The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-02-17

ICES the town Council to construct All cleo
'ric light plant for light and heating pur-
poses, and the second will authorize the
council to borrow s220O) with which 10 or.
ect tho plant and redeem certain water
bonds.
TO PROTECT GAME.
There was given notice OF in both
Houses this morning acts IN the Interest
of game, birds and fowls in the State.
Representative Burns bill authorizes an
appropriation of $1,000 to tho Delaware
Game Protection Association with which
to restock the state with pheasants, quail,
rabbits, etc., while senator Farlow's act
provides that no game shall be killed IN
this state until January Is, 1901.
| The Delaware Game Protection Associa-
ton reports that game is very scarce
throughout the state, and that unless
something is done in the direction Of pro-
tecting the birds and fowl, there will be
none in few years. Buzzards ara said to
be responsible for the Understandable kill
ing Of young game in the southern part of
tho state.
Governor Tunnel this morning return
ed to the House without approval the bill
protecting fish in the Indian River and
Rohoboth Bay and It's tributaries The act
was introduced by Mr. Short several DAYS
ago and passed both Senate and the House
as usual Later in the Senate, however. the
vote by which It was passed was considered
and tho bill laid on the table from whence
it m ado iti way to the Governor without
further action by the Senate and in q man.
ner which cannot be explained. 1t turned
up. however this morning and with the
veto, the Governor being of the opinion
that tho one and eight inch net meshes
we're detrimental the presven'ion of
small fish in tho rivers mentioned in the
bill.
The bill will,now be sent to the Senate
whore 1t will be amended to satisfy the
Chief Executive, then repassed by the
House and again sent to the Governor for
his approval.
Representative Hnsheback gave notice
OF an act TO amend the act providing for
the assessment of poll tax. The act is de-
signed to annul the the law providing for
a poll tax In order that the capitation tax
as provided by the Constitution, can be
levied.
Mr.. Husheback also gave notice of an
act extending the period Of collection OF
1897 taxes In the city OF New Castle until
the first day of July 1909. and in lieu of
said taxes as now established by law,
shall ROMAN and continued In full force
and effect until the above date
Representative Shallcross this morning
answered the minority report oil Reprosen-
tative Herring on the bill providing that
the State Board of Education shall not in =
clude ''catch questions" or puzzles in
,chool examination papers. Following
was Mr. Shallcorss' reply.
at seems to be the opinion Of the wor-
thy member Of the minority committee
that instead Of advancing in our met hods
of general education, we are retrograding
and that in course of time we would again
be back to the primitive mode of life of o
hundred years ago, having narrow ndol,
ignorant, INDECENT members of profess
sion, termed school teachers with Gonor.
also in charge who would be able to rest
in hammucks three miles away and direct
the movements intelllgently Of these, the
person In whom, we, tho citizens of tho
state. do not see fit to sntrust the educating
Of our children but such Is not our inten.
ton or desire, il 1t was such, we would BIO
loathe to Introduce such measure before
the bonored assembly with any expecta-
port We are striving to enighten rs far
as we are able the young America Our
Idea Is to have work of The superintendent
and teachers more equally divided, that IT,,
the superintendent would not be able to
give catch question in half minute that
a teacher would not be able to arrive at
any satisfactory conclusion In half day
simply because there would be no conclu-
sion,
While wo are DESTROYS Of obtaining for
our children all The education possible we
in justice to school teachers generally do
not think 1t right to compel them to pass
examinations on subjects which are
taught at tho Summer Schools" we
, would thank the minority member to pres.
snt such statistics rs would approve his AZ
sertion that this bill is not proved by the
majority Of school teachers and why ths