Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-29

boye baen stolen. and made the necessary ar
ran,rf for his detention and eoRteyance to
tbe watch house, and lie was conveyed accord
inplv. Tie wife was sent back to fhfade!phia
Yesterday morning, by the commissioners % the
Aims House,
Ge -ssHHFas-
..9. 4ss RIcHMoxD, March 90.
The proceedings of the House OF delegates
have decreased in interest for some days past,
the important measures OF the session having ell
tberbeea despatched. or being now deIgusling
in the senate. Week after week e!apses--th the
FIRST Of ApriIis almost here-aDd vet the guam
tity and character Of the business remaining to
be disposed of is such that it is imposs.biet con-
lecture With any accuracy. when the General AS
sembly will rise 'fbe Senate haye'cnme to no
decision respectise the Judiciary. aud when II
doFs their tiifis lkeis 10 be so radically Otter
ent from, that of the House Of Delegates, that con-
rerences viii ir all probability ensue, and the
whole ground have to be travelled over again -
BESIDES the Judiciary, there Is also mass oil
other unfinished business, which however, VIII
he de spatched be each House respectively. wnlie
the other Is engaged on the Judiciary; so that ~
fact the last uatGed subject is the only one which
now threatens DELAY. We undcrs ,and from diff
parts Of tlt country, that the public is be-
coming restless al the prutraction OF the session,
and we cannot but say, not without reason-the
costs of Legislation in this State. exceeding what
is known in any ntber country on the globe But
on this occasion there is no remedy. Ii IS no
light or easy task to organize Judiciary Sys-
tenn The work requires time. aud deliberation;
and il is a work that must be done. without by
emitting to do-it. baza,ding what is Infinitely
more worth than the price of legislation. We
say then with Duvandarte, "pa thence and shuffle
the cards. ''t..
Yesterday the bill introduced by Mr.. Goode
aboshing (or rather new modellIDgl the Beard Of
Public Works, passed the House OF Delegates
This bill transfers the functions OF that Board to
the ex offti6 rneribers and reduces the salary of
| the Principal Engineee from $500 to $500
A similar bill we believe. has twice before passed
the populat branch and been rejected in the Sem
ate--Iast year by the unanimous vote ct the body.
Some other bills passed also, which we will re-
gister on Monday.
There was nothing of much interest done in
in the Senate yesterday, except the rejection OF
the bill for the making and repairing of roads,
several amendments were made to it. A motion
was made BY Mr.. Chnn to postpone it indefinite.
| ", and rejected, ayes l6, noes Is. 1t was al.
/ ter va rds rejected On the third reading.
The following we're the ayes and noes on the
motion to postpone:
AyEs--Messrs. Mason. Drumgooe, Branch,
w watt. Alexander, Cabell. Booker, Campbell,
Joynes, Armistead. Bernard. Chlnn, Deale. Pat
teson. VIM. McComas. Whorter-16.
NoEs--Mesrs Holt, lSpeaker) Harvie. Cooke,
Winston. Dade. Gibson, McCarty. Cra"ens,
Pennybacker. Opie, Boyd. Cowan, David Nc
Comas, Beirne, Morgan, Edgington-l6
| James R;rer.-There is a bill before the
House of Delegates, (superinduced by the re-
lection Of the Loan Bill, authorizing the appoint
ment of Commissioners to make recOnnoIsances
and prepare estimates, for the James River and
other medtated improvements. preparatory to
Legislative action-the argument wich defeated
the Loan Bill, being that the State was without
precise information as to the most advisable mode
of constructing the great central Improvement,
and ITS cOsts--and an argument certainly emit
tied to much consideration. On Thursday pend
ING tle discussion of an amendmant to this bill.
Mr. Wncher stated that Mr.. Garland of Nelson
beltered there was Majority of the Legislature
willing to place the James River in the hands of
a Company, for the purpose of improving it, and
intimated that the James River People were OPP
posed 20 that mode ofimprovement This state
.nent was sustained b. MIR. Venable; upon which.
MIR. Garland, denying that he had any such
know edge. Grew up resolution Ia organize
! Company to improve James River, with view
as he stated, of testing, whether majority were
! IA favor OF sn'renderiog this great State channel
or whetherii should be retained in the hands of
| the Commonwealth; he himself as. a representa-
tive of the whole people of Virginia, being utter
| ~ opposed 20 such step. while as citizen Of
the james River country, he would willingly
agree to it--rrovided, they could get it with the
present works. at fair price. without beng re-
qiiired to take it, encam5ered with the debt Gre
ayed by useless and prodisal expenditure.
Pending the motion to postpone the resolution,
Me. Garland, who submitted il evideniy under
the influences of excitement, produced BY the OBJ
servations of Messrs. Venablc and Witoher, with
drnu II h.nn,r nm cd hv his friends 10 do So and