Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-17
lection MlXUP SETTLED
Institution Adjusts the Trouble Oyer
Districts in KentOn Hundred.
Id TWO ACTS AXE NOT LEGAL
ktorrey A. M. Daily OF Dover
Makes Discovery.
,PECTORS CAN FIX POLLING PLACES

What was apparently a complicated
bddIe which promised no end Of
Snble at the election in Kent county
wear has been entirely and salts
klorlly cleared up by Attorney Alex
<ler N. DAILY of Dover, who is the
frptary Of the Kent County Demo-
ktic Committee.
N the last session of the Legislature
act was ,.assed dividing Kenton
pdred, which is the third representa-
district of Kent county, into two
| 'c,ion districts, the Mort heast one in
\ ich the town of Clayton is situated
\ No. /. and the Southwest one in
1 icb the town of kenton is situated
II No. .. This act was approved by
governor on March 9th, 1899. On
Afch 10th Of the same year, in the
nv Of the latter part of the session
/ acts were passed attempting to
kianate the voting places in the two
Sulon hundred districts, hut by
be lack of knowledge on the part of
person who drafted the bill, or by
,ident, the voting place Of the first
3 elton district which was intended to
Ocated 10 Clayton was Put in dis.
| ct No. , in the town OF Kenton, and
other act located the voting Place
the second election district IN the
En OF Clayton, when il should have
N locatsd IN the town of kenton.
fhe Democrats have been much
SubIed about the situation, because
HtOn is a Demooiatic hundred and
mistake which might be made
uId possibly affect the result not
\ in the representative district but
b as to all the county offices, and it
be to be an important question as to
i how the muddle should be straight
ID out
lL DAILY has carefully examined the
tier and finds that there is really no
tculty in view of the constitutional
DIVISIONS IN the new Constitution, and
trouble is avoided in this way:
b Delaware Constitution, article 8,
ton :, provides that illegally quail
voters must vote in the election
|trlct in which they reside for thirty
Es prior to the election, and mas
|ch as the acts fixing the voting
ICES for Kenton hundred undertook to
|ce such voting places outside the
ction d stricts Mr.. DAILY has decided
u the acts are unconstitutional for
u reason as well as for the reason
the Constitution, article .. section
also provides that mo bill shall
brace more than one subject, which
III be expressed in its title" Now
acts which undertook to fix the
ing places in the districts were en-
led as follows: That which under
to fix the voting place in election
rict No. 3 was entitled "An Act
gnatine tho voting place in the
st Election District of Representa-
District No. 3 of Kent county"
fefore as the body of tho act did not
reality tlx any voting place In that
elton district but 10 another district
title was false and misleading and
not express the subject of the act,
The Constitution requires. The act
ich undertook to fix the voting
ce in the Second Election District
equally faulty and therefore is un-
pstltutional for the sarie two reasons.
ere IS nj difficulty about the whole
Yer If these two acts are unconsti-
lonal, either in having the voters
stored Or in holding an election, for
hpter 36 of Vol. XXI, Delaware Q
VS., provides that the registers shall
lgna!e convenient places in their re-
Fclive districts were they will sit to
lster voters, and chapter IS, p. 109,
PIldes that where 1T is impraoticable
mold an election ut place desig-
90 an Inspector may give proper
lce Of the place where an election is
10 held and it can be legally held
ffe ~"
addition to this act last referred
hSed the town of Kenton as the
2ce where the election shall be held
one of the districts ard all that it
necessary to do is for the INSPECTOR
We trst district to give notice where
election will be held in the town OF
ayton, and the whole matter, Mr..
Is confident, will work with entire
,slaotlon TO tho people Of Kenton
without any friction.
no Democratic committee in Kent
pnty tried to make an arrangement, it
Eald' with the Addicks Republicans
hent county, who control the politics
llat county, Ey which an agreement
'ud be made with them that there
luld be no difficulty before turning
'sr TO their attorney for settlement,
mo Addicks people, thinking they
wy obtain some benefit from a
pllc condition of affairs in Kent
my positively refused to make an
Y, DAILY is entirely clear as to the
" the matter, and for this case, al