Last Hours

Fortnight ago the Delaware General Assembly stopped the clock and stayed in session all night to finish up its year's work. Only break in a boisterous evening, typical of the closing hours of many a State Legislature, was a recess taken at 4 a.m. so that members could troop down through the deserted streets of Delaware's tiny capital (Dover) to see one of their number off on a late train to Manhattan. Next morning everyone slept late, went home happy that the session was over.

Last week several members of the Assembly were called to discuss a serious matter with Governor Richard C. McMullen. Had they passed the $7,000,000 school appropriations bill necessary for running Delaware's schools for the next two years? There was a record of the House's sending the bill to the Senate with an amendment, of the Senate's killing that amendment and sending the bill back to the House with another. After that the records were blank. Some legislators assured the Governor that the bill had been finally passed. Others said it had not. Nobody seemed very sure. Sternly the Governor announced that if, after a meeting of the whole Assembly called for this week, a special session has to be called to correct an error like that, it must be held at no expense to the State.

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