Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-02-20
Virginia Legislature.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

u the bills. entitled San act, Iucurp0
rating the Fauquier and Culpeper Turn.
pike Company, aid foi other purposes
And "an act authorizing the Board OF
Public Works to subscribe for part OF
the stock OF the Wclsburg and Wash.
ington Turnpike Cempany:'--also With
amendments, the bills, to ''amend the
sixty-iourth section of the act to reduce
into one act the several acts aud parts
OF acts for establishing a penitentIary
house and for the punishment OF crime,'
and sto amend an act, establishing q
town on the hand OF Joseph Carr ia the
county of Loadoun, passed February
Ist, 1919" The house cOncurred an
these amendments
CONVERSATION BILL.
The bill to redace the pay, &c. Of lie
smembers of the General Assembly, was
received FROM the Senate That body
xgreed to the amendment proposed by
rhe III. of b, to their first amendments,
preceded from their I'd aud Sd amend.
cmcnts-end insisted upon their other "a
amendments TO the bill.
MIR. Garland moved to recade from
1.-THE disagreement of the House to the
:-Scnate's 4th amendment, which propos.
ed a small increase OF salary to their
clerk. lie hoped the House would re-
-cede from their diS.greements to all o.
Their amendments. The difference lac
!: said was small; amounting in all to not
more than $500 in session OF ten
weeks.
Mr.. Baldwin conquered in this mo
ton. lie said the idea had gone abroad
that the House was insincere in the
course it had pursued. 30 trifling diff
ference in opinion ought not to prevent
the legislature from finally putting to
rest, question which would be annual
ly agitated upon the loor-and which
must necessarily consume much time
to say nothing, of the excitement 1t &C.
.-Casions
Mr.. White hoped the House would
not recede. de contrasted the services
of the clerks of the two Houses, and
Contended that their compensation was
net prop0rtiOnate to their labors. The
II. of ID. had reduced the pay of each
9atably-bat the Senate, whilst they a
greed to the reduction in the case OF the
clerk Of the IL. OF ID. whose duties were
80 much more laborious, and SO une
,qually paid, insisted upon an increased
compensation to the officer of their
House. The House refused to recede--
; ayes 70, noes 81.
Mr.. George moved to insist on thei,
htlisagreement-nesatired. Ayes 81.
Noes 50,
Mr.. Epps moved TO adhere-agreed
to-Ayes 85, Noes II.
Dir. Garland moved to recede from
the disagreement to the Senate's amend
Ment, proposing compensation to their
sssergeant at arms-and on this question
/ he called for the ayes and noes.
Mr.. White moved to postpone the
{ bill and amendments TO the Goth OF
March. On this question, Mr. Holland
= called for the ayes and noes.
Mr.. Charlton hoped the gentleman
= would withdraw his motion. lie had
= voted against the bill in all its stages;
: but as the House had decided several
: times not to postpone the bill, he should
2 cote against the proposition now.
Mr.. White then Withdrew his no.
: ton.
MIR. Turner said he would insist on
the question for indefinite postpone
; ment, unless Mr.. Garland would with
=. draw his call for the ayes and noes.
Mr.. Graves expressed his opposition
- to the course which was taken on this
= subject. lie hoped that the bill would
: not be lost in consequence of opinion
i. about so small matter.
MIR. Turner explained, that he was
induced to insist on the motion for post
ponement, because the ayes and noes
had bern called upon what he considered
trivial question.
MIR. Garland said the gentleman
might consider the whole bill a trivial
question. The Sergeant at Arms of the
senate was an officer Of government,
and he had called for the ayes and noes
10 see who was indisposed to allow a
compensation for his services.
Mr.. Sexton remarked that the ayes
and noes were always called for as a
terror over members. lie hoped the
gentlemen would not shrink from voting
as they thought. He had observed that
the friends of retrenchment were al
ways calling for the ayes and noes, &c.
Messrs. Rust, Davis of o. and
Spooner stated that they had miscon
ceived the question when the House had
disagreed TO that amendment Of the
Senale-They believed the House bad
not understood the question; thinking