Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-30


Mr.. Cuoch Sehmently opposed the mo-
ton.
The motion was put The responsive
ayes and noes being uncertain, Mr..
Spruance Withdrew the motion,
Captain Dasey referred to the creation of
the street and Sewer Department, when he
was Il member of former Legislature.
This department was vested with absolute
control Of the sewers of Wilmington. Ii
the route of this sewer were in the city, it
would come here under different auspices.
Part of II is farm land. Why go out to
sewer farm land, when the city needs
sewers so badly? There is about to be a
change in the Street and Sewer Depart
ment; the successor of the retiring mem
Der will be a broad.minded man who will
do his whole duty to the people Of his
city. Ut did not very clearly appear what
this double-ended allusion TO Colonel
Enoch Moore and Joseph l.. Carpenter had
to do with the rest of Captain Dasey's
speech.j
Mr.. Cuoch-What would you think gen
tlemen, II the Legislature would insist
upon urging upon your town councils such
measure as this2
MIR. Spruance said the legislative COM
mittee Of City Council approved this bill.
Mr. Cooch said there was no petition
here from the City Council, and they say
they will not appropriate the money.
Mr. Spruance surmised that Mr.. Cooch's
they" might be an alluson to one man
who assumed to speak for the whole
Council
The roll was then called and, to the sur
prise of every one, the bill failed to re-
ceiye the requisite two-ihirds vote. The
ayes and noes were:
Ayes-Armstrong Day, Gam. Harring-
ton, Jacobs, kenney, Lynch, Pratt, Pretty
man. spruance, Whittock-ll.
Noes-Cooch, Dasey, Hickman, Sevil,
| Watkins, Speaker Whiteman--6.
This bill having failed to receive the
| required constitutional majority" an
nounced Speaker Whiteman, lis lost"
II have made the best fight | could, and
| am beaten" said Mr.. Ford.
On all hands the unlooked-for result of
| the roll call was attributed partly to the
| effect Of Mr.. Cooch's speech, which was
much stronger and more earnest than a
simple newspaper summary would indi-
cate, In vigor and straightforwardness it
recalled former memorable occasion
when, in 1855, Mr.. Cooch threw his whole
| soul into an effort to put the Townsend
bridge REIN bursement bill through the
! House, and succeeded.
The Silverbrook bill came before the
House with the approval of the committee
on municipal corporations Messrs.
| SpruanCe, Hall, Dasey, Watkins and
/ l
nounced in presenting the bill for passage
and the presumption was that it came be-
/ fore the House with the endorsement of
all the committeeman present, (Mr. Hall
being ahsent) when they allowed this
presentation to pass unchallenged. Yet
these committeeman divided two and two
when the roll was called.
SO general was the expectation that the
bill would go through that even Mr., Car
penter conceded its passage during the
noon intermission and deplored in strong
terms, the increase it would necessitate i'll
the tax rate Of the city.
George S. Capelle William c. Spruance
and A. B. Richardson, were before the
Senate committee on corporations this
afternoon in opposition to the Citizens
Light and Power Co. bill, reported last
week. This is substantially the same bill
that, under the same or a similar title, was
rejected by the General Assembly of 1891.
1t was first given notice of in the House,
during the present session, under the title
of the Dover Light and Heat Company, on
January 18th, but that notice was not fol
lowed by the introduction of the bill in the
| House, Instead it was introduced i'll the
Senate, on March l4th, pursuant to notice
given in that body on February 2lst. The
gentlemen who appeared before the com.
mittee to-day strongly suspect that Ad.
dicks is behind this charter, and that its
peculiar phraseoloEy is shrewdly designed
to cover another attack by that willy specu,
lator upon the gas interests of vii,
mington On its face, however, il
seems to be directed rather at the
Dover Gas Company representative
of which company asserts that some of the
men whose names are used in the pro.
posed charter knew nothing of such use OF
their names until they read them in print
The Senate committee had already scruti
| al ha. !, la1 tt,aH
chses asked were two vague and far
reaching. Upon this. the committee had
decided to amend the bill by limiting it,
application TO Dover. But, us Mr.. Rich
ardson put it to-day, if 1t is bad for Will
mingtun it is also bad for Dover, and lac
and mis- associated remonstrants urged the
committee to put it beyond the power ol
harm to Dover, or any other place, by
killing it outright. Addicks cannot get any
schemes through this Legislature If the
members know it. They incline to believe
despite his denial, that Mr.. Addicks pu
s5OOUO INTO the last campaign todefeat The
Democratic ticket, and that, apart from
all other considerations is sufficient L
make them chary of comforting very
liberal favors i'll his direction.
Mr.. Crook was before the Senate com
mittce this afternoon, trying to give hi!
Brandywine Springs Electric Railway bill
a lift. He is willing to make considerable
concessions iii the charter If the committee
will let it come out with favorable re
port. But the committee has decided tC
report the bill unfavorably.
President A. y. Raub of Delaware Col
lege 5. NJ. Curtis, James Hossinger anC
Chief Justice Lore were here this after
noon to try to help the Delaware Collegt
Appropriation bill! along little. They
were promised another hearing some daS
next week The college trustees, at
previous hearing, stated that $4,000. il
round numbers was urgently needed tC
equip the necessary buildings to rende
available the government appropriation
for the advancement OF agriculture anC
the mechanic arts. The trustees do no
expect to get quite this much, but they
are 10th to relinquish hope of obtaining
about $4,000
The joint committees on education CAV,
audience this evening to County Superin
tendents Handy, ryndall and Gray upof
the project in hand--a big one-to recon
struct, amend and codify the school laws
to do, in fact, for educational legislation
very much what is being done in the Gan
bill for the many scattered oyster law
now on the statute books.
DOVER, March 24.-The two house,
locked Horns to-day over Registe
Cooch's bill to repeal what is left of til,
inheritance tax. The Senate came ou
on top, but the tactics by which the vic
tory was Won do not overwhelm tina
body with honor and glory.
This bill was introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Records, on the 10Th inst, anC
passed on the 10Th. II was given it
, first reading in the House on the 2ls
. and passed on the 22d, Wednesday
There was no opposition to its passage
it Just went through, like many othe
bills, on the faith of favorable com