Evening journal., 1893-03-23
SCHOOL LAW REVISION,
Continued From First Page.

Il each member to be allowed $50 or $50
D and buy his own supplies.
Reference was made later on to the
4 wicker waste-paper baskets. It was
u said that the wholesale price was thirty
Z five cents; the retail price, fifty cents,
while the state had been charged 81 for
b each basket.
q The resolution was not entirely salts
n factory and it was recommitted, the
committee being instructed to make
: satisfactory amendments.
n Batch of Senate Bills Passed.
The Senate passed the following
4 Senate bills yesterday afternoon: For
U the relief of the Delaware g. Chesapeake
3 Towboat Company and the Clyde Steam
s. ship Company; to incorporate the Fred.
q erica & Philadelphia Navigation Com
8 pany; to incorporate the Delaware
& Detective Agency act in relation to st.
# Johns Church, Wilmington; to incorpor
ate the Newport Iron and Steel Com
pany; to incorporate the Bayard Legion
u Demo cratic Club
The Old Lines Adhered To.
Senator Ross was defeated yesterday in
4 his effort to have the Senate hold only
E one session a day. He offered a resolu
tion similar in every respect to that
under which the House is now working
Senators Records and Pyle spoke
against it and were replied to by Sena
tors Ross and Lacey. The resolution was
lost by the following vote:
Aye-Messrs. Ross, Watson and
Lacey g.
Nay-Messrs. Records. Pyle, Pilling
and Mr.. Speaker A.
Not Voting-Mr McMullin.
ss. Judge Houston's Reports.
The Senate concurred in the House
Z joint resolution in relation to the un-
! published law reports of the state. 1t
authorizes Robert 6. Houston and Robert
H. VanDyke to prepare for publication
and to publish the decisions of the law
courts of the state decided subsequent
to those contained in the sixth volume
of Houston's Reports and prior to the
retirement of Hon. John w. Houston as
associate Judge of the Superior Court of
the state. They may also publish the
criminal cases in the same volumes with
the civil cases or separately. Their al
lowance shall not exceed 5000 for each
volume. The state will pay for the
compilation and publication.
Judge Balls Opinion.
''What do you think Of the Gam Wife
Beating bill, iudge2" asked the EVENING
JOURNAL correspondent of Judge ].
Frank Ball yesterday.
Il think measure of that kind would
be very beneficial. don't think you can
give a man. who beats his wife and is
convicted, too much punishment. He is
more deserving of a whipping than man
who steals. l think it would be pre-
ventive measure. 1t has acted that way
in Maryland and don't see why it should
not here"
"Pigs, OF No Pigs "
Representative Sevil says that the
question now agitating the town of Clay
ton is, in his constituency, "Pigs.
of Claytonites, who dread cholera,
want the town commissioners to pass an
ordinance making it unlawful to main
tain an inhabited pig stye" within the
corporate limits The hog owners ana
friends Of the festive porlSer are up in
arms against this prohibition of Ameri-
can pork on the hoof The town com
missioners and the board OF health refuse
to take action in the matter and the
usual greeting in the streets is, "Pigs, OF
no pigs2'
The Liquor License Amendments.
William S. Prickett, attorney for the
Law and Order Society of WILMINGTON,
was in Dover yesterday to look after a
divorce bill in which he is interested. He
took advantage of the opportunity tc
look after the several proposed amend
ments to the liquor license laws.
More Special ConstabIes' Troubles.
Senator Watson from the Committee
on Private Corporations reported unfav
orably on the Senate bill authorizing the
governor to appoint special constables
for the State Hospital at Farnhurst
Senator Piling who introduced the
bill for the Board of Trustees said that
the object of the bill was to preserve the
peace in and around the institution. as
some unruly inmates of the almsnouse
were giving the asylum officials trouble
He asked the senators to note that the
bill provided that the appointments were
subject to the request OF the Board OF
Trustees Of the institution, aud he I'M
derstood that the object was to give
sUrne of the attaches police powers.
senator Pyle facetiously remarked
that he thought the special constabe
business was settled some time ago He
did not want to see the bill killed with
out giving an opportunity for an ex
plauation, aud upon his motion it wa
recommitted
Passed Yesterday Morning.
The Senate passed the following Hous
bills yesterday morning: To incorporatl
Ottawa Tribe, No. 30 o R. NJ RoS
anna Castle, No 16, X. G. e. an,
Senate bill to incorporate the Contra
Cemetery Company
Legislative Notes.
The Senate bill to divorce Hanna
Maria and Charles Stout has passed bot
houses.
Senator McMullin was in attendanc
yesterday.
Pabst Milwaukee beer on tap at Robeleni
los West Seventh street.