Evening journal., 1911-03-22
SUSSEX GETS
new DISTRICT
Senate Passes House Bill Civ
ing Lower County Another
Voting Place
DREXLER VOTES FOR BILL
AFTER DEFINING POSITION

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Del. March 22-The Senate
this morning passed the House bill TO
divide the second election district OF
the Second Representative District OF
Sussex county and to create new
election district. Senator Drexler said
he at first opposed this bill at the re-
quest of some voters there, but every
thing had been adjusted. He said this
bill had revealed to him some crooked
work on the part of some machine pol
iticians at the Legislature. He said he
had been told that unless he withdrew
opposition to this bill some of his bills
would be killed, He said that some of
his bills that had passed the Senate
were being held up in the House
through petty politics and he thought
the members OF the Senate should
know that He said he had been told
that a member of the Senate had
hand in this.
Senator Hazel said he had been
served notice yesterday that because
of his vote on certain bill his mea-
sures would be held up in the House.
The pending bill was passed by a vote
of u yeas and 3 nays, the latter being
Senators Blackstone, David and Dut-
lDis Ills QlrAAlil 10 Alt OiAt III MhAth
Governor Pennewill lives and it has
more than a thousand voters.
Hospital Appropriation.
The House passed the House bill 70
appropriate S120,000 for the mainten-
ance of the Delaware State Hospital
at Farnhurst for the next two years
and $1,15O for improvements to the
hospital Representative Wilson made
a speech outlining the necessity for
these appropriations.
Rest Room For Soldiers.
The House passed the House bill TO
appropriate 5000 for the soldiers rest
room at Delaware City and to exempt
the rest room from taxation. Repre-
sentatives Swan, Hoffecker and Buck
ingham spoke in behalf of the bill, but
Representative T. O. Cooper opposed
the bill on the ground that it would
open a dangerous door. Mrs. S. NJ.
Donnell, of New York, and Mrs. Mary
NJ Wolcott, of Dover, addressed the
House in behalf of the bills. Mrs.
Woicott concluded: Gentlemen, I ap-
peal to your chivalry, appeal to your
sentiment. ! appeal TO your love OF
womanhood for this bill Three
votes were recorded against the bill.
DOllarage Fee On Sheriff Sales.
The House passed the House bills
10 amend the law regulating bogus
sales and the Senate bill to provide
for a change annually in the assess
ment of personal property in Kent
county; the House bill to restore the
dollarage fee for sheriff's sales in New
Castle county; the Senate bill to give
incorporated cities or towns In st
Georges hundred share OF the road
taxes collected in that hundred.
Under the sheriff's dollarage bill a
fee of one dollar will be charged at
each sheriff's sale for the use of the
county. The dollarage was abolished
several years ago, but Philip l.. Gar
rett, attorney for the Levy Court, in
formed the House today that the Of
fee of the sheriff of New Castle county
would not be self-supporting unless
the fee was restored.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $4,000 for the compile
ton of the State House and to reim-
burse private citizens who had ad-
vanced money for making alterations
10 the building
The House bill for the State to pay
certain school moneys to New Cas-
tie and Delaware City schools upor
which vote was taken yesterday was
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