The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-18
GENERAL ASSEMBLY Or VIRGINIA
EXTRA SESSION. b
SENATE pRNEEpIN0s.


SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
"WEDNESDAY, March IL.
A communication was received from the House
the passage of sundry senate and other
bills.
Birs Notwithstanding The charter Of the
Bank Of Kanawha. Changing tho times Tor hold
ing the courts Of the 2Ist Circuit. Amending ths
section Of the act concerning mileage. pay OF mem
bers &C. Amending section IS chap. 20. Amead-
ing charter OF Indian Pole Drawbridge Company
Two bills concerning the duties OF clerks ot courts
Authorizing the sale of the land Of the areensviie
Academy, and reinvestment Of the proceeds
Vote Corrected III the ayes and nays on the prop
ositIon TO settle with Selden, Withers Co. Mr..
Wesr, Of wetset, shouid have been recorded In the
Affirmative.
(tringtoa and OH, Railroad Mir Smith, of o.
called up the bill appropriating $see,ooo to the
Covngton and Ohio Railroad, to be expended III
1858 and 1853.
Mr.. WrfcH offered a ryder. providing that "a
miiIien Of dollars be further appropriated 10 Do
expended In 1860 and 1861"
Mr. WAgrH moved to amend the ryder by striking
ont 1851 !" He did So be said, alter converse
ton with officers of the Board Of Pubic WORKS
who represented that contracts could Dc hhae On
much more advantageous terms, II IL was known
thai they would last longer than 1853. sgase
brief history Of past legislation on this subject
and its narrow aud contracted character aud
deprecated the present Assembly following the
example.
MIR WEIea had bad been induced to offer tue
RYDER to secure the votes OF the Senators from
Charlotte (Mr. BRUCE and Westmoreiand Mt.
BgaLE) They had declared that II they could get
larger appropriation to the Coyington ana ONO
roads they would support the bill. The speaker
had not doubt that the Commonwealth was new
er more able to make appropriations to INTERNAL I'M
provements. 1t was true the state debt WIS
twice as large as it had been; but 10 was also as
true that the State was twice as able to pay it,.
Mr. BsaLE acknowledged bis obligation to the
Senator from Madison Mr.. WEIGH in his efforts to
forward the views be had expressed on the subject
of INSTRUMENTATION But the Senator's amend
mept met none of his objections. 1t gave no guar
aptee to the capitalists OF the Union and OF the
sister States, with which we are to connect, that
the resources of Virginia would be devoted to its
co,npletiop No! The ryder was but a continua'
ton of that picayune policy which had kept the
Coyington and Ohio Railroad in this hall as the
camels hack upon which all the burthens OF inter-
nal improvements were to be placed and pushed
through.
The amendment of Mr. WARTH was adopted, and
on the question of the eBgrossment and third rea-
ding of the ryder amended, Mr.. RivEs called the
ayes and hayes.
Mr. AMgLgR said it was we'll known that if the
friends of this road in the Westwere supported by
it's Eastern friends they might throw away all COM
binations with other roads in the State. Yet,
these Eastern friends would not support them be-
cause they occupied position in which those very
Eastern friends, by their own action, kept them.
internal Improvement party 10 the East, and they
should be held responsible for it,
Mr. OLD defended the auti-internai Improvement
party from this charge. He had never known tue
time when this CoviDgton and Ohio Railroad could
have been taken by the anti-internal improvement
party from combinations, if it 1as engaged in
combinations.
The question ON the engrossment of the ryder,
as amended, was taken, and resulted in its defeat
as follows:
AYEs-Messrs August. Branon, Bruce, Caldwell.
Claiborne Coleman, Danghtrey, French, Layne
Paxton SIaith of g, Smith OF J, Stuart, Thompson,
NAYs-Messrs Amber, Armstrong. Beale, Braden.
Deskins. Douglas, Flood Floyd. Funston, Gatewocd.
ney. Marshall, Neal of W Neale of N, Old, Rlyes,
Taiiaferro. West Wooding, Yates-2i
The bill was then passed by the following vote !:
ArEs-alessrs Amber. Armstrong. August. Bra
den Braunon, Caldwell Coleman, Danghtrey, Des
kins, Douglas. Floyd. French, silnsten. Hairston,
Hubbard. HuddIeson, Layne. Mckinney, Marshall
Neal of W, Paxton. Riyes Smith of q. Smith of j.
NAYs.-Messrs Beele. Bruce, Claiborne, Flood.
Gatewood, Johnson Logan. Neale of N, Old Taliafer
70, Thompson, West W ooding-l3.
Resolutions Of Eagairy.-By Mr., LAYEE, Of amend
ing the charter of the town of Salem, Roanoke
county dill reporteds by Mr.. THOMPSON, of con-
structing railroad from some point on the South
Side Railroad, not higher than Wilson's nor lower
than Ford's to a point the Nottoway river, in
Dinwiddie Co, (biil reporteds by Mr. McKENNEY
of building a bridge across Banner Creek, in Mid
dlesex Co., (bill reported) by Mr.. WEIGH, of in
creasing the salaries OF certain clerks in the Audi
tors office by Mr.. LOGAN, of reviving and re en-
acting certain sections of chap 81 of the Code.
BAiS RuSsed-For the relief of BENZ. T. Chinn,
of Prince William Co.; giving the consent Of the
State to the purchase by the United States of GER
tain real estate in Portsmouth changing the 10
cation of the Back Lick and Plaster Bank road :
increasing the capital stock of the Dunkard's
Creek Turnpike Co; Incorporating the Old Forge
and Buckton Turnpike CO.. amending the charter
of the Salem Turnpike Co, so as to allow il to
gravel its road Incorporating the Stoney Man
Mining and Manufacturing Co.
Alexandria, L0ui0uH and Hampshire RGiirud-
Mr. FUNsTEN called up the bill making further
appropriation to the Alexandria, Loudoun aud
Hampshire Railroad.
Mr. DoudLAss moved to lay the bill on the ia
BILE and called the ayes and nays on the motion
which resulted as follows:
AYES Me. srs Amber, Coleman. Daughtrsy. Dfs
NAYs.-Messrs. Armstrong, August, Beale, Braden
Bruce Caldwell, Claiborne Flood; Floyd. French.
Eunsten GatewOod, johnson, Marshall, RiVes. Smith
OF j. Stuart Warth, West. Wooding-20.
The bill was then put upon its passage.
Mr.. ARMSTRONG supported it. He said il was
intended to intersect the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Piedmont, in the heart of the country
known the The Coaltields The coal from that
region now used everywhere and a guarantee
could be obtained at this moment that the freights
derived from this coal would reach one or two
millions of dollars in year or two after the COM
pietion Of the road. The amount of money
brought into the State by this route, five years
after it is finished. will be $l0,000,000. He did
not propose to enter into long argument.
Mr. FUNsfEN moved to lay the bill ON the table,
and on that motion, Mr.. BRUCE called the ayes and
nays.
Mr. RIvEs moved to make this bill and the other
appropriation bills the order of the day for to-
morrow at IL O'Clock.
The vote on the motion to lay the bill On the ia
ftpdiu
RIvEs was also adopted.
On motion, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES
WEDNESDAY, March 18th, '58.
Bit Rsported.-Mr. HEATH reported a bill pro
vidiRg for the employment of negro convicts on
the Public Works.
House Bills PuSSed.-The following House bills
were read and passed:
Authorizing suits to be brought against corDor-
atoms before justice OF the peace and providing
for the manner OF serving process on the case to
amend the act passed March 4fh 1852, providing
for the construction of the Meehaniesburg and
Wythe turnpike; for the relief of Samuel Sands,
of Braxton county-yeas l0l. noes 2; directing the
payment Of claim due to the Salem and Pepper >
Ferry turnpike company-yeas 80, nays II.
Pm Handle Rditrodd--A bill granting certain
privileges to the Pittsburg aud Steubenyiie Rail.
had company was then taken up
The previous question was ordered, on motion OF
Mr.. PORTER, aud the bill was passed-yeas So, nays
80.
This bill authorizes the Pittsburg and STEM
benyille railroad company, Incorporated by the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, to extend and con-
struct its railroad, through the county of Han
cock, or may purchase and adopt any railroad on
near the line of its said extensions and more
over authorizes the said company ito the extent
that this state has the power TO authorize, } TO
erect Il railroad bridge the Ohio river, at
Steubenville
Mir. SWEENEY moved a reconsideration Of the
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b. passage might BIO determined by fuller
uouse.