Evening journal., 1921-03-24
VOTE MONEY FOR
STATE HIGHWAYS
CONTINUED from first nagel

ACOnllnueQ from UTSL DdEel
carry out the ffty-fifty program
with the different counties under the
s15O,OOO Appropriation. Under the
Handy amendment the department
will be able to issue bonds only to
the amount Of s2.1OO.OOO while under
the original bill appropriating $780,
600 annually bonds to the amount
Of about s3,5OO,OOO would have been
issued.
There was one other ch1a re
bill yesterday compared TO u
ginal. 1t is provided that the Lish-
way department must complete the
main artery from Selbyville to Will
mington, filling up all gaps before
other work is taken up.
The Senate bill appropriating $780,
4 600 annually for 40 years to the
State Highway Department was re-
ported favorably with a House
amendment, TO the House today.
The House amendment eliminates
the Senate amendment specifying
! that the department shall not use
any Of the appropriation for making
any other contracts until contracts
shall be let for completing the main
line Of the present State highway
from Selbyville to Wilmington by
filling all gaps where said highway
is now incomplete.
The House then passed the high.
way bill as amended by the House
/ Representative Otwell said th'
Z -t- -
the House. was class legislation.
The Senate passed the House bill
increasing the salary of the deput!
sheriff of Kent county from $3.50 L
$500 a year.
Home For Feeble Minded.
Senator Allee's bill making an ap
preparation of $4,000 for the mex
two years to the Delaware Commits
sion for the Feeble Minded to rur
the new institution recently com
pleted in Sussex county for the mex
two years was passed by the Senate
The home will get $4,000 this yea
and $4,000 next year. Former
Senator Thomas f. Gormley, who il
a member Of the commission, ex
planned the bill and said the institu
tion is practically ready for oc
cupancy. The farm on which tn
home is located near Stockley. di,
: not cost the State anything, il hav
ing been a gift TO the commission.
There was considerable discus
sion in the Senate yesterday after
noon on Senator Walkers bill rela
tive to illegitimate children. TIL
present laws Of the State do not Civ,
the status of legitimacy to any chilS
born out OF wed-lock even shoul,
the parents afterwards marry. Thi
/, bill would change the law so tina
such children would become legiti
mate in two ways. First. by the late
marriage OF the parents and secon,
by the father Of the child going [,
the Prothonotary of the county ant
acknowledging parentage Of tn
child.
One OF the last clauses Of the bill
provides the bill shall in no way Civ
such child the right to inheri
fathers property.
Several Senators objected to thi
clause on the ground that it woul'
undo exactly what the bill is in
, tended to do. It was argued tina
, such a clause would place a bran'
on the child.
Mrs. Ina N. Perkins. director o
child welfare, and former Deput
, Attorney General p. Warren Green
explained and advocated the bill
Senators Robertson and Price oh
iected to the bin in its present form
while President pro TEN Handy an
Senators Alice and Bennett advo
Gated it. Action on the bill was de
ferred. FRNtMl1
The House yesterday afternoo
concurred in the Senate amendmen
to the House bill changing the nam