vision is made by these institutions for
the proper detention and care of way.
ward and vicious youths of our CITY. l
would here state that the charters of
these institutions compel them to take
any boys who may be committed to them
by any court in this county. This fact
Is well known, because we now have
such subjects with us; and | am very
happy to say that they are thoroughly
from their former bad habits
and | haveno doubt will grow up to be
good and useful citizens under the good
and influences by which they
are now surrounded.
believe in making this, as well as my
former appeals to you on behalf of and
as a member of the board of managers of
these two institutions, that / am only
performing my duty as any citizen
should. and it is impossible for me to see
how your favorable consideration of
.hese appeals will bring upon your
honorable body any adverse criticism
from any fair minded citizen. / there
lore most earnestly request you to give
.hese petitions your favorable considera
ion, believing them to be strictly Just !
md proper; and by so doing you will aid
.he work of continuing these two worthy
md charitable refugees for those who
nay be so unfortunate as to need their
assistance; and every good citizen within !
.he county, regardless of all other predi-
ections, will endorse your action and
he recipients will be forever grateful.
Yours truly, JOHN p DONAHOE."
by the Fire Department.
At the meeting Of the Delaware State
firemen's Association which was held in
he Liberty engine house last night, a
against paid fire depart
nent was ordered prepared for presenta-
ion at the next session Of the legisla-
ure
The following were appointed as a
legislative committee; Dennis S. Shields