Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-20

| prosperity and in increasing popula-
lion. Tbs sooner the people down the
state get competing line the better.
While the commissioners can regu-
late to certain extent discrimina-
tion In freight rates, they can do the
people but little good. He saw in the
bill not the relief asked for. There
were sections 10 1t that he did not
approve of. The commisHioners can
| simply say to the railroad company
\ you can live I'D to your charter
The very mon behind this measure have
their names locked up In the desk.
They are aaSihg for a competing line.
IL relief ia wanted the members must
supporta measure GOV pending. which
| will be brought up 10 few days to
give competing line. II so men can
be found who do not want that com
peting line then don't vote for the bill,
but II the people are to be given what
\ they want then the bill to be brought
\ up 10 few days must be passed. The
\ railroad company can charge six cents
4 per mile for passengers and eight cents
per ton per mile for freight, and matters
might be worse than now unless there
should be competing line.
| Mr.. Hazel said he could see no
| merits in the bill. Ii the commits.
sioners should take to themselves the
management OF the greatest railroad cor
! poration 10 the world, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co.. and can do it properly
| they can get 10 times the salary FROM
| the same company. lie could mot cast
his vote for the half-heurted measure.
which. he felt assured, would not give
the relief asked for.
Mr.. Whitney said he had been study
ing for some time as to whether the
railroad COMP any owns the people or
the people own the railroad. The
people be represents in Sussex county
had Teen asking fos the passage of the
bill. and, any member who would not
vote for the benefit Of hiH people would
have his name 20 down to the grave In
ohacurity. Abraham Lincoln once said
"You can fool some Of the people all OF
the time and all of the people soms OF
the time, but you cannot fonl all OF the
people all OF the time" He must have
referred, Mr.. Whitney remarked, 10
some Of our lawmakers. The people
are asking for the passage of the bill
and We should vote for it. -t@
Mr.. Wilson favored the bill. He did
not think it would do any harm and it
might do some good.
Tbs bill was lost by the following
vote:
| Ayes--Messrs. Dempsey. Donaldson,
j. II. Hopkins, j.. S. Hopkins Martin.
Short. Taylor, Whitney, Wilson and
the Speaker-l0.
Nays essrs. Adams. Davis, Cheairs,
Dukes, Eiason, HAZEL, johnson, Nc
Coy, Mccullough. Smith and Thomp-
son--ll.
/ Mr.. Short changed bis vote from
aye" to may" after which the
Speaker announced that the bill had
been lost.
Tbs House bill to tax for State and
county purposes al interest. bearing
Investments, which was under con-
sideration when the House adjourned
ON Monday afternoon, was taken up
again at the opening of yesterday morn
ing's session. Mr.. Wilson took the
floor in support of tho bill. He argued
that the land owner is now oyer-bur-
denad with taxes and the State and
county finances are going behind, and
that by taxing investments revenue
would be derived from a source which
ia now unproductivs
Mr.. HAZEL opposed the bill. He as
serted that too many of the members
were talking and acting for the support
OF the people 10 the future. He wished
a law could be passed that no man could
ever succeed himself for any Office. He
thought some of tho members were not
acting according to their convictions.
lie held that it would be utterly i'm
posi- BILE to make the money lenders pay
the tax on bonds and mortgages as long
as the legal rate of interest is 6 per
cent and money ia being lnaned at 4
| 10 fhA.,uht he XIII "A
! 1t should become II law, would add to
J the burdens of those who are paying
tina majority of the taxes Of the State.
} The bill was passed by the following
] vote;
Ayes--Messrs. Adams, Davis. Demp.
sey, Donaldson, Dukes, j. II. Hopkins,
L. S. HOPKINS, Johnson, Martin, Nc
Coy, Mccullough, Short. Smith,
} Thompson. Whitney, Wilson and tine
} Speaker-l7.
) Nays Messrs. Cheairs, Eliason, Hazel
and Taylor--4.
The following bill in relation Il
, bogus sales in Wilmington was intro
. duced by Senator Pyle, passed III.
Senate under suspension of rules ant
. was read twice in the House,:
, Section !. That the act entitled Al
act to prevent bogus sales within tht
. city OF Wilmington :beiDg chapter 661
: Vol XVIII, Laws OF Delaware, PASSED
J at Dover April 23d, 1880, be and tht
, sama ia hereby amended by inserting
: after the word kind in the seventf
3 line thereof, and before the word any,
the following words, to wit:
! - Nor shall 1t be lawful for any person
9 to engage in tho sale Of any goods
0 wares or merchandise, within the cor
D porate limits OF the city OF Whining
1 ion, which shall have been brought {,
: said city, or consigned to any persol
in said city, for the purpose of specia
o sale thereof, as q removed stock o
: goods, or for the purpose OF any sal
! thereof IN any other than a regula
n business manner, by regular establishes
merchants of the said city; provided
t that this act shall not be so con
o strued as to prevent any person from
einbarking in the regular business OF |
y merchant by any other method thai
k those herein or elsewhere in the law
of this State prohibited. >"
= In the House yesterday morning Mr.
o Dempsey'a bill to establish work
house 10 and for New Castle count,
o was introduced and referred to com
is mites. The commissioners. William
Howe, Charles W. Pusey, Emalea p
d Warner, John G. Higgins and Theodor
il +. Armstrong, are named for une, two
J, three, four aud five years, and thei
SUCCESSORS are to- be appointed by tn
Ia | ,asid,,nt i,,roe for fiva yaara In adli