The Delawarean., 1901-02-06
ADAMS INCOME TAX.
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poses tax of 81, 900 annually, and re
qwres 4he payment of the lax evei
though the concerns deal through re
tail merchants and do not operate ;
place of BUSINESS. There is some feel
ing against this measure, particular,
ON the par; OF the women of the S,ate
who like the trading stamp system ot
rewarding shoppers.
No Screens, Says the Senate
The bill permitting saloon-keeperu
to screen in their barrooms was de
feated in the Sena.e yesterday after.
noon by tie vote. THE bill was passed
in the House last week, and the tenn.
perance people of ,he State became
aroused to the dangers incurred by
closing the barrooms to public gaze.
The result of the vote was as fol.
lows, DIR. Farlow being absent:
Aye-Abbott, Alice, Blakely, Groves
Harrington, McFarlin, McNulty
Wright-8.
Nay-Brasure, Clements, Hart
Knox, Maull, Pennewill, Slaughter and
President pro tenn Ellison-S.
Loans for Progressive Towns.
lIhel Senate Tuesday considered sev-
eral applications from the enterprising
towns OF lower Delaware for loans to
establish electric light and wafer
plants, and 10 protect them from fire
disasters. The bill authorizing Dover
to borrow an additional $4,000 to COM
plete lis electric plant was passed and
became a law with the governors sig
nature. Senator Wrigh.' IS bill to au-
thorize the people of Seaford to bor-
row $25,O00 was presented, aus was also
one by Senator Farlow to authorize The
leVying of special tax to improve the
driveways about Laurel. Ano.her by
Senator Pennewill incorporates Green
wood and gives the corporation special
privileges for improvement. Senator
Pennewlll also introduced the House
bill plNsventing the erection of any
more frame buildings ON the main
streets of Dover. The House bill to
authorize Frederica authorities to bor-
row $4,000 for school purposes was also
brought UP in the Senate and referred
to the committee ON cities and towns
The Grangers are Coming,
The railroad revenue legislation, by
which the Saa.e proposes to receive an
additional 100000 of revenue annu-
ally, is still in the hands of the Com
mittee on Private corporations of the
House. Chairman Hope is anxious to
give all sides a full hearing and not
rush The matter through with pre-
cipitous haste. Next Tuesday the dele
cation of the Delaware State Grange
will visit Dover in advocacy of what
are known as The Norris bills, ceasing
the communication of railroad taxes.
The grangers will come to Dover in
large numbers.
Both House and Senate passed reso-
lutions ordering safes to be procured
for each mouse, SO that each clerk may
be held strictly responsible for all bills
and records.
The House passed the Hardesty bill
making the oyster season open fifteen
days later, making the opening date
October 1, for both citizens and oyster
men.
The time i'm which reed birds can be
killed was entended by the House bill
passed to-day, and now sportsmen can
shoot them from August 25, to Febru-
airy l. Representative Shallcross ex-
planned that the reed bird lis merely
the rice bird of the Carolinas and if
sportsmen cannot kill them until Sep
Lember l, when they have been here
the first storm thereafter
lrives them all away ito the rice fields.
Senator Alice to-day presented four
bills to repeal the celebrated Adams
Tax Law of Delaware THE measure
which taxes incomes. The Senator
to fight the bill hard, ON the
ground that the State receives small
'evenue from it and it is obnoxious
md inquisitorial.
The ONE dollar registration fee now
charged all voters of Delaware will be
abolished if Senator Pennewill's bill,
introduced in THE Senate to-day, can
ret Through both Houses. while both
parity platforms declared against the
zee, there lis an opinion among some
If the Assemblymen thu the fee
brings i'm a revenue that would mot
otherwise he secured, and is not so bad
Ifter all.
Senator Knox's measure ito permit
lilled was extended by the House bill
was also introduced.