The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-16
CLEAR IDEA OF A coloREp MEMBER.
Night Session.


Mr.. BUDD, of Loudoun, moved to suspend
the rule devoting the evening session to
the consideration of House bills until the
Petersburg railroad amendments to Senate
bill No. were disposed OF.
The rule was suspended by the requisite
two.thirds vote.
Mr. HILL advocated at some length and
with considerable ingenuity the adoption
of the amendment proposed by the MAORI
ty report. -a... as
ANOTHER SUMNER FROM MR.. FRAYsEB.
MIR. FRAYsER said he had made it his
business to call upon the members OF the
Board of Directors of the Virginia Steam
ship Company since his remarks In the
morning in order that he might ascertain
whether he had correctly represented their
sentiments on this floor. With that object
in view he had seen and talked with
Robert A. Paine, A..Y. Stokes, Charles
|T, Workman, S. Alexander, S. Ro-
senbaum, J. X. Childrey, A. L. Elicit.
and G. T. Watson, all members OF the
board, and two of them, together with MI.
Burr, CONSTITUTE ing the Executive Commit
mittee. ALI Of these gentlemen had heartily
endorsed what he Mr.. Frayser) had said,
and each had expressed himself in favor of
the acceptance by the General Assembly OF
the proposition of II. X. Euyson and 9TH
| ers. He had also made it his particular
business to see Mr.. David j. Burr, prest-
dent of the Virginia Steamship Company
and having heard that his name would be
used as an advocate of the scheme Of
General Malone, told him frankly the
object of his visit, and asked his
views. In reply to his inquiries,
MIR. Burr said without hesitation that
as between the Pennsylvania Central rail-
road and the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio railroad, he was decidedly In favor OF
the latter but as between the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio Company and such
men as Il. K. ElTSson, Joseph R.Ander-
son, Isaac Davenport, Jr., and other asso-
ciates, whom he knew to be " III -.
HONEST, sHREwD, PRACTICAL, AND CAPABLE
BUSINESS MEN, - ~.
he preferred that these gentlemen should
have the control of the States interest in
the Petersburg road and manage its affairs.
Every man connected with the Virginia
Steamship Company with whom he had
conyersed on the subject was of the same
opinion, and the agent Captain Alexan-
DER fully sustained the charges that Gene
raj Malone had Disseminated against that
company and in favor of MeCready's for
eign corporation. ) u&' ID aj
Mr. SEaAR followed In advocacy Of Gene.
raj Mahone's schemes. ta'1. - :
REMARKs OF MAJOR DANIEL. no j
Major DANIEL, of Lynchburg, said that,
try us they may to escape it, fume and fret
as they may, the fact stands to-day exposed
| TO this House, in all its native defornaities,
that the company which had heretofore
been and is now loudest mouthed in its
professions of Virginianism has combined
with an opulent foreign corporation to-
build up northern cities at the expense
Of our own. He confessed that this cry Of
firginianism was beginning to be distaste-
full, especially since 1t seems to be held BY
certain members of the Legislature that
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Compa.
ny and its employees are alone entitled TO
enjoy the fuIlness OF Virginia, being the
sole survivors of the Virginia race. The cor-
respondence brought forward by the gentle
man from Richmond (Mr. Frayser) had fur
nished an .unanswerable argument for plac-
ing this Richmond and Petersburg railroad
under the control of the nine citizens OF
Virginia who are proposing to buy the
states interest in that road. He was pre-
pared to say that the influence Of the al
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Company nag
not been as beneficial to the State ~ had
been represented. He did know thai, IN 4
the judgment Of the substantial thinking
business men oil his own city, tne
prospects Of that city had been blighfed
by the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Com
1,any. After dlssscting skiifally the spc-
cious arguments advanced BIZ gentlemen on
the other side, Major Daniel in conclusion
said that there Was no doubt that y was " &
the interests of Richm8nd to accept fhes
Ellvson. proposition, and Il = would build
m Riehmond II must benefit the ~hole