The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-10
] General Assembly of Virgins.
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 1870.
SENATE.

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WEDNESDAY, March 9, 1870.
. SENATE.
The Senate met at IL o'clock-Lieuten-
ant-Goveruor MsRYEin the chair. Prayer
by Rev. J.E. Chambliss.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OHIO RAILROAD
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Mr.. TERRY offered O resolution inquiring
Into the expediency of reporting a bill for
the formation of the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Railroad Company. Referred.A
0FFICE-HOLDERs.
Mr.. HARRIS offered n resolution inquiring
into the cxpcdiency'o requiring oil incum-
bents of office, whether appointed or elected,
to fill their Offices in person. Referred.
MILEAGE.
The Committee on Courts Of Justice re-
ported if response to the resolution in re-
lation to mileage for this session, and re-
commended the adoption of the following :
"Resolred, UiM the concurrence OF me
House of Delegates, That the members OF
this General Assembly are entitled to mile
arc at the rate of twenty cents per mile
for travel to and from its place of session
for the session commencing on the Sth day
of February, 1870" Postponed.
LEGAL1zlNG GAMBLING.
The Committee OIL General Laws reported
that they had, according to order, had under
consideration the resolution instructing
them to inquire into the expediency OF
legalizing gambling and gaming of every
description, and asked to be discharged from
the consideration of the subject. Con-
Cured in.
CENTRAL wATER-L1NE.
Mr.. w. Ii. TAYLOR, from the Committee
OH Roads and Internal Navigation, reported
the Joint resolution in relation to such aid
from the General Government as will Sc
cure the early completion of the line OF
water communication between the Valley OF
the Mississippi and the Atlantic ocean. with
accompanying memorial, proposed to be
presented to Congress by the General AS
sembly. The memorial closes as follows:
1.-The estimated cost of the work is s4O,.
600, 900, and it is confidently believed that
it can be completed in four years.
at is respectfully asked that the Con-
gress of the United States shall, in such
way rs may seem to them best, either by
direct appropriation or by q loan of the
credit of the Government, furnish the
means of executing the work in four years.
"On her part, the State of Virginia will
relinouish all of her interest in the work,
which is represented by more than slO,-
900, 900, of which s7,40O, 900 is preferred
stock money actually expended in prose-
cutting the work to Buchanan, and will turn
the work over to the Government to be COM
pleted in such name rs Congress may
direct.
eff Congress shall see fit to complete the
work by direct appropriation. without a re-
turn of the principal and interest, Virginia
will further agree that the water-line, as
soon as completed, shall be thrown open TO
the public free of toll, except SO far rs may
be necessary to keep the work in repair.
This suggestion is made with the broad
view that it is n work in which the whole
nation will be the stakeholder, and that the
money paid for its construction will be more
than returned every year, principal and
interest, in the saving in the cost of trans
portation, the cheapening of provisions, and
the general development and prosperity of
the country. :
"But if this view should not prevail. it
is not doubted that the money advanced by
the Government could be speedily returned,
both principal and interest, from the reyc-
nues derived fIom tolls, and when that shall
have been done, then the State will consent
that the watcr-line shall forever be Il pub
lie highway free of toll, except for pur-
poses of repair.
"The State of Virginia will agree that the
work shnll he prosecuted either under the
management Of the company, subject to
such regulations and restrictions as Con-
gress may impose :eor by commissioners
appointed by the States of Virginia and
West Virginia, who will hold the property
as u sacred trust for the benefit Of the
whole country, under like regulations or
that the prosecution of the work and the
management of the property, when it shall
have been completed, shall be committed
TO Il board Of eleven trustees, one of whom
shall be appointed by the President of the
of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, In
diana, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, West
Virginia, and Maryland, rs recommended
by the National Board Of Trade at It's an
nual session in December last, or in any
other way in which its construction and
management will best promote the pros
perity and welfare Of the whole country.
at is proper, however, to state that
there is d funded and floating debt due by
the james River and Kanawha Company
amounting to about $3.50 1000, and that
stock OF the company to the amount Of 20
900 shares, the present market value OF
which is Sl00, 900, is held by private stock
holders, and that any pledge given by the
State looking to the REIMBURSEMENT of the
interests of the company or the exemption
from tolls must be subordinate to the rights
of the creditors and private stockholders Of
the company, which, in view OF the small
amount involved, could no doubt be easily
adjusted"
The committee recommended as amend
mcnts the insertion of the words "West
Virginia concurring'' in the paragraph
concerning the REIMBURSEMENT of Eirginia's
interest in the work, and o. similar inser-
ton in the following clause.
The resolution with the memorial as
amended were adopted.
COURT OF APPEALS.
The Committee of Courts of Justice re-
ported the following:
''Resolced, That the Committee for
Courts of Justice be instructed to fix upon
-, in the county Of -, and -,
in the county of -, as two of the
places for holding the Supreme Court Of
Appeale.'