The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-01

The General Assembly, after holding
on AS long ~, even its sense OF duCenCy per.
HittCd. finally reached, on Saturday, the
point of adjUurning until January next
1t would be u great rGllUi to the people had
the adjournment been without day, for, to
a moral certainty, it would not have been
called III extra session by any extremity,
10 matter how dire.
As sGOu as the work of careful collection
can be performed, which viii require q
few days, Every Evening will present "a
complete list Of all the measures enacted
by the remarkable Legislative scs ion that
closed on Saturday, 1t will be seen from
this list that with the exception Of CprpUr.
ate acts, road and ditch measures and di.
vUrCeE--thUTU were over hundred Of tho
lattcT--tLo Legislature did practically
nothing for the state,
Ii may be added, however, that the re.
fusal to pass the Till lcgaliHing race track
gambling was great benefit to the pco.
pie, but Il prOIrr estimate Of the Lpgisla.
iuIc is found in hu fact that the promo.
tcrs Of such IL measure felt it no presump.
tlpn work for 1t in the hope of success,
The adjourned session in January can.
not be Hvcrtch, unfortunately. The people
can only hope that it will not turn out
such calamity as they now fear
Tho public measures enacted were few
indeed and some Of them Of u character
that will proyCa detrment, instead of "a
benefit,
In the way Of mertorious public
measures the amendment to the Elec
ton laws and the new Primary Election
law appear to LIE about the sum total OF
the work accomplished,
Take careful s:rutiny of the names of
the men who will preside over the ballot
boxes on saturday next, and the deter
miuatiOn Of these men to conduct flair"
and honest" election. They can do it,
but will they? If we know some of them,
and we think we do, they will SEQ to it
that their party has fair and full count,
The Republicans need to be on thoir guard
and carefully and diligently see that every
vote is recorded as counted and that every
ballot is represented by bonnfilc name
ON the tally sheet Remember the fate of
the twelve inspectors who escaped going
to jAtl for allowing their tally sheets to be
altered at the election in November last
Tho lesson has not been learned yet and
the escaping OF these men, with only q
nominal fine has no terror for them as ii
was paid by the managers of the Demo
Gratis and did not come out of the pockets
Of the men who were only tools for other,
higher up in tho Democratic party. II
they had been sent to jail thCywoutd have
S'l fIthiFtI ttllA 9'llNl'bIf hohth lhNS EbthSi
the name they so fully deserve ana stood
exposed to tho public gnzo
The Evening Journal says:
That the General Assembly has beer
criticised is not to BIO wondered at, but
! most of tho criticism was brought about
| by the case with which the members fe
! into the hands of the lobbyists Some of the
measures proposed showed the low csti
| mate at which the lobbyists of vCiou!
| Legislation held tho mcmbur5 but enough
| Of the mUmbers renaiHed true to thell
| duty in most Instances to thwart the
schemes OF the men who would BIZ but toe
| glad to use them to accomplish their pur
| poses and then permit them to become thu
| scapcgUats for their own wanton disregard
of tho public interest"
| &Thc county tax collectors have all beer
named and will enter upon their duties OF
July lst. They will receive some Il ,0OJ
year in salaries with q ten per cent added
| for collecting all delinquent taxes. Surel!
tins is u snap and gives Mr. Horace Rettew
very little to do and cuts out his clerk fe
Of 81 900 which was allowed to Receiver o
| Taxes Dickey, The bill is known as the
| Dickey bill and was presented by him
| Thus he again shows his hand in polite,
Cuppng and leechlng, 1903 Il. Second st
| Phone SAL.