Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-12-25
HOUSE OF DELEGATES

FRIDAY, Dec2l 1855.
Committees were called and u few bills were
reported among them the following from the
committee If Roads "A bill to provide for the
connection of the waters of the Ohio RIVER and
Chesapeake Bay by continuous Railroad" ~
bill authorizing loan to the Virginia Central
Railroad Company" "A bill to increase the
capital stock of the Halifax and Pittsy vania
Railroad Company and changing the terminus of
the same" aud II bill making an appropriation for
completing tue Covington and Ohio Railroad
TlE BANKS.
On motion of Mr.. Rutherford, Resolved, That
the Cashiers If the Banks of Virginia be reqnes
ted by the Secretary of the Commonwealth To
port 10 this House statement showing, at the
dates of their several quarterly returns for the
lst October 1855 l,t the amounts which they
then held oi notes, bills drafts. or other evilen
of debt VIII ich had been discounted by them
payable at any point out of the State IT Virginia
and at what places and in what amounts respec-
lively they fell due and 2dly, the amount which
they held NJ said dates of notes. bills or drafts
which they had discounted payable in Nirginin.
PRIVILEGES, DUTIES. PAY OF MEMBERS.
The House resumed the consideration of the
unfinished business of yesterday viz the Bill
(no. 2O) to amend the 18th chapter of the Code,
relating to the privileges and the duties of the
members of the General Assembly and the off
GERS thereof
When the House adjourned yesterday, the
amendment Of Mr. lmboden for increasing th,
per diem of members TO So and the mileage Ia
! So for every twenty miles, pending.
The question being stated, Mr.. lmbeden, with the
leave of the House, withdrew his amendm ent
rcmarking upon consultation with the friends OF
the proposition it hal been deemed best TO with
draw it,
The bill was then farther amended aud order.
ed 20 be engrossed,
A rARTY DEBATE.
Mr.. Croker of Isle Of wi yht, called up the
| engrossed bill to incorporate the Portsmouth,
| Orphan Asylum. and the bill being taken up ind
the vote engrossing 1t being on his motion re
considered he moved to strike out from the tlir-
ty.three names Incorporated in the bill the fol
lowing.
ID. ID. Fi.ke, Winchester Watts, George w
Pete, Holt Wilson, Joseph II. Potter, JAS Guy
Joseph n. Schorlfeld, j. Y. Pratt, Absolen
Manning, Geo. X. Snead, George s Thompson
| ii. Y. Nemeyer James G Holiday, Washing
ton Read, Sam'l + Hartt and Henry Stokes.
And insert in their stead the following
James G.. Hodges. Arthur T.. Wilson,J ohm w
Young, Robt. Dickinson. Gerard Henderson.
John s. White, n. +. White. n. w ArmistraJ.
r. NJ Boykin. David Goodwin. Joseph Wood
ley, James johnson, E. w. Massenburg. i. +.
| W. Hyde AMI John Cook.
| Mr.. Murdaugh from Norfolk county. demand.
ed to know why it was that bill of a local char
acter in which his constituents were alone inter.
esed, should be taken in hand by delegate
| from another county, and why the names incor
| porated in the bill on his motion, were proposed
| to be stricken out and other names indicated by
! the gentleman from Isle Of Wight, proposed TO
| be inserted He claimed to he the representative
| of the people Of Portsmouth and to know their
| wishes and what names were proper to be incor-
! porated in the bill better than tho gentleman
| from Isle of Wight.
Mr.. Crocker declared tina, he had sought to
| change the names in the bill because of the nar
| ty east given to them Out Of thirty three name,
there were only two Democrats, and that too in
community where parties were equal. And
! these persons were to control large sum nccu-
mulated during the pcsiilcnce, from the cont,i
buttons from all directions. lie objected strong
~ to giving the trustees Of this fund such csn
plexlon, and to prevent it he proposed to stlike
| out fifteen names and insest fifteen others.
Mr. Murdaugh Said he was elected by n mn
jor'y OF $50, and yet the gentleman from Isle az
| Wight said the parties were equal and came
there to dictate to him in "a matter in which his
constituents were alone concerned He protest
ed against this interference and hoped the Honse
would not sustain the motion. The statement
of the gentleman about there being only ty, Ia
mOcrats in the list was an error
Mr.. Croker admitted that he might be- mi ia