Milford chronicle., 1920-04-09
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Is PASSING BILLS
MANY BILLS WERE ACTED ON IN BOTH
HOUSES AT THE OPENING OF The
THIRD WEEK.


day afternoon, when the committee O
education reported favorable a hi
which practically repeals the cod
The bill is a Houst substitute. whic
restores the act of April, 1919 on in
curing Indebtedness and using Duh
lie funds for the purchase of sites 70
schools and the construction of ney
buildings. It makes no change il
personnel or salaries of teachers.
A bill making hopeless insanity
ground for divorce was defeated bv ;
vote of 19 to IL. Representative Char
les W. Parker of Greenwood, chair.
man of the Judiciary committee
brought in a favorable report on the
bin and upheld it on the ground that
it would release many women whose
marriage to insane husbands now
makes their life one of hopeless druid
gerry.
Representative John J. Mulvena of
Wilmington opposed the bill, holding
that divorce Of a woman who became
insane through childbirth was an in
stance in which it would work cruel
ty. Representative Andrew A. Null
rine of Wilmington, supported this
stand, adding that the bill let down
the bars to divorce, already consider
ed by many jurists too easy to obtain
in America.
Aside from this one defeat, unani-
nous passage was the order of the
day.
The first action at the afternoon
session was arrangement to hear an
address by Eamonn De Valera, Presi-
dent of the Irish Republic, who has
been invited to speak to the Legisla-
ture and who is expected in Dover this
afternoon. His address was made the
special order for o'clock this after
noon
After passing this rule, the House
took up the final reading of a number
OF House bills and put so many of
them through unanimously that some (
one in the audience was heard to I
whisper, The suffs had better call I
up their amendment now nobody's .
voting against anything"
The salary of the court crier of New
Castle county is raised $160000 in one
bill. This fulfills the purpose of a bill
passed last year, in which, by an er-
rOr, the amount OF the salary was not
changed.
On one House bill pass, an increase
from 100 a month to not more than
S125 was authorized in the salaries of
the probation officers appointed by
the court. The officers affected by this
bill are Halleck Ray and J. A. Oliver
Jr.
The limits of the town of Milton
will be changed in one bill by exclud-
ing a section which lies in Indian Riv-
er hundred. This is a House bill.
Six House bills were passed, giving
the Municipal Court of Wilmington
concurrent Jurisdiction with the Court
Of General Sessions in trials for GER !
tain misdemeanors. The separate !
bills related to trials for keeping a ,
gambling table, disfguring property =
by bill poster, dealing in narcotic !.
drugs keeping a slot machine for I
gambling purposes, book-making and :
allowing minors to be present at a
games of chance.
City Solicitor Huxley of Whining a
ton, explained that the procedure of :
the courts will be hastened by this
change and the expense of repeated 4
fees eliminated. Prisoners charged il
with those Offenses will not be con- f,
fined for long periods awaiting trial. 81
Reimburse Saloon Men
Even the dry" leaders voted for e,
House bill to return to holders of liq- 4
Ior licenses the part of the license
Zee corresponding to the part of the cl
year during which the license was m
lot used. IL
Representative McNabb, who intro IN
luced the measure explained that it 1'
OlloWs up measure passed last year. "
'he new bill fixes July 1, the beginning Jt
VI wartime prohibition, as the begin
ling point in computing the return eel-
If liquor license fees. When the roll ~
vas call, Representative Hart alone d
oted NO" and he later changed his II
ote.
A bill fixing the salaries of Kent re
'ounty officials was passed, with in
reases from 81 800 to $1,000 in the
alaries of the Clerk of the Orphans
,ourt, the register of wills, the pro-
Monetary and the recorder of deeds. sp
Two bills were passed affecting the ey
own OF Bethel. The first required
he town commissioners to prepare Wis
nd post in several public places, at
east two weeks before the annual be-
own elections in March, a financial da
tatement of the towns affairs, show
lg the expenditures and the balances toy
n hand. The other provided for as ira
5SbutuLS anu COAAGCLlOA VI NaANos du- 44Ae
lorizing levy of $500. exl
The House concuTred in the reso- vel
ltion to appoint a joint committee to no
lvesuigate the New Castle county
orkhouse Representative McNabb wa
redieted that drastic action would be las
ken if the committee found that 10 :
sr cent Of the stories told at a recent has
caring were true. Speaker Alexan- hoI
sr p. Corbit said that one of the
embers of the wOrkhOuse commits ula
on had told him the commission has hor
,thing to conceal and courts investi- {
ltion. PHI
The following House bills were fav- iiy.
ably reported: y
An act to amend the Revised Code has
relation to motor vehicles-requir- wit
g adequate lights. cna
An act to appropriate money for the OF
,laware Industrial School for Girls.
From the Senate-An act to limit Pm
e use of membership card sign or turl
sigma of the Delaware Automobile the
sOciation.
An act to authorize the Council OF the
iyrna to borrow money for street spei
provements. mot
The Legislature is accustomed to NJ
ly visitors and interviewers at this SER
ssion, but two who were in yester- Deul
y provided a novelty. They repre- cove
1t a New York magazine. One is ~
tier and the other an artist While was
) writer talked to some prominent NJ
,islator on the suffrage question, the are
lists surreptitiOusly sketched his b.
e and pose She would not show VI
q the result, and the legislators max
mbIe at the thought of the carica- phla