Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-13


J. h. Barney will be very glad to hear of
this, and | will certainly telegraph her"
Mrs Barney addressed the general As
sembly in advocacy of this institution one
afternoon during the early weeks OF the
session.
There was little hitch over the passage
of the Wilmington Municipal Elections
bill through the Senate this afternoon, and
the bill was r1committed Tor Il brief time
till the misunderstanding was explained
away, when it was again taken up and
passed by unanimous vote. IL seems that
there is in the Senate bill abollshing vot-
ers assistants, il provision designed to pre-.
vent the physically disabled voter from
putting up any undcrhand bribery busi-
ness. For illustration suppose such Il
man is hribed to vote the ticket of a desig
mated party; the payment of the brbe
being conditioned upon that ticket turning
up in the count with the name of Julius
Caesar substituted fer the regular candidate
for coroner, as mark of identification.
| 10 prevent this game being played the
voters assistants abolition bill prohibits the
inspectors who assist such physically dis
qualified man in marking his ballot from
writing IN any name whatever thus limit
ing such voter to the candidates printed on
the ticket. This provision is regarded by
some as unconstitutional--.bec they
hold, you cannot curtail or restrict by law
any mans right to vote for whomever he
| pleases, and il has set them on the look
out Consequently, when the provision,
IN the Municipal Elections bill, which for
bids, under heavy penalty, the printer of
the official ballot from deviating in the
slightest from the copy furnished, was
reached i'll the final reading of the bill,
Senator Williams, under a misconception
| OF It's meaning, got up and had the bill re-
committed, when careful examination
had shown that this provision was all
| straight, it was taken up again and passed.
The Joint resolution relative to the pub
| lication of the new Revised Code, which is
TO bring the CodilCation of the laws of
Delaware up to the date of final adiourn-
ment of this General Assembly-and no.
body yet knows how long that may be de-
| ferred--authoriZes and directs the COM
| pliers. James II. Hughes and Robert Ii.
| Van Dyke, to advertise i'll three news
| papers for proposals for printing 3.uOO
| copies of the code and to have 1000 copies
| Of this number bound. When this has
| been done the governor shall draw on the
| State treasurer for the amount of the
| printing and binding, the cost of which is
| estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000. The
/ 1000 bound copies are to be distributed as
follows: One each to the President of the
| United States. To the governor of
each State, to each department of the ma
| tional government, to Delaware College, to
| the Historical Society of Delaware, to each
member of the State judiciary, two copies
to the library of Congress and one copy to
each of the following officers in each
county: Register of wills, clerk of the
peace, parliamentary, sheriff, clerk of the
orphans court and recorder of deeds, and
one copy to each member of the present
General Assembly. of the balance, 500
copies are to be apportioned to New Castle
county and the balance divided equally
between Kent and Sussex to be sold bv
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volume, the pruthonotary to be allowed
| 5 per cent commission On such sales. When
the 1000 bound copies shall have been ex-
hausted, the compilers are to have the re-
naming 1000 copies bound. James II.
Hughes and Robert II. Van Dyke are to
receive 81, $50 each for their services in
preparing, indexing and experimenting
the publication of the Revised Code.
The House bill striking out the ''in his
own county" provision of the IS day
extra remuneration Of judges law, was
called up for passage in the House this
| afternoon, and after some debate, recon-
mitted Under existing law judges of the
state courts receive this So per day when
holding court outside of their own colln-
ties. of course, they sit the greater part
OF their time in Wilmington; the stting3
at Dover and Georgetown being brief in
comparison. This worked all right, as to
the Chief Justice hitherto. Chief Justice
he lived, living as they did in the lower
counties, came i'll for the pecuniary bcne-
fit of the longer Wilmington courts. But
i'll the case of Chief Justice Lore the ar
rangement works the other way, so that
the salary and per diem of Associate Judge
Marvel would exceed the compensation of
the Chief Justice. BY extending the per
diem allowance to every days sitting,
whether III or out of his county, the re-
munerutiOn OF the Chief Justice would be
increased by several hundred dollars per
year and that OF the associates slightly
an associate Judge sitting in his own
county only on the trial OF capital cases.
Mr., salisbury objected to the bill, not
because of the contemplated increased
compensation, but because he did not
think this the proper mode Of getting at it.
He made the point that this 10 per diem
was not to be considered as salary, but as
allowance for hotel and travelling expenses
when holding court away from home. MIR.
Salisbury intmated that he might be in
clined To consider favorably a bill making
Il reasonable direct increase in the Chief
Justices salary, but he could not consider
this per diem ON the same basis rs salary.
MIR. Cooch replied that what he aimed ut
was To do the right thing by the Chief JUS
ticr, but he was not welded to this partiCu.
lar way of doing it. He found some reason
in Mr.. Saulshury's objections and was per-
fectly willing To agree to rccommitment
Of the bill lor such amendment as might
be deemed advisable.
The House passed this afternoon the
muchdiscusSed and long.deferred supple.
ment to the act to regulate the practice OF
pharmacy, with amendments and by a
vote of II to >; Messrs Brian and Dascy
voting iii the negative, because of the aI,-
preparation provision.
The bill, as passed, Is to go into effect
July LIST, II provides for an annual appro,
faIa a "a. l..