Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-14
From Richmond.

,Corresnondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
RICHMOND. Feb. I'm the Hous Of Dele
gates to-day MI Walker OF Pulaski intro
ducei bin to repeal that section OF the funding
Mll making coupons receivable Tor taxes. which
being taken up. Mr. Suthellln offered an
amendment providing for the payment Of the
JANUARY interest, and urged its adoption Mr.
Brooke favored Mr. Sulherius amendment,
although he desired hat at least four per cent
should i.c paid ,hi, yrar ana finally offered to
amend by providing to pay two per cent. Tor
.Januurv. lS72, and two per cant, Tor j uIy,
1872. Both amendments were voted down
AMI the bill ordered t.! cnriu>Sed by vote
of ~; To- Is. and t,; Vote the House refused to
reconsider
Mr. Crirz, under Il suspension oil the rules,
introduced bill Which proposes To pay three
per CEN. this year, III semi alinu:'l payments,
n ,e whole OF the funded Dcbt aud Oh TWO
thirds Of the uaIundcI debt \ mntiult TO >us-
pcnd the rules in order to co'slier the bill WAS
defeated, ayes ST Loas ~
The Senate to-day rejected the civil rights
bill bv vote Of % to 9 and passed bill Tor
the relief o Nathaniel Prince OF Lolldoun
county.
The bill to regulate the impositou assess.
ment and collection of taxes Tor the support OF
public free schools by counties and school dis
ttricts, was considered until the hour OF ad-
jOurnmeut.
In the House of Delegates. during the morrl
ing hour, Mr.. Booker, from the special com,
u,it.ea to investigate the alleged bribery ana
corruption hy which the funding bill was passcd
in the last l. 'giSl;ture, made special report,
setting forth that John w. .Jenk ms after testify
ing that he had been employed IN a profession
al capacity, in conjunction with uen: Bradley
r. johnson. to lobby the funding blll through
the Legislature, having refused fec OF Sl'oOO
offered him for the purpose, but accepting a
fee subsequently agreed upon-atteI acknow-
!elging that he did SO lobby the bill, receive
the fee agreed upon, stating that he deposited
a fee to the credit Of Gen. johnson IN the bank
| in which that gentleman keeps his account
declined to tell who was the party who EN-
| poyed him, aud what was the amount OF the
| fees paid him for himself and Gen. Johnson
basin. his refusal to do so on the ground that
the Legislature had no right to make him dis
| close the matter in question, and further, be-
cause he had not consulted his client and
did not know whether that client would be
willing to have his hume given, &c. Mr.. Jen-
! kins said he was willing to show what he had
done with the money given him, and in what
his lobbying consisted The report holds that
the questions were legitimate, and that John
w. jenkins, by his refusal to answer them, is
in contempt of this House, and concludes a
which was adopted, directing the Sergeant at
Arms Of the House to take the body Of John
W. Jenkins into custody, and him safely keep
until he shall have purged himself of said con
tempt by answering the questions propnnnded
him BY the committee.
As Mr. jenkins refused on merely Technical
grounds, to answer these questions, it Is likely
he will ask to go befnrc the bar of the house
to morrow and purge himself of intentional
contemrts by answering the questions.
The House concured in the reports from
committees, declaring it incxpctilent to re.
quire the courts to appoint the sheriff of the
county special commissioner to execute the
DEGREES for sale Of property ; to legisate on
the petition of Richard Hirst Of Fairfax coun-
ty. for the retunding Of taxes paid in 1861,
1862, 1853 and 1864 on like petition of B.
f. CAN'T of same county and to legiSlate so
as to allow mechanics to sell articles that have
been left with them to be repaired, after GER
| tain time. u.