Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-06
Stan Correspondence OF Every Evening

was heard TO whisper The suffs hac
better call up their amendment now
nobody's voting against anything.
The salary of the court crier Of New
| Castle county is raised to $1,000 In one
| bill. This fulflls the purpose Of q bill paesec
Last wear. in which, by an error, the
amount Of the salary was not changed.
On one House hill passed, an increase
1 from 800 a month 10 not more than SIZE
was authorized in the salaries OF the pro
baton officers appointed by the court
/ The officers affected by this bill are Hal
/ leck Raw and J. A. Oliver,
The limits of the town OF Milton viii bt
/ changed in one bill by excluding section
/ which lies in Indian River hundred. 1his
is a House bill.
Six House bills were passed, giving the
/ Municipal Court of Wilmington concur.
rent Jurisdiction with the Court OF General
| Sessions in trials for certain misderneanors
! The separate bills related TO TRIALS foi
keeping gaming table, disfiglring proper
ty by bill poster. dealing IN narcotic
i drugs, keeping a slot machine for gambling
| purposes. book-making and allowing min
/ ors 20 be present at games of chance.
City Solicitor Huxley cf Wilmington
explained that the procedure of the court
/ will be hastened by this change and the ex
/ pense of repeated fees eliminated. Prison
| ers charged with those offenses will not
| be confined for long periods awaiting
/ trial
| REIMBURSE SALOON MEN.
Even the dry" leaders voted for q
| House bill to return 10 holders OF liquor
| licenses the part of the license fe cor
responding to the part Of the year during
which the license was not used.
Representative McNabb, who intro
duced the measure, explained that 1T fol-
lows up a measure passed last year. Ihe
| new bill fixes July !, the beginnlng.ot war
time prohibition, as the beginning point In
computing the return Of liquor license tees.
When the roll was called, Representative
Hart alone voted NO, and he later
changed his vote.
A bin fixing the salaries of kent county
officials. was passed, with increases from
81 800 to 81 600 in the salaries OF the clerk
of the Orphans Court, the register OF wills,
the prothonotary and the recorder OF
deeds
Two bills were passed affecting the
town of Bethel. The first required the
town commissioners to prepare and post IN
several public places, at least two weeks
a financial statement of the towns affairs,
showing their expenditures and the balane-
es on hand. The other provided Tor ASSESS
ments and collection of taxes, authorizing
levy of $500.
The House concurred in the resolution
to appoint a Joint committee to lnvestI-
gate The New Castle county workhouse
Representative McNabb predicted that
drastic action would be taken If the com
mittee found that 10 per cent of the
stories told at a recent hearing were true.
Speaker Alexander =. Corblt said that
one OF the members Of the workho,Ise
commission had told him the commission
has nothing to conceal and courts investi-
. The following House bills were favor
ably reported:
relation to motor vehicles requiring
adequate lights.
An act to appropriate money for the
Delaware Industrial School for Girls
From the Senate-An act TO limit the
use OF the membership card, sign or in
sigma of the Delaware Automobile Asso-
citation.
An act to authorize the Council OF
SmyTna TO borrow money for street I'M
provements
The Legislature is accustomed TO Indy
visitors and interviewers at this session,
but two who were in yesterday provided
novelty They represent New York
magazine. One is a writer and the other an
artist. While the writer talked to some
prominent legislator on the suffrage qlies-
ton, the artist surreptitiously sketched
his face and pose. She would not show
him the result, and the legislators trembe
at the thought OF the oarieatures that may
appear over their names.
WORK OF THE SENATE.
The Senate yesterday afternoon passed
the following bills:
Senate bill making it lawful to take
shad from the Broadkiln river in season
with device known as a rattler
Senate bill providing for the renewal
and revival of charters of corporations
which have expired.
House bill authorizing the Levy Court
of New Castle county 10 borrow sS50,000
for the construction of the Washington
Memorial Bridge in Wilmington
House bill increasing from 81 500 TO
-, 800 per annum, the amount OF money
Camden may raise by taxation
House bill increasing from $1,000 to
81, 900 per annum the amount of money
Wyoming may raise by taxation
House bill authorizing the City Council
of New Castle 10 increase the salary of the
city clerk.
Senate bill appropriating ST., 1000 to the
Ferris Industrial School for replacing
barn destroyed by fire and for repairs and
extension.
The Senate also passed a House joint
resolution authorizing the State Librarian