The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-07

tlncstion Of persona convicted Of criminal
offences.
Senate bin, supplemental to the act pro-
viding for the collection of the State reve-
nue. and county leyies for the year 1870,
with an amendment.
LEAVE or ABSENCE
was granted Mr.. ARNETT for ten days ; Mr..
HAMILTON for four days.
CIVIL RIGHTS ON THE RAILROAD CARS.
The resolution of Mr. RAGsDALE (coPd),
providing for the appointment OF COM
mittee to confer with railroad pres.
dents as to the propriety of setting apart
separate cars for colored passengers, came
up as unfinished business.
Mr.. KELLY said that when this resolution
was introduced he regarded 1t as the first
token that the Republican members of this
House had a proper appreciation of the
privileges extended to the colored race by
the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, and
had given up the extravaga1t ideas which
had hitherto borne fruit In aspirations
for mixed schools, and mixture OF
colors In public houses and conveYances.
When the member from Charlotte INIT.
RAaspALH) proposed separate cars for color
ed travellers. the speaker was glad to gee
that two.thirds of the Conservatives on this
floor appreciated the justice OF the claim,
and came manfully to his rescue. He had
been equally surprised to see that MAORI,
ty of the Republican members mad Jolnea
about one-third Of the Conservatives to Lay
the resolution offered by one OF tnelr own
number on the table. He urged the color
ed members not to rudely reject, as they
seemed inclined, the concession which the
whites were now willing to make. This
resolution should be adopted, or some more
decided action taken to accomplish its OBJ
Mr.. STEVENS (colored gave his reasons for
onnosinp the resolution. He thought 1t
class legislation. The gentleman (Mr. RAGS
DALE proposed to set apart sort OF jim
Crow car for negroes, and that they should
be allowed to 20 into no other. This was
prescription of the worst kind. 1t gives the
colored people less than their rights, and
they ought not to accept any such compro.
mise. There is good deal of talk about
civil rights. The question OF civil rights Is
only question of time, and all resistance
is in vain. There is no stopping the pro-
branch as this must not be accepted, for 1t
conceals an adder. AS to the colored peo-
pie having a separate car, they have one
already.
Mr.. RAaspALp (colored, interrupting the
speaker, said they nowahave car In which
coIored ladies are subject to all KINDS OF
disagreeable things, and in which the whites
show the race no respect. The Constltu-
ton and Bill of Rights protected him (Mr.
RAGspALE) in the General Assembly, but it
did not protect him in the railroad cars.
If the white man behaved himself no better
In the car for. smokers and colored people,
he would rather he should be in Europe
than In the car with him.
Mr.. STEVENS said he had always heard
that the man who respected himself was
most likely to be respected. He assured
the House that the mover Of the resolution
was not sustained by the Republican mem,
bers, nor by his race generally. Equal
political rights they had right to demand
as citizens, and as these rights had been
denied them by this Legislature, they would
low wait.
Mr.. MORGAN (colored), Of Petersburg,
agreed with the last speaker, and spoke TO
the same effect. He repudiated any desire
for social equality, but he did demand what
the members Of this Legislature had sworn
to give his race-civil and political equality.
MIR. r. NORTON (colored), of York, spoke
in the same strain-recalling particularly
the provisions of the Constitution and Dill
of rights in regard to civil and po!ltlcal
equality, and urging that their PROVISIONS
had not been carried out in good faith.
The morning hour being about to expire,
Mr.. McCAULL called the pending question.
It was ordered, and thereupon the resolu-
ton was voted down with very few dis
senting voices.
BILLS, &C., PRESENTED.
The following bills, resolutions, &C., were
49, oil rnfnr
By MIR. GUY Petitions Of 547 citizens OF
Richmond asking an appropriation of part
Of the land fund to Richmond College.
By Mr.. CAMPBELL: Bill enlarging the
of the town of New Market, in
Shenandoah county.
By Mr.. r. d. MILLER Bill to incorporate
the town OF Blacksburg, Montgomery
county. ...
By Mr.. GUY: Bill providing for the pay
ment of costs before executions are issued
in civil actions.
Bv Mir. HORTON Bill declaring portion
of Clinch river a lawful fence In Scott
county.
By Mr.. JACKSON Resolution ipquiring
into the expediency Of prescribing by law
some uniform system Of keeping the &C
clerks in the transaction Of the public bust
COLLECTION OF TAXES.
Senate bill, supplemental to the act pro-
viding for the collection OF the State reye-
nue. and county levies for 1870, was taken
up, and the House amendment agreed to.
The bill, as amended, was then passed.
[This bill, which afterwards passed the
Senate and was approved by the Governor,
provides that the sheriffs, whose term of
office expired December 31st, 1870, shall
collect all taxes and levies assessed for the
year 1870 and If the commissioners Of the
revenue delivered their books to the sheriff
before the expiration of his term of Office,
then the judge of the county or corpora
ton court shall examine the sherif's bond,
and if in his opinion the security thereon
is insufficient, shall require new bond !;
and If said books did not pass into his
hands before the expiration of his term of
office, then he shall give new bond, which
shall be in penalty double the amount
of the taxes and leyies to be collected by
him and If any bond required of the
sheriff under this act is not given in thirty
days from the passage of the act, the books
are to be delivered to the. treasurer, who
shall first give before the county judge q
amount OF the taxes and leyies to be col
lected by him. -s
THE VALLEY RAILROAD.
The motion to reconsider the vote by
which Augusta" was stricken out from
the bill to allow certain counties to sub
scribe to certain incorporated companies,
came up and was advocated by Messrs.
WOOD and McCAULL, and opposed by Mr..
COCHRAEE. u
On motion Of Mr. JONES, Of Greenville,
adjourned. s
DUTY ON Salt.
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