The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-04
evening State Salrnal.
CAPITOL NOTES,

was pointed in the direction Of the state
Capitol. He of the sallow visage and IN,
kempt hair turned away s%orrowfully.
The atrocious observation above noted
should not be allowed to 60 unchal-
lenged. Nor shall it.. Oar legislators
though good at drdW, cannot fly.
Time flies and so does money. That
in the public fsc is rapidly escaping
through its fingers under the energetic
manipulation of our Lawmakers. A wall
reaches us from across the water from
''bloated foreign bondholders." But what
do we care for these "foreign relations
when we have so many home-rolks crying
for the same indispensable pabulum :?
Nary! .
In consequence ola paucity Of business,
owing to the superhuman amount of
work q heretofore done, by it, the Senate
will hereafter, till otherwise ordered, only
meet at 70 O'Clock each day. Members
will then stay in until the accomplished
clerk muInbles out the record Of the pre-
vious days proceed ngs, when after head
ing the Introductory chapters of a bill to
amend the act incorporating the Muddy
Gap and Sclavin's Cabin turnpike COM
pany an exchange Of the mornings salu-
tation, and a perusal Of our feeble endea-
vors to ~enlighten a b~enighted world
through the columns OF THE STATE
JOURNAL, they will adjourn to the nearest
wet grocery, imbibe a matutinal cocktail,
hence 10 dinner and sleep. " And so
passeth," etc. .
"he pa pers complain of the small attend
ance of Senators and plaintiyely ask the
taxpayers to draw their own conclusions.
Perhaps the papers would more exactly
hit the mark if they were to assert that
there was a daily attendance Of small
Senators. But tastes vary, which is not a
bad circumstance fo' The generality of
mankind. ta
Mr.. James Nee son, at the request Of the
board Of public works, will furnish that
noted Pub Func' with acopy ofthe con-
tract by virtue Of which he has for seven
or eight years drawn about $ $1,000 per an
mum as couns el for the state in the collec.
ton Of claims against Selden, Withers &
Go. And Gen. Bradley 7. Johnson is also
anxious to appear before the same enligh.
tened constituency and elucidate the same
topic. If a fellow was sure Of getting a
Sam Miller will or Selden, Withers, &c Co.
cow case to work Up, being a lawyer for
a blief space would not be a bad thing.
1 We have heretofore briefly alluded to a
little skiImish before a legislative joint
committee, wherein the Hero OF the
Crater'' was called on to show why he had
not spent six millions dollars which he did
not have in building az impossible railroad
to an improbable place on the sylvan con-
fines Of our historic state. A writer in a
distant paper ~tnearly twenty miles off,
observes thereanent that ait is quite
a coincidence that while General
Pridemore, senator from Lee, is
engaging General Malone and "ompell-
ing HIM to defend himself from the charge
of wrong-dolng, in not building the road
from Bristol to Cumberland Gap, q bill
should be introduced in the Senate, giving
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company
permission to build a competing road from
Salem to some point west of Bristol. 1t
looks like concert of action"
The committee had another meeting last
night. General Pridemore is understood
to be q candidate for Congress in his dis
trict as the successor of Reese T. Bowen.
Oh Several Council magnates and General
Assembly statesmen, comprising a party
charged with the duty of confabulating on
the proposed new amendments to the city
charter, met last evening in the council
room, Broad street. After several hours
spent in the interchange Of mutual cour-
tesies and expressions of good will, Incl
d~entally coupled with the proposals to have
an upper and lower council, and give the
mayor the veto power, in which as many
different opinions were expressed as there
were persons present, the conference DIS
soluted by a rising vote and Individually
repaired to their several suppers. ave
shall meet again, Clemanthe." .
The Bank Of Commerce, a lately incor-
porated monetary institute of this city, is
seeking an amendment to its charter. The
stockholders want a scale vote like rail
roads have, when the stockholders meet,
and if we have any influence with the
General Assembly they shall have not
only one scale but as many as is ordinarily
contained on the back OF a Potomac her.
ring. If our word goes for anything they
shall also have their rights, privileges,
and liabilities in other respects Defined"
which little act Of accommodation is also
solicited. Luckily it won't have to run as
long as a sixty-day note.
The proposition of Hon. A. II. Ii. Stu.
art, of Augusta, now before the Legislature
for a reassessment OF the lands in this state,
or an equalization Of values, similar to thai
provided form the bill of March, 1898, will
be a welcome thing to the despairing Vir
ginia owners of many thousand acres O