Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-02

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transporting them to the large cities and
the better prices obtainable for them
there.
TIE FARMERS INSTITUTE BILL.
An important measure is the Kent
County Farmers Institute bill "to pre-.
vent and punish fraud in the shipment
and sale of fruit aud vegetables" ;" which
Representative salisbury mas in hand
1t reads as follows
| section l, Tie following acts and omis-
Slohs, or each and every one of them. are
hereby declared unlawful and misde-
meahors, and shall be punished as hercin-
after provided, to witt
10 sell or ship, or to offer to sell or ship,
| any diseased or premature fruit
10 sell or Shlp, or to offer to sell or ship,
| any irut in packages containing more
than omchalf gallon without the owners
name distinctly marked thereon in plain
and easily read letters
| TO pick, pack or offer for sale or ship
meht frnit of an inferior quality or kind
| mixed with good or superior fruit, with
intent to deceive the purchaser thereof.
FOR any person engaged III selling fruit,
| vegetables, or farm, garden or dairy PRO.
duee ofany Kind Whatever, AS agent factor
or commission merchant to make or render
any false or deceitInl return, statement or
obtained or the expense incurred.
Section 2providcs, for any Of the fore.
going offences, penalty of 800 fine and
| costs or three months imprisonment. In
addition, any person suffering pccnniary
| damages, in consequence of such infrac.
tons, may bring an action Oh the case aud
recover treble damages.
Dover, Feb. 2i.--The bills given notice
of by Sir. Spruance are of sufficient inter
MT IA, ttNr .,t,V ..st.., .lrl.
| Wages bill Mr. SpruanCe would like to
have distinctly understood, he will intro
duGo "by request" simply, and he does not
wish to be considered as committed bevond
this regarding it. 1t runs substantially us
follows;
Whenever creditor OF an cmploye shall
deposit with an rmpluyer statement OF his
ann With an nhiiHvit that II Is Justly and
| Truly due, II shall be the duty of tho employer
10 retain out Of tho wa2ss OF such Ia h0rei' %
per cont OF ehch ,Hyma until thp bill with
hl"ny Is additional for such service, has been
iiqu!lalcd. II the cmplOye disputes the bill,
IN wiring Tho employer shall return the state
than one bill Is presented IhCy shall he paid
according 10 priority, ana only ono at n Time
IN case such II bill be Disputed 80 per cent of
ihe debtors wages shall he liabIe 10 execution
attachment ptoees, for the payment thereof.
u the emulpyUr shall fail to pay over after ten
days no shall Dr liable for The debt This act
Is to apply TO New tastle couL y only
TUE MERCHANTS TAN NILL.
The average effect of the Merchants Tax
bill ian act to amend chapter S. Revised
tDdcl would appear 10 be to slightly re-
ducc the reYennc from this source. Under
existing law the merchant pays II tax
upon annual purchases aggrcgating 81 ,0gO
or less, and ~ cents Oh each additional
500. That is, if storckeeper sells $50 900
worth Of goods in a year--at their cost
value to him-he is now required to pay
IN N.
amendment his tax would be Sg5 The
contemplated graduation is as follows:
| Upon annual purchases of 81, QUO or under
| S2.5O tax; between 500 and $4,000, $50
| tax; between $1,000 and $1,000, $3.50
taE; between $1,000 and 100000 $l7.5O
tax; between S2O,0OO and $50, Ol0 S25 tax;
between $4,000 aud $4,000, d tax of $40
between $4,000 and $4,000, tax SIS
between $4,000 and $4,000. tax 500
between $4,000 and $lOU,ODO, tax $50 be-
tween Sl0DuDO and Sl5u,UlO. tax Sl2j be-
tween Sl5D,0DO iand 100000, tax Sl7i be-
tween S2OOOOO aud $500, 900 tax $3.50: be.
tween SNOODD and SjJO.UOO, tax #tUO; be.
tween SM@#ll aud 81 l,UO00UO, tax $3.50, he
( tween 81 ,UlJ,OO and $1,000, ,0U00 tax 81, 800
between S2UJtuOO and S3,0OlU0O tax
$1,000 between S3,0ODOOO and 100000
tax $1,000. No provision is made in ex.
cess Of the latter sum. Obviously the ex-
isting law has the advantage in exuctftude
simplicity ana LOnCiSeness and there does
not appear to he sufficient difference either
way to warrant superCcdinE it with such
q schedule as tins. The existing law is
also fairer, in that the tax is cquitably ad-
Juslcd to the amount, whereas this bill
makes leaps OF from 5000 up to - OOO,-
900 1t may possibly be amendment, but
it looks vastly more like deterioration.
DOVER, Feb. 27.-Seuator Pyle, accord.
ing tn arrangement, came down to Dover
st.+ tts.p. 1 " i 4 T..
of the General Assembly from ,iissnIntion
He ami Clerk liardcaStle called the rnli
and adjourned the Senate over to tu.rnrr.
row. 10 other member of that emf,,st
body showed up.
IN tie llohFe business was slack. This
EaNe opportunity 70 Eet the Dover Charter
ON 1l me way rms IS a formidably
iiohE document, occupying bout two hours
IN the Tcadlhg, by sections. Messrs.
IhGrltS II. u. pay aud Alexander j.
'iloii hau talked the nlhhlelpal corpora.
lolS committee, into torpidity, if not
solhnGlcAce, WhIle the measure was under
c"ilSla"rAtioh, ana 1t was with feelings Of
fSLlel Nhllttetable and incNrreSSible that
tAr lntnber5 thereof ilnally got the bill
9Hl ol their hihdS anh llnloadcd it on the
House Tor passage lherc were several
amendments offered by MIR, Fulton that
ga h9l meet the approval Of Mr.. Bay, but
tney ilhnliN got ihinGS straiE htened out so
that he biil could 20 through unoppused
But 1t didh,t 20 through, because there
were not enough members present to pass
u wlen the reading hat been finished, and
the Dlti was consequently laid ON hetable,
NJ NJ lct',i ness 70 y catlel up ana voted on
j., ,n,rS "'te'' WIN ~ OF more
C,mn ,rren' 'i,Ss,,t S,,,oti,,,,sl ~, -
consideratit,, t c,,,IT"S. ,,} ~ every
wn deynteI in saynt. t;o nm ',n,o ~ ~,
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