Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-03-10
The Senate was not in aesaon to day.
IInIfSE OLE PERSONALITIES
THE VIRGINIA LEGISLA Ti'R :
;ADJOURNED SE,ISlOS. !
FrID.Y, March L. 1863.
SENATE,

FrIDLf, March T.. lcU.;.
SENATE.
Tbs Senate was called to order =. II
O'Clock A. a., by tho pnssIns.r End Vas
0pcned with prayer by the Rev Df. Srtiy.
COMMITTEE GtrOrT.
lie Senate bill tu Ell -renI p'ncre'iioy- uu
excel VI Off, at'schlneI.ti, Distress warrants.
trust deeds, and ether demands. IN Csc "f
refusal 20 receive psymcn'- lii currency
criyshie in payments To the State, AL - %
pei the s,t puss,l Msr,h ~ h, !oG2, en.-
tlrd .Gt to SUSPEND -a:ss arI i"yGl pro-
ccedirgs lii certain Gases, ~ i t. fp"ai al
ordnance to provide againt the Sac: !ico Of
property, and To SUSPEND proc .sdInss IN c-r-
tain cases, passed Ap'i! 30th, 1851, by he
Convention Of Virgins.
Senate bill requiring She ills, Srrgeants ami
Commissioners 10 Settle their accCunts.
RESOLUTION.
MIR. OrLLlLR offered resolution Of inquiry
al 10 whether the ordinances VI tho Cuuven
ton which have not been ciiho ratified by the
qualified voters or r,-,nac:cd bY he General
Assembly, or do mol sEi.Ii any contract en-
tered into un'ler tho provisions 81 ANY Vi tfcU.
ought to he regarded a, having thu efficacy Ut
law, AIlsl IL HOt, lutl I''OI-iHEHu SuCI
Joint proceed IS by tho tw houses Of the
General Assembly as in Tho opinion OF Tho
committee may be judgei suitable to secure
.iiscontnuance Of the practice Of amending
and ro.enscting any *ucn oitinances, Or any
Hec'1"u tEeTcLt. Reieri Cd.
The t"haccO Hill cDu.;ng up tit" S.na e, III
Motion, W.Il! into s=cr-t yCs'on.
The dvcfH kr'as Ypsuvi, ;ho SunI:n %oat
into discussion OF jcir: resolution GENT FROM
House, in relation TO tho iuipras-u.en bill -
The Senate refus cd to rrier the resolution to
committee, and, pendin, lin debate, Oh mo-
ton OF MIR. QuEsENsuEY sriollIned-
HOUSE Of DELEGATES.
The IlOcse was opened with prayer 1T II
o'clock by the Row. Mir. BLkc7.
The Senate amendment to tho House bill
making an appropriation 10 III: Central LII
natic Asylum, 50 as To declare said app: O.
preparation in addition to the amount re-
ceivcd from pny patients, was Cuucnrrrd IN.
The CJiDlniite on Manufacture Gld Agri-
culture reported a bl!i ilcoip nr ailng tbs
S:ouewall Water Power Manufacturing Com
pany.
Mr.. BrrouD from a special committee,
reported bill establishing q flour inspection
in DinyDle.
A COMMUNICATION was received from the
Goverra- enclosing letter from tho S.c'e-
tsry of War in relation 10 the jail h-eahing
by Confederate soldiers i'll the county of
Franklin and the forcihlt taking thercfrUm of
Robt, Woodson, Stating that Woodsnn had
hoen returned and thai Captain IIarman,
under whose direction tho affair was con-
Quoted, was held for L.ial for his misconduct
under ths civil or military Jurisdiction az the
Governor may determine.
NJ. MARYE, from q special committee. pre-
sentei Jepurt setting forth the difficulties
Of railroad transportation OF the necesssres
Of liie thu causes thereof, and Recommending
that the Comic iersts Government, which is
respnnsible be urged to relax itE arbitrary
control over the means Of transportation
The rcpnIl particularly directs attention IL
the fact that On one of the leading lines Of
railway, onu-hslf Of all tn. means Of burdeI.
transportation lin the shape Of cars) has besl
Withdrawn and scattered in other ELaiea by
the Confederate suthUIitira. whls ether
roads have bsen divestsd # lhsic mcans Of
transportation to LESSER hut very material
extent; also, TO tho addninnal important fast
that there is al embargo laid by the Copf+ts-
rate Government on al the leading lines OF
transportation prohibiting all commercial
interchange Of Subsistence.
The report was laid upon the table ans.
ordered 10 be printed
GA mott 6f Mr.. PRIwcE, the resolutions
offered by himself, On Wednesday, woro taken
up TOR consideration. Thrsn revolutions
(Which wero published) instruct our Senators
aud request our Representatives. i'll Congress,
to vote for an inpressment bill pending be-
fore the House of Representative
= Mr.. AHDEssoS, of Rockorldgc, in support
ing the rea, luti"ns and denouncirg the.arbi-
trsry Sys.. Iu Of impressments by tue Confet-
erato authorities, said that vs. weru now liy
Ing undor tyranny as complete as tiCt
which was exercised by tho Lincoln Govern
ment, sh'l it was owing Solely to the noble
patriotism CT "ur People that they have sub
mtted as they have. What right, he would
ask, has o Confederate functionagy TO sitze
bis property, without law, and 10 allow one
half its laIne for its ccnpsnsation There
was no law that authorized the Confederate
Government to take property, ard so far as
it Withheld just compensation, it waa robbery
and oppression, and be. for one, was not will
ling to submit to it. If we wcro to have
tyranny it mattered not whether we have il
from one Government or from smother !;
but no free people would submit to
tyranny from any source. This iu.-
presstnent system, he would venture
to ray, WIS exercised by mon, thu large m.-
jorlty Of whom were destitute OF hist Qnslili-
cation necessary to decide upon so delicate
4 question as that Of public necessity. There
vas d great fault, d mistaken idea in tho
minds Of tbs C1nfetsrats authorities, and
upon which they act-acting as if The people
had separate interest from tho Government,
the Government a separate and hostile in
terest from the people-in a word, want of
confidence in the people. He contended that
the people were far in advance the Govern
ment in this revolution; the people have
more patriotism, and werc more 10 be trusted
thsn the subordinate functionaries of the
Government aud if they were applied to for
tkrir property when the public necessity de-.
handed it, and just compensation allowed
them, they would give it. He hoped tho res
olutions would pass
AS the resolutions approval the Impress
msnt bill pending in the (Uonfedezatc) House
Of Representatives" and that bill had passed
thst body since the resolutions were placed
before the House of Delegates; and had been
subsequently, passed by the Confederate Sem
ate, with certain amendments, some amend :