Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-03-12
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
UtsDA Y W dTCII IT Ic
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.

7 the Senate nv
their clerk announcing that they had passed the bills
rd an act to authorize an Increase of the capital stock
OF the Tazewell Courthouse and Fancy Gap Turn
pike, and an act extending the Floyd Court House and
Hisvlle Turnpike road in the county of Floyd and for
| other purposes.
HOG ISLAND LIGHT HOUSE.
Mr.. YERBy asked the unanimous consent of the House
10 take up out OF Its order bill on its first reading, to
authorize the Governor Of this Commonwealth to cede
to the United States the jurisdiction over certain land
on hog Island, forhe purpose of building light house;
and there beng no objection said bill was read sec
ond and ordered to be engossed and read third time
REGISTER DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE coNyEv
On Mr.. Wright's motion. the House adopted the fol-
lowing preamble nd resolutions:
Whereas certain copies of Gal!aher's Register of the
Debates and Proceedings of the Virginia Reform Con.
Venuon are to be delivered by the publisher the Sec
rotary of the Commonwealth, and by him held subject,
! to the order of the Observation-Disclosures
| ResolDed, by the General Assembly, That the Sec
rotary ne directed to transmit to the Librarian of the
several States and of the Congress of the United States
aud to the Clerk of the House of Delegates for his Of
ceedngs when the shall have been bound also one
copy to the President of the United States for the use
! OF the Presidential Library.
BE II further ReSolued That out of the copies not
otherwise appropriated each member of the present
General Assembly shall be entitled to one bound COPY
OF said Register, to be delivered at the time the
bound copies OF the journal oil the House of Delegates
and OF the Senate delivered.
| . GUyANDoTTE BRIDGE COMPANY.
On Mr. WELLMAN's NOTION the House agreed TO the
| following resolution:
,,Resoloed by the General Assembly, That the time
allowed in the act entitled an act incorporate the
Guyandotte Bridge Company, passed March 9th lS4S
IN Inc enth section OF said act tor the commencement
OF said Bridge be extended two years. and the time for
completing the same be extended five years from the
| date hereof
REEL AND HOSE FOR THE CAPITOL
Dill providing tor the purchase of reel and hose
Tor the Capitol and other public buildings and for other
purposes, was read second time. on motion of Mr..
MASSEY of and W. and then laid upon the table and
ordered to be printed 1.-The bill appropriaes $1,000 to
provide reel and 500 feet of hose, Tor the use OF the
Capilol and other public bnldingsone half Of which
shall be kept at the Annoy and the other half to be
placed under the charge The fire company nearest the
Capitol 1t also appropriate $3.50 for the payment of
the wages OF servants and assistants in and about the
Capitol and other public buildings and the sum of $1,000
Tor repairs to the Governors House. and farther sum
OF - dollars for the purchase of that part of the
ground in the public square belonging private indvid-
uals or IT the same cannot be purchased upon fair and
equitable terms then authority given to have the same
condemned tor the public use
PASSED.
The following engrossed bills read third time
and passed:
To incorporate the Middlebrook and Brownsburo
turnpike Company tapproprates $500 out of the
Ireasury-exPlained by Mr.. PATTERSON, and passed
For the relief of Zedekiah KidweIl of the county of
Marion -expained by MIR. BoYDsroN and passed with
out divison)
10 an error in the Code of virginia and for
other purposes; and
Changing the times OF holding the Circuit Courts for
the counties OF Nicholas and Fayete.
VIRGINIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY
An enerossed bill TO incorporate the Virginia Man
ufactung Company, in the city of Norfolk for the pur
pose OF manufacturing boots, Shoes &c with canita
OF not less than hive nor more than 100000 coming
up on Its passage Mr. STovALL offered a ryder prov
alng ,i nat the private property of the Stockholders
| Sald company. The ryder was opposed by Messrs
| KHBY, STuBBs Boiling, FERGUSON and BURwEII, and
supported by Mr. STovALL; was commended that the
principle sought TO be established by the adoption oflhe
rydelwas unusual ard odions and calculated in its ef
ects to still farther depress useful branch of home in
dusiry. The question being taken on the engrossment
OF the ryder only eny-our members We're found TO
be IN favour thereof The ryder having thus sipnallv
failed, the bill passed without la count.
THE FREE BANKING SYSTEM.
An engrossed bill to establish Banks on the free ham
king principle at Wheeling, Kanawha and Fincastle
coming up on its passage,
Mr. CARRINGToN OF b. enforced the necessity of es.
tablshing an independent Bank in the town of Fincas-
Mr.. MARTz opposed the bill He desired to know
whether 1t was the intention OF the House to shngle
the Commonwealth over with these little banksp Did
gentlemen take into considerations the great danger
likely to res from unduly initiating the paper currency
OF the State! Were they DESTROYS of bringing about
another commercial revuson! If they were not he
implor them TO defeat these proposition 10 establish
banks in all parts of the Commonwealth He said that
the county which he in part had the honor to repe
sent ckngham) possessed no banks: and at tba ast
commercial revusion that county had not suffered to
the same extent with those counties wherein banks
were located He called for the ayes and noes on the
passage Of the bill.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, of N otoway, also opposed the bill
and moved its indefinite posponement.
Mr.. STovALL said he felt disposed to give the free
banking system the preference over that in exis-
tence IN the State, and thought ought to be fully and
fairly tested before the charters oihe present Banks ex
pred, lie then entered into argument to demon
strate the superiority the free banking system over all
others yet devised. He said that he felt satisfied that
the present banking capital OF the State was not ade-
quae to the commercial wants fthe PEOPLE and should
therefore vote to establish four five additional banks
OF inc character proposed by the bill under considera
tion. at suitable points.
The discussion farther continued by Messrs Rus
SELL, PATRICK and CAMPBELL of NJ when the question
being taken on the motion indefinitely to POSTPONE il
was determined In the negative-ayes As noes So
MI DUKE arose Tor the purpose of moving the prev-
Gus question, but while he upon the floor he would
farther state the incentive that influenced him vote for
this Oil; 1t was by way OF experimental test of the
efficiency OF the independent banking principle and he
desired The House to understand his position distinctive
and 1t was this, that in supporting those bills that had
been, and the under discussion, he not com.
united to any further action in favour thereof during
the session, and would not vote for another bill of this
character He said that he had not yet taken through
ticket, and that he would now move the previous
question.
The Dill then passed. under the operation OF the pre-.
vIous question, by the following Voteayes 49, noes 49,
PERSONAL EXPLANATION.
MIR. SPEED remarked that on Yesterday an urnlass
ant difficulty occurred between Mr. Fournoy of Prince
Edward and Mr.. lmboden, OF Augusta, which had been
amicaby adlusled-and the suggestion OF gentle
man, who knew that Mr.. Speed had been instrumental
in efecng that result, and with the consent of Mr.
fiournoy and Mr.. Ina oden, he begged leave to make
the following statement:
That Immediately er The discussion on the Central
railroad OIL, TREND called him and enQuired If |
Mr., Fournoy's remarks were not unnecessarily harsh
in answer TO MIR. lmbodenhe replied that he did not
hear all that had been said and could not express an
opinion in regard to them He then enaured Of a GEN.
eman, who had witnessed all tina, had passed, what
he thought on the subject. The gentlemen thus APP
piled to, said he consderedthe discussion was conduc
ted in such manner that neither parry had right 10 !
take exception 10 what had been said by the oher-i
Mr. s. SAID that at the instance OF the gentleman who
hrst approached him the subject, he rad an inter
view with Mr.. lmboden, and told him. he did not know, |
from all he could learn that he MIR IL should feel |
himself aggrieved by what had occurred Mr. limbo |
den replied that he thought he ought to enquire of Mr..
h. l.