Evening journal., 1911-02-28
CARRY LIGHTS
ON VEHICLES
Senate Passes Bill Requiring
All Teams to Display Clean
After Dusk
MANY MEASURES
PASS LEGISLATURE

Senate passed Senator Drexler's bill
requiring all vehicles using the road
at night to display a light where it
can be seen by persons in approach
ing vehicles from the front and the
rear. Senator Drexler, Senator Walls
and Senator Corbit spoke in behalf
of the bill. Mr.. Corbit said he had
voted against a similar bill two years
ago, but his constituents and he now
believed the time had arrived when We
hicles should carry lights.
Senator Finn in opposing the bill
said that il some driver did not know
Of the law and went without a light
on the road and was run down by
reckless automobillst, It would give
the autoist chance to Offset his reclS-
lessness, by setting up a defense that
the carriage displayed no light. Au
tomobilists would look along a road,
Mr.. Finn said, and seeing no light
would shoot ahead and strike "A car
riage that happened without a light
to be on the road. The bill was pass
ed, 10 to z, as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Corbit, DreXler. Ew-
ing, Ellison, Tooks. Miller, Marshall,
Monaghan, Shelidrake Walls--l0.
-Messrs, Blackstone. David,
Finn, Anderson. Dutton, Pierce. Ha
eel.
The House yesterday afternoon con-
CURED in the Senate resolution re-
quiring all claims 10 be presented by
March II. The Legislature is pre-
pairing TO adjourn about March 81.
No saloons Near Schools.
Representative ellis introduced a
bill prohibiting a licensed saloon TO
be within one mile of public school.
Such a bill. If passed. would put many
of the saloons in Wilmington out OF
business. as many are within a mile
of a school.
"Jim Crow Car Bill.
Representative Bell introduced a
Jim Grow" car bill in the House yes
terday afternoon. 1t requires sepa-
rate cars for white and colored pas
seugers on railroad and railway
lines within Delaware, but cars for
both races shall be furnished equally
as we'll A penalty of a fine from S25
to $50 is provided for violation, if the
act by passengers riding in the wrong
car or fine Of from $500 to 81 900
upon the railroad company failing to
provide the separate cars placarded
for whites and blacks.
Representative White introduced
his bill to require employers TO pay
their employees at least once every
two weeks
Representative ellis introduced a
bill to extend to New Castle county
the law that taxes pool tables. shuttle
boards and bowling alleys which now
applies only 10 Kent and Sussex coun-
ties. It is S15 for the first pool table
and SO for each other table.
Bills Passed by Senate.
The Senate yesterday afternoon
passed the following bills:
House bin providing that money
paid pursuant to court order by hus-
band to his wife or to his children shall
be paid to the clerk of the peace, who
shall pay over the money to the per
sons designated.
Senator Walls bill increasing from
500 to $500 the appropriation to each
county for the encouragement of edu-
cation in normal schools Of persons
desiring TO teach in Delaware schools.
Senator Monaghan's bill providing
that it shall not be necessary 20 take
out letters tesiamentary or of admin
istration on estates less than SIS.
Senator Monaghans bill providing
that the court may order children who
are able TO support parents who are In
needy circumstances.
Senator Marshall's bill 10 renew the
charter Of the State College for Color
ed Students
Bills Passed by House.
Bills passed by the House yesterday
afternoon included the following:
Senate bill changing the name Of
George Russell Williams to George
Williams Russell.
Senate bill changing the name q
John NJ. Lampaski 90 John NJ. Cannon
and making him the heir-at-law of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael +. Cannon.
70 Senator Miller's bill providing sol
I the free and unrestricted use of Della.
wares highway by automobiles of
foreign nations, this being a recipro-
city measure designed to open the wa,
, for American auto tourists to pass
n through Europe without taking out Ii.
, censes i'm the different countries.
Representative ellis bill providine
4 that the Court Of General Sessions
may issue licenses for the carrying ot
/, concealed deadly weapons. when per
= son presents petition signed by nv,
treeholders and pays a ten dollar H.
cense for the privilege.
= Some Bills introduced.
Representative Gillis introduced Z
!, DILL fixing the compensation Of elsc
!, tion officers M IS for election day an,
SO for each day IN court or wher,
s otherwise required by law to serve o
= respond
Representatives Gillis and Johns u
introduced bills extending the juris
= diction Of justices of the peace il
= petty criminal and attachment cases
II Representative Garrison Introduce,
a bill appropriating $500 instead o
5000 for conducting farmers insti
tutes.
The Senate reconsidered the Black
stone bill passed last week, givini
Il Grand Army veterans access to grave
of veterans for decoration purposes
and the bill was recommitted. Sen
ator Finn raised a point that the oil
= was unconstitutional, in that It pro
a vides for the invasion Of privatl
properties.
= Senator Ewing introduced a bill in
y creasing the salaries OF county schoo
, superintendents from $1,000 a yea
: TO $500 year. Other bills In TN,
y Senate included:
+, BY Mr.. Miller, providing for Join
| sessions of the revised statute com
. mittees to consider the revision an,
codifcation of the general statut,
4 laws Of Delaware; by Mr.. Ellison
. changing the time for holding the an
!, nual election of school district No. o.