The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-01
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:. CONVICTION AND OHIO RAILROAD.
House bill to provide for the completion
ora line or lines Of railroad from the wa-
tefs Of the Chesapeake to the ONO r'vel,
being the next bin on the calendar, W. W.
taken up. when Mr.. KEEN moved tnst the
senate adjourn, but the Senate refused:
: Mr.. KEN proceeded TO address the S .,
nate n, opposition to the proceedea OH,
the question being on the third reading Oh
''T ps s his remarks, Mr.. KEEN gave
vav 10 M. DULASY, on whose motion inc
senate adjourned-ayes, l3 noes, IL.
7 80 HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
PRAYER nv the Rev. DR.. Head, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Tho Journal and the Senate message
were read.
Senate bills we're referred, and others
placed on the calendar. House bills were
also placed on the calendar.
JAMES RIVER AND KANAwHA COMPANY.
The Chair laid before the House CON-
munication from the President of the
James River and Kanawha Company ;
which was referred to the Committee OF
Roads and Internal Navigation.
OYSTERS.
Mr.. GARRETT presented the petition OF
citizens Of Middlesex asking to be allowed
to take oysters in June, for planting.
COMMITTEES REPORTS.
The Committee for Courts of Justice re-
ported against the eXpediency Of passing
a bill to amend chapters 100 and 1872 OF
the Code, in relation to claims against de-
cedents' estates. Agreed to by the House
The report of same committee against
the expediency Of amending section Ia
of chapter 1872 of the Code 1890, with re.
gard to fduciaries' accounts, was con.
Cured in by the House.
BILLS DISMISSED.
On motions severally made, the following
Senate bills were dismissed:
A bill entitled an act to amend and reenact
the 18th and 10th sections of chapter 81 o.
the Code of Virginia of 1860, in relation
to county roads, causeways, and bridges
also of landings and wharVes;
A bill entitled an act for the relief o
Ann NJ. Johnston, wife of Peyton John
ston, of Richmond city;
"A bill entitled an act to amend the 10th
section of chapter IT'S of the Code Of Vir
ginia, in regard to the reports of commits
sioners in chancery.
AMENDED BILLS.
The House bill incorporating the Gooch
land Mining Company, with an amendment
from the Senate, was taken up; and the
amendment was concurred in by the
House.
The Senate bill entitled an act to amend
and reenact chapter 2l3 Of the Code o.
Virginia, relating to the organization, ma
nagement, and discipline Of the peniten.
tiary, came up. This bill came from the
Senate, and had been amended in the
House by q substitute. The Senate re.
turned it, having disagreed to the amend
ment. The House now insisted on its
amendment, and proposed committee Of
conference on the subject.
DELAWARE DELEGATION.
A message from the Senate, by Mr.. LEE
announced that that body had passed the
following joint resolution:
Whereas this Legislature is. informed
that many members of the Legislature o.
the State of Delaware, with its officers
are now in this city; therefore
Resolved, That a joint committee OF three
on the part of the Senate and five on the
part of the House be appointed by the pre-
siding officers Of the two bodies to wait
upon these gentlemen and invite them tt
visit the General Assembly.
The House unanimously concurred il
the resolution, and the Speaker appointed
the following gentlemen the committee or
the part of the House: Messrs. WATKINS
KELLEY, GRAY, SEAwELL, and JONES.
A short time after the adoption of the
resolution, the gentlemen from Delaware
entered the House Of Delegates, escorted
by the committee. At the head of the
procession Mr.. WATKINS escorted Senator
Jackson, of the Delaware Legislature
When near the Speakers chair, Mr.. W
said Mr.. Speaker, l have the honor te
introduce to you Senator jackson, OF the
Legislature Of Delaware, representing the
delegation from that State, now in thi!
hall, who are on visit to this city.
Mr.. Speaker BALDWIN said: "Mr. Sc
nator and gentlemen,-lt is right and pro
per that the representatives of the SOW
reign State Of Delaware should receive
cordial welcome to the capital of the Old
Dominion. On behalf of the House O
Delegates of Virginia, bid you welcome
1--WE would be unfit representatives O
the traditional hospitality of our people il
we should fail to meet with earnest cor.
diality this friendly visit from representa-
tive gentlemen of sister State; and We
would be recreant to the time-honoreo
principles Of Virginia if we should, OF
such an occasion, omit to do honor to the
sovereignty and the constitutional equality
of States of the Union.
ave recognize in you, gentlemen, thu
descendants of the Delaware colonists
who, with our Virginia ancestors, fought
the Revolution of l776 to maintain the In
separable unity Of taxation and represen
tation, the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority, the sacred writ of ha
beas corpus, and the inestimable right o
trial by jury; and we deem it not inappro
pirate to the circumstances which sur.
round us to recall the memorable fact that
our forefathers, with a jealous forecaste, full
of the instinct of freedom, denounced the
British Government for 'abolishing the
free system Of English laws in neighbor
ina province and establishing therein an ar
bitrary government, so as to render it a
once an example and fit instrument for in
PRODUCING the same absolute rule into the
colonies
ave receive you, gentlemen, as citizens
of one of the original States Of the Ameri
can Union, who ordained and established
the Constitution of the United States and
founded it upon the great principles offree
government, vindicated by the success o.
the Revolutionary struggle. One of the
most important and fundamental OF those