The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-26
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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
HUNDRED AND TWELFTH DAY.
TUESDAY, March 2e.
InuSe nf leleuafns

UNDER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES,
the following were placed on the calendar
Senate bill appropriating the public reve.
nue. for the fiscal year 1S71-72.
Senate joint resolutions-Requesting the
boundary commissioners to make writer
report of their operations and expenditures
to the General Assembly by the 1st Of
january, 1873; for the appointment Of
commissioners to revise the laws relating to
oysters, &c.
no PROMOTE IMMIGRATION.
Mr. Ramsdell proposed the following re-
solutions:
Resolved, That committee of five be appoint.
ed by the speaker to prepare and have
printed by the State Printer a circular
letter for distribution, setting forth the min
eral, commercial, and agricultural induce
ments which the State of Virginia offers for the
encouragement of Immigration and the profita-
BILE employment of capital
Resolved, That said committee tender a cordial
welcome to all who may seek home in our
state.
RESOLVED, That said committee be requested to
urge upon the transportation companies of the
State the propriety of reducing fares and freghts
in the interests of immigration.
Mr.. Ramsdell explained his resolutions,
and advocated their adoption. They were
agreed to.
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Rams
dell, Sutherlin, Lovenstein, Swami and
Matthews, as the committee. 81.
PASSED.
The following Senate joint resolutions:
Requesting q report from the boundary
commissioners /; for the appointment of
commission to revise the oyster laws, &c.
REJECTED.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which
Senate bill for the relief of Captain
Isaac Bussle and others was defeated. was
rejected.
DISMISSED.
Senate bill to amend the charter of the
town of Harrisonburg was dismissed.
RECESS.
AT l0:45, a recess was taken till 12 M.
THE PENITENTIARY.
Under Senate joint resolution in relation
to the removal of the penitentiary, the
Speaker appointed on the committee on the
part Of the House Messrs. Dooley, Butler
and Burkholder.
THE TAX BILL.
AT II NJ, the Senate bill imposing taxes
for the support of the State government,
&C.. came up on the motion of Mr.. Matthew
to reconsider the vote by which the bill
was rejected yesterday.
Mr.. Fulkerson said that with view of
the bill so that some of its
features might be removed,
and for the further reason that there might
be no failure of the passage of tax bill,
he would vote for reconsideration, al
though he could not vote for the bill as it
stood.
The question being put, the motion to re-
consider was agreed to.
The question recurring on the passage Of
the bill, Mr.. Bristow said that only the
paramount considerations of the public ne
cessity could induce him to vote for the
bill, full as it was of Objectionable features.
He was indignant, indeed, at the way in
which the oyster interest had been treated,
and at the manner in which taxation had
been increased in the very teeth of instruc-
tons from the people to the contrary. Yet
he could not permit the dsorganization of
the State government by failing to.vote for
a bill so essential as the tax-bill, and he
should therefore vote for it with all its inn
perfections on its head.
Mr.. Fulkerson moved to recominit the |
bill to the Committee on Finance, with in
strilctions to report within an hour. Re-
iected. E-lE
The bill being again put upon its pas
sage, it was defeated by 81 ayes to AZ noes.
bOn motion Of Mr.. Lovenstein, the House
took recess till 5 p. M.