Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-03-14
Letter from Richmond.


RICHMOND, March l3-In the Senate, to-
day, the House amendments to the tux bill,
we're agreed to; as were the amendments OF the
House to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
bill.
House bill for the payment Of the expenses of
the commissioners for the sale and removal OF
the penitentiary; amending the code as to the
| qualification Of deputy sheritfs and collectors
amending the school bill SO rs TO fix the salary
of the Superintendent OF Education, allow
clerks, &c.; and incorporating the Warm, Hot
and Healing Springs, and Covlugton Railroad
Company, were referred.
The bill regulating fishing on the Potomac
and it's tributaries, was referred to the Commit
tee on Finance
A bill was introduced to incorporate the
Pittsylvania and Patrick narrow guage railroad
company.
The Senate agreed hereafter to meet at ] l
| &. m.
The House joint resolution for the election Of
q. S. Senator tomorrow was agreed to.
The re-apportionnlent bill was taken up and
passed, ayes 10, noes I.
The bill to provide charter for Charlottes-
vile, was amended and passed.
The Senate bill designating the holidays to
notes, &C., was passed, ayes ~, noes 5.
A bill to incorporate the Rockingham Bank
| ing and Trust company was ordered to be en-
crossed.
! An unsuccessful motion was made to take up
the bill to provide for funding the public debt,
after which the bill providing for distribution
| of the land script was taken up.and the motion
to amend by inserting the Polytechnic school OF
| Rockingham-lost. Pending discussion the
| Senate adjourned.
In the House of Delegates, substitutes tor
the Homestead act and the bill reapportioning
the State for Senators and Delegates, were in
| troduced
A Joint resoutiontor the election of I. s.
| Senator on tomorrow at - o'clock H., was
| passed.
The night session for tonight was suspended
in order that the Radical members of the Legis-
lature may hold a caucus
A joint resolution to extend the present ses-
sion till the 3lst, went over.
The House joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution, by striking out
the usury clause, was taken up and adopted,
ayes -, noes 49,
Senate bills were passed, for the relief of G.
Robinson, late sheriff of Page county and his
sureties; incorporating the Conference OF St.
Mary of Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Alex
andra; providing charter for Stanton; au-
thorizing the supervisors Of Rockingham county
to issue new bonds in payment OF the county
subscription to the capital stock of the Manas-
sas Gap Railroad Company; Incorporating the
Harper and Frances Newton Of Loudoun county,
incorporating the town of Luray, in Page county;
amending the act prescribing the duties and
compensation Of township officers; for the ap-
pointment of trustees for the town of Newport
in Prince William county; to extend the juris-
diction Of corporate authorities of towns Of less
than 5000 inhabitants; and amending the
Loudoun road law.
The following bills were dismissed for the
relief of H. X Bradshaw, Commissioner of
Alexandria; for the relief of the treasurer and
Commissioner Of Petersburg, and for the relief
of the Commissioner of Portsmouth. The bill
to exempt the fremen of Richmond from jury
duty was rejected
The House refused to concur in the Senate 8
amendment to the bill requiring the treasurer
Of the city of Richmond to give bond to double
the amount of the funds coming into his hands;
and also refused to recede from its amendments
to the Senate bill relating to rule days and as
to Office judgments
Pending consideration of the bill requiring
manufacturers OF phoSphates to label their
packages, the House adjourned.
A caucus of the Radical Is Of the Legislature
is to be held tonight for the purpose Of nomi-
mating candidate for u. S. Senator and to de-
wise ways and means by which their party
may 60 into the next canvass.
Some of the Radical papers are complaining
that the House of Representatives Is now act
ing often. in spirit of Buncombe! T. That