The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-20
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CAPITOL NOTES.

w lter =. NeWDefEy, superintendent Ol
public buildings, in the Capitol, to the Secre.
tary of the Southern Historical Society, to
be used for keeping the archives Of said
society.
The Louisville Courer.J ournal says of
Governor Kemper "Those who burnt
his effigy in Petersburg will yet regret their
ebulition of passion and will honor him for
the courage and manhood with which he
has discharged an exceedingly delicate and
painful duty. He has risen above the
clamors around him to the heights of a wise
craftsmanship. He has done what is most
difficult for any one to do-sacriflced per-
sonal feeling to public duty-and his vind-
cation will yet come, as it always comes to
those who adhere unfalteringly TO the die
tates of principle"
Richmond has one native-born member
Of the House of Delegates, but he had to
migrate to Norfolk to get his merits re-
cogniZed. We allude to Major William
Z. Foster, the estimable and capable dele
gate from that city. He has lately intro
duced joint resolution giving to the Rich
mond lIowitzer company 10000 of the
bricks now standing on the old arnory lot,
for the purpose of erecting a building in
which to keep the four-gun batterybelonging
to the state and now in the possession ofthe
Howitzer company. AS those bricks are
now of no service whatever to anybody,
and as the llowiIzers are greatly in need of
an armory, it would appear that the pro-
posed disposition of part of the ruins of
the old armory would be wise one.
Correspondents writing hence to news
papers in and out of the state predict that
there will yet be matters involving heavy
railroad interests before the Legislature.
We thought all matters relating to rail-
roads were heavy. Certainly the other
day on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
we saw an ordinary looking car marked
"20,0 900 pounds capacity
The Governor has appointed William 7.
Robinson and 0. II. Edwards "cullers of
lumber" Tor Norfolk city, and refused to
pardon Cynthia Lane, sent 10 the state
prison March II, 1871, for four years by
the County Court of Scott county for
grand larceny.
The Senate on February 23d took up and
passed bill No. 10, to provide for the
lease of the penitentary, " and the same
bill has been set for consideration in the
House at an early day. The vote was in
the Senate as follows:
AYEs-Messrs. Beazley, Bland, Coch-
ran, Dawson, Eastman, Finney, Herndon.
Holiday, Hundley, Kirkpatrick. Lakeland,
Lawson, Moffett, Newberry, Nowlin, Ques-
enberry, Ragland, Smith Of Nelson, Smith
of Russell, Taylor, Thomas, Ward, and
Wynne--23.
NoEs-Messrs. Allan, Evans, Maddox,
and Pridemore-4.
The financial part oCthe tax bill is that
which enlists most earnestly the dormant
energies of the rising legislative statesman
and calls forth his most strenuous endeavor
in the calculation of abstruse state fnan-
cal problems. In these discussions on
finance, and rates and subjects for taxation
an amount of legal and other erudition is
evolved which is calculated to and generally
does astound the average observer. Dis
cussion takes a wide range of course, and
some times things having no earthly
relation to the subject under consideration
are eliminated with conspicuous vigor. 1t
makes no difference with some of the boys
what they talk about; they came there to
hear themselves talk, and If they can give
other parties the benefit of the infction,
so much the better-for them. A discus
sion on taxing the gross receipts of rail-
roads is about the same to them as one on
the differental and integral calculus, and
biosta.ics, aud bloodynamics, and MOLE
cules, and concretes. and other scientific
subjects. Jaw on the tax bill will be kept
up till the last day of the session, when
an extra term will be demanded to finish
it. Things are tending that way.
In the House the skirmish opened early
after the morning hour. led by the gallant
Granger from Pittsylvania, Mr.. Lamkin.
1t was not long before the " Lord Chancel-
Tor of the Exchequer" (Mr. Holbrook, of
Wythe,) moved to the 'front.' fired and fell
back. Fulkerson, of Washington, came
to his rescue and re.established the
line, when Coghill, the Disraeli of the
House, took his accustomed pinch of snuff,
and before he got through the opposition
sneezed themselves to the rear in confu-
sion, and the sixteenth section OF the able
tax bill, as amended, relating to the public
school system, passed with colo-s flying.
The House reached the fiftieth section OF
the bill.
The Maryland commissioners on the
boundary question, so far as could be judged
by their remarks and conduct while
here Qhey left for home today, were
favorably impressed with their reception ii
Richmond. Now. if the Virginia authori-
ties will just ante up and meet then
halt way in the same spirit, this
yexatious question of boundar.
between two Estates, that from contiguity