Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-16


the bills adopting the municipal elections
of Wilmington TO the Australian ballot
system the pill abolishing voters assist
ants, foreshadowed in this correspond
cnce several weeks ago, and the long
talkcd-of street and Sewer Department
enlargement bill, which, as has been
stated before. names Enoch Moore and
William ii. McGarrity as the supcrnum-
erary numbers. Joseph l.. Carpenter. Jr.,
is given the long term, to December 3lst,
lSD3 while Messrs. Moore and Mctiarrity
will draw lots for the terms ending with
'9i aud '9G. From the expressions of the
press it is clear enough that the people of
Wilmington would have preferred the
fairer more honorable and more business
like method of continuing the department
as it stands, but this enlargement measure
has been slated by the politicians to so
through and that settles it.
Representative Cooch pitched in during
the noon interlnission with all the Cooch
vim-that is to say, as though the salvation
Of the human race depended thereon
to persuade his fellow members to
so modify the new business limit reso-
luton as to let in important public busi-
ness" after next Wednesday. 1t would not
be surprising If such q fighter as Mr..
Cooch carries his point, and, if he does,
wont the people see some remarkable mag
MITIGATION of little schemes to the
dignity Of important public busi-
nessg The trouble with Mr.. Cooeh is
that his farmer constituents have
Just gotten fairly down to work upon
the bill for the improvement OF public
roads and Mr.. COocl doesn't want to see
ii shut out. OF course there are always
ways to get in really important public
business and there would probably be no
danger whatever of Mr.. Coochs bill being
excluded, with the resolution as it stands.
l. a ~
opened wide enough to let in all so-called
important public business it may be
predicted with reasonable safety that this
General Assembly will stay here till May
DOVER. March l3-The General Assent
bly, made the worst break of the session in
starting on the eleventh week--not
quorum in either house! The Senate
would have expired had it not been for
Senator Pyle, who came down on an after
noon train to direct Clerk Hardcastle to
call the roll, precisely on time, and to de.
clare the Senate adjourned to tomorrow
for lack of quorum.
In the House eight members three short
of quorum showed up, namely; Speaker
Whiteman, Armstrong, H9rrington HEX
man, kcnney, Lynch, Salisbury and
Whittock, and, after waiting i'll vain for
the afternoon trains to augment their
number-two of the original eight having
left for their homes in the meantime
Speaker Whiteman, at 7.3O p. NJ. by the
clock but at , y. m. in legislative contem-
plation, called The House to order Reading
Clerk Bailey called the roll, Mr.. Hickman
moved to adjourn, and those present ad-
journed to Tomorrow morning.
SOME OF THE RiLLs.
Had quorum been secured the follow
ing bills would have been given notice of
An act 10 equalize taxation.
An act TO Incorporate the Law and Order
Society Of Kent county.
An act To amend chapter $50, Vol. XVI.
An act relating to the T., w. & b. II. X. Co.
An net TO authorize the town commissioners
Of Georgetown TO issue bonds AMI Tor other
purposes.
An act to amend the law relating to certifl-
Gates of incorporation granted by the superior
court.
An act in relation tn special sessions OF the
superior court and the court OF chancery.
An act 10 reincOrpOrate the Law Library AS
sociaton Of Now Castle county.
An act authorizing the trusteeG under the
will Of Elizabeth Il. Ochiltree to sell and con-
yey certain real estate.
An act to renew AMI re enact the several
acts Incorporating the Kent & Sussex Ditch
Company and TO amend tha same.
An act u incorporate the Philadelphia Il
Delaware Breakwatei Pier and Improvement
| Company.
| All act TO amend an act entitled an act to in
corpnlato the town ot Loves and for other pur-
poses.
The foregoing bills and titles are in the
| hands of Speaker Whiteman and Messrs.
| Salisbury, Harrington, Hickman and
| Lynch. Regarding some of the titles
nothing can be learned tonight beyond
| what appears on their face but the title
To EQvAIIzE TAXATION
of Conrse comes from j. Alexander Fulton,
but it is said not to be exactly the prepos-
ferrous bill of two years ago, only noditi-
| cation thereof.
| Speaking of tax revision, the tax COM
! missiUncrs expect to hold their concluding
meeting here on Thursday next, and pos
1 sibly to report to the Legislature on that
| day. Il is probable that there will be two
repurts-not exactly majority and minority
reports and not exactly conflicting or an
! tagonistic reports, but reports based upon
the same general ground but differing
| somewhat in details.
MtppLETowN ANp ELKroN BRANCH.
The branch railroad connecting Middle
| town and Elktnn--n cutoff that would
! still further abbreviate the distance be.
| tween the Delaware capital and the Mary
| land metropoliS-iS at last in sight, pro-
| vided a bill that arrived this evening means
| business, and it comes here with the stamp
| of authority. The distance between these
! points, Middlctown and Elkton is only II
miles in AN air line and l64 miles by public
road. Probably the new branch will take
in Frenchtown and Chesapeake City on
the way,
This is not, however, the bill referred to
| By title above. That bill simply empowers
! the directors of the T.. W. e Il. K. Il. to
elect additional yice-presidents from time
| to time, who may exercise such powers,
perform such duties and receive such COM
| petsation as the directors may prescribe
and OrdaiH.
THE MInDLErowS RIVALS.
There are signs Of spirited fight brew
] II iS bot
municipality and its vicinity into rival
factions on the eleutriC railway issue. The
| projected new railway-known rs the
| Middletown elCCtric--Seems to have hosts
of friends, but it has also some enemies.
The Biggscs and sam Pennington are agn
it," said one of the tOwnsmcn to-day Tine
bill TO incorporate the aliduletown electric
went through the House without any OPP
position, and is now in committee iii the
| senate. Since II reached the Senate com
nlittee indications of trouble have ap-
peared in the shape of femonstrRuce
signed by about 20 persons, in obiec-
/ tiuu urged against the use of certain
streets and of the county road from Odessa
and in the INTRODUCTION Of Il bill to supple.
nlent and amend the charter of the odessa
& Middletown Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company. This latter was introduced, in
the House, by Mr.. Watkins last week,
simultaneously came the notice Of a bill,
III tnt senate, 10 rcnell lhc hluuletoWn "
| Odessa, Narrow Gauge. This latter looks
like move on the part of the new COM
pany to get square and give the old cor
poration something to keep il busy and
thereby disarm its power for harm but a
Middletown man who ought to be in
formed said to-day that the Middletown
electric has no hand in this apparently re
taliatory move.
PRETTY Gig BILL.
But the House bill TO supplement the
charter OF the old company is a regular
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