Milford chronicle., 1917-02-16
ANTI-SRlPPING BILL
IS PASSED BY HOUSE
Provides Stringent Penalties For
Violation And Allows One Quart
To Be Carried In By A Person.

which lasted two hours, the House O
Tuesday afternoon passed RepreseI
tatiVe LOOse's substitute bill restrict
ing the shipment of liquor into tn
dry Kent and Sussex counties by
vote of 27 to ). Opponents of the bi
as passed made a game fight to post
pOne action, but the drys stood firr
and motion after motion to adjour
and to amend the bill were lost. Al
ter being defeated at ev ry turn,
number of the members classed wit
the vets, including Representative
Connolly, Collins and Cross, support
ed the bill on the final roll call, whicl
accounts for the large vote that it re
ceived. The vote passing the bill fol
lows:
Yeas-Ahern, Boyce. Buckingham
Burris, Chipman, Collins. Connolly
Cross, Culver. Green, Gregg, Gruwell
d. c. Hall, Hutchinson. Kersey. Xii.
len, Lewis, Loose, Marvel, Messick
Prettyman. Peet, Swain Tarburton
Tindall, Welch and the Speaker-27.
Nays-Jones, McNabb, Pritchett
Rash and Webster-5.
Absent-Downward, DAILY and Eli
sOn-3.
The bill just passed by the House
is even more stringent in its provi-
sions than was the Hazel bill which
was repealed two years ago after a
part of it had been declared uncOn-
stitutional. It allows a person to
have only one quart of liquor or
twelve bottles of beer in his possess
sion at any one time. Fines and i'm
prisOnment for each offense are pro-
VIded. In addition any conVeyances
used in violating the law can be con-
hscated and sold and the moneys de-
rived therefrom devoted to the good
roads fund of the county in which the
conviction is made. It will do much
to break up the blind tigers" It is
almost certain that the bill will be
passed by the Senate and that Gov
ernor Townsend will give it his ap-
proval. The manufacture of home
made wine or cider is not prohibited.
On Monday Senator Gormley with
drew his bill, introduced several days
ago, to restore the S1.1O resident hunt
ers' license, and introduced I'm place a
Dill approved by practically all the
sportsmen's clubs of Wilmington. The
new bill exempts the farmer and the
members of his family from paying
the license to gun or fish on his own
property or the property adjoining his |
land
Mr.. Downward has introduced a bin |
relating to the State tuberculosis /
commission, appropriating $4,000 (
year for INDECENT PATIENTS authoriz- /
lng an appropriation Of $4,000 a year
Tor colored patients at their hospital.
requiring midwives to register and
regulating their business; restrictingt
q T4f,f
dItures to $4,000 a year. except in cas-
es of epidemic; this is an increase of
$500 a year
Bills have been introduced in both
the House and Senate providing for
the court to impose life imprisonment
sentence in murder cases or other
crimes now punishable BY hanging
when the jury recommends the de-
fendant for mercy.
Other bills introduced in the House I
were as follows:
BY Representative Downward-To ]
permit fraternal and beneficial soci- ]
cites to pay death benefits upon the
liVes OF children between 2 and IS
years of age, and to organize and
maintain juvenile branches.
By Representative Killen-Author-
lzlng the state treasurer to pay to the c
FELTON, Board of Education the sum OF t
sZ6l 20, the balance due for tuition OF
nonresident pupils. f
By Representative EIli3on-To ex- b
lend the open season for muskrat in
ms State from March 10 to March 25.
IN inland and bank meadows. +,
Representative Jones, in addition to
he thirteen bills approved by the e
delaware Automobile Association.
amending the motor vehicle laws of II
delaware, introduced a bill prescrib-
ng annual registration fees for pleas fl
ire cars and commercial cars accord fl
ng to their weight. The fees speci- B
led are as follows: Pleasure cars.
lnder 1850 pounds, IS; 1850 to 1000. 81
2; 1000 to 5000, 50; 5000 to 1000. M
II; 1000 to 5000, S13; 5000 and over -
10. Commercial cars weighing under
200, 81; from 1000 TO 1000. $40; NJ
900 to 5000, $3.50; 5000 to 10000. of
10; 10000 to $4,000, $40; $4,000 to si
1900, s25; motorcycles, So. fC
In the Senate Senator Hickman in
'oduced a Joint resolution authoriz- of
lg the governor to appoint a commits CO
on OF five persons, at least one from co
ach county, to investigate the ques- fo
on OF capital punishment in this DO
ate, and to report b.ck to the Gem by
al Assembly in 1919 with recon- dr.
endations relative to legislation on by
ie subject. The members of the com of
ission will serve without compensa- pa
on, but an appropriation OF $500 is pa
divided by the resolution to defray SUI
! expenses. err
Senator Hickman introduced a bill wi
reorganize the State Board Of sta
ealth, which is approved by the va adj
ous medical societies of Delaware. sta
le bill is exactly the same as the leg
e which was introduced in the Sen (
two years ago and which was Z
ssed by that body but met defeat viii
the House on the last day Of the day
5sion. due
The bill provides for the abolish sho
mt Of the present State Board OF hou
alth, and provides that beginning bee