Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-15
NUMEROUS CITIZENS
SHOW INTEREST IN
PENDING MEASURES
legislature Receives Approval OF
Several and Protests Against
Enactment Of Others
NO MONEY FOR IMMIGRATION

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NO MONEY FOR IMMIGRATION
Special Dispatch from stan correspondent
state House. Dover. Feb. Is
Many members of the General AS
senbiy today accepted an invitation
20 attend the performance In Tho RAY
house. Wilmington. tonight, as guests
Of James NJ. Ginns.
Communications received and filed
bV the Legislature included the foI-
iCwins
Approval of Pending Bills.
From st Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church. Wilmington. opposing the OH
rcpcaling an act that allows the Law
and order Society one-half the fines IN
,ases in which il furnishes evidence.
From the Westminster Club of Han
over Presbyterian Church. Wilmington.
approving state appropriations TO Deia-
ware College. Newark.
From the New Century Club of VII
lnington. approving the Wilmington
Gity Charter bill, the Moving Picture
censor hill. the Maternity bill and the
decentralization bill.
From the Beacom's business College
club. approving the Wilmington CITY
charter bill
From the Washington Heights Cen
tury Club " Wilmington. approving the
Eight hour Day bill and the Maternity
u.l
From the League Of Colored Women,
approving the Wilmington City Charter
bsll.
From the Womens Club of George
town. approving the child Welfare bill
l-rnn 80 citizens vt New Castle
o.uty approviug thc hll increasing
l,, diem Ton thv maintenance -
.a.~a14ers il the Ncw Castle county
Nutkhouss.
Measures opposed.
t... th, Georgetown Producers EX-
.,rosing The bill discontinuins
stat. aprrvpi .aiion Tor anti hog
,r.. serum aud Nirus
l-.orI tn Delaware HoisteIn Fricsian
i Association. opposing the bill dlscon-
tnuine a STATE appropriation for the
,r,ai,ation ~ tuberculosis among
,.trt.e.
House Bulls Pass Senate.
rbr senate concurred in the follow
lnc Hous, hills Appropriating $4,000
tr the Palmel Home for the Aged, Dow
e..
Relieving hotels Of responsibility for
guests valuables not put in the hotei
sac or vault.
sxsmpting from peddlers lincenses
-aldiars and sailors who served Ia the
.H Wa or spanish American War
American Legion Bills.
,-.lonl Thomas W Miller came 10
saNcr. today representing the AIneri-
+. Legion in the interests OF the House
lis providing FOR coll.-C tinE and keep
var records and reorGanizing the
satlonal Guard He Viii probably TO
-eeu 4 hearing by The committee on
tsr> Affairs.
Favorable Reports
The following House bills were re-
.srted favorably 70 the House. Pro
.dine q state budget system.
authorizing the use Of ''ratuer" foT
ashine in the Bruadkiln river and is
tributaries.
Authorizing the use Of rattler" foT
coo for a water plant.
Prohibiting the killing Of doves be-
iore August !. 1925. and making tht
open season for doves thereafter from
August l 10 December !.
Permitting foxes 70 be killed at any
time. and making the open season fol
lnuskrats from December 70 March
- Of the succeeding year in Kent and
sussex courties and 10 March 20 in New
castle county.
Immigration Boards Money.
The Senate unanimously passed tins
senate bill repeating an act appropriat-
ing s2.50O annually 10 the State BoaTc
u Immigration.
necessity Of continuing the apprOpria-
non the purpose OF which, apparently
was 70 attract farm labor and farmers
10 Delaware by advertising III foreign
language papers He stated last year
only 81 900 OF the appropriation was
sed and Of that amount $500 went tc
ne members % the board, 1870 70 the
ERIK. $50 for postage and printing
nd S376 for advertising Senator Ben
uett remarked that bill consolidatin
the State Board Of Agriculture would
provide for such work when needed.
Repeater Passes.
Wesley Webb. Secretary Of the State
Board of Agriculture. was given e.ss
privilege OF the floor and said the Stats
, Board Of Immigration is the same as
the state Board OF Agriculture, with the
governor as an ex -officio member II,
explained that the State Board of I'm
migration was created some years ago
when there was a demand for help OF
the farm. and stated the board obtained
help for strawberry growers. asparagus
growers, etc, but these growers learned
now TO get sufficient help themselves
IRON the cities. He said the governor
during the past few years, had asket
that only 81, 900 Of the appropriation
De used. and that the governor received
none of the money, but the other three
members Of the State Board Of Agri
culture received together $500 a year
Af.er this explanation the repeater wai
PASSED
The House bill proposing an amend
rnent 10 the Constitution Of Della ware
providing for the initiative and referen.
Continued on page g.