Evening journal., 1893-03-03

consideration of the Special constables'
"a BIZ.
STAFF Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, March Sex State Treasurer
h William Herbert. Mayor Frank K. Her
bert, Julian ID. Janvier, DR.. Howard
# Ogle and Peter l.. Cooper, Jr., were here
b yesterday in the interest Of the Whining.
N ton and New Castle Electric Railway
n Company charter They we're opposed
q in their efforts by Alexander b. Cooper,
# counsel for the New Castle Coal Gas
Company.
Both sides had a hearing before the
Senate Committee on Private corporations
# during the noon recess The counsel for
the gas company reiterated his statement.
that, to give the railway company power
# to light the town with electric light
would ruin the gas company land cause
~ great loss to many poor stockholders.
The railway men contended that, be-
yond the nonresident stockholders, few
of the persons interested in the gas
works cared whether it went up or not
& as it was not a paying Investment The
3 electric light would be better and
y cheaper. not only to the city but also to
III the citizens. IL is also proposed to light
81 the Jail for a much smaller sum than it
now costs for gas.
Mayor Herbert presented a petition
signed by IA of the 500 white citizens Of
Al New Castle, and another from William
81 Herbert and Julian Janvier, two of the
three resident gas company directors,
asking that the electric light section be
left in the charter
The problem of the day for them was
proposition made by Senator Records,
that In he. h. A.
tracks at the foot of Market street, vii.
mington, they should build an overhead
bridge for the safety of the passengers
who ride on the electric road. This
matter was argued for some time, and
no definite conclusion was reached The
committee will not report on the bill
before the middle or last of next week.
sa-sIiddIetown Trouble.
The railway war in st. Georges hun
dred has begun again. The Middletown
Electric railroad is the special object OF
attack Senator Pyle has received a re-
monstrance, not only asking that the
bill now before the General Assembly be
killed, but that the law passed two years
ago, incorporating the Odessa and Mid.
dletown Marrow Guage Railway Com.
pany be repealed. Among the signers
of this remonstrance are ex-Governor
q Benjamin T. 'Biggs, Sewell c. Biggs,
Richard Clayton. Nathaniel J. Williams
j. r. Hoffecker. Manlove Davis, r. X.
Cochran, R. w. Cochran and w. B.
Biggs.
The causes assigned for the opposition
are that the fine public road between
Middletown and Odessa would cease tC
be of any value to the public; "that
horses that see these electric cars only
IL / l..
toned to them" driving would be made
unsafe. They assert that they are mo-
opposed to any company which will bul
the right of way through private land.
Senator McMullin got a letter in thu
same strain from a well-knOwn Whining
tonian
A Rumor of His Death.
Early yesterday morning someon
started a rumor on the streets that Rep
resentative Conaway,of Little Creek hun
dred, was dead 1t soon reached the Stat
House, and, although not unexpected
created much comment snd called fort
many expressions of regret Messenger
were sent to ascertain if the rumor wer
true They returned with the informa
tion that he was alive, but that his deaf
was expected at any minute
Representative Hutson, Of Littl
Creek, was in the Senate chamber yestei
day afternoon. He had just come fror
home. In answer to an inquiry made b
the EVENING JOURNAL correspondent h
said
He is yet alive but the family an
his son, who is a physician, have no ide
that he v i'll recover.
Should he die Speaker Whiteman wi
have to issue a writ for an election for
representative from that hundred.
such an event it is not thought that th
Republicans will put a man in nomini
tion against tine choice Of the Democrat
of the hundred.
Senator Ross is Unhappy,
Senator Ross is unhappy. His che
ished idol is shattered Hons. Nathani
B. Smithers and Edward Ridgely wei
employed by the Senate commute to di
sect the Ross Salisbury bill regulatir
ASST gnments for the benefit of credito
i'm other words, bill to prevent a ms
laying in big stock Of goods on cred
one day, and making an assignment
preferred or bogus creditors on the mex
Speaking of the matter last evenir
the genial senator, who occasional
visits the State House, said.
"Mr Smithers contended that the b
made the party who did not consent
the assignment lose everything and tho
who did consent to it lose nothing. b
get everything. Or. in other word
most Of the bill really was law anywi
and what was added to it really invalid
ted the old law The bill did not coverwh
was after What / supposed Al
what we all supposed. was that it won
keep man from cheating his credito
by making a fraudulent debt aad tran
ferring the goods 10 other parties
means of an assignment. Now that ii
bill will not do that we propose to gel
bill that will ! am determined to ha
one
The Senate on Divorce.
Senator Records, chairman Of the ST
ate committee on divorce, did big w0
Yesterday afternoon He put throu
three House bills without any opposite
other than that Senator Williams insist
on the calling of the ayes aud nays
every instances. The unloving coup
separated and the causes which led up
the divorce were as follows Margaret
VS.. Charles F. Weigandt, desertion, NJ
t-,..If,I adnlfarv. NJ.