Evening journal., 1893-04-11
WITHSILENT CONTEMPT
The Marshallton Indignation
Resolutions Tabled
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Farmers Protest Against the National
Guard Bill on the Grounds ofExtrava-
gance-No Exemption for the Delaware
Distiiiing Company-B Boys Cannot Here
after Get Cigarettes or Cigarette Paper.
Special Dispatch to the Evening Journal.
DOVER, April II In the House Of
Representatives this morning, the
Marshallton indignation meeting reso.
lutions, urging the immediate pas
sage Of the proposed Wilmington
and Brandywine Springs Electric Rail.
way bill were laid on the table after
being partly read This was done on mo.
tion Of Representative Salisbury, because
OF the attack made on Senator PYLE
Speaker Houston will not present them
to the Senate on the same grounds
Too Much Extravaganza.
Resolutions were read from .he Kent
Capital Grange, denouncing the National
Guard and the Delaware Disiilinr Com.
Pany bills on the grounds of extrava-
gance
No Action on the Records Act.
Professor Ki,sel and Miss Gertrude
Parker had public hearing before
both houses but no action was
taken on the Records bill whlchis now
law aud the only apparent remedy is a
repeating act The latter will probably
never be passed.
A big delegation came here to day in
favor Of Representative Days Brandy
wine Hundred Road Supervisor bill.
Won't Exempt this Delaware DistilIing
Company.
The Senate recommitted the Delaware
Distilling Company Exemption bill.
Senator Pilling made a strong speech
in favor Of the bill
Senator Williams said that he would
vote for the bill 10 do away with 10
cents gallon tax on whisley, but not
for the bill TO benefit one firm only. He
did not think that the distilleries ought
to be driven away by onerous taxes
The committee instructed him to re.
port the bll exempung all distilleries
from the 20 cents a gallon tax.
The Senate passed the Delaware Rail-
road bill, providing for branch road to
be built between Middletown and Elk.
ton.
Penalty for Procuring Cigarettes.
The cigarette bill was amended By
adding a penalty for procuring cigar
cites or cigarette papers, and was
passed
School for Girls.
The Senate passed the House bills in
I cooperating the Delaware Industrial
school for girls Also an act allowing
State Board of Health to spend 81, coo in
case Of a cholera epidemic and bill incor
porating the Columbian Hotel Company,
, Representative Salisbury introduced
a supplement to the delinquent laws
Of Kent and Sussex counties
which provides that clerks
r Of peace shall Immediately after passage
? Of the act make certified lists Of dele
quents and deliver them to the collectors
{ and shall give FIVE days public motto,
in ten places where the collector viii
b set to receive delinquent taxes They
shall sit two days, FIVE hours each day
! to receive taxes from taxables in person
4 aud shall make return to Levy Court'i
adjourned session in May 1898, and on spe
! clal meeting on the third Tuesday inMay
k All dellnquents who do not take advan
tage Of this supplement will be returned
as delinquents Those who pay win b.
= put on the list.
Carpenters delegation had joint hear
y ing in the Hall Of Representatives. at
h o'clock.
+ The governor reappointed Stat
y Librarian GruweA. He also appointel
! John Biggs to defend Democratic regis
tration election officers. vice Bayard, re
q signed.