Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-02-07
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

FRIDAY L eD. ID, lSo4.
Petitions were presented and referred and res
outions offered and adopted. Among the latter:
BY Mr. Mcclure: Into the expcdiency OF pro-
hibting the Banks If this State from issuing 9th
er notes than fves, tens, wenties, hftes, hun
dreds, five hundred and thousand dollar notes
BY Mr.. Buford: Into the expediency of incor-
porating the Galveston Manufacturing Company
of Pttsylvana.
BY Mr.. Mckenzie: Into the expedency of in
cooperating a Bank at Alexandra entitled the
"Bank of the Commonwealth of Virginia" with
capital OF not less than S500,UO0 nor more than
2,OOO00O, with liberty to locate branches at
Charleston, in knawha, aud at Phihppi, iii Bar
boar county.
An engrossed bill tn provide for the compile
ton of the Covngton and Ohio Railroad, being
the unfinished business of yesterday, was taken
up, and thereupon Mr.. Taylor, of Loudoun NOV
ed "A suspension of the rules in order to recon
slider the vote ordering the bill to its engrossment
The object of moving the re consideration was
to give MIR. Butord an opportunity to offer sub
stitate for the bill, which proposed to appropri-
ate at this time 81, 100000 To the road, and such
further sum hereafter may be necessary to
complete it; provided that not more than 81 ,5O0,-
0oO should be expended upon the work in any one
yenr utter 1856 and provided that after the pres
ent contracts completed, there shall be no
work done at the western end OF the line but that
the line shall be constructed exclusively from the
east towards the western terminus. The pro-
posed substitute further provided that Clifton
Forge should be the eastern terminus of tie
road,and that at that place it should connect with
/ the canal, and that freight should be transit
ped to and from the canal by the road free of
charge
Mr.. Buford briefly urged the expediency and
! policy of the amendments he desired TO make to
! the bill as reason for the reconsideration; and
his views were condedby MrEPPEs of Nottoway
the House refused to reconsder-Ayes 40. Noes
! 81
Mr.. Dean opposed the bill with great earnest
ness, and incidentally made an attack upon Rich
mond-to which MIR. Anderson replied. The bill
was then rejected by the following vote
AYEs.-Nlessrs. Anderson, Barrett, Bass,
Beirne, Browne of Cumberland and Powhatan,
Buford, Button Byrd, Carter of Fauquer, Chris
tian, Couch, Cowardin, Crockett, Crump Dejar-
nett, Dorsey, Ellyson, Fowler, Given, Harvey,
kee, kemper, kirkpatrick, K"incr, Lee, Mao-
ry, Martz, Mason, Mayo, Mcclure, McConas,
MeGufin, Mckenzie, Meem, Mead ,rs, Morgan
Nottingham, Parsons, Patrick, Payne, Price,
! Prince, Renick, rutherford, Sebert, skinner
Smith of b. and H., Smith of H. Sprinkle. Sta
Piles Of p, Staples of NJ, Stevens, Taylor of L.,
Thomas, Ninson, Wallace, Whaley, Whitehead,
Wiley -6l.
NoEs.-Messrs Barnes of NJ, Barnes of r.
Bekem, Blake, Boyle, Burks, Carter of l.. and s.,
Cheatham, Cherry, Choice, Clark, Clopton, Col
lier, Coltrane, Craig, Crawford, Crutchfeld,
Deane, Dickinson, Downing of Lancaster and
rthumberland, Duncan, Dunn, Dyche, Ed
munds, Ely, Epes, Finney, Gallahue, Garnett,
| Gatewood, Gibson, Gravely, Hancock of Char
lott, Hancock of Wythe, Hancock of Chester
field, Hardy, Raymond, Holden, Howell, Kello,
Knox, Laugh, Lupton, Malone, Martin, Miller,
Minor, Moody, Moore, Perkins, Power, Randolph,
Reese, Richeson, Riddick, Shannon, Shields, Shu
mate, Sinclair, Southall, Splitter, Summers, Tabb,
Taliaferro, Tomlin, Weaver, White, Woodhouse.
Yerby-69
message was received from the Senate that
that body had passed bill entitled ''an act to in
crease the capital stock of the Norfolk and Pc
tersburg Railroad Company, and to authorize the
Board of Public Works to subscribe in behalf of
the State for three fifth of such increase"
On motion the House adjourned