The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-01
o.,,rts according to representation u the
cou ,a,,isr branch Of the Legislature. Agreed

,wo on the part of the Senate De appoluteu
20 inform his Excellency, the Governor,
hat the General Assembly is now reaoy TO
adjourn sine die" Agreed to.
a message was received soon AFTER Hon II
The Senate announcing the concurrence VI
that body In the resolution. .a
The SPEAKER thereupon appointed Messts.
Kelly, Fruyser, and HaWxnurst Oh 'io
part Of the House.
RELIEF OF SENATOR GLANDS WIDOW.
Mr.. JACKSON sent to the Speaker an ap-
neal. which he desired to be read from inc
Elerk's desk, asking for contributions from
members for the relief of the widow OF the
late Senator Bland, colored CHILLED at the
Capitol disasterl, who is represented 10 DC
In somewhat straitened circumstances. Inc
anpeal was read and quite considerable
amount raised.
FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The committee to wait on the Governor
having returned, Mr.. KELLEY reported that
his EXcellency had informed them that ne
had no furthur communication to make to
the General Assembly and that he wished
the members health, happiness, and pros
perity, and safe return to their homes.
The SPEAKER appointed MIR. HILL, oil AL
bemarle, to communicate to the Senate
that the House Of Delegates was ready 10
adjourn sine die.
Mr.. COLES, OF PITTsYLvAN1A.
This gentleman rose 10 privileged ques.
tiop, and said that he had been reported IN
the papers as voting in the negative upon
the passage of Senate bill approprlatlng
money to purchase Elders portrait of Lee
The Clerk said that Mr.. COLES was re-
corded on his Journal as voting in the mega
tive.
MIR. COLES declared that he was not pres
ent when the vote was taken, as he was con
fined to his room, but that If he had been
present he would certainly have voted in
the affirmative.
Bv unanimous consent the Journal was
corrected by striking Mr. COLES name there
from, it being possible that some one, by
mistake, had responded for him when his
name was called.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS TO THE
SPEAKER.
Mr., GRAHAM, of Rockbridge, offered res.
olutions of thanks and compliment to
Speaker TURNER for the faithful, impartial
and generally courteous manner III Whlch
he had discharged the arduous duties OF
his office during the past session; which
were unanimously adopted.
Messrs. FRASER of Richmond, Is. f,
JONES (colored), w. N. STEVENS (coloredd),
and JACKSON Of Prince Edward, spoke
briefly in acknowledgment of the proper
department of the Speaker towards all,
and the manner in which his office had
been executed.
RESPONSE OF THE SPEAKER.
Speaker TURNER arose and spoke as fol-
lows:
"Gentlemen Of the House Of Delegates!
thank YOU most sincerely for this rem eWeo
expression Of your approval of the manner
in which / have discharged the duties OIL
the honorable and important position to
which l was called by your confidence and
favor, and will ever cherish 1t IN most grate-
full remembrance.
When entered upon this high and re-
sponsible position it waswith great distrustt
of nv ability to discharge its varied and
difficult duties satisfactorily either to you
or myself, and felt myself justified in making
no other promise than to discharge those
duties with strict impartiality to all.
That promise I have kept constantly be.
fore me, and have, in all my official acts,
endeavored to fulfill it, in
letter and spirit, and it gives me the most
profound qualification to know, from the
resolution you have just adopted. that in
this, at least, have not been solely unsuc-
cessful.
Doubtless have committed many errors,
and there may have been occasions when
members supposed | had not done them
full justice. If there are any who enter
tain such impressions, beg leave TO say 10
them, in all candor and sincerity, That
whatever I may have done to create SUCH
was not done with any pur-
IF
privileges which have felt it was my high
est duty to accord TO all.
The duties we have been called upon to
perform have been most difficult and labo.
rious in their character. We were required
to carry into effect by necessary legislation
the provisions of the Constitution which
was adopted ut the same election ut which
we We're chosen.
Many of those provisions were new to The
past policy of the State and strange to her
neople, and in performing this difficult
task we have doubtless committed many
else could have been rea-
sonablv eypected-but time and experience
will demonstrate these errors, and it Will
he an easy task to correct them in the
future.
sur work is now completed, and must be
to the judgment OF the people !;
that they will approve it all we cannot rea-
sonably expect, yet think fair-minded men
everywhere will agree that our errors have
not been greater than were to have been
expected in the performance OF so dlthcult
4 task.
We are about to part, and many of us will
never meet again and in this
parting, sirs, it gives me more than ordinary
satisfaction to assure you that / leave you
without the least feeling of unkindness or
enmity towards any one single member OF
this body, and 7 would fam believe that no
member entertains. any such feeling towards
myself.
In conclusion, gentlemen and friends, for
friends 1 trust you will permit me to call
you, ] have only to add that all of you have
my best wishes for your happiness and
in the future.
l respectfully bid you adieu."
MORE COMPLIMENTS AND THANKS.
At the conclusion of the Speakers vale
dictory, Mr.. MCCAULL offered resolution
thanking and complimenting the officers
and pages of the House Tor the faithful
and attentive manner in which their va
rious duties had been discharged.
Mr.. McCAULL in few remarks, in the
course of which he, as well as other men,
bers, were deeply affected, even to tears,
fully in what had been said in
relation to the Speaker, and paid hand
some tribute to the other officers of the
House, as we'll as the pages, whom he COM
plimented in the highest terms. In con-
GLIDING he said that while in his youth and
fiery temperament he had been
at times betrayed into hasty expressions,
which were calculated for the time to create
some ill-feeling, he hoped they would be
overlooked, as his errors in this respect,
while they were wrong in word, yet In his
heart the proper feeling prevailed, and he
ever having given cause to any
one, even momentarily. to think harshly of
him.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Tho Clerk T Rall Roger acknowledged