Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-02-01
LAWMAKERS Think
NEW SCHOOL PL AN
WOULD Be COSTLY
Are Analyzing and Criticising the
Reorganizing Scheme Pro-
posed for Wilmington.
ESTIMATING THE REVENUE
staff CORRESPONDENCE OF Every Evening

analyging and crlt1clsing the senate ON
TO re-establish and reorganize the pubIlc
schools of the city of Wilmington and
carefully considering the expense to
which the taxables would be put.
CITY Council appropriated S44o,opo
10 the Board of Public Education Tor
general expenses during the present
fiscal year. Under the provisions OF the
bill the board would submit a budget Tor
the next fiscal year to Council, and the
latter body would be required to RAISE and
appropriatc the specified amount, pro-
vided it did not exceed nine mills on each
dollar Of real and personal property
assessment for that year. Critics estimate
that the city assessment Tor the next
fiscal wear will approximate SSS,roO,tsn
and calculate that a nine mill tax at that
rate of assessment would provide 1872 600
for the schools. nearly double the sum now
appropriated for their use. This would
burden real estate, they say, as there are
no other means OF raising the money.
In addition the board would have
authority To borrow for the erection and
equipment Of school buildings to an
amount, inclusive OF the present bonded
debt, not exceeding in the aggregate two
pcr cent of the assessed value OF the city,
which would produce 81 ,T6O. 900 revenue.
The amount TO bc borrowed in any ono
wear shall not exceed onc-haif Of ono per
cent Of the assessed value Of the real estate
of the city, which would approximate IN
anv one wear $4,000 ON the present
assess mcnt.
HOSPITAL FOR DOVER.
REPRESENTATIVE Buckson. in the House,
Yesterday afternoon, pending draft ot
substitute Withdrew an act incorporating
81 n fI.1-,,tf.l - tlqi1xxarsa winch
Is 10 be established and maintained IN the
town of Dover
The preamble to the original bull SAID
it was proposed 10 solicit and receive
popular subscription for tho purpose Of
lnaugurating the establishment Of the
bospital, 10 the amount of at least S5,tsn,
but the preamble TO the substitute will fix
the minimum amount of the popular sub
scriptions nj $40. 600.
In the original hill, Harry 4 Richard
son, Walter Morris, John :. Collins, Elmer
Outten. John \. IIartnctt john G Hop
kins. George VI. Jones, William J Benson.
William NJ Hazel, William Denncy.
Henry Rldgcly. James NJ Satterfeld, r
;. stephens and ID. NJ. Wilson Kent
rountians were proposed rs lncorporators,
but IN the substitute, Charles X Miller.
Thomas Gormlev and John NJ Walker
OF New Castle county, Harry A Richard
son, Henry Ridgely, Il. ;. stephens
Theodore Townsend, Hcrvey Hall. Waiter
Morris and George NJ Jones oi Kent
county and Simeon 5. Tenncwill. Harvey
Hastings and Asa Bennett Of Sussex
county will be named.
The substitute will provide for State
appropriation of $50, 900, the same amount
specified by the original bill
HOUSE PASSES BILLS.
The House passed and messaged 10 the
Senate two bills prepared by the At
tornev-(1cneral' Departmental act pro
hihitInc the sale of narcotic drugs and an
act concerning arrangements IN criminal
cases.
Other House bills. aAfollows, were pass
cd by the House: In reference 70 sales
OF land bv executors and administrators;
relating 10 bank deposits Of decedents:
relating to deeds dated prior 10 January /
1919: extending the time for recording
private acts: increasing 10 S40O per year
the Levy Court appropriation TO the town
Of Roxana.
A bill prepared b. the Attorney-Gen-
erals Department an act fixing the
number of Juror challenges allowed IN the
Court OF Over and TernIner and the Court
OF General Sesslons-was reported on ITS
merits 10 the House. Another bill pre-
pared bv that depaTtment-an act IN
creasine the penalty for manslaughter-
was reported favorably.
Other House bills reported favorably
renew and revive expired charters OF cor
poratIons.
The Senate concurred IN the House con
current resolution providing for the ap-
polntnent OF JOINT committee 70 notify
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ready TO receive the report Of the Soldiers
Monument Commission and invite him TO
appear before the Legislature next We'd
nesdav afternoon
Senator Bennett told the Senate several
Sussex county members had received
anonymous letters concerning legislation,
al written on similar paper and sent from
one place He expressed desire TO serve
the people residing II his district and
stated II they communicated with him
properly he would consider their wishes,
hut would not heed anonymous letters
Anybody who writes IN favor or opposition
TO 8 thing and IS afraid OF ashamed TO sign
the communication he said. Is not a good
citizen President Pro Ten Short re-
marked that an unsigned communication
is a ''buzzard without q tail and should
not receive attention
Mrs Milton W Ferguson and Mis-
NJ Elma Dame OF Wilmington, Mrs
Robert Holiday OF Dover and Mrs ]. VI
Lank Of Milton conferred with members
of the Legislature concerning q proposed
increase in the appropriation for mothers.
pensions
Walter G. Tatnall. State archivlst,
showed to legislators the January 1899,
expense account Of James Wakeman, who
then was doorkeeper and sergeant-at-arms
Of the Senate The total amount was
s92 SO. Items included the following
Three bushels OF sand, covering the Senate
floor, 90 cents; one hair broom, AZ cents; !;
one pitcher, 80 cents; one tumbler, y
cents; one hearth broom, 10 cents; NOV
,ng receptacies, 81; one staple, l3 cents;
one sitter 20 cents: | ] candles, 81 20; "a
cords Of hickory wood, ST 10; cutting 3 ID
CORDS Of wood, s. 20; cording s "a cords OF
wood, 81 cents. 81 days attendance as
doorkeeper and sergeant-at-arrns, S32.
y days ringing Of bell, Sl066; 81 days
hire Of boy who assisted IN carrying up
wood, making fires. etc, 81 40, andirons.
shovel and tongs, So for Saturday, 81 50
A joint committee Of the Legislature IN
spected the Delaware State Hospital at
Farnhurst, and the Girls Industrial
School IL Brandywine hundred today