Milford chronicle., 1921-01-14
LEGISLATURE NOW
DOWN TO BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION COMPLETED, COMMIT
TEES NAMED, AND new BILLS ARE
BEING PRESENTED.
TO ACT ON new SCHOOL BILL
The CITIZENS COMMITTEE WHICH HAS
BEEN WORKING ON new MEASURE
WILL REPORT SOON.

Both branches of the Delaware leg
islature have completed their organl-
zation, and are now ready to receive
business from those interested in new
legislation. The committees of both
branches have been appointed, ano
are now considering the few bills
which have been introduced.
On Monday Thomas R. Wilson, 70
tiring insurance commissioner, pre-
sented his biennial report to the Sen
ate. The Insurance Department rO-
ceived SS6,7O5.44 in 1919 and $115,-
9O7.29 in 1920. The expenses each year
amounted to $4,000, of which $500
was for the commissioners salary, ST.
900 for clerk hire and $1,500 for con-
tingent fund. No insurance companies
in Delaware failed during Mr.. Will
sons term.
The Senate filed a communication
from the City Council of Wilmington,
requesting that action on bills which
may effect the government of Whining
ton be deferred until Council is given
an opportunity to be heard.
Senator Bennett and Representative
Kramer, who went to Washington last
Friday to obtain hotel reservations for
the Legislature on the occasion of the
Inauguration of President-elect War
rem G.. Harding announced on Monday
that they had secured rooms at the
Continental Hotel, near the Union Sta
tion. Quarters have not yet been pro-
vided for GoVernOr-e William d.
Denney and staff of the National
Guard.
The Legislature Monday afternoon
adopted a Senate concurrent resolu-
tion authorizing and directing the
State treasurer to pay such approved
bills as are chargeable to the regular,
usual and annual appropriations made
by the General Assembly which shall
become due and payable between jan
uary 10, the end of the fiscal year, anO
the passage of the General Appropri-
alton bill.
The Senate received and filed the
annual reports of the State Board of
Education and the commissioner of
education, with accompanying docu-
ments.
The House referred to the commit
tee on revised statutes a bill intro
duced by Representative Clendaniel,
amending section ISL, chapter 1886, of
the Revised Code. 1t changes from SIS
to $40 per year the minimum charge
for a separate telephone on party
telephone line having eight or less
telephones thereon.
It seems that the Diamond State
Company has been charging these in
dependent companies SIS a year for
each subscriber. The companies keep
I'D the line and are limited to SIS a
year that they can charge the SUBJ
scribers. The Diamond State Company
recently increased it's yearly charges
to $3.50, and Mr.. Clendaniel explains
that unless the Independent compan-
les can increase their rate, which
they are prohibited from doing now
under the law, they can not keep up
the lines.
State Vote CanVassed
The General Assembly, in joint ses-
sion on Tuesday, canvassed The votes
cast in Delaware last November for
governor and Acknowledgements.
President Pro Tempore Handy pre-
sided. Election Certificates showed
votes as follows:
For Governor Castle county,
William D. Denney, Republican, &c.
636; Andrew J. Lynch, Democrat, "a
4O2; William H. Conner, Socialist, l.
O24; Kent, Lynch, 1922; Denney, g.
S51; Sussex, Lynch, 9,214; Denney, g.
9O9.