Evening journal., 1893-03-15

Upon at Dover-The Cooch Bill TO stamp
out Tuberculosis and Anthrax-A New
Bill TO Empower Wilmington to Borrow
$500, 900.
stan Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, March Ex-senator Pyle intro
duced, yesterday, an act regulating the
sale of coal and sand In New Castle
county. The seller shall send with each
load Of coal or sand a statement Of the
number OF pounds Of the commodity.
The driver shall deliver It to the pur
chaser OF the coal or sand A false
statement on the card shall be a misde-
meanor punishable by fine Of $50 and
costs. One half OF the fine shall be
paid to the informer and one half to the
use Of the county. The chief of police
of Wilmington is authorized to have
weighed from time Co time. coal and
sand wagons TO see that the owners are
giving full weight. When he does IL by
request he shall be entitled to fifty cents
for his work.
To Prevent Extortion.
Representative Spruance introduced
bis bill providing penalty for extortion.
It's provisions are as follows:
ANY person who, knowing the con-
tents thereof, and with intent by means
thereof TO make unlawful gain in money
or other property, shall send or deliver
or In any manner cause TO be sent or
delivered to any person any letter OF
writing whatsoever, threatening TO
accuse any person Of crime or to do
any injury to person or any property OF
30 publish or connive at publishing any
libel or to make or cause TO be made any
slanderous statement or TO expose any
deformity Of person, or to impute to any
such person any disgraceful act or con
duct and any person, who, with intent
thereby TO extort or wrongfully gain any
money or other property shall make or
cause to be made any oral statement or
communication threatening as aforesaid,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be sub.
ject to fine not exceeding So 0O0 and to
Imprisonment for term not exceeding
five years or to either, in the discretion
of the court
Powers of the Commissioners.
Senator Pyle introduced bill TO amend
sec tion 115 of the charter Of Wilmington
The entire section Is stricken out and the
following is substituted:
1T shall be lawful for the Board Of
Directors of the Street and Sewer Depart
ment from time TO time and as
occasion may require, by resolution
passed for the purpose, further to ex-
tend or widen any street, square, lane.
road, or alley laid down upon the map
plan or ground plot of said city, and like
wise 10 lay out all necessary new streets
squares, lanes, roads, or alleys and to
abolish or alter any street, square, or
lane, road, OF alley laid down upon said
map and not yet opened or condemned
and for a street. square, lane, road, or
alley, except where heretofore expressly
prohibited by legislative enactment still
subsisting.
The Tuberculosis Bill.
Representative Co0ch introduced bills
to stamp out tuberculosis and anthrax In
cattle. They provide for the appoint
ment Of cattle commissioner in each
county to examine the herds and report
TO the state veterinarian at Delaware
College Should the cattle so reported
prove diseased the veterinarian shall
cause them to be killed, the carcasses
destroyed and the premises disinfecteo.
The owner Is allowed one -quarter Of the
assessed value but no payment shall ex
ceed $40 on a COW. The expenses are
paid by the counties and state
A Heavy Percentage.
Representative Salisbury has no love
for the Adams Express Company He
thinks It is discrl ninatiug against
Delaware in its charges He has in
troduced bill compelling all express
companies in the state to pay a state tax
amounting to 20 per cent of their earn
ings The present tax is 8 per cent
Another bill makes it unlawful for any
express company to charge more for ser
vice in Delaware than it does for service
in light weights aud distances in other
states. Heavy fines and imprisonment
are imposed.
Wanted-Five Hundred Thousand.
Representative Spruance introduced a
bill to authorize the Mayor aud Council
of Wilmington to borrow S5O00O0 for
the construction of sewers contiguous
TO Wilmington and TO pay for damages TO
riparian rights inflicted in the condem-
nation of county streams. Some Of
those who favor the condemnation Of
Silye brook say that the bill is a big
bluff to frighten the General Assembly
men and deter them from condemning
the stream.
Fire Bugs Must Beware.
Representative Watkins introduced an
act relating to incendisrism. Any fire
insurance company which suspects that a
loss occurred through incendiarism can
notify the state insurance commissioner,
Should he, after a thorough examination,
think the suspicious well grounded, he
shall put the case in the hands Of the
attorney general and state detectives
and bring the matter to an issue. He
may also offer rewards, not exceeding
81 900 for the apprehension and convict
ion of the fre-bug.
Branch Line from Middietown.
Representative Cooch introduced a
supplement TO the charter of the Della
ware Railroad Company. IL authorizes
the company to build a branch road from
Mlddletown to the Maryland line, in the
direction Of Elkton. Il is said that al
act Of the Maryland Legislature will
ena ble the company to connect with the
Maryland division at Elkton.
A Very UnlSind Cut.
In the House yesterday morning, Mr.
/, Hall, from the committee on appropria
/, tions. reported the Senate Joint resolu