The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-18
General Assembly Of Virginia.
TUESDAY, Febiurry II, 1874.
SENATE.
Lieutenant. Governor WRITER'S presiding
No prayer.

SENATE.
Lieutenant. Governor WRITER'S presiding.
No prayer.
HoCSE BILLS REFERRED.
A number Of House bills were taken up,
twice read, and appropriately referred.
House bill providing for the orsanlzitlon.
of cbain.gangS &c. with the disagreement
of the House to the amendments OF tnc I ~,
, ate was taken up, and on fno'!ou vi va
| NowLN the Senate insisted on ts aiilcuu'
mcnts. A., ..o.:.
senate bill to incorporate the Atlantic
Rr;dge Company with the House amend
menfs was taken up ana the amendments
agreed to. -.
THE SUNDAY LIQUoR-LAw.
Senate bill to prevent the sale Of intoxi-
eating liquors on the Sabbath.day, with the
amendment proposed by the House Of
Delegates was taken up and discussed at
length.
The amendment proposed by the House OF
Delegates excerpts the cities and towns and
leaves the sale Of liquors on the Sabbath
there to be controlled by police regulations.
The ayes and noes being demanded, the
Senate rejected the amendment by the fol-
lowing vote:
AyEs.-Messrs. Cochran, DufieId, Herndon,
Kirkpatrick. Meem,, rridemore. kagland, Ste
Sons.EMessrs Beazey, Bland, Critcher, Eubank,
Evans. Finney. Graham, GrctVer, tiundley, Lack
Sewberry, Nowlin. Patterson, Penn. Quesehberry,
| Smith &c. IT,, Smith ~. Ill. A,-22.
The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a
communication from the clerk of the House
of Delegates in relation to the Fourteenth
judicial circuit which was referred to the
Committee for Courts Of Justice.
| COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED.
The PRESIDENT announced the following
special committees on the part OF the Senate:
TO examine into the security Of the Capitol
building: Messrs. WYSNE, MoFFETT, and
LAWSON.
To examine into the condition of the sink
ing fund: Messrs. TERRY and EUBASK.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. HERSDoN, from the Committee for
Courts of Justice, reported House bills IN
relation to actions in detenue to amend and
RI enact section 4, chapter Of the Code, in
relation to vacancies in the office Of Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor; q report
declaring it ineXpedient to legislatc OH the
. subject of resolution iGquirinS into the
. eypediency Of adopting code of practice
for the courts Of Virginia Senate ILL to en-
able married women to insure the lives of
their husbands.
! Mr.. PalDEMoRE, from the Committee on
General Laws, reported Senate bills to ill.,
corporate the st. George Church Society of
Fredericksburg, Va; to authorize the She
nandoah Valley Agricultural Society to bor-
row money to authorize the appointment
: Of trustees for benevolent societies having
no bonds. House bills: To authorize the
Valley Mining and Manufacturing Company
to borrow money and pledge the property
of the company to secure payment; to
amend and reenact section II Of chapter 23
e of the Code of 1873 in relation to aids to the
$ Governor; to incorporate the Female HUI
9 name Association Of Richmond; to amend
and reeuact an act entitled an act author
Il izing certain commissioners to sell q certain
q lot Of land in Winchester to the Winchester
h Academy; to authorize D. A. Picker to
/. erect a toll-bridge across North river at
Mount Crawford, in Rockingham county
an act repeating so much of the act in force
December %, 1871, entitled On act to pro-
!. vide for the protection Of fish in the waters
Y of New river and its tributaries as applies
. to that portion of New river above Gray son
. Springs, in Carroll county.
Mr. KIRKPATRICK, from the Committee on
Public Institutions, reported bills provid.
J ing for a new school district in the county
y of Carroll; amending the charter of Ran
: dolph Macon College; a report declaring il
inexpedient to lesislate on the subject Of 6
resolution as to the eXpediency of so amend
l. ing chapter 81 of the Code of 1878, as te
J. prohibit the admission and maintenance in
n any State lupatic asylum Of any sane pau
per lunatics.
BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, ETC, PRESENTED.
. The following bills, resolutions, etc., wer
I presented aud appropriately referred:
) By MIR. MASSEY A bill to incorporate TIT
|. West Point and Hanover junction Railroad
Company.
BY Mr. BEAzLEY: Petition of Nicholas NJ
: Page, executor OF Samuel Miller, deceased
n aud others, asking the passage of an act Il
e give validity to the compromise made by tht
/, parties to the suit 10 reference to the will o
Samuel Miller, deceased.
BY Mr.. PATTERSON: A bill for the relic
! Of j. NJ. Hurt aud his securities for r. NJ
n Hurt, lunatic, &C.
b by Dir. KIRKPATRICK: A memorial from
the members OF the bar of Lyncbburg in
reference to an increase In the salaries Of
circuit judges.
BY Dir. SMITH of Nelson: Whereas grave
"a and serious doubt have arisen in the minds
n Of legislators In regard to the propriety and
: legality of dog. tax, for which the sovereign
70 people are SO clamorous, and about which
+ patriotic and aspiring senators and delegates
i are so very timfd and serupulously conscien.
i tious; therefore be it
Resolred, That the Committee for Courts
Of Justice be Instructed 70 report upon the
constitutionality Of head-tax, license-tax,
: or tax according to- Eslue on dogs; and II
said committee shall decide fayoFably upon
either mode Of taxing these predatory, IN.
noyiRg, and yexatious animals 60 subject SO
disastrous to rising statesmen who favor it.
md Ian va the famarifp or fnnlhardinnss 10 90 o