Evening journal., 1895-04-04

PRrIor Last Night-Colored Educational
Advocates At the Oapitol-Notss of the
Sessions.
Star Correspondence Evening Journal
DOVER, April The House Com.
Dlttee on Revised Statutes worked In
vindictive mood aud otjactive case
during the noon recess yesterday. 1t
seemed to be determined to give the lie
to the assumption that the Senate is the
only delbsrAtive body that sits in the
State House II 1t keeps this up It will
make the stock of the Senatorial
Cemetery and Sarcophagus Company fall
away below par, as that corporations
prosperity is founded on the business Of
/ burying revised statute bills from the
10 yer house
Daring the afternoon session Chairman
Walker arose, and. with the air Of a
funeral director during an epidemic OF
Asiatic cholera, reported q number Of
bills unfavorAbly.
The first bill TO fold it's hands. say it's
little piece. and be requested to sleep
the sleep that knows no waking, was TO
amend Section 10. OF chapter 127, OF the
Revised Code. 1t was introduced by
representative Sypherd early In the
session and made IL capital offense TO
carnsllY know a female child under the
age Of 10 years The present age is 2
The committee considered 1t a dangerous
bill
Another measure introduced by Rep
resentative Sypherd was the next victim.
It was the House bill repeating the law
passed in 1893. limiting Judgment liens
on real estate to ten years The act
sought to be repealed provides that after
January !, 1898 all judgments ten years
old or over must be revived by agree
ment between the plaintiff aud the de-
fendant or else lose It's lien 10 regard TO
any subsequent judgment, mortgage or
conveyance The reason assigned for the
righteousness OF such law Is that the
judgment dockets In all thres counties.
and particularly In New Castle county,
are loaded with old judgments, some OF
which date back to 1892 Ia making
conveyance OF prop'r rty these old 1udg
ments como up. The parties interested
In the conveyance oRunot fad out. ia
many Instances, whether the debt has
been paid or rot, the plaintiffs aud de
fendants being dead Very often he
sale OF property is prevented by ason
Of these Old liens, In Pennsylvania liens
lose their priority after they have been
on the docket for FIVE years
Kent and Sussex counties want the law
repealed, and the Senate has already
passed repeater, the members from the
lover counties pledging themselves to
ote. for such bill applicable soleiy to
New Castle sounty, where IL ls-wanted
aIa h. hn u. 4 4
9 airman Walker next wound
wreath Of cypress around the snacting
clause of Magistrate MoWhorier's bill
for the protection Of endorssrs and
sureties IL provided that, where en-
dorsers or sureties on promlssory notes
we're compelled TO pay the notes. and cot
judgment against the maker and ordered
execution, said maker should have no
bent ft OF the exemption laws And that
rent not due could not be taken out Of
the judgment. The committee did not
think 1t bill that Whorter pass.
The committee also tagged the bill
allowing Hartley to add pars mony to it's
public school curriculum. In 1891, the
General Assembly enacted a law COMPEL
ing the town to raise $3.50 for educa
tional purposes before iG could get its
appropriation from the school fund
Times have been hard, money tight, and
some of the Hsrtleyites want to let edu
cation slide for awhile or be maintained
wholly at state expense. This bill was
indefinitely postponed.
The last bill over which Chairman
Walkers rich tenor sang a requiem was
that authorizing the Marydel school
commissioners TO change the school house
site. The committee could not reconcile
the hlndslght with the foresight and
decided to allow them to stick TO the old
site.
Woodoock Not in II.
The Delaware Game Protective Asso-
citation bill for the protection Of quail,
pRrtridges, pheasant, woodcock and
rabbits passed the Senate all right but
met miserable fate in the House AS It
passed the Senate 1t provided a closed
season for 1895 and a season opening on
November 10 and closing or December
81 for years thereafter It went to the
House and remained In committee for a
long time, its enemies taking every
advantage Of the opportunity to asssil
It.
Yesterday Chairman Burton reported
the bill unfavorably and handed in a
substitute. 1t provided an open season
during the entire month of December,
| 1895, and a season from November 10 to
December 81 in subsequent years. The
woodeock feature vas left out entirely
Representative Sypherd asked that the
substitute go over for few days because
he thought it's provisions obscure
Mr. Moore, who had changed his base
since he failed to get the Handy muster
roll resolution carried over, said that,
considering the number of bills In hand
he did not think that action on any Of
them should be postponed.
An amendment was offered by Repre-
sentative Ualy. It was to make the season
open on November 10 and close Decent b. I
30 He said his object was TO keep Christ.
mas gunners from killing of ali the game.
Representative Burton objected to the
amendment, saying that the farmers
only opportunity to gun was during
Christmas week.
The dry statesman from Duck creek,
Mr. Mustard, objected. too. but from q
different standpoint He said that It
made no difference about the Christmas
gunners as they couldn't hit anything
anyhow.