The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-12-13
introduced, and referred to the appropri.

as to require fence to be but four in
stead of five feet high, and to correct an
improper reference now existing in said
section to succeeding section in the
aforesaid chapter.
BY Mr.. Gray Referring so much of the
| Governors message.as relates to a geologi-
cal survey of the State to the Committee on
| Finance.
On motion of Mr.. Keen, the Senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The Journal being read, bills reported
from committees were read first time by
their titles, and placed on the calendar.
REPUTATION, ETC.
Mr.. Braxton, of Westmoreland, offered
the following preamble and resolutions
Whereas the public credit of the State Of
Virginia and the private credit of her peo-
pie is suffering injury by the apprehension
that the General Assembly will repudiate
the State debt and authorize the citizens
of the State to repudiate theirs; and
whereas it is manifest to the General AS
sembly that the State of West Virginia
will not assume and pay her fair proportion
Of the State debt, whereby the payment OF
the whole. will devolve upon the State OF
Virginia; and whereas it also appears to
us that the larger the amount Of the debt
or liability the State may owe or assume
the higher will be her credit and that OF
her people; therefore be it
ReS0lued, That the State Of Virginia
will assume and pay the whole public debt,
releasing the State of West Virginia from
any portion thereof.
RESOLVED further, That if the amount re-
quired to pay the said State debt shall not
be sufficiently large to raise the credit of
the State to the highest market pitch, that
the State of Virginia will assume the debt
of the late Confederate States, paying in
the first place the seven-thirty notes, as
they are drawing more than six per cent.
interest, and are thus violating the usury
law; the cotton bonds payable in gold, if
there is that amount in the treasury; and
all other liabilities rateably.
This paper was referred to the Commit
tee on Resolutions.
[Mr. Braxton is facetious
The bill for the relief of Mr.. S. N. Glib
son, sheriff of Loudoun, [refunding to him
taxes advanced BY him in 1861, which by
the war he was prevented from collecting
from delinquents,l was, upon the recon-
mendat;on of tho Committee Of Finance,
rejected.
STAY LAW.
The bill suspending the 4th and 9th sec
tions of the act Of March 2, 1866, entitled
d" an act to stay the collection OF debts Tor
limited PERIOD" came up on its second
reading.
The bill being read, and the question be-
ing on its engrossmcut, Mr.. Bell moved to
lay it on the table which motion was re-
iected-ayeS 26, noes 81.
The bill Suspends these sections until
the lst day of August-i.e., e., further de-
Laws the payment of interest and nc-tourth
of the principal of debts contracted before
the conclusion of the war from the lSt of
January, 1867, as provided in the act of
1866, to the lst day August next.
Mr.. Straughan moved 10 amend the bill
by striking out " August" and inserting
October"
Mr.. Townes moved to amend by inserting
January, 1865"
Both amendments were rejected; and
the question recurring upon the engross-
ment of the bill, it was opposed by Messrs.
Z. Turner, Baylor, Dickinson, Kelley, and
Evans, and supported by Mr.. Cabell; and
the question upon cngroSsment was lost
80 to 40, as follows:
YEAs.-Messrs. Atkinson, Bently. Bowles,
Braxton, Brown, Browning, Cabeil, Childress,
Dawson, Huntington, Garrett, Goode, Jr.,
Gray, Harris, Herndon, Lee, Magill, Merritt,
Miller, Moore, Owen, Parsons, Pate, Peed,
Powell, Ragsdale, RiXey, Scott, seaWei,'
Watkins. Wood, Jr., Woodson, Woodbridge,
Wyatt-39.
NAYs.-Mr Speaker, Messrs. Baylor, Bekem,
Butt, Clark, Crump, Davidson, Deskins, Dick'
enson, English, Evans, Fields, Garnet, Glib
honey, Graham, Graves, Hancock, Hans
brough, Harnsberger, Holmes, Jackson, Jones,
Kelley, Kellam, Kendrick, kilby, Lewis, Long,
Mann, MARSHALL Mcdonald, McGruder, Nor
ris, Pendleton, Purdy, Robertson, Strayer'
! TAYLOR, Teeter, Thompson, Trout, w. A: Iur-
ner, Il. Turner, Waddell, White, Wilson,
| Woltz Word-49.
ron one hand, it was asserted that the
condition Of the people was little better
than year since, and that enforcement OF
claims would result in sacrifice OF property
and general ruin. Mr.. Cabell represented
that this was the condition in Buckingham
and the adjoining country; and he ap-
pealed to the Valley and the Southside to
grant this much-needed extension of the
STAY law to distressed and impoverished
| people. On the other side, it was alleged
that to extend the stay law in the manner
proposed would be a violation OF an I'M
piled contract in the passage Of the law last
winter between the State and the creditor
class of the community-that the honor OF
the State was involved as well as that OF
her people-that creditors had rights as
well as debtors-that the State should re-
.pect both-that the public credit would
be injured, as would that of the people, by
further extension of this law-that ii
would be infinitely better to leave the mat
ter now to the laws and the people-thai
the rejection Of the pending proposition
would help to restore confidence ana invite
capital-whilst its passage would lmpaii
confidence, repel capital, and induce tii'
opinion that the State would eilectuailI
prevent the payment of debts hessrs
| Cabell and Kelley represented the mar
points on their respective sides with muci
energy and force.
The bill being in effect rejected, MT
| Garnett moved a reconsideration, In ordeI
to give time for the friends Of the measure
to modify it so as to better suit the view
of the House. The question was, on Ill
motion, passed by for the present.
RESoL UT10Ns.
Resolutions were introduced and re
| ferred:
| By Mr.. Gibboney.-Into the expedienc.
of providing by law more effectually t
prevent the destruction of stock by rall
roads.
BY Mr.. Ragsdale. the expedienc.
or changing the time of holding the Circui