The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-21
General Assembly Of Virginia.
MONDAY, Feb. 20, 1871.
SENATE


MONDAY, Feb. 20, 1911.
r; SENATE -
Mr.. ): A. WADDsIL, President pro tenn,
In the chair.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. Ftp ATRIcK, from the Committee on
General Laws. reported the following pilis'
To prevent dog-fghting, wlth the recom-
mendation that 1t do not pass.
To amend and resnact section and 2 OF
an act passed February 8, 1865, entitled
g an act to require deposit Of securities TO
be made by foreign insurance companles
doing business In this State" with an
amendment. :,
To authorize the supervisors OF Rocking
ham to issue new bonds In lieu Of others,
with IN amendment.
PUBLIC PRINTING.
MIR. SMITH, Of New Kent, from the special
Joint committee of the two Houses Of
The General Assembly on printing, present:
ed bill to amend and resnact an act passed
March lst, 1866, amending and resnactine
the provisions of the Code, and the acts
subsequent thereto, in regard to the pubic
printing and the Public Printer.
BILLS, ETC., INTRODUCED. .... ~
The following bills were introduced and
appropriately referred:
By Mr.. DAVIS: A bill to amend the En
section of an act approved April 18th, 1910,
| to provide for q general registration OIL
l voters. and the acts amendatory thereof.
| By Mr.. DAVIS: A bill to extend the cor
porate jurisdiction of towns having five
| thousand inhabitants.
| By Mr.. TAYLOR, Of Loudoun: A bill tc
amend and reenact section I of an act pass
ed January 14th, 1871, entitled can act tc
amend and reenact IN act passed February
28th, 1856, amending an act for working the
roads Of Loudoun county,"
By Mr.. SMITH, of New Kent: A bill tC
provide for the collection Of debts due the
city Of Williamsburg for which notes were
taken payable to the mayor, recorder, ano
aldermen by the present corporation o.
said city.
By Mr.. ANDERSON, of Rockbridge: a bill
| to provide for the payment OF claims Que
by the State to Geo. Peabody d co.
| BILLS PASSED.
| To amend the 1st section of an act to pro.
vide for dividing the townships of the state
into voting districts, approved July IL, 1870
/ To incorporate the Holston Agricultural
and Mechanical Society.
| To amend and resnact an act entitled an
! act to incorporate the town of Liberty, in
the county Of Bedford.
Authorizing John Lynch, ST., to build q
toll bridge across James river at Lynch.
burg, and for other purposes, passed Feb
| ruary is, 1872. -.
To amend and resnact the act in relation
to chain-gangs, approved July II, 1870.
THE EDUCATIONAL LAND SCRIP.
On motion of Mr.. HARRIS, the special
order being the bill appropriating the in
come arising from the proceeds of the land
scrip accruing to Virginia under the act
of Congress of the I'd July, 1862, for the
purposes Of education to the University OF
Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute,
and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute, was taken up.
Mr.. TAYLOR, Of Loudoun, withdrew the
amendment which he had presented some
DAYS since, and offered the following to be
an independent section; which was
adopted:
"sEc. 6. That the colleges receiving the
fund appropriated under this act shall re-
ouire their professors of agriculture or the
mechanic arts Tor some competent persons)
to deliver Mt least one lecture annually in
each senatorial district of this State; said
professors Of the college or colleges located
in each Of the grand geographical divisions
of the State to lecture in the senatorial dis
tricts of that particular grand division in
which their college is located"
Mr.. HARRIS, of Halifax, proceeded at
length to speak in behalf Of Hampden Sid
ney College. He went so far rs to say that
one-half of the fund should 20 to the Hamp-
ton Academy, on account of their numeri-
cal numbers and rs wise stroke of policy.
For the remainder he was in favor of select
ing institutions already existing as the re.
ciLients of the fund, and he, being the
particular advocate of Hampden Sidney,
thought that that college should have one
third, and for the remaining third be favored
Richmond College. He did not believe 1t
would be wise policy to entrust the fund to
institutions absolutely under State control.
He believed it would be an unsafe DISPOSE
ton of such a trust amid the conflicting
elements and uncertainties of our political
future. He classed the Institute and the
University as two pets OF the State"
The strongest plea which had been set
forth by the patrons of these institutions
who had urged their claims upon the floor
was estate pride"
He desired to know "what interest our
young men feel in the magnificent and CO.
lossal displays Of these institutions what
do they care about the system adopted or
the curriculum taught, when they know
that they can never see inside, or / might
say outside, their walls, and much less do
they hope ever to enjoy the advantages
which are only to be had by the more IA
vored and wealthy classes" In his judy
ment such a policy is calculated to preju-
dice our people against our State institu-
lions. He thought this mode Of feeling the
State institutions had gone far enough, and
that this game had been played long
enough. The South-side will not longer
tamely submit to the unjust and greedy
rapacity of these grand mammoth institu-
tons. In conclusion, he favored the sub.
stitute offered by Mr.. COURTNEY which
substitute gives Hampton Sidney third.
4 third to Richmond College, and the other
third to the colored institute.
Mr.. PESDLEToN followed Mr.. HARRIS in
support Of the bill as prepared by the COM
mittee, which he hoped would be adopted
unanimously by the Senate-giving in the
course of his remarks an interesting history
of the Virginia Military Institute from the
time of his appointment in 1889 to the pres
ent date.
Pending the further consideration of the
bill, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.