Evening journal., 1897-01-21
DOUBTS ITS LEGALITY.
Smyrna's Town Board Dubi-
Gus About the Legislature.
THE ENROLLING CLERK TANGLB

THE 100000 LOAN PROVIDED FOR.
STATE HOUSE ALTERATIONS
DISCUSSED-BUSINEsS BEFORE
BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE YES
TERDAY.
STAFF Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER. Jan. 2l.-The town Of
Smyrna wants new charter. but its
Beard of Town Commissioners Is in a
quandary as to where to go TO get IL.
They have doubt as to the legality of
the General Assembly now sitting at.
the State House. and they are not yet
ready to recognize the rump Assembly
set up by Addicks.
The town board is composed of four
Democrats and three Republicans One
of the Republicans is Or. Thomas G.
Moore, speaker of the rump House He
wants the board to recognize his AS
sembly by sending the proposed char
ter to it. On last Friday evening the
commissioners held a meeting to talk
over the matter The Republican mem
bers waited until one of the Democrats
had gone then William A. FAIRIES be-
gan speaking about the new town char
ter. He said that the board ought to
be careful about the matter, as there
was doubt as to the legality of the AS
sembly now meeting at the State
House. They wanted the bill fixed up
so that the legality of the new charter
could not be questioned His views
were coincided in by the other two Re
! publicans, but the Democrats jumped
on them, and the matter was disposed
Of by referring it to a committee
which had been previously appointed.
The bill will be printed but it will not
come to Dover for two or three weeks,
| by which time the board will doubtless
come to the conclusion that the only
General Assembly in the state is the
one meeting at the State House. and
that the Richardson House aggregation
is nothing but base imitation.
GERMANIA WANTS TIME.
The act fer the relief of the Ger
mania Building and Loan Association
No. >. is as follows:
"That the Germania Building and
Loan Association, No. 2, shall be con-
tinued a body corporate for the space
of five years from the twelfth day Of
February, a. D., 1894. for the purpose
Of prosecuting and defending suits By
or against it. and Of enabling it grad
ually to settle and close its concerns.
to dispose of and convey its property
real and personal, and divide its capt
tai stock, but not for the purpose of
| continuing the business for which it
was created"
DOHERTY IS ALL RIGHT.
Under the mistaken notion that the
Senate journal did not read properly
regarding the constitutional term of
Senator-elect Kenney, Mr.. Pyle yester-
day morning offered an amendment
which would have gone through had
not Speaker Harrington called Mr..
Pierce to the chair and obtained legal
advice sustaining the journal as read.
Mr.. Pyle then withdrew his motion to
amend
ENROLLING CLERK TANGLE
The Senate and House have been in
a tangle over enrolling clerks. By q
law passed four years ago the number
was restricted to one, but two years
ago, when the Senate was Democratic
and the House Republican, each house
elected its own clerk for reasons OBJ
vious to all who are intimate with the
responsibilities Of the position. This
time the House members named theil
enrolling clerk in caucus, he being
r James r. Marshall, of Christiana, g
friend of Representative Donaldson. n
the Senate caucus there was an under.
, standing that Senator Fenimore should
name Kent man for the place and hi
selected Edmund o. Raymond.
Neither house elected its enrolling
clerk.
3 Several days ago the Senate adopte,
a joint resolution providing for a com
e mittee on conference to decide upci
a the matter, the object being TO hav,
Raymond do the work for both houses
The House friends of Marshall were o;
the alert and the resolution was non
+, concuTed in.
Yesterday the House sent a simila.
resolution to the Senate and il laid oi
the table, awaiting fuller particulars
. It seems likely that the Senate vii
e name Raymond and the House Mar
{ shall.
Just before the Senate adiourne,
last evening the joint committee me
and decided to recommend that eacl
9 House employ its own reading clerk a
I a salary of $3.50. Both houses adopte
the report
Yesterday afternoon the House re
considered its non-concurrence in IN
Senate joint resolution for a conferenc
!. committee and appointed Messrs. Don
= aldsOn, Davis and Whitney. Speake
" Harrington appointed Messrs. FEM
more and Meredith on the part of tn
Senate.
: The Senate went into an election G
= enrolling clerk.
Mr.. Fenimore nominated Edward {
:, Raymond, of Kent
= Mr.. Pyle nominated Arthur MoClo'
key, OF Wilmington.
= The three Republicans present vote
" for William Sipple. Of Milford, an
produced a deadlock.
For seven ballots the votes stood
Raymond 4; Sipple, 3; McCloskey,
m No election seeming possible, the Ser
re ate adjourned until this morning. whe
Y the fight was resumed.
d, PASSED THE SENATE.
:, City Councilmen Oberly and O'Neil
= of the Finance and Law Committee