Evening journal., 1903-03-11
Senator Objects to the Committee to
Which the Speaker Pro Tenn. Re-
ferred the Good Roads Bill-city
School Bill
Special TO mo nvcning Journal.

Defeated Night Session.
The House attempted 20 pass a mo-
tion yesterday afternoon to hold n night
session for the purpose of giving the
numerous House bills their first and
second readings and have them re-
ferred TO the committees, and not
the calendar. The motion was
defeated by close vote and Il was de-
cided to take a recess until this morn
ing.
Speaker Anthony appointed Messrs. !
Connolly. Newton and Frazier as the |
House committee 20 confer with the !
judges Of the State courts and the truss
tees of the New Castle County Work
house relative to the employment of
prisoners convicted by the Kent and
Sussex county courts in the workhouse.
The Senate committee Is composed Of
Senators Wright and II. G.. Moore.
Could Not Read Lawyers Writing.
Senator Groves was acting as read
ing clerk yesterday afternoon during
the consideration of the Jury Commits
sioner bill I'm the Senate. A petition
was presented signed by every mem-
Der of the Kent county bar except one
Cthe attorney for the Levy CourD,
praying that the bill be passed in be-
half of public Justice, and every civic
interest. The petition was typewrlt-
ten and the New Castle county senator
| progressed splendidly until he came TO
the signatures. Then he stopped, knit
his brows, then laid the paper aside,
lsaying:
''Mr. President. the petition is signed
lby John r. Nicholson. chancellor;
James Pennewill, judge, and by large
number of others whose names, hav-
ing been written by lawyers, 1 am ut
terly unable TO read"
Quarrel Over Good Roads.
Lieutenant Governor Cannon ant
Senator Groves had q quarrel in the
Senate yesterday afternoon over the
disposition of the House Good Roads
bin. President Cannon having re-
lferred the bin to the Committee on Re-
vised Statutes. Mr.. Groves who is
lchairman of the Committee on High
ways and Public Buildings, resented a.
and turned over 20 the chair the bills
(which his committee had under con-
lsideration, contendng that n his COM
lmittee was not good enough to consider
the most important good roads bill OF
the session, It was not good enough e
consider any.
President Cannon evidently took
onense at the remarks and action OF
Senator Groves for he declared that
the chair had the right TO select the
committees which should do the wori
of investigating bills to be passed bs
the Senate. The president declared that
he waived his constitutional right tc
= name the Senates committees at the
lopening Of the session, and allowed the
Senate to name the committees through
Its president pro tenn. He did not re.
fer the good roads bill 10 the Highway
Committee because it was a bin of vi.
! tai Importance to the two lower coun.
/ ties as well as New Castle. and tho
d Highway Committee contained three
members from New Castle county anS
only two were from the lower counties
He had. therefore, thought that an i'm
portant bill of this character should g
before a committee representing a lar.
ger area.
The House held a busy session yes
terday afternoon and passed many i'm
portant bills, and incidentally defeated
several.
Country Against City.
The House defeated the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Buekmaster, which i'm
creases the States appropriation o
S25. 600 to $4,000 for Wilmington, Il
be used for general school purposes
by the vote of n TO l2 DR. e. G
: Shortlidge, of Wilmington who rs in
terested I'm Wilmington educational az
fairs. spoke at length in behalf of tn
measure.
The Kent and Sussex county mel
it was clearly shown that the bill wa
a just one. Wilmington has Isl teach
Z ers. but is allowed for but 1l0. TIL
case viii now be taken 10 Chancers
and an effort made TO get mandarin
10 compel the state treasurer to pa
the money, as provided by the Consti
tuition.
The Paradee bill, regulating the us
of prescriptions for the procuring 9
Intoxicating liquors, was passed by IN
House 1t requires each physicia
lupon giving a prescription, to procur
whiskey at a druggist to take an oat
that it is needed for cases Of sicknes
lonly.
The so-called snake bill, which in
lcorporates the New Castle Trust Com
pany, passed the House yesterday az
lternoon without a dissenting vote.
The bin authorizing the city clerk O
/, wilmington TO issue marriage licenses
was killed by the House.
Modifying Trust Law.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Bennett
which proposes an amendment TO IN
Constitution, was passed by IA
i House, notwithstanding the com.nit
4 ltees unfavorable report. This bin re
moves the stringent laws which cor
4 lporations chartered under the Della
ware law have to abide by and open