Evening journal., 1917-03-17
LEGISLATURE LAST
active week ahead
BY BETTY BROWN.


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will be placed ON a fiat salary Of $3,-
500 and will be furnished a $1,000
clerk and will turn his fees into The
State treasury. d.
II this compromise is reached II VIII
no doubt release a la 70 number of
bills on the House and Senate calen-
dar which provide for an adjustment
OF the salaries of Deputies and clerks
in the New Castle county Offices end
other officials.
There is much speculation. in view
of the opinion Of the attorney gen.
eral. as to what will be done relative
to the fees kept by previous COM
missiOners
Analysis Of Fertilizers.
A bin that farmers are much In
terested i'm and which will be con-
sidered early next week is Senator
Newton's bill amending the present
law relative to analysis Of fertilizers.
This bill proposes to place this work
under the direction OF the state Board
OF Agriculture. The present law pro-
yides that the chemist at Delaware
College. who is Professor Charles l..
Penny. shall be the State chemist and
analyze the samples OF fertilizers.
Until several years ago all the fees
from this work went TO Professor
Penny but the act was amended four
years ago under whicT half the fees
go TO Delaware College and half TO
the State Under this arrangement
about $4,000 annually-the fees from
this work is divided between tho
State and college. which allows The
latter to pay Professor Penny extra
for the State analysis work.
Under Senator Newton's hill the state
Board OF Agriculture would get all the
fees and designate and pay some chemist
10 do the work. Delaware College. it Is
understood, is not fighting the bill. but
thinks the college should he reimbursed
in some way for the $4,000 that would
he taken away from the institution If
the bill passes.
II Is reported that there may he a
compromise reached whereby the state
Board Of Agriculture will give the work
of analyzing tho fertilizer samples Ia
Delaware College or reimburse the col
lege for the loss in some other way.
There is one feature Of the bill that
especially appeals to farmers and which
there has been a strong demand for. for
some time This is n section which will
require the chemist analyzing the fer
tilizers TO set ont in the report lust what
I the tests show in the fertilizer to he
available" for the soils in this state
Under the present system IL is claimed
that while the report, tells Just what in
gradients are in the fertilizers, IL does
not say what is available
The fights over the antiliquor bills
are sure to be continued the coming
week with renewed vigor The "Drys"
will make another determined effort
on Monday TO get out by petition from
/ Senator Barnard's revised statutes
/ committee. the Wilmington-rural New
Castle esubmission bill Opinion is
/ divided as 10 whether or not these
efforts will he successful The mem.
I bers opposing this bill. which passed
the House two weeks ago, have a
strong argument that they are using
that the bill is unjust and unfair as
Il is forcing something on Whining
ton that the citizens of that city do
not want and that It Is disregardinG
home rule. There has been many re
ports as to just how many Senators
have signed the petition.
The "drys' who have the petition
in charge intimated last week that they
would have no trouble in getting eight
/ OF the nine necessary signers, but Il
/ has been learned that until this time
they have not more than FIVE or six
signers TO the petition.
The "drys" refuse to give out a list
Of the senators who have actually
signed the petition. The indications
are that the bill will die in commit
tee or II brought out on the floor
will be killed, as az least one senator
who favors bringing all bills to the
floor. is said to be opposed TO tbs
measure and would vote against il Il
brought out.
senator Barnard, who has the bill
sleeping peacefully" in his commit.
tee. takes the view that the measure
is clearly unfair to Wilmington.
The 'drys" may also attempt to ge
the House bottle law repeater out Of
the Senate temperance committee. o
which Senator Webb IS chairman. by
petition early next week. They have
been unable 10 move the bill to date