Evening journal., 1899-02-13
A QUORUM NOT PRESENT
General Assembly Adjourned
Until Tomorrow.
ALL THE LINES ARE BLOOKADgD

HIRE A SFiEClAI TRAIN FOR AID
DICKS MEN. BUT HE WAS UN-
sUCCEalFUG4-NO TRAINS WILL
BE RUN ON THE DELAWARE Dr.
vIsGoN TODAY.
Special Dispatch Evening Journal.
Dover, Feb le.-rhere was no
quorum Of the General Assembly to-
day After formal and frultless bal
loting both houses adjourned until to-
morrow. The bllol1ade here is COM
plete.
GOULD NOT RBAOH DOVER.
To-day's snow blockade will have
no effect upon the senatorial situation
at Dover.
% would not have had had Addicl1s
bscn afle to get all Of his men there
70 vote at noon to-day, for 1t ltrequires
wcnly-seven members to const5tutea
quorum, and giving Addicks every
vote he could muster he would etill be
ten votes short OF a quorum
AS a mater OF fact. not more Than
three or four OF the members are in
Dover to-day. Three Of them, sena-
tors Slaughter and A,lee, and Rep
resentative satterheld live there, and
none othoN are IN town, with the
possible exception of Senator Lewis
and Representative ODay, who reside
a few miles from Dover, but who
could scarcely make their way through
the drifted snow in the public roads.
There was no quorum at Dover to-
day and those present met, took a
ballot, and adjourned until to-mor-
row. and in that manner the session
viii be conduoted until the blockade is
raised and trave, by rail is resumed.
1t is a repetition of the occurrence OF
lour yeale ago, although then there
were more members In Dover
There are fl1ty-two members CT the
General Assembly. and Il requires
twenty-seyen to constitute quorum OF
beth houses. These men cannot pos
slbly reach Dover until the blockade
is raised.
New Senators Pyle. Kncx.
shakcrueare. BisKeiy. M-Fsuiin, Hart
and Speaker salmons-7 Representa-
tive BARNS, Donahoe. MeNulty, Rob
agscn. Ewing. Frizzel, HusheIbenk,
Denn.son, Rose. shailcross, Donovan,
Rining. Lattomus and Kitchen, Speak
er Chrk-15
Senators Meredith, Abbott.
R5presentafives FAIRIES, ODay Taylor,
Jester, Clark, Jenkins, Herring, Tharp,
Frazier, Q.
Suesex- Senators Pennewil., Moore.
Far.cw. Brasure, Maull-5. Represen-
taeives Davis. Buell., CottingnamlWest.
King. Hunter, wagamon, Hazard,
Conaway-9.
THUS it viii be seen that from forty
10 fa1ty-fcur Of the fllty-two members
were absent to-day.
Charles II. Kittinger, Senator Blake
ly. Representative Frizze1 and Repre-
tentative Hushebeck endeayored to
get down on the midnight train, but
lthey were eiGl at the station in this
city when the other New Castle men,
lbes who went there to take the S.13
ltrain found that NO trains w'ouid be
run to-day, either up or down the
road. telegram to that effeot being
received from superinten6en1 Ho!h-
day about o'clocl0 After hanging
la1ound the a.1.icn for two OF three
houls. hoping against h-pe, the mem
lbars returned to their hCmes with the
fun knowledge that the blockade af-
fened al palgics alike and that the
down -cta.e members could no more
b reach Iover than they could
Three engines sI5uck in the snow
drift near Nassau, four miles this side
OF Lewes, and the D. NJ. & v system
is tied rp. Train No S2 which
should have ldt De.mar at 4.15 this
morning is still there, and will remain
there until the rad is opened from
this end. Train No. Sc, which should
have left Wyoming at 6.57 this morn
ing. is tied up hard and fast at that
point Train No. 80 is still at Delmar
1t should have eft there at z O'Clock
4 lthls mcrning. The Queen Anne and
: Kent train which should have lea
6 Centrevire. Nd. early this morning
b has not moved an inch. Train No. 2s'
y is still at OXFORD. IL should have
arrived at Clayton at S.52 this morn
ing to connect with train Ne. 80 OF
the Delaware division, but is still a
4 Oxford This is the train which Rep
resontative Clark would have BOARDS
at Hartley. All southbound trains ar
tied up here. Thus it viii be seen tha
not member who is dependent upo
3 trains TO get to Dover can leave home
ID South-hound trains viii be the first t
m get thrcugh and the New Castle an