The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-27
IN SENATE
AND HOUSE
Plenty Of Business Before the
Legislature and Divorces
Lead the Line.

DOVER, Jan. 2o Mr.. CheaIrs to day in
troduced bill to ralse the tax rate OF
| Delaware City from 20 to 80 cents on the
500 The people of the city by canal and
| Delaware are determined to have good
water and To light its city by electricity
and will erect works to supply both.
! In the house Mr. Mccullough also gave
| notice OF bill to incorporate the Mcdaniel
Cycle Company. The capital stock is
divided into shares Of 500 each and is not
to exceed $50 600.
The company is to have power to en-
gage in the manufacture and sale Of blCy-
cles and supplies and the proposed corpo.
rators are William H. Hawkins, Charles
G. Guyer, B Frank Mcdaniel, Jesse X.
Bayis. John ID. Bates.
William c. l.. Carnagy, the new enroll
| ing clerk assumed his duties to-day.
| Both Houses agreed to $500 appr0pri-
alton for the State Attorney TO be used in
| paying the State Detectives expenses in
ferreting out crime and pOst.nIOrten eI-
| aminatiOn3
The John r. Dickey clothing and man
ufacJuring company wants to be incOrpo
rated.
The committee which is to investigate
railroad rates met this afternoon and cleo
ted Mr. Donaldson chairman and MIR.
Dempsy secretary and will meet every
| Tuesday afternoon. The cUminlttee ex
poets to summon number of witnesses to
| testify as tG rates, etc.
The committee to audit the accounts OF
the state treasurer has partly completed
its work and found the same balances as
already reported. Despite the fact that
Mr., Atkins, tho present. treasurer, was re,
elected by the trump" House, he VIII
surrender his office to W. NJ. Ross, who
was elected o fey days ago.
| George Garter was elected clerk OF the
| Divorce Committee to-day. There were
several applicants.
Notice Of an amendment to the law
| passed two years ago was given to-day by
Mr.. Short. The last bill passed fixed the
cunning season for partridges, quail and
pheasants at one month, but provided no
penalty for its violation Mr. Short S bill
will increase the cunning season to six
weeks and will provide fino OF $50 for
its violation.
A fine of $50 is also to be imposed upon
any one who for business shoots upon the
place of another without permission. One
half of the fine goes to the in[urmer in
each case.
| Tho House this afternoon passed the
bill relating to the public schools of
Marshallton. The bill.provides for an in.
crease in the board of llom three to nine
members. One.third of these members
are TO be elected each year. They are
also to be divided between tho three
school districts of which the united dis
tri3t is composed.
Senator lenimorc this afternoon gave
notice of a bill to incorporate the Diamond
| State Telephone Company. The company
Is already in operation and controls the
telephone system i'll Dover.
| Nineteen notices and ten bills for dl-
vorce were the numbe' Of bills that
turned up in both houses to-day.
The mutes from the Columbian lnsti'
tute for the Deaf and Dumb at Washing
| ton, ID, G., will appear before the Assem-
bly, and give an exhibition.
Senator Handy gave notice of bill to-
day to suppress and define tramps lnotices
were given to-day by Mr., Mccullough
70 repeal the law providing for Saturday
half holidays in Wilmington banks, and
by Mr. Donalson--To allow aliens tho
same right to dispose of estates as are en-.
| ioyed by naturaliZcd citizens.
Attorney General White said today
that he would prosecute the election OIL.
GERS of Wilmington who were accused Of
altering the returns at the recent election.
Several weeks ago true bills were found
against twelve of them, but the indict-
mcnts were quashed on a technically. At
the next term of court IN attempt will be
made to have them again indicted and cv
idchce brought ont in tho DCiey-Chealrs
contest before the Legislature will DO
used,