Milford chronicle., 1903-03-13
NOTES ABOUT
THE LEGISLATURE.

I'LL LLUIULut UllL
The House, without dissent, adopted
a resolution offered by Mr. HolcomI
which provided ''that committee o
three on the part of the Hou,e and two
on the part of the Senate be appointed
to arrange for a reunion of the present
General Assembly at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in 1904"
The bill to appropriate $50 600 for an
exhibit at st Louis next year. has
been recommitted, Governor HUM de
string the names of the commissioners
to be put in the bill.
The House unanimously adopted the
bill appropriating SIS, 600 to Delaware
College for repairs and completion of
alterations. Chief Justice Charles B.
Lore made a speech advocating the
bill saying the trustees were present
as the representatives of the State He
remarked that Manlove Hayes and
some others had been working for
thirty years for the college. Other
trustees present were DIR. George w.
Marshall, Charles b Evans and Mr..
Hayes. DIR. Geo. A. Harter, president
of the college, was also present. a re-
port was receive from a special COM
uittee to ascertain the relation of the
college to the State from which it ar-
pears the Governor names One-half the
trustees and the trustees name the
other other half The college was re-
organized in 1867, since which time the
State has had joint and equal interests, /
and the united board is the servant of
Under the Federal act of 1867 concern /
ing public lands, Delaware College has .
received SS3, 900 from the sale Of SO. 900 .
acres. Since 1887, the college receives
$4,000 a year from the government for
experimental work, and since 1902 a
further appropriation for agricultural
arts comes to the State Delaware Col
le2e and the State College for Colorad
students sharing it, four-ffths to the
former and One-fifth to the latter. This
appropriation is now $4,000.
The joint committee on the BOtkin
case had a conference with Attorney
General Herbert H. Ward. Cordelia
Botkin is accused of the murder of Mrs.
J. P. Dunning and Mrs. J. D Deane.
both of Dover, by means of poisoned
candy. On her first trial Mrs. Botkin
was convicted in the California court.
but she secured the right to- new trial.
According to a letter from District At
torney Byington, of SaDlFrancisco, the :
one thing needful to secure the new
trial is that Delaware shall appropriate
money for her witnesses. Tuesday a
bill was introduced for the appropria-
tiOn of $500. When the new trial
will be begun is not known.
An act to reincorporate the town of 7
Delmar provides for the government of q
the town by board of five commits n
siOners and names Levin Hastings, 7
William S. Sirman, Joseph w. Beach,
Aaron B. Frances and jackson L. Ellis Il
as the commissioners, Their terms run
ming from one 10 five years beginning +,
with Hastings for one year. An elec.
tion is to be held the first Saturday in 7
March, 1905, and each year thereafter.
The bill! for the protection of habitual c
irunkards was passed. Messrs. Allen,
GoOdeu and Paradee voted no. The a
aw provides that upon the rep 6
resentatiOn ola parent, wife or other il
person that a person is a habitual
irunkard, and affidavits of two other G
persons to the same effect, saloon Al
keepers must not sell to him. If he fa
ioes sell to him within twelve months
lie will be liable to a fine of $40 to 500 fl
n imprisonment up to three months. Il,
Mr.. NewtOn's s act concerning theState
3Oard of Agriculture increases its an r.
reputation from 81 600 to So 200, and
authorizes the board to devise and ex- Vi
cute measures necessary for the de-
elopment of the agricultural interests he
f the State rc
In the Senate the House bill repeal c.
lg the Voters Assistants law was read
nd referred under suspension of the he
nles, Senator McNulty brought it up by
nd asked for the suspension, which
'as permitted despite the protest of en-
enator t. G. Moore The next step w
ill be the action of the committee on M
syised statutes. TT
Speaker Henry S. Anthony almost bv
aralyzed the members of the House fri
Y his announcement that in his opin- va
II he had the say that the local
ption bill should not go to vote in
le House because he believed it TO be
There were strong
gns Of revolt from such decision. Ms
hich was avoided, however, by the Blu
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