Evening journal., 1893-05-03
MORE ABOUT ADEAD BILL
Story Of the Street and Sewer
Amendments Death,
AND OF THE PILIINa AMENDMENT.

yiding an Additional Member of the
Street and Sewer Department Consigned
10 THE Receiving Vault" In Clerk
BardoastIe's Desk-Another Bin now
Talked Of
stan CorresUondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, May Sit was a hard fight,
but Colonel Enoch Moore and Peter j.
Ford worsted Receiver of Taxes John T.
Dickey, Patrick Neary, Andrew g. vii
son and Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr in the
Senate yesterday morning. The victors
Of yesterday were the vanqushed in the
House on last Friday, but they never lost
heart, and when the bill adding General
J. Parke Postles to the Street and Sewer
Commission was reported adversely by
Senator Watson yesterday, it was killed
by unanimous vote with its friends and
foes sitting in the gallery watching its
death struggles. If there ever was
thing that ''died amid ITS worshipers"
it was what is commonly known as the
Four Commissioners bill.
Fight waglng for Weeks.
The fight has been waged for weeks.
The movement began before the General
Assembly met A bill was drawn which
added Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr., and vii
liam MCCARTHY to the commission
making a total of five members. This
bill was introduced, but did not have the
"go" in IL that was expected.
Another bill was then drawn which
dropped MCCARTHY. This bill was re.
ported favorably after public and private
hearings, and called mp for passage in
the House. II was then that Repre-
sentative DAsey offered his memorable
amendment adding Peter j. Ford Mr.
Carpenters bitterest enemy, to the
board The amendment was adopted,
Representatives Spruance and Cooch
being the only two voting against it,
The bill as amended was found to be
defective, and its friends had it recon
mitted
Between that time and Friday both
sides did big work from their respective
positions
On Friday Patrick Neary came to
Dover. Realizing that il was impossible
TO get the bill through with Mr.. Carpen-
ter on IL he withdrew the maU of six
years experience and substituted Gen
eral j. Parke Postles. This bill as amended
passed the House, Representative
Cooch charging Colonel Moore with be-
| ing an Addicks man. Mr. Neary tele.
graphed the news TO General POstles and
everything seemed to be In excellent
shape. Representative Gam was the
only New Castle man who voted against
it
On Monday the bill was carried to the
Senate and given its second reading
under suspension Of rules. It went to
the Committee on Corporations, of which
Mr.. Watson is chairman. Yesterday
morning the friends and foes of the bill
gathered in the State House in force and
were very earnest in their efforts to pass
or kill the measure.
An UnfavorabIe Report.
Senator Watson brought the matter
to an issue by reporting the bill unfavor
ably, When Assistant Clerk Hearn had
read IL, Senator Pilling offered the fol-
lowing amendment which was in
definitely postponed on motion of Sena-
tor Watson. but not before it had occa-
stoned hearty laugh:
"Section 6-That the said Street and
Sewer Department shall, and it is here
by directed, to erect in front of the City
Hall on Market street. in the city of
| Wilmington, bronze statue of the late
Thomas jefferson, which statue shall
be deemed and taken TO be a non-parti.
san mayor for the city Of Wilmington;
provided, however, that the said bronze
statue shall not assume control of the
curtailed functions of the present mayor
until after the term of Office of the pres
ent mayor The said statue shall be
subject at all times to the caprice of the
Boards Of Street and Sewer and Police
Commissioners
Mr. Watson then moved that the bill
be indefinitely postponed 1t was car.
ried unanimously and without a word
of debate
Not content with this he proceeded to
bury it beyond resurrection He moved
that the vote by which the bill was
killed be reconsidered, and the motion TO
reconsider laid on the table This went
through with the same unanimity and
to-day the bill is in the sarcophagus in
Clerk Hardcastle's desk.
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