Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-02-21
ANTI-CIGARETTE BILL HALTED
Reconsidered and Recommit-
ted in the House.
KENT COUNTY LEVY BILL PASSED
1t Makes Five Members of the
Body a Quorum.

Bpecial oorespondence Of Gazette and Journal

Special corespondence Of Gazette and Journal
Sill Dover, Feb. 19.-In the House,
Yesterday afternoon, Representative
y Moore moved thnt the vote by which
NE House copcurred in the Senate bill
rrohititing the manufacture and sale
of cigRre ties, cigarette PAPER and
IA rigarette tobacco in this State be
IN rcconsidered, and Representative Lay
& ton seconded the motion.
|z4N Representative Hardesty objected
4 vigorously. He said: 1.-THE Influences
III Heeking reconsideration are purely
|Sh felfish. selfish to the extreme. There
II came, during the recent discussion of
|go the bill, remark from member on
he other side that the bill would close
Hrertain factories In the State that
t man ufacture paper. He arrayed these
tNactories against the manhood of the
tState, and this was the only tangible
Htargument of the opposition. Take away
|sB from the youth of the State the tempta-
|arYtion of the damning vice. / say TO you
II that there is duty confronting us
Eixoday, and l. hope that every member
tHwill vote according to the dictates of
4 e lhis conscience. Tho Jewe who forgot
ttheir duty went over into captivity,
A oAnd prayed, to God individually that,
Efd he forgot again Jerusalem, 'let my
"A hight hand forget her cunning, and let
H vgnny tongue cleave to the roof of my
Cs3nouth. That is my prayer today.
Etl1he boys who are coming up in this
EH,ktate are becoming generation of
H Eynvalids, degenerates and gihbering
Il Sfidiots.
q Representative Moore repeated that
eshe was opposed to cigarette smoking.
81 lie added that he had been informed
Sthat the bill was unconstitutional, and
Il Hhe desired to have it recommitted so
\ ttthat it could be made effective.
oV The motion to reconsider was adopted
/ |Istby q vote of 10 to IL, as follows:
|a& Ayes Representative Ewing, Gooden,
ilI Iiealu. Healy, Kitchen, Holcomh.
n Hutchinson, Layton, Monaghan, Moore,
Prettyman, Robertson, Shall
|t oross, Snort, Scotten, Warren and
Et Wright ard Speaker McCommons.
hi Noes = Representatives Aron, Bay
Flrtnard, Chandler, Clark, Cleudaniel,
ppayett Finn, Hardesty, Hodgson,
10 Hope. Pilling, Ralph, Vinyard, West
BhfHnd White.
EIIW On Representative Moore's further
motion, the bill was recommitted.
ptA THE KENT LEVY couaT BILL.
:fd5 The House, yesterday, by a strict
|E@rty vote, concurred in the Senate
+ hlll concerning the quorum OF the Levy
ii uourt OF Kent county ~
Representative Moore said: "The
obleot of the bill is to nuke the clerk
H tho peace an ex-ofiicio member OF
tbe court, so that he can attend aud
#sist In making quorum at organi-
Ation. The court Is composed of five
kepublicans and five Democrats, while
gK members constitute quorum
Ihrough the generosity of the Demo
Gratis, the organization OF the present
court was not hampered. Sometime,
Wf1ep the Democrats desire to organize
thecourt, and the vote is a tie, the
RHpnblicans may not act as generously
toEards the Democrats as the Demo
cfhts have acted towards the Republi-
/ ems. In order to prevent this pos
kHbility, | advocate the bill. y
5Representative HYlcomb did not
nk the clerk of the peace could
egally hold two county offices at one
kepresentative Moore rerlied that
thf Democrats could test the consti-
tukionaliry of the bill.
Representative Gooden said: SIN
foting for the bill, a step will be
taken backward. hope there are
rnough fair minded men on the Re.
publican side to down the cursed bill. "
Representative Hardesty, who at first
voted in the negative, changed his vote
{4the affirmative, so that he could move
fpf reconsideration.