Evening journal., 1899-03-07
HOUSES NIGHT SESSION
Considerable Important Busi-
ness Was Transacted.
Union REPUBLICANS REVENGE

MENT's BlLL-GOOD ROADS
MEASURE KILLED - BUSINESS
DISPOSED OF BY HOUSE AND
SENATE YESTERDAY.
Stan Correspondence Evening Journal
Dover, March TAN important ses-
sion was held last evening.
These bills were reported favorably:
House bin granting to Joseph IT. Pot
ter title Of this state to a certain tract
iof sat- marsh; House bill authorizing
the state lillrarian'to make catalogue
~ the state library; House bin proyid-
ing that a voter, when marking on an
officiai ba..ot his choice Of candidates,
shall use an lndelible lead pencil Cwith
an amendment).
The House bin repeating the act
grading and regulating grain distiller-
les was reported unfayoralb.y.
The House biz giving the Winning
ton Municipal Court additional 5uris-
d'ction; House bill extending the juris-
dicton CT justices Of the peace; al
lowing the sheriff OF New Castle coun-
~ 4 per cent OF THE taxes collected by
him were killed.
These ellis wge referred: Senate bill
providing that the accounts OF guard
ians shall be passed in the Orphans
Court; Senate bin amending section z,
chapter l2s, Revised Code, as amended
and pu5.lshed in 1898. by providing
that the punishment for the crimes
menIcned in said section shall be
whipping and Imprisonment.
The IHcuse Till requiring every per
son exercising the profession Of
pi,ct. to obtain a license therefor was
made the speciai order fer this morn
ing.
On motion cf Mr.. Burns. the McVey
Investigating committee was granted
the use OF representatives hall for to-
morrow evening. The hearing will be
public and each side will be permitted
to employ counsel. Peter ]. Ford has
sent to committee the names Of addi-
tlonal Witnesses, and they have been
summoned by sergeant-at-Arms Dan
ie-s
"A COrNuTDIl1NClE IN NAMES.
When Senator Blakeiys bill TO
change the name OF Helen Batten b
Helen Thornton was reported favor
afiy IN the Senate yesterday, Presl-
dent Salmons said that he wanted the
bin to he made more express, as he had
cousin named Heien Batten, who did
not want her name changed. To meet
this demand an amendment was offer-
ed designating the applicant as "the
adopted daughter Of George Batten, OF
Chrls1lana hundred" The Helen Bat
ten know has brother named George
Batten," said President Saimons. ''It
rs quite a coincidence" In its
amended form the bill passed
lUNdCN REPUBLICANS GET EVEN
The Board OF Directors Of the Street
and Sewer Department is paying the
penalty for its refusal to permit the
Oxy Hydrogen Company to lay its
pipes and operate its gas plant in the
city cf Wilmington. Eleven Of the
Union Republican members voted
against the Street and Sewer loan bill
yesterday and defeated it. Byery Will
lmingeon member spoke in favor OF the
Din, and no speeches were made
against 1t, but the eighteen votes which
liz received were six short OF the neces-
sary tw thirds. Representative Sat
tmheld was the only Union Republican
who voted for the bin. There being
a dispute as to whether a majority or
a two-tnirds vote was necessary, the
speaker was given until O'Clock in
the afternoon to decide the question.
AT that time he decided that twenty
four votes were necessary and that the
bin was lost.
GOOD RIcALS BILL DhAD.
Representative Robertson called VI
his goa roads ls.l yesterday and made
an earnest appeal for its passage. Rep
reserlatiye Jester made a speech In
opposition to it. By a vote Of is tc
II the bin was defeated, the eleven
members voting for 1t being Messrs
RJ5erts-n. Burns, Kitchen, MdNu.ty
Lattomus, Dennison, Hazard, Ewing
Frizzel West and Speaker Clark. rh'
s opposition was based on the expensive
o ne-s of the system.
-FOUR VOTES SHY.
Senate bill providing that the Gen
J eral Assembly, instead Of the stat
Board IL Education SHAH regulate tn
curri,uum OF the free schools, wa
lost in the House by vote Of IA yea
, and 70 nays. The affirmative vote wa
four short cf the constitutional ma
+ jority
II PASSED THE HOUSE
}, These bills passed the House: Hous