Evening journal., 1914-10-15

should occur in the United States Sen
ate from Delaware, and both branches
adjourned until Monday. Committees
of the Senate and House will confer
next week in an effort to reach an ami
cable agreement, and thus enable the
enactment of the newly revised Code.
The Democrats in the House yester-
day offered and had enacted an
amendment providing that if yacan-
cy in the Senatorship should occur
one year or more prior to a general
election, a special election shall be
called by the Governor to fill the va
cancy and should the vacancy occur
within year Of a general election. the
Governor shall appoint a Senator to
serve until his successor is chosen ut
the general election.
Ihls was passed unanimously by the
House. While the Republican mem
bers were really opposed to it, and
favored the amendment as drawn or
iginally by the Revised Code Com
mission, they voted for it In order not
to hold up the Code in the House,
and in order TO bring the issue to a
climax in the Senate, so that confer
ence committees could be appointed
to try to reach an agreement.
When the Senate called up the Re-
vised Code at noon, Senator Rein
hardt offered the amendment as
drawn by the Revised Code Commits
sioners and submitted by them along
with. the Revised Code report.
This amendment provided in eff
rect that If a vacancy should occur,
the Governor could exercise his dis
erection whether to appoint a senator
to ill the vacancy until the next gem
eral election. or to call a special
election to fill the vacancy. The Re
publicans are in favor of UNFOLDING
this amendment submitted by the Re
vised Code Commissioners.
Governor Miller also is known to
look with disfavor upon the amend
ment proposed by the Democrats and
TO favor the amendment drawn by
the Code Commission and advocated
by the Republicans.
After his amendment had been read,
Senator Reinhardt explained his rea-
sons for voting for its adoption, in
which he gave the following:
First, the State ought not to be
put to the expense of holding a spe-
cial election. as it would cost from
fifteen to twenty thousand dollars to
hold such an election and the State
possibly could not stand so great an
expense when the matter could easily
be deferred until a general election.
Second-Because several other
states have considered the same con-
dition and hav practically decided as
this amendment calls for.
"Third-The Revised Code Commits !
mission, who carefully considered
every phase of the case, also recon- !
mended such an amendment
Senator Rheinhardt continued by
saying that he knew perfectly well |
that the Code could not be passed |
without a two-thirds vote, but that at
all odds, this amendment should be
adopted and become a part of the |
Code. as it is passed.
Senator Gormley was the first to re-
ply from the Democratic side of thel
Senate, he taking the stand that as thel
code had come to the Senate from theI
House. passed by a unanimous vote OF
that body, composed of both Democrats
and Republicans, he hardly saw the ne
cessity of doing other than the Housed
had done. He realized that other states
had adopted such an amendment, he
said. but in his judgment it was because
of the large urea of such States and
the expense attached thereto because of
their area. Delaware had never been
called upon to do such thing. and in
all human probability it never would be
called upon to hold a special election tor
such purposes, he said, and for that rea-
son he should vote against the amend
ment
Senator Furniss. Democrat, agreed
with Senator Gormley, going a step fur
Their by saying that II a provision was
made in the law that in the event of
such vacancy, the governor should ap-
point person of the same political
faith as the one removed, resigned or
who died, there would be no objection
by the Democratic members.
Senator Ewing, Republican. took
the stand that the Code adoption was
a most important thing at this ses-
sion, and inasmuch as the Code Com
mission had done the work il had.
which was a credit to them and the
State, and had included this particu-
lar part in the Code, he thought it
ought to be accepted. He also spoke
ing of the special election and felt
that 1t was his duty as a Senator to
make some sacrifice for the good of
the State by passing the Code at the
earliest possible moment. thus pre-
venting a prolonging of the session.
Senator Walls, Democrat. replied
to Senator Ewing, i'm which he con-
graduated the Senator on his state
ment in making concessions, ~as the
Democrats had already made their
concessions, which were accepted by
the Republican members of the Code
Commission and the Revised Statutes
Committee of the House when they
considered this particular part of
the Code. Senator Walls referred to
the fixing of the time for holding a
special election first at four months
by the Democrats in the Revised
Statutes Committee and the later
change by the Republicans 10 one
year, to which he claimed the Repub-
lican members agreed without a dis
senting voice. Now that Senator
Ewing was willing to make conces-
sions, he hoped he would agree to the
Code and its amendments as sent
over by unanimous vote of the
House.
After Senator Walls statement,
the question on Senator Reinhardts
amendment was called for. resulting
In the adoption of the same by a
strict party vote as follows:
Ayes-Senators Anderson. Ellison.
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