Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-28

tbe transAcpon OF House business during
the afternoon. In consequence of many
members being kept away, the III ousc did
not reassemble until 3.46 o clock, not until
after the scrgeant-at-arms had been in.
ntructed to institute q search for the alb
sentees. When these me mbers came In
Speaker McMullen reprim anded them for
their tardiness and insisted that they be
punctual.
DOCTORS ASK FOR LEGISLATION.
Drs Il. T. Negendank, Irvine NJ. Finn,
]. Harmer Rifle, P. w. Tomlinson, r.. G.
Ellegood and l.. A. Bishop, appeared be.
fore the committee on Revised Statutes
and urged the passage Of the act reguat-
ing the practice OF medicine and surgery.
IL is said that opposition to the bill Is
developing, and 1t is predicted that the
measure will not pass,
FOR THE GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Mrs. Lafayette Marks. Mrs. Samuel
Bancroft, Jr., Mrs. #. S. Garrett and Mrs.
Charlton Edholm, accompanied by several
Dover ladies, including Mrs. n. Il.
Smithers, appeared before the members of
the Senate and requested the passage of
the act to increase the appropriation for
the Delaware Industrial School for GIRLS
aud exempt its property from taxation.
Speeches were made by Mrs. Marks, Mrs.
Edhom aud Mrs. Garrett and the remarks
of Mrs. Edholm we're supplemented with
prayer
WANT TO KNOCK THE BOTTLE OUT.
Judge Bali, the Rev. William p. Swartz,
William 4. Priekett, Representative Mus,
tard, the Rev. J. X. Miliigan and Charles
S. Rowland addressed the committee on
revised statutes in advocacy OF the bottle
law repeater. 1t is expected that the re.
healer will be passed. Late in the after
ioon Speaker McMullen, who is opposed
10 the repeater, was surrounded by women
who severely criticised him respecting his
attitude.
orHBR INTERESTS HAVE HEARINGS.
David W. Elkinton appeared before the
committee on municipal corporations in
opposition to the act authorizing New
Castle to borrow $1,000; Councilman
Eliason of that town will come here to
advocate the passage of the bill.
K. w. Crook and Dir, l.. Iieisler Ball APP
peared before the committee on private
corporations in behalf of the Wilmington
q Brandywine Springs Electric Railway
Co.
John A. Walls, Harold Suddell and
ISRAEL Rulings appeared before the COM
ittee on municipal corporations and
ked that improvements on property at
w Castle be exempted from taxation. 1t
said the delegation converted all the
mittee with the exception possibly of
preventative Pyle.
William G. Wier, Thomas T. Weldin,
Elihu y. Talley, William L. Husbands,
Hugh Ramsey, Joseph Forwood and /.
Newton Grubb appeared before the com.
mittee on roads and vacant lands and OPP
posed the Brandywine hundred road bill.
Speeches we're made by Msssrs. Wier and
Weldin.
Three or four Kent countiaus appeared
before the committee on education and
urged that School districts Nos. and 40 be
consolidated with District No. "a and that
the latter be transferred to BrenfOrd. A
large delegation will come here Thursday
to oppose the scheme,
Representative Pyle received to-day an act
relative TO fines. IL provides that hereafter
one-half of all the fines imposed and col
lected in any county of the State, when the
evidence to secure the conviction shall be
furnished by the Law and Order Society of
Wilmington or its agent or agents, shall
be paid TO that society in aid of the pur-
pose for which ii was incorporated.
Representative Robbins has been asked,
but hesitates, to introduce an act prohibit.
ing menhaden fishing above Mahon's
Ditch and within three miles of shore.
Representative Wilson has been handed
an act in relation TO ds0rderly houses and
houses of i'll fame and designation. It
provides that any person who keeps or
has any interest in keeping such house,
or who as agent or owner lets a place or
building, or any portion Ut u building,
: knowing that it is intended to be used for
any purpose specified in the act, or who
permits building or q portion Of build
ing to be so used shall pay fine OF not
less than 800 nor more than $3.50, and
upon second or any subsequent convic-
I ton shall pay fine of not less than S2UU
nor more than 500, or be imprisoned not
, more than one year, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court
QUEEN ANNEs RAILROAD.
The Senate, to-day. passed with amend
ments the House bill authorizing the
Queen Anne's railroad to cross Delaware.
The amendments include the following
The road shall be completed within three
years. the company shall spend $40, 900 in
this State within is months; it shall not
issue bonds at rate exceeding SIS, 0O0 per
mile; il shall have waLchmeu at all grade
crossings; trains on old roads which this
road crosses shall have priority and the
terminus of the road shall be in or within
mile of Lewes.
Senator Harrington, chairman of the
committee on private corporations, ex.
planned that the members of the commit
tee were satisfied that the Junction 4
Break water road will extend to the Queen
Anue's road every facility for carrying
passengers from Lewes to Rehoboth.
When theextension OF the Queen Anne's
road is completed Rehoboth will be Balti-
mores and Washington's nearest seaside
resort.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Representative Walker introduced an
act providing for Constitutional Conven
tion.
Section says the said convention shall
be called at the State House in Dover the
third Tuesday in November, 1895.
Section = provides that it shall consist OF
40 delegates of whom 20 shall be chosen
from New Castle COuntV and 10 each from
Kent and Sussex counties; that the dele
gates shall be chosen at the next general
election; that any qualified voter who
shall be of the age OF 70 years or upwards
and shall have been citizen and inhabi'
tant of the State for the period of three
years next preceding said election and fol
the last year OF that period an inhabltant
of the county from which he shall be
chosen shall be eligible to the Office OF
delegate to said convention.
Section says the delegates shall be voted
for ON the same ballots which qualitiec
voters may cast for other officers voted fol
ut the said election; that if any voters vott
for more persons as delegates than they arr
entitled to such ballots. so far as the cleo
tion of delegates is concerned, shall not b,
counted.
Section provides that all the provision
of the act providing for the secrecy ant
purity of the ballot, passed May 18th
1891, as the same has since been amended
shall, 50 far as they are applicable to tn
purposes 0t this act, apply to the election
OF delegates.
Section 8 says that upon the canvassini
of the vote Tor delegates the sheriff o
other presiding officer shall have the RICH
to deciding vote in any case of tie vot
for candidates for the Office of delegate
where such tie vote would otherwise result
in n vacancy.