Evening journal., 1914-10-01
Legislature IN
Special Session
HEARS new CODE
1873 Pages of 3625 Read
Until Noon, firing Reg
ular Clerks
House clerical
FORCE IS Intact

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
STATE HOUSE, DOVER, Del. oct. |
l.-Reading of the Revised Code Com /
missions report occupied most OF the /
time in the Senate and the House this |
morning. Reading Clerk George W. /
Hanson and Speakers Clerk James b. |
White read during the morning in the |
House, when sixty-six pages we're |
gone over, making 13S of the 1926 In |
all read up to noon.
In the Senate So pages were read !
up to one o'clock.
T. Bayard Heisel, of the Code Com
mission, acted as reading clerk for a
While after Clerk w. - Stoops' tncnatI
I tired. The Senate decide1 to have no
icon recess, and reading continued hyl
MIR. Heisel witlout interruption. 1t Isl
proposed to have a continuous session
until late at night. unless objection isl
! raised by enough membcss &C. break al
quorum. John +. Neary also served as
Senate reading clerk for a While. The
Senate will name Dauphin T. Wharton,
Of Dover, as assistant reading clerk, and
Leroy c. Hilyard, page, lie having
! served last session.
No report on the Hofiecker resolution
! 20 reorganize the House unl reduce the
| clerical force was made by the com
/ mittee on Revised Statutes to the
| House. The Democrats may rt the
I resolution be dormant until thc session
ends, unless the Republicans force ac-
! tion on it.
Fight Over Bill Clerk.
The House this morning received
the Ewing joint resolution adopted by
the Senate naming Horace +. Biz
zard, sergeant-at-arms of the Senate,
| and Walter NJ. Hearne, of Seaford, as
bill clerks. 1t was referred TO the
House miscellaneous committee.
| The committee decided to report
| favorably the resolution as it came
from the Senate naming Blizzard and
Hearne, and it was concurred in by
the House without dissent Represen-
tative Hoffecker said he had hoped to
get along without a bill clerk. but
Mr.. Mooney explained such a clerk is
required by law.
Reading of the revised code report
began in the Senate at Ills o'clock
after r. Bayard Heisel. of the Code
Commission submitted the report in
a locked box. William d. Stoops,
chief clerk and reading clerk. read
the morning installment of the report.
At the outset of the morning ses-
sion one or two minor changes were
made in the State Journal to make
clear the complicated proceeding over
mixed up resolutions. and the three
appeals from rulings Of Lieutenant
Governor Ferguson yesterday.
President Pro TEN George W. Mar
shall. Clerk Stoops and the other Sen
ate officers were sworn in by Lieu
tenant Governor Ferguson. As the
reading of the code was started in
the Senate it was decided at the sug-
gestion of Senator Reinhardt, that the
Code Commissioners be authorized to
make necessary corrections or alter
ations as the reading progressed, the
pages to be preserved, and the code
TO be in the possession of the Revised
Code Comission meanwhile. The code
is bound so that pages can be re-
moved for correction and entirely
new pages inserted. Mr. Heisel ex-
planned portions of the code report
whenever necessary.
Herbert H. Ward, member of the
Code Commission; Senator Rein
hardt and Representative Grantland
last night remained in Dover and be-
gan a comparison of the election and
registration laws as revised with the
present status They found three
slight clerical errors in the many
pages gone over. With some Demo-
cratic party representatives the en-
tire section relating to elections and
registration will be gone over. Sena-
tor Reinhardt and Mr.. Grantland con-
ferred with Speaker Holcomb on the
subject this morning.