The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-11

DoyRR, May i0.--Tha. divorce ullI
sumsd operations to-day bills being ~
ed separating the following couples :J11
and Della Nilmsn, John w: and -
Leger, James A. and Sarah T. Boyd,@4
and Annie Taylor Mary p. and Hene
Barley. Anna NJ and George NJ. !. A1
bold.
An effort will be made TO have the 49,
Ian Divorce bill put through this week
The House passed one and the Senn<
two divorce bills this morning The 91r+'
ate also passed the House bill protectl1x
live stock against the anthrax pest. h
1t provides for the payment by tho Staf&
for affected animals, which must be kills4
at once an 4 owners are subjected to sewers
penalties If they neglect to give publie
notice at once Of any diseased stock q,
their premises. The anthrax was prevateut
two years ago In the three lower hundreo4
OF New Castle county.
The House bill providing for the ~
penses of the annual institutes OF col0rG4
teachers was also passed by the Sena>o
The House passed charters for the Sour
Side Electric Railway Company Of Will
the Lobdell Car Wheel Company u ~
principal promoter; OF the Hsslopcn
Electric Light ahd Railway Company. 1l1t
Of the Spring Valley Distilling cse-
pany. 's{
delegation of thirty oystermen fr1nR
Mahon's and Little Creek invested H.
State House to day clamoring for the PRIV
tlege OF taking oysters out OF Blake4
Channel during three Fall months. begins
sioner Lewis Is opposed to the scheme and
claims that the Spring oystering has al
most destroyed Blake's Channel as a good
field.
The rumor industriously worked -
week, that the General Assembly Will -
journ to day set sometime next Fall ~
the purpose of taking up legislatlgN
which the new constitution will m45a
necessary, is not likely to be realized. H.
Governor has the power to call the Gen1x%
al Assembly together whenever he deeu1g
1t necessary and the new constitution,
should 1t be promulgated without . sixbs
mission to the voters, will embody tho
same provision. III
1t Is contended, therefore, on the part &c
the Senators that the matter should -
left to the Governors discretion. They
say that he is friendly to the new constitIlss
tion and is anxious that everything should
be done that is possible to make Its Pm
mitigation and application prompt, genera
and popular. VII
The House disposed of the Cherry Island
Marsh Company's differences this after
noon by deciding by vote OF 10 to y
allow the Delaware Construction Cofn-k
pany to withdraw its interest, about -
acres. out Of total Of 1000 The latter
owners wish to fill up their marsh and
convert it into building sites. Their sec-
ton lies adjoining the city OF Wilmington
and the Christiana river. The rest OF ~
marsh owners are not ready TO improso
their large holdings, the greater portion az
which touches neither the Christiana nor
the Delaware river.
The visiting oystermen from the DelA-
ware front got what they came for Their
bill to permit oystering in Blake's Channcl
a rush. The oystermen applauded sn1a
then retreated from the gallery before no
Speaker got a chance to lift his gavef.
Adjutant General Hart, Of Wilmingtnn
devoted the day here to second attenkpt
to get the Legislature to appropriate S5Q0
with which to send the State MilitixcD
Philadelphia next Saturday upon tho
occasion of the unwilling Of the WashinE-
ton monument. resolution to tha1
effect was tabled.
The Senate devoted the afternoon Sos
sion to passing four divorce bills and in.
cooperating tho Italian Republicans cf
Wilmington into the Christopher Ccl-
jumbo Club.
The House this morning considered TIM
bill offered by Representative HAZEL con
corning the admission of insane peopte
to the Delaware State Hospital al Farm
hurst
1t provides that children under ~ years
Of age shall not be admitted to the institu-
ton; that the physicians who make cx-
for admission shall be named
by the trustees, and that the fee for OK
shall only be paid by the Levy
Court when oath is made that the family
Of the person examined Is not able to pays
Mr. HAZEL said Ii was held by physi-
clans that insanity does not develop nutil2
after IL years of age has passed. There
are children there at present who are
merely idiotic and may have been pun
there by their families to get rid OF them
Mr. Dempsey quoted physicians 40
Farnhurst as saying that II there 'wasa
state work house there were twenty five
men who could be put there. All they
needed was some one to watch them.
Mr. Short said the bill did not go far
enough. Why not give, he asked, the trus.
tees the power to send these twenty i've
men named back to the almshouses whers
they belong. He moved that the bill bs
for amendment.
Mr.. Cheairs opposed sending these poo
Pile back to the almshouse where they
would become insane again.
The motion to reoommit was lost aud =
The bill was passed by vote of IA to =,
Messrs. Mccullough and Dempsey voting
no. and Messrs. Davis, L. S. Hopkins, ].
Il. Hopkins, Wilson, Thompson absent
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