The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-08
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.

SENATE.
TUESDAY, Feb. Z, 1854.
A communication from the House of Delegates
was read
Resolutions were offered and petitions pre-
sented.
CAMPBELL AND BETHLEHEM PLANK ROAD.
Mr.. McDEAHmAN called up bill to incorporate
the Campbell and Bethlehem Plank Road Com
pany.
Mr. DEsEALE explained the bill, and the roll was
called. Ayes 27-Noes g. So the bill passed.
BERKELEY AND MARYLAND BRIDGE.
Mr.. GRAsrHAM called up and explained bill
incorporating the Berkeley ands Maryland Bridge
Company Ayes 2s-Noes 9. So the bill passed.
AMELIA AND CUMBERLAND PLANK ROAD.
Mr.. THOMPSON called up and explained bill to
incorporate the Amelia and Cumberland Plank
Road Company Ayes 26-Noes IL. So the bill
passed.
GLADE SPRING AND LAUREL TURNPIKE.
Mr.. BARRETT called up and Mr. TATE explained
bill to incorporate the Glade Spring and Laurel
Turnpike Road. Ayes 21-Noes 8. Not aconstitu-
tional majority in itas favor So the bill was re-
jected.
On motion of Mr.. JOHNSON the vote was recon.
sidered, and the bill was laid on the table.
ALEXANDRIA, LouDoUN AND HAMPSHIRE RAILROAD.
Mr.. FuNsrEN called up and explained bill to
authorise special subscription by the corporate
authorities of the city of Washington to the stock OF
the Alexandra, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad
Company 1t passed.
THE CALENDAR.
On motion of Mr. STUART, the Calendar was ia.
ken up, and bills on their second reading ad.
vanced
And then the Senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, Feb 7th 1854
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
A communication from the Senate, announcing
that that body.concurred in the amendments to the
bill ceding to the United States the land on which
the Naval Hospital is located.
Mr. WHITE. from the Committee for Courts of
Justice, reported that it was inexpedient TO amend
the license laws, as to invest the county courts
with discretionary power to grant or refuse license
for the retail of ardent spirits.
The standing committees reported large number
of bills.
The additional rules for the government of the
House was taken up, on motion Of Mr.. ToMLIN
The first in relation to the admission of persons
on the floor of the House, was, on motion OF Mr..
STAPLES, of Patrick, laid on the table. The second
was rejected.
bill to authorize loan to the James River and
Kanawha Company, for the purpose of extending
their line to Covington being the unfinished business
of yesterday evening, was taken up and further
considered pending an amendment proposed there
to by Mr. GARNETT, and thereupon at the sugges.
ton of Mr.. ANDERSON, he by leave of the House
modified his said amendment, SO as to insert after
the words the sum Of in the third line, the words
following:
Eight hundred thousand dollars, and to loan the
same to the James River and kanawha Company,
for the purpose of extending their improvement
continuously from its present terminus to -, in
the county Of Allegheny; but not more than one
half thereof shall be loaned to said Company in
any one year.
An unsuccessful motion was made by Mr.. WILEY
to strike out the words 'to -, in the county of
Allegheny"
On motion of Mr.. GARNETT, the blank in the said
amendment filled by inserting the words
Haynes Farm"-Ayes 113 noes 1s-after brief
debate.
Mr.. MOORE, OF Harrison, moved addition to
the bill, directing the Board of Public Works to
foreclose the mortgage upon the road, upon the fail
of the Company to pay the interest on the loan
which motion, after brief debate in which it was
opposed by Messrs. ANDERSON and DEANE, and
sustained by Mr.. MOORE, was rejected, without a
division
Mr.. KEMPER then proposed under different
phraseology, an amendment having the same object
with that proposed by Mr.. MOORE.
This amendment was opposed by Messrs. ANDER.
SON, WALLACE and YERBY and sustained by Mr..
kEMPER; after which, it was rejected Ayes 80,
noes 81.
On motion Of Mr. GARNETT, the engrossed bill
incorporating the Medical College OF Virginia, was
taken up and read third time.
On motion of Mr.. YERBY clause was added to
the bill, declaring that in passing this act the Legs
lature did not mean to cast any censure upon the
Trustees Of Hampden Sidney College, Or upon the
Faculty of the Medical College of Richmond.
The bill was then passed without division.
Mr.. FOWLER offered resolution that no internal
Improvement bill should be considered during the
night sessions-pendng which,
On motion of Mr. RuTHERFooRD the House ad-
iourned