The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-14
DELAWARE
LEGISLATURE.
FarnhurSt Gets a Steward,
New City Charter Re-
d.. d.. ported Upon.

Dover, April 13-In the House Of Rep
res.ntativcs this morning the bill prd1td-
ing for steward for the State InsaPe
| Hospital was passed by a vote Of eleyenE,o
| nine, after protracted and rather pers6n
| al debate. It authorizes the Governor TO
appoint q steward at an annual salary of
| 5000 He Is to see that the land owned by
the trustees is properly taken care OF and
| cultivated and also to purchase supplies
| for the hospital.
The bill will probably be killed In the
Senate, as it is bitterly opposed In some
parts OF the State. The Senate killed q
similar BILL earlier in the session, and 1t
was then Thought ,quietus had been put
| to II fight which had beon on for year.
Representative Dempsey, in advocating
the passage of the bill, made stirring
speech before the House. In which he
charged that favoritism had been shown
IN awarding contracts for supplies This
brought Messrs. Cheairs and Donaldson to
their feet and they requested Mr.. Demp-
soy to cite q single instance. Mr.. Donald.
son suggested that an Investigation of the
affairs Of the hospital be made. Personali-
ties were indulged in.
At the afternoon session Of the Senate
the House bill regulating the purchase OF
books for the State Library was passed
Representative Wilson introduced a bill
fixing the poll tax at 81 per annum, and
providing that such persons as fail to pay
shall be required to perform hard labor
three days.
In the House, on motion of Mr.. Mccoy,
all further action on the bill providing for
Jury Commissioners was indefinitely post
poned A bill compelling the insurance
Commissioner to examine into the stand
ing of insurance companies was given no.
tice of by Representative Short If passed
it will compel the Commissioner to make
an examination of the affairs Of all State
companies within eight months after the
passage of the bill and every three years
thereafter. He will also have the authority
to make similar examination of foreign n
companies. The House bill regulating the
sale of liquor from wagons was sent back
to committee for amendment.
The bill which is intended to stop the
selling Of liquor from wagons came up
this afternoon 1t requires the payment
of au additional license of 500 a year to
sell from wagons. 1t is claimed that COZ
single bottles from their wagons 1t was
believed that this additional license would
prevent this.
Tho House Committee on Municipal
Corporations this afternoon considered
the new city charter prepared by the
Municipal Commissioners. The commit
tee will report the charter favorably and
III VIII soon Dc Calleu up LOT llual Con'luer'
alton. The Senate committee has no5 yet
actnd upon the charter, which is before
that body. Patrick Neary was hero to-day
on charter business
The Legislature is now awaiting the
action of Congress on the Cuban matter
AMI it is expected that as soon as definite
action is taken tho governor will seud a
message TO place the National Guard on
awar footing. Such q message would be
t.,tn "a, ,aN, ii Il ,pIl
would receive support. as.wass never given
it before.
Rcpresontive Short gave notice of bill
requiring tie State Insurance Commits
soner to examine the affairs of all do
mcstic companies within eight months,
and once in every three years thereafter,
and giving him authority to mako similar
examinations of foreign corporations
when he deems such examinations neces'
SHfV,