The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-12

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The following bills were reported
a billfixing the terms ofthe District Courts,
and the places Of holding said Courts;
A bill to facilitate the building and repairs
AbilI regulating the jurisdiction Of the Dis
trict Courts and Court of Appeals;
Al bill 10 Increase the capital stock OF the
| Central Railroad, by private subscription, for
the nurpose Of building Depot, dcci
A'bill concerning the practice on appeals,
wr;ts OF error and superseders in the District
Courts and the Court Of Appeals;
A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to
| amend an act incorporating the Morgan and
| Frederick Turnpike Company, was taken up,
| read a third time-and lost on its passage, the
ayes and noes being ayes "a, noes "a mot
| constitutional majority.|
Mr.. Martz offered the following resolution !:
Resolved, by the General Assembly, That
hereafter, whenever any member absents him
self from the business Of either House for more
than three days at any one time, without his
absence is occasioned by sickness, shall, when
he applies to the Clerk for a certificate Of his
per diem, state tle number of days he has abb
scented himself, and the Clerk shall deduct the
per diem for every day he was absent over
three days.
Upon motion. and after somewhat spicy
discussion, il was determined to lay the reso-
luton on the table-Ayes 81, noes 40.
The Committee for Courts of Justice, to
whom had been referred the opinions of the
Judges of the Supreme Court Of the United
States in the case ofthe State of Pennsylvania
against the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge
Company and others, made a report. The
Committee deem the Bridge work Of great
Importance to the people of Virginia. work
erected without any apprehension that the
Supreme Court would deem it illegal; and,
therefore recommend that the House adopt the
following resolutions :
Resolved, By the General Assembly, That
the Senators in Congress from this State be
| instructed, and the Representatives requested,
to propose and support such proper measures
may. serve to maintain the Bridge over the
Ohio river at the city of Wheeling, as the same
has been constructed.
2. The Attorney General ofihis Common
wealth is instructed to move the said Court
that its decree in relation to said Bridge be sus-
pended until there may be legislation on the
SUBJECT.
3. The General Assembly cannot forbear
TO mark the prosecution of the said conirover-
sy in the name and by the authority of the
State of Pennsylvania as the exhibition Of an
unjust and unfrendly spirit towards our citi-
zens.
The resolutions were laid on the table, and
ordered TO be printed.
The Speaker laid before the House a COM
muncation from the First Auditor, submitting,
in obedience to n resolution of the House, an
estimate of the receipts and disbursements at
the Treasury during the fiscal years 1898
and 1854. The Auditor estimates the value
of the real and personal property of the Com
monwealth, which will be subject to direct
taxes, under the system of taxation prescribed
by the constitution, to be $465, 542, 1S9 TO-
The ordinary sources of revenue, which will
not probably be affected by the action of the
Legislature, from lands and other subjects of
taxation, in the fiscal year 1923, at 81 ,600,-
942 80, and in the fiscal year 1854, at ST.
6I5,l5l 80.
The communication was laid on the table,
and ordered TO be printed.
A bill, "disricting the State for Commits
sioners of the Board of Public Works, provid
ing for their election, and the time and place
of their FIRST meeting" was taken up for con-
sideration. Before final action on it, the House
adjourned.
FEARFUL STEAMBOAT ExPLosIoN.-The But.
falo Republican has some additional particu-
lars of the explosion of the steamer Glencoe.
at st. Louis. 1t says:
"A later despatch informs us that not less
than one hundred and fifty lives have been lost
by this awful calamity. The scene is described
as heart rendering in the extreme. When it took
place, the boat was completely rent asunder,
and human bodies, mangled and whole, and
pieces Of the wreck, few up a great height
into the air.
Numbers were seen struggling in the water
for a few instants, whose wounds were such
that they soon sunk to rise no more.
"The passengers aud crews on the other
boats at the landing crowded to the sides of
their vessels in order to see the arrival of the
i'll fated Glencoe. Many of them were killed,
and great number terribly injured. The
shrieks and wailings of the wounded-the red
glare of the fire, and the CONSERVATION of the
| surrounding crowd, beggar description. II
was an awful scene.
"The names of the passengers on the Glen
coe, or those on the other boats who were kill
ed and wounded, are NOT yet ascertained.
Several are reported killed on boats lying
alongside the Glencoe at the time of the ex-
| pl0sion."
WASHINGTON, April 8.-The joint committee
of the two Houses on printing have decided
that the contractor has failed to fulfil his con-
| tract as authorised, and have therefore given
| the Senate printing to the Republic, and the
| House printing TO the Union newspaper
| Messrs. German, Stanton, ofKy., Haven, and
| Truman Smith, voted in favor, and Hamlin
and Borland against the new contract.
| CAPITAL PUNIsHMEET.-In the PennsyIva-
MIA Legislature, the bill for the adjustment oil
the death penalty, and substituting mprison-
| ment of not less than fifteen or more than fifty
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