Evening journal., 1897-02-23
WANT 1T LIMITED.
Trustees of Farnhurst After
Radical Amendments.
KENT COUNTYs LEVY COURT
OBJECTION TO w. JENKS FELL'S
BRANDYWINE SPRINGS BOULE-
WARD GROWING-ABOUT OTHER
MEASURES BEFORE THE SEN
ATE AND HOUSE.

NAhD tOWlNG-ABOOI OlHEh
MEASURES BEFORE THE SEN
ATE AND HOUSE.
Staff Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER. Feb. 23.-The trustees Of the
Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst
want the General Assembly to make
some radical amendments to the pres
ent law regulating the admission-cf pa
tients into that institution. At present
it is mandatory upon the trustees to
accept any patient upon the certifca-
tion of two physicians. This law has
led to abuse, and the trustees declare
that there are men in the asylum who
have no business there, but they are
helpless in the face CT such a certificate
One Of them. at least, has been threat
ened with arrest for refusing to honor
such a certificate. when his judgment
told him that the state was being i'm
posed upon. They want the amend
ments to remove the mandatory feat
ure and make it discretionary
KENT'S LEVY COURT.
The bill remcdellng the Levy Court
of Kent county is about completed, and
at noon to-day the legislative and Levy
Court committees will meet and con-
slider its provisions previous to its in
PRODUCTION in the House. 1t is under
stood that the Democratic members of
the present Levy Court are perfectly
satisfied to sacrifice their terms for the
purpose ofsecuring to the ecountya more
economical and satisfactory system of
administering the countys affairs.
Last evening several prominent Sus-
sex countians came to town to talk
over a similar bill for Sussex. If they
are passed all three counties will be
under the five commissioners system,
now in vogue in New Castle county
and the workings Of which have proved
SO satisfactory.
This means that the Addiclxs people
cannot possibly profit by any decision
made by the Superior Court.
THE sERGEANT's VIEW OF 1T.
Lady visitor-"Who is that gentle
man sitting back there in the corner?"
ergeant-at-arms-"T is Senator
Pierce"
Visitor-"H How corpulent he is"
Sergeant-"Yes. he belongs to the
That ether man you see back there is
even more corpulent. He is chairman
of the Committee on Municipal Corpor-
ations. Representative Davis is an
other big man. He is on the House
Committee ON Private Corporations.
How in the world the speakers over
looked Senator Handy and Representa-
tive Adams | don't know, for they both
have private corporations Of which any
man might be proud. but their shape
gotlost sight of in the schuffe, and they
were not in on the committee deal tell
you what it is. man who carries what
Representative Adams carries and fails
to get an appointment on q corporation
committee has a right to feel sore about
it and -."
But she had fed.
THE CHEAlRS-D -DICKEY CLAIMS.
In the House yesterday nepresenta-
tive HAZEL presented the following
! bills in the Cheairs-D -Dickey contest,
which were referred to the Committee
on Accounts, as follows. II. Z. First,
$35.25; r. r. Francis, $35.25; Robert
Adair. SIS; Paul Gillis, SS; Z. b. T..
Springer. $3.50; John c. Hopkins $685.
James w. Ponder, $780, w. F. Kurtz
| anu T. ID AANA1Lif FAoNf W. IL n ilhAif
| 1925; w. B. Hazel, S145.
READ SECOND TIME.
In the House the following bills were
read and referred at the morning ses-
sion: To amend section 5. chapter 1913
Revised Code; to authorize the commits
sioners Of school district No. rs, in Sus-
sex county, to move their schoOl-house;
to vacate a part of a public road in
Kenton hundred to afford additional
instruction to advanced pupils in GER
tain school districts; TO amend the aci
TO secure the secrecy and purity of the
ballot.
NEW FLAG is HERE
The new flag for the State House has
arrived. and will soCn be floating from
the staff II is Of bunting and ten by
fourteen feet in size.
FELL AND HIS BOULEVARD.
The opposition to w. jerks Felli
lBrandywine Springs boulevard is grow
ing, and every day makes 1t more ap
parent that it will not pass muster. II
addition to the Wilmington and Bran
] d,rtvino Cnritfoe Railway EOnDanv