Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-06
the payment of the State license fee of $40

encouragement and the deputy attorney
general.
Senate bill increasing the compensation
of the Wilmington city solicitor and pro-
viding for the appointment of an assistant
city solicitor.
House bill taking away from Registrar
Colquhoun the five-cent fees for reporting
births, marriages and deaths for record by
the clerk of the peace.
Senate bill repeating that provision of
the liquor laws which prohibits the use
of screens, frosted glass, &C., in bar-room
windows.
DOVER, April 3.-There are just two
things worthy of note in connection with
the opening day Of the 18th week Of this
General Assembly.
The first of these was that the Senate
had n a,quorum--in the morning--but lost
it in the afternoon. During the morning
session, however, the Senate passed three
bills.
There are somewhere about 400 bills still
remaining to be disposed. Some of these
have one house, some the other, and many
have passed neither. Assuming that the
senatee, has one-haf of this number, say
700 bills, to pass, or kill, the contract can
be handled in 67 days more provided
the Senators work as hard as they
did this morning and keep the steam up
for that length of time
The other matter of interest was the
passage through both houses of bill pro-
viding for q special election to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of the late
Mlnos Conoway. The bill provides for
one polling place in each hundred. Speaker
Whlteman issued, this afternoon to the
sheriff Of Kent county, his writ for the
holding of the election under the pro-
visions of the special act. The sheriff as
by statute required. will tomorrow put
upon the outside of the court house door,
and also in one of the most public places
of each hundred n proclamation appoint
ing day for holding the election. This
will be on Friday next.
The ballots are to be plain white paper.
either printed or written. 1t is not autici-
patel that there will he any political CON
test. Those who are spoken Of as likely to
be voted for are DIR. W. X. Conoway, son
of the deceased John Fennimore David
Cloud and William L. Hutson, all Demo
Gratis.
The Revised Statutes committee Of the
House, William salisbury chairman, was
industrious this afternoon. The committee
put III three hours steady work and got
half dozen bills in readiness to report
favorably. About dozen more were gone
over and held for further examination.
Most of these latter are likely to be ad-
vcrsely reported.
Among the bills considered favorably is
one of interest to quite number of peo-
pie. 1t proposes to make valid the record
Of all deeds back to January LIST, 1880
which. being regular and straight, are still
handicapped by some purely technical in
formality.
Two members of the State board of
Worlds Fair managers, William r. ALA
band and Robert w. Reynolds, are to start
for Chicago on Wednesday, to look after
the furnishing and electric lighting of the
Delaware. building and the grading and
sodding thereto appertaining.
One matter that has escaped public at
| tention, although noted in this correspond
ence at the time of the introduction of the
bill, is that there is House bill which
aims to get back the screens into barroom
windows. The Senate killed, last week, a
bill which had been introduced in thar
body, which aimed to do the same thing.
Strange what a stumbling block this anti
screen law is Two years ago the liquor
men seemed more concerned about it than
anything else; but they failed to get their
coveted screens then and they will fail
now.
The House bill which contains the
screen replacing provision is the bill
which provides, in its opening session, for
striking out the words 10 be drunk or the
premises" " and which, in its second sec.
ton, proposes to exempt applicants for
license from putting up the money in ad-
vance. The screen section of this bill is
brief-it is all comprised in about two
lines-but il is all there. II simply prn-
vides that section 4, chapter 555. Vol.
| NNlll., shall be repealed, That is all.
| But any one curious enough to look up the
chapter and section referred to will find
| that IL reads as follows:
Every person licensed under this act shall
keep his principal place of business 80 as TO be
seen tnlly and easily by passers-by, and shall
EoI obstrllct such view by screens, blinds In
side shutters, frosted glass, or any other device
| Of whatsoever kind or character. Any viola
tion Of this section shall he n mlsdem = nor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit his
license and pay fine Of not less than $50 nor
more than 500.
This is the famous anti-screen provision
of 1889, which has caused so much wrig-
Cling.
DOVER, April 4.-ChieAy for the reason
| that it has been lobbied through by
women, the Cigarette bill has attracted an
| inordinate amount of attention. The
| Senate passed the bill this afternoon-not
| the same bill which came over from the
| House, but radically different measure
| and the little chamber in which the upper
! body sits was the fccus of interest for the
| time being. a stranger would have i'm
| agincd that something of overwhelming
importance was under way-instead of
| measure SO comparatively innoeuous as
this effort to discourage the development
of dudes.
The bill as it passed the House levied a
| special license of 500 a year upon dealers
in cigarettes and cigarette paper, but laid
no restrictions upon their sale by any
dealer who chose to pay this license. 1t
was assumed, after the House had passed
| this bill, that there were half dozen
dealers who would so pay-three in Will
mington, one in Smyrna, one in Milford
and one somewhere else.
simultaneously with the bill going
through the House, w. +. Smalley ap.
peared upon the scene He may have ap-
| peared before, but he only then became
conspicuously apparent. Mr., Smalley
line, interested in supplying the Delaware
cigarette trade. This client did not relish
| seeing his customers cut down to posi-
BILE half do2en Consequently Mr.. Smalley
! rolled mp his sleeves, metaphorically speak
/ ing, and pitched in to prevent the passage
of the House bill through the Senate. His
| opponents were Mrs. James l.. Wolcott
and Mrs. n. b. Smithers.
| Who has won is conundrum. Mr..
| Smalley says he is satisfied; the ladies' say
! they are gratiiied. Cndeniablv the COM
batants had found common ground to
stand on, for with the reassemblng, Mr..
| Smalley appeared enveloped in smiles and
| his familiar suit of gray escorting the
| ladies through the crowded corridor to the
| Senatorial domicil and thereby awakening
| in inquiring minds the question whether
Smalley had captured the, ladies or the
| ladies had captured Smalley. All three
seemed perfectly delighted with the situa-
ton; as Mr.. Pyle subsequently said on
| the floor, "The ladies are satisfied; Mr..
! Smalley is satisfied; everybody satisfied"
But it appeared that Messrs. Williams
and Pillng were not. They opposed the
bill by word and vote, but it went through.
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