Evening journal., 1895-04-25
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
What the Law Makers Did in
Dover Yesterday.
THE WORK OF HOUSE AND SENATE
To Make IL a FeIony, WITH Severe Pen
aities, 10 oRsr TO Buy n vote-A Bond
Issue for the State. Hsspital-Nsw CAS-
tie County in the constitutional Conven-
tion--LsgislatiysN Notes.
stafr Correspondenoe EvenIne Journl

yesterday he offered the following reso-
tiOn:
Resolved, That the Committee on
Elestions be and they are hereby in
structed aud directed to hAvs prepared
and presented to this House for It's action
bill making 1t = felony, punishable by
ine and imprisonment, disfranchlssment
and disqualification for holding any
office Of trost or profit, for any psrson to
offer in any manner to purchase vots at
any general or special elsetion In this
state
In Offering IL he ssid: Nc Speaker
this resolution is in regard 10 tho puri
hca ion Of elections, TO whica DO
parties In the state are pledged
IL was adopted without n dissenting
vote.
Ts Ratlfy tho Act
Representative Pyle introduced q bill
ratifying resolution OF this .rsst aud
Sewer Department of Wilmington rsla
tive to the vAcAting OF q number Of small
streets At the time that the depart.
ment acted 1t dii not know that leglsla
tive sanction was required
For rholr su INNER eating.
An act to Incorporate tue Iadian River
By Mr. Moore The incorporAtors are
James @ McComb, william Michael
Byrne. Charles W. Cullen, Joseph L
Csball, David N Wilson, Dr. o. D
Robinson, john +. Donahoe, @ h.
Kittenger, Horace R Mustard Clarence
D Sypherd, Horace Brown and Charles
L. Moore. The capital stock is limited
to 50. 600 The incorporAtors have the
option on Piney island. 10 Rshoboth bay
at the mouth of Indian river They
desire to buy 1t and q ySsht, and pat up
q club house there.
Truitt and His Farms.
Among the House bills favorGbly rs
ported In the House yesterday were the
following; To transfer the farms of
john 81. Truitt and John II. Jones from
school district No. 124 to district No. II
in Sussex county; to transfer the farm of
John a. Trultt from school district No
50 to district Ne. 1874 in suSssx county
For a Bomd Isaae.
Superintendent Hancksr and Dr. VIII
son, Of the Delaware State Hospital at
FArnhurst, spent some time In the Stats
House yesterday in the interest Of that
institution. Representative sypherd in
trodueed q bill, as a substitute for a rsso.
luton, empo wsring the trustees to make
bond Issue Of $4,000 to msst che sx-
psnse Of putting up additional buildings
In ths Negative Mood.
Senator Handy made q hard 6ght
against It. but the Senate bill ineorpo-
rating the Laurel Loan and Trust Com
pany paused the Senate as IL was reported
from the committee. He oontsnded that
for the protection OF orphans and others
the capital stock, $2b. 600, wts too
small. In his opinion IL should not be
less than $50 900
Speaker Records, one Of the insorpors.
tors. left the chair to defend the bill
he said that to raise the minimum to
$50, 900 would destroy the usefulness Of
the bill. Senators Pyle and Alriehs
associated themselves with him In It's
defense When the vote was taken Mr.
Handy was the only member on the
negative side.
MilIville Gets It's Justice.
Governor Watson may now appoint an
additional justice OF the peace and notary
public for Baltimore hundred, Sussex
county. The Senate yesterday passed
the House bill providing such an, ofacsr,
but providing that he shall reside near
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justice
The Substitute Passed.
The Senate passed the Houss bill to
incorporate the Fidelity Storage Com
pany. Also q bill extending for two
Ysars the franchise of the Chester and
Wilmington Electric Railway Company,
was recently lost or stolen.
Tbs Way They Spell It Below.
The Senate bill to change the name Of
Harry Minner to Harry Willis Voshall,
and to allow the voshell fam
lily, Of Cedar Greek hundred TO adopt
him. was called up Ia the Senate aud
would have passed then but for the fact
that the name Of Eugene" was spelled
"Ugens" It was rseommittsd for cor
rection and subsequently passed.
The Resolution Forwarded.
Some time ago the General Assembly
adopted joint resolution relAti.e to the
constitutional Convention It requested
the governor to ask the judges Of the
several courts to meet aud decide
whether under the present constitution,
New CASTLE county can have more dele
gates than either of the other counties
This resolution was forwarded to Chief
Justice Lore yesterday by Secretary Of
State ]. Harvey Whiteman.
wants to Succeed himself.
w. w. Knowles. the popular and
efficient superintendent of free schools
OF Sussex county, came to Dover yestsr-
day to have an audience with Governor
Watson, but unfortunately for him, he
was not In town. Mr Knowles is an
applicant for rssppointmsnt and mis- only
rival In the field Is. it Is understood,
Roman TAmmAny, an ex-superintendent
OF the county. Mr.. Knowles has the
endorsement Of -tenths Of both the
white and colored teachers Of the lower
county.
Your correspondent asked Chief Justios
Lore last evening when the bench would
deliver It's reply to the General Assembly
he replied that it would probably be the
early part of next week
The Matter of Claims.
The joint committee on claims will
meet TO day and 60 over the bills pre-
sented against the state. A preliminary
meeting was held yesterday, Repre-
sentative Brown was made chairman Ruc
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