The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-04

SATURDAY, March 2, 1867.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The Senate was called to order at ii
O'Clock BY the Lieutenant Governor.
THE STAY LAW. szatr
A Communication was received from the
House of Dciegates announcing the disa-
grccment of that body to the Senate's
amendment to section Of an act passed
March ID, 1866, entitled can act 70 stay
the collection Of debts for . limited
period" so as to extend the operations Oh
said act TO the LIST Of January, 1863. Inc
Senate .sceded from its amendment
a THE ASSESSMENT BILL. .g,..a.
Mr.. NcRAE. from the committee VI con-
ference ON the disagreeing votes OF the
two Houses on the assessment bill, re-
r,ort.d that the committee had agreed to q
renort which did not materially change
tho Senate bill. The report was agreed to.
THE soUTHsfpE CONSOLIDATION BILL.
House bill No. lSe, TO provide for the
Virginia seaboard to the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers by facilitating the completion
Of the Cumberland Gap railroad, being
the unfinished business Of yesterday, was
taken up, the pending question being upon
the amendment proposed by Mr.. CABELI
yesterday.
The question on the amendment being
put, it was rejected-yeas, Is; nays, IL.
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
Pending the consideration Of the bill q
proclamation was received from the 10
vernon, through Colonel Charles IL. Lewis,
his aid-de-camp, converting the Leglsla-
ture in extra session.
On motion of Mr.. KEEN, the considera-
ton of the bill and amendment waspassed
by. and the proclamation read which is
published In the House proceedings.
The Senate resumed the consideration OF
the bill. The vote by which the amend
ment of Mr.. STRoTHER was yesterday
adopted was subsequently reconsidered,
and it was afterwards rejected-yeas, 10
nays, Is.
Various amendments were offered to the
bill. none of which were adopted; when
the Senate took recess until q O'Clock
p. NJ.
NIGHT SESSION.
The consideration of the Atlantic and
Mississippi Railroad bill was resumed.
Several amendments were proposed, some
of which were adopted and others reject
ed and the vote being taken upon the
passage Of the bill, it was lost by vote Of
ayes 10, noes l3-it requiring majority
Of the whole Senate (seventeen) to carry
it. The following is the vote:
AYEs.-Messrs. Alexander, Belew, Boil
ing, Crockett, Gait, Gray, Kello, Lemosy,
McRae, Peck, Powell, Power, Richmond,
Taliaferro, and Trout.
NAYs.-Messrs. Cabell, Carter, Cole.
man, Davis, Hannah, Keen, Lawson, Mer-
cier, Mitchell, Ould, Robinson, Strother.
and Washington.
Mr.. ROBINSON, who voted in the mega.
tive in order to move reconsideration
Immediately did so, and his motion was
carried-ayes, 10 noes, IL.
On motion Of Mr.. GRAY, the bill was
then,laid upon the table.
The appropriation bill for the year 1867,
on motion Of Mr.. MCRAE, was taken up
and passed.
ADDITIONAL BILLS PASSED.
House bill amending the Code In rela-
tion to fines for failing to work on roads
House bill incorporating the Potomac
and Alexandria Railroad Company;
House bill for the relief Of W. II. Muir,
of Alexandria, for fines improperly paid
The Senate agreed to the report of the
conference committee on the penitentiary
bill.
Mr.. PECK took the chair, when appro-
pirate resolutions Of thanks to the Lieu
tenant Governor, the clerks, sergeant at
arms, and doorkeepers were unanimously
passed.
On motion of Mr.. KEEN, the Senate re-
solved to adjourn sine die.
The Lieutenant Governor, on resuming
the chair, said:
Senators,-The time has arrived when
our official connection must cease. Be-
fore obeying your order by announcing the
final adjournment, and which at the same
time will be the signal of our separation,
deem it but duty to submit few re-
marks. The crippled condition of my
voice, the effects of severe affection of
my throat, admonish me that must be
brief. In looking over the present posi-
ton of our State can see only sad augu-
ries for her future. This is, indeed, a
painfully eventful moment in the history
of Virginia. Every lover Of her past MS.
tory, every sympathiZer with her presen!
position, can but realize the most mournful
anticipations. ,sar
] had hoped, senators, until very recen'
events, to have been permitted, mana III
hand, to stand around the capitol OF oul
beloved State, and with united counsels
and determined efforts to repair the lnJu.
ries Of the recent past-because l had
hoped when the struggle now decided had
ended we would have been permitted thus
to counsel and thus to act under the sha.
dow and within the pale of constitutional
liberty. But this has not been permitted
us. IF the voluntary resignation of the
position which have the honor to hold
if voluntary exile from home and the
loved land Of my birth; or further, If ever
the sacrifice Of my earthly existence, &C
companied with no circumstances o.
shame or dishonor, would avert the dire
evils now unfriendly to our grand old State
all these sacrifices would have been cheer.
fully made. Though differing with many
Of my fellow-citizens upon vital questions
settled by the late unhappy war, within
my bosom, if know myself, there exists
now not lingering spark of rancor or ill.
feeling against them. / would let "the
dead past bury its Dead" 80 that all, with
united effort and strong resolve, We may
all, with might and main, labor together te
repair the fortunes and develop the re.
sources Of our Commonwealth, which has
been appropriately styled an empire within
herself.
Itisincumbent now upon me, in response
to your too kind and over-partial estimate
OF my services as presiding officer of the
Senate, to return you Individually and a.
body my grateful Acknowledgements fol
the uniform courtesy and kindness with
which you have treated me, Aiken heated
debate and private, social intercourse. II