DILAWAim 



river and iu tribuiarie* 

 iredginff the channel to a um- 



\Vorka. The present depth 

 ;-ndrd about $S8QjOOO in appropria- 



. omraission appointed by 



(4.ii k T>-" !.. HUMniM ''.- M< ^ ft .1 an il 



.sapeake an.i I<-Uar- llavs dis- 

 Msed the various |,r.j-^l r-m, , and >,-, 



n,,-i..i..i M UM m fies .'.- 



sapeakc and Delaware 1 anal. 

 leva*, oould be constructed at 

 1 1* others suggested. 



<r adapt. ! f*>r national defense, and 1 1 1 



n accused of being 



\ 



ajngt .:, . npti.red 98 cases of arms 



ad ammunition and a large quantity of bag- 

 l-nrt y hatl chartered a tug and tailed 

 .ugton. but when tl. them- 



sjlves ponued by the officer* in another n.- 

 edui I'. :.', - <,!.,\, . T\\.-.f:| ; , |..,r\ 



ftisrasof tin* miintry byadop- 



Ul.d ti.. Mtsrcceiv. 



demonstration-, ,f |>pnlur approval. 

 I "' i .- . "f those in fa 



ption was held m I>o\i-r. .Inn. lo. for the 

 puri*.'^- ..f !.. hlitu- ii|...M ;i hill to l.o i :, M Qtt { 



Uague was organised at a meeting in Wilmmg- 



orgmt I* 



eoiM(rttct<Hl uiii 



i-n, but 





the broad Plane of personal liberty 

 f his ; ready at all time* to support 

 la* r-. ring ' no trs i. r profei 

 - r. ; , tv to sUsndaheli DJ t SB : t r 



f HtatA MM! count rs mi< I to all G!*MM 



VtfllW **! *^*WMH 1 < ** V tW^W 





right to eat and drink 

 ao Uiat it dooa not 



.1.0 and happiness. The business 



ted land. It can be de- 

 known to reanon or ar- 

 we are faced by an organised 1 



J--W. r w. ii, ',!-. t...! Mi-i. r. ||ia ..' 



furt h.-r pledged the league to 

 tent law* and en-rt itx-lf to have 



. trade gvnerally." 



M-ntlon. After the 

 IMS of 1894 it was charged that a great deal of 



ii fund in Sussex County was said to 

 bare tieen about 160.000. The system of \ 



; -allot law. 



..t the workers in many places 



eoompanied the rotors into the booths to make 



>t they votrd according to the oottt 



om htindnNl, or towtinhip. the rot ing 



.ice in a dwelling house and that no poll 



Ust was used ; and that in *omc of the hundreds 



paid to do. At UM first Urn of court in 

 OMB, one a Republican and the other m 

 were c 







i 

 . f M., - r... n tin Blstli Qtfj ..... ..' . 



It wa* nut largely attended, but resoluti< 

 passed calling for strict la to prevent 

 lion, and a ulan was adopted for an o 

 ailed -The Political Reform 

 <laware," 

 In his nnisage to the Lsgislelure in January. 



> uurwlvsa, no deobt, ar are that tab ties 

 ; rases* aiagnitude rx* *o modi on 

 of the lack of proper leaisletioa as of a too 



1 ft sMgiMitiJisssi rujju 



I y\flsispwj| o| |4gs> BMS*^ 



rendered t - '..- 



people, who had not op to the 

 awakened to a aease of the eaon 



i , .".!., . 



ballot, l.ut n. 







hod ofaoeeriaff a pur* and fres 

 t. Lut it* proviaioiM have beeavlniially nalliied 

 he culpable failure of the people to earrj them 



LrirMuthr SrniiloB. The Legislature met 

 in January, with 11* Republicans and 11 I 



The election of . t< 



in place of Anthony Higgins, whose 



1. was one of its duties; but after four 



month*, during %hi. h more than 190 ballots 

 w, n- tak.-n. ti., LtffsJej|SJI id Ml : M ' 



leaving the matter still unsettled. The Rmb> 

 ! Majority could not agree upon a rand Male, 

 them voted steadily for. I 

 til near the close of the session, when the num- 

 Kupporters was reduced lo 4. Ki- 

 Senator lliggins was his i 

 the early part of the session : later. George V. 

 Massey, James Pennewill, and Henry 

 Pont Others named by Republicans on some 

 ..f thebdUofc mm Bi . i: ; . I- . . 

 Nields.E.0. Bradf.r 



liardson, and William Du Pont The first 

 choice of the Democrats was Chancellor James 



bo received rnppor 

 i: N i 'A : 



and K. 



I, I n-w his name March 7. 

 -reafler Kdwanl I Cidgvly received the sup- 



Desnocrats. 

 the death 

 Senate, William T. Watson, became acting Gov- 



he Constitution, as IMa- 

 o lieutenant governor. The ConsU- 

 does not say whether the Speaker 



wan- has no lieutenant 



tution does not say wbetner UM Speaker vacates 



' ,,..-:. ,.. , , -. .- f ,,. , 



enr^ on May 9. tfc last day of the stesfam. 



of th- Senate and claimed his right t. 



.t :.im there were 19 votes and onlv 15 

 would be needed fora majority, and &* 1'. 

 Republicans were now united upon Henry A. 



tgroui were made to Mtand tin and take oath 



as they had promised and of the 



. Henry 

 use declared that 

 Including the Governor. 

 90 votes, and 16 were r ^mr-I 

 for a majority, and t hr ( i orcrnor and the Speaker 

 , Sent* dsj tar : I 



H.i I'ont.th,- 



\ , - 



that no choice had been 



