The sun., 1898-02-08
HAZELL OPPOSES THE RAISE
Does Not Think tie State Should
Increase Judge, Salaries.
DEMPSEY'S AMENDMENT LOST
The Representative From New Castle
County Does Not Consider the
Action Final-.-Want, the
I.iII s;hrlvrl.
Special to THE Sun.

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DOVER, Feb. Tile salaries Of tn
Judiciary were again the bone OF conten
ton in the House today.
The whole afternoon was taken up il
discussing amendments and voting then
down. and the report of the committee
tinall y triumphed.
The matter was made a special ordr
by the committee OF the whole when tn,
House adjourned on Thursday and in ac
cordunce with this was brought up thi
morning.
Mr.. Dempsey, who had the floor n,
Thursday III the time OF the adjournment
was given the floor, but waived hi
right, as he understood That there had
been Il change OF opinion inc" 'lc mat
ter Was last discussed an he WpuiI Tx"
to hear some one ere express himself on
the matter.
Mr.. Hazel promptly took up he mat,
ter and expressed hI- sentiments very
clearly.
lie was opposed to Mr.. Drnpsr IS
amendment, is h" did not think tn,
State was under any obligation 10 raise
the salaries especially at This time
'
lie retelled 10 some Of the gent ,rIuril
as having expressed their opinions by
their votes. to the effect that the nUr.
chasing power Of IL dollar was too great,
That was II! the last el"c,ion. Now
when rctVnr!mcnt and reform is lhr
cry on every hand they waut to raise
the salaries ni the Judiciary.
lie saw no reason why this should be.
Mr.. Wilson followed Will, more oppoSi-
ton. lie saw no reason why the sal
aries should hc raised beyond the SUM
named by the committee.
This ii Itself he claimed showed Il
material ircr"asr all along the line.
The salary Of the chief justice, for
instance, was raised some years aga.
lie admitted that the lawyers and some
of the members put up Il very pathetic
picture, but that was sentiment, not
buslncks.
This brough. Mr.. ncmscy to his feet
He asserted that his amendment was
offered aS the clear and honest opinion
Of himself in regard to the work Of n
all-!.caItcd committed and that
the m.mlcr from Kent in his
hall. hcar.'d opposition ON Thursday had
show, :.ha, he knew himself to be
wrong As for he increase in salaries
he doubted the increase rs the per diem
rate lad carried the salary Of the
judges up to and over - COO.
Representative Iuhnsnn,"f Sussex here
read the amounts received by Jud gc
Grubb, Chief Justice Lore and Chancellor
Nicholson for 1897.
Tie cham tIIor received $1,000 salary,
$345 from the per diem rate and 5000 for
reporting the proceedings: total, 81 ,143.
Chief Juslic Lore received total of
1856, and Judge Grubb drew -. .I75.S5.
These figures he quoted as showing
that the salaries as fixed in the commit =
tees report were in thcm~e!v vS Il S'lGstln-
tial increase.
Mr.. HAZEL, who had armed himself
with the figures in regard to judicial
salaries III OF her States, now swung them
loose, showing that Texas, Washington,
Louisiana and Illinois were the onl "
States which reached the ~, ,OO mark in
the matter Among other States he
quoted Maryland at $i,5W.
This Mr.. Dempsey took exception to,
claiming that the salary in Maryland
was not $500, but $500.
lie referred to Mr.. Hazelis speech Of
last Thursday in which Mr.. HAZEL re-
marked that il the salaries were found to
be too small there would be another SEES
sion and it would be easy for him to
fix it.
Mr.. Dempsey said he did not expect to
come back, and if they proposed to let
the next session do their work he did
not. He claimed that the nearly de-
veloped opposition was dne to just that
one thing. Some of the members were
working to come back. Kent and sus-
sex might come back--Ncw Castle would
not. Speaker Riggn caused smile by
asking what judges lived upon that was
SO expensive.
After considerable discussion the
amendment offered by Dempsey was put
to vote. The opposition stuck to their
guns and it was lost. /. S. Hopkins then
offered IN amendment making the figures
$500 and $3.50, which was also knocked
out on the vote. Dempsey then came
back with another amendment which
raised the salary Of the Chancellor and
Chief Justice to $4,000. This was like
wise downed.
Red Loins representative then offered
an amendment making the salaries $1,000
and $500. Th" fate of this was the
same and as last resort the report of
the committee was brought up and
adopted by the committee OF the whole.
During the morning Mr. IlazclI intro
duced the bills in regard to the state DE-
tectivcs and the notaries public. The
bill in relation to the state librarian vas
also introduced. :,
Representative Chcars also introduced
the bill in relation to the issuingof bonds
in Delaware City.
In the Senate little was done. The
House resolution to pay the Mercantile
rril.t ng Company was concurred IN.
The House bill in relation to pawn
brokers was read and referred, and Sena-
tor Handy withdrew his bill in relation
to allowing women to practice law IN
Delaware. =.
In relation to the defeat which Mr..
Den psey's amendment was given At the
hands OF his fellow Representatives IL
not considered final by that gentleman.
He II wo&ch;n0 like n hawk to find tOme