Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-03-30
ages In certain cases incorporating the Virginia Canal
Company" all of which amendments were conc1rred in

nroydipp for the lease of the States Prison. and
seemed him proper tina. Information ought 10 be
first obtained before acting the BILL he submitted the
following resolution:
Resore That the Superintendent OF the Penenary furnish
h, OF labor Of the convcs employed on
The value Of m.,ea furnished and labor expended repairs
and improvements TO the Penenus 6nlang me
luw Of the Aeshsny mountains or improving the P1ss
oG fss na@Ser Of con7 French on the pub
lie and the agreed to be paid for such hire the num-
Bbb on Covng.on Ohio r. and the amount agreed to be
paid such hire the number Of convc employed by the
LABOR increased value manufactures &C. Of the nsiitu
ton year and the amount Of the pre-
nhed under the acquisitions Of law for other purpose
EXTRA CONVERSATION.
Mr. COWAN moved to reconsider the vote ordering
to its engrosment bill giving compensation TO VIM }.
Gordon and Shelton O. Davis Of $40 per day, for GER
vices rendered Clerks TO the two Houses OF the Leg
stature during the extra session. The motion was agreed
Mr.. COWAN then moved to strike out "ten" dollars
and insert "six
Mr. MCKENZIE moved to amend by inserting EIGHT"
Agreed to, and the bill passed.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
Incorporating the Rockbridge Insurance COMPANY;
amending the charter of the town of Union in Monroe
county, releasing the legal representatives of A. C. Layne
deceased from the payment of portion of rent due
| his residence in the Armory building.
BILLS REPORTED
Incorporating the Shumakers TolI.brdge Company in
Pttsylvania authorizing the correction OF assessment Of
| lands of A. S. Woodbridge in Loudoun county
THE ALLEGHANY COLLEGE.
| On motion of Mr.. Seldom bill, laid on the table, au-
thorizing loan from the Literary fund TO the Alegha
| nv College, taken up and read third time.
| Mr.. DUCKWALL obtained the floor
Mr. CHRISTIAN. If my friend will allow me to
plain the bill
Mr. DUCKwALL preferred to explain it himself.
Mr. CHRISTIAN said it but courtesy to give the
patron of bill or chairman OF committee the floor to
| explain bill emanatng from them.
| Mr. DUCKWALL yielded, and the Clerk then read
memorial from the Board OF Trustees of Allegheny Col
lege setting forth the which induced them to make
their application
Mr. CHRISTIAN said the question was not simply
whether or money should b. given ou OF the Ltera
~ Fund but whether or relief should be thus afford
ed to worthy institutions ulder peculiar circumstances.
This wss application from college which was pros
porous until fire occurred by which they sustained
heavy loss They ask the loan of $4,000 uuder such
circumstances as the House may prescrbe; aud such
loan was simple Investment of that sum from the Lite
rary Fund for the purposes of education with ample
cury for its Nearly all the losses from this Fund
had been by loans to Banks and very few from loans to
colleges This bill does not take one dollar from the
poor children of this State but simply the investment
of surplus fund with legal interest and ample security
Mr. DUCKWALL opposed the Inauguration OF such
system that proposed in the bill. This college came
here get this loan because they could not get any
indu'gent mother they expected to pay it,
Mr. CHRISTIAN denied that any such motive actuated
the applicants.
Mr. DUCKWALL said they based their application
the losses sustained by fire. Why had they not taken care
insure their property? In the name OF the poor chill
dren OF the State he protested against this policy For
twenty years under the charman:hp of the gentleman
from Northampton, the committee set their faces against
it. He regarded it fatal day for the Literary Fund when
the former chairman was removed.
nharo nj la Z "A
large majority of that Committee opposed to touch
ing this luud Session before last, effort made in
vain to get loan for the Chesapeake Female College
lie opposed to all applications for money out OF the
Literary Fund.
Mr. CHRISTIAN said a majority OF the Committee
were in favor OF this particular loan.
Mr.. RlVE5-Why did they not borrow from capital
lsts7 All legislation proved loans to these Colleges re-
suited one way-they always come back Tor II as gift
never paving either the interest principle of the loau
he knew it be fact At the last session. the game sort
of applications were presented and preachers flooded
the House and urged them with all their eloquence, but
no appropriation made. Such applications cannot
stand the ordeal of inspection and investigation and as
far as the merit Of this particular bill was concerned
every bill presented here supposed to have some par
ticIlar merit
NJ. CAPERTON understood that there was a surplus
of 5000 900 in the Literary Fund for investment and IL
is proposed invest $50 600 now IN this loan II Sc
curiry is ample for the of the investment, he held
this BODY bound for the interest of the Fund TO make
such investment.
Mr.. SEGAR said a few years ago he brought here
such claims for the Chesapeake Female College He put
them in thu best way he could They rendered. as ecu'
rity for loan ten times the amount asked bu, the bill
did not obtain half enough necessary to its passage
but Notwithstanding that be had too much magnanimty
TO Withhold aid for building up the educational nsitu-
tons of the State He would always support such bills,
and first because the Literary Fund was really an abor-
ton and did not carry the blessings il originally de-
l. l,I5N hv .nehl aaraf hoy
building ND noble educational institutions through the
State Tnis fund had fallen either into the hands o.
some ignorant and bgotted men, or OF lrshmen and
Yankees. he wanted TO put down these men, Ignorant
and fit for their places most OF them were, aud by
appropriations TO these colleges the desired effect could be
% :ued
Nr -YERBY would not have opened his lips bat for
the turn which tie debate had taken Alluon had not
ooly been made 20 him, bit to the LITERARY Fund ITSELF
in terms OF displFlgemen AID TeproaGh. He could not
refrain from making few reFnar;s in reply, and also
ia citation TO the proposition before the House. he
would say 10 those nov applying for loan from the
Treasury of the Literary Fund that it was TO take mo-
ney out of the treasury be would not object but when
was proposed to take the money out OF the Literary
Fund and appropriate it purposes foreign TO those for
which the institution founded, stern sense OF duty
urged him to oppose it, In reply TO the argument that
al his case there ample security, so was ample secu-
rity offered By the Chesapeake Female College.
Mr.! seldom asked what the gentleman would do with
s,a-y Fund.
IT, VERB would apply it to those uses best lor the
interests of INDECENT children. This security amounts to
nothing as it would meyer come into the treasury. Years
ego loan vas made to Henry and Emory College
That institution cowmued the annuanterest TO the edn
cation of some eight young men, and had never paid
one cent OF it into the treasury but sud sell the mort
cages and will pay the deficiency lie cited the tlch'
m1nd Medical College and others as instances where
these loans might well have been gifts out OF the Lit
erary Fund.
Mr.. CAPERTON-Do understand the gentleman as
Directing to the security in this instance?
Mr. YERBY did not doubt the security if it were ia
ken advantage Of but it had been DONE because
thew ask will you sell these educational in utions to
get ysur money lie called on the House to adhere to
their tme.honQfed SYSTEM and pot to take from poor
children to give it to unworthy objects.
Mr.. C0WAS moved the previous question, which being
sustained the main question vas put aud the passage Of
| the bill decided in the negative-ayes 80, noes g.
THE STAY LAW
| Coming up as the order Of the day,
Mr. KEEN said that when the House adjourned last
night he had demonstrated that the people were entitled
10 atay cw His conclusion taken whether or Lot
STAY law nlCessay in other parts OF the State be-
sides the county and section OF which he vas the repre
sentative lie was then coming to the point, il sta,
law was to be given that according to principle the best
ought TO be adopted which the ingenuity Of could
invent What propositions for such law now be-
fre the House? The one from the Senate only az
cabe 10 cases Sn~e creditors refused to receive bank
notes in payment as lar as inc seope Vi 40 county
were concerned they would be willing 10 take notes frog
almost any section Of the country e proposed smother
bill WHICH stage all .ecqtiops Upon Judgments either by
a mag straa or by court that the property WHICH
the debt was CONTRACTED ly be held for all time neces
sary, that in of parties recovering from the Com
monweath whether to avoid payment not the credl
tor bad his remedy In the present lag. The pro rata