The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-08

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Monterey to the Warm Springs
by hr NEWTON OF citizens of Fetterman, for
| precinct election
BY Mr.. DRAPER Of Charlotte, free woman
| OF color, for permission to enslave herself
| BY Mr.. EGGBoRS Of Robert Hudson for the
appointment of mineralogist and geologist, to ex
| anime his farm
| By Mr.. CALVERT: Of S. C. Williams and others
| clerks, tor compensation for registering births
| deaths, &c.
BY Mr. TAYLOR: OF citizens of Fairfax, for the
Incorporation of a Turnpike Company,
BY Mr. DEASE Of Richard Perkins for a mod
ncatIon OF the charter of the Lynchburg and Sa-
lem Tuknpike
BY Mf HOLIDAY: Of Isaac w. Mitchell and
others, Tor an amendment of the charter of the
Ohio and Marshall Turnpike Company.
All which petitions were appropriately re-
| ferred
BILLS PASSED.
The following Senate bills were read a third
time and passed:
bill to consolidate the West Columbia Mining
and Manufacturing Company;
biil to incorporate the Odd Fellows Building
Association of Norfolk;
bill to Incorporate the Ashton Institute;
bill to amend the 18th section of the act in re-
lation to the powers. duties, &c. of justices of the
peace, clerks of Courts, &c;
A bill to change the time of holding the Courts
| of the 4th Circuit and
A bill to authorize a change in the route of the
Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad
An engrossed House bill, for the relief of III. J.
Brown, of the county of Campbell, came up in or
der, and was passed by decided majority
BILL REJECTED
The Senate bill authorsing the Charleston and
Point Pleasant Turnpike Company to collect tolls
| on the bridge across the Pocotalico river which
had been reported upon adversely by the commit.
tee on Roads, was taken up and rejected by the
House. t-,
bill authorizing the payment to the legal re-
presentatves of Isaac Holmes, deceased, the bal
ance of judgment was read third time -
fhn OIx&sa
lieutenant and held the post of quartermaster-
The judgment was for half pay under the law
granting it to officers of the revolutionary war
Upon one question and another the representatives
of Holmes have been sent from pillar to post and
a Judgment has been obtained, between the ex-
ceptons of the State and Federal Government,
the money has never been paid Application is
| now made to the Legislature.
Mr.. CARTER explained the bill and the grounds
of the claims, which he considered just.
Mr.. JOHNSTON had no precise recollection of the
circumstances but the Antiquity of the claim was
against it; andhe had an impression of the diff
| cuties in the way, and as the amount involved
large principal and interest (some $6000) he moved
that it be laid on the table
Mr. SMITH desired that it should be laid on the
table, in order that ii might be better understood
He would like, if he knew how to get at it, to have
the Attorney Generals opinion upon the claim.
The bill was laid on the table.
Some time after, Mr.. SMITH moved a resolution
calling upon the Attorney General for his opinion
on the claim Of Isaac Holmes.
Mr.. FLOYD objected emphatically to such an ap-
peal to the Attorney General This was a co-or-
dinate branch of the Government and should be
able to discharge its functions without enlighten-
ment from another quarter. He was opposed to
introducing by side wind, any eXtraneous ele-
ment whatever into its deliberations. The matter
could be properly disposed of here. With all due
Difference to the officer in question, he was salts
fled that the member from Kanawha (Mr. SMITH
could, after an examination of the subject give
inst 8 reliable Oniuinn q 6 that
He moved to lay the resolution on the table.
Mr.. SMITH was proceeding to defend his reso-
luton but under the motion, this being out of
der, he desisted and the resolution was laid on the
table
POSTAGE ON PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Mr.. IMBODEN offered the following resolution !:
Resolved by the General Assembly, that the
Clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates re-
spectivey be authorised and instructed to procure
the necessary postage stamps and place them upon
all public documents printed by order of either
branch of the General Assembly which may be
left with either of said Clerks by the members of
| the General Assembly. properly folded and ad-
dressed to any citizen of the Commonwealth and
after stamping said document, to place them in
the Post Office to be sent to their destination and
the expenses arising under this resolution shall
be charged to the head of stationary for the use of
the General Assembly.
ground that the Constitution required that all ap-
preparations of money should be made by acts and
not resolutions.
Mr. IMBoDEN replied that the resolution did not
propose new appropriation; the stamps were to
be paid for out of the money appropriated by law
for the expenses of the Legislature. The other de-
partments of the government had their postage
paid out of the treasury, and he thought it more
than just that the members should be relieved of
the expense of postage on these public documents
Mr. GARRETT contended that this would be at
best an evasion of the constitution If they could
buy stamps for the members, out of the fund al
luded to, they could do many other things with it,
they could pay the board OF members, that being
an expense incurred while attending here. He
argued further, that once begun, there was tell
ing to what lengths this franking system might not
60 Electoneering documents would soon be sent
under it. all over the State; and he referred to the
experience in Congress, where an expenditure of
thousands had been swelled to more than g., ,000-
600 under it. There was no comparison between
the Legislature and the other departments Their
correspondence was of clearly official and busi-
ness nature Their officers elected for longer
terms and had not the same temptations to cleo
tioneering the members of the Legislature. He
moved that the resolution be laid on the table.
This motion prevailed by a decided majority
THE BANKS
Mr. DAVIS, of Greenbrier, moved the following
resolution:
Resolved That the Presidents and Cashiers of
the Banks of this Commonwealth, in which the
State has an interest be and they are hereby re-
quested to inform this house, whether they have
employed any persons in Richmond and elsewhere
for the purpose of influencing the opinions of the
members of the Legislature in the passage of a
| law renewing extending the charter of said
Bank or Banks, and if SO, to state the names of
said persons and their compensation, given or pro-
missed authorised to be given for said services.
The question upon the adoption of the resolu-
ton was decided in the negative, without a divi-
sion.
On motion of Mr.. CHRISTIAN, the House adj
journed. -=~-e t-5
Patrick McNea who was TO have been hung in
Charleston, s. c., last Friday, for murder, has
been spared by the Governor of s. c., and con-