The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-21
Gpetsins state Sollrnat
CAPITOL NOTES.

the proposition of Maryland to submit tn
boundary controversy to arbitration. Elk
Governor William A. Graham, of Mort
Carolina, member of ex-President Fill
more's Cabinet, to represent Virginia OF
the board of arbitration; he, with Hon
Jere s. Black, of Pennsylvania, (uamed BY
Maryland as her ARBITRATOR to select
third member. Mr.. Coghill, of Amherst
will, on the part of the committee
introduce at an early day
next week bill embodying these
propositions. The evident disposition Of
the members of the General Assembly is
to avoid taking the boundary question to
the Supreme Court of the United States,
hence we take it for granted that the plan
of the committee for an adjustment will
meet with little opposition among thinking
members of either party. The best peo-
pie of Maryland and Virginia will be graft
fled to learn that the prospect ofan amicable
adjustment of the boundary line of two
states allied 10 each other by so many ties
of blood and kind deeds, is encouraging.
During the debate yesterday in the
Senate on the bill to incorporate the
Montpelier Female Humane Association,
OF Orange county, sapient members traced
fancied analogy between its terms and
those of the bill Incorporating "the South
ern Association" of this city to the detri-
mcnt Of the latter, and the section con-
tanning the alleged obnoxious provision was
stricken out in response to the pious wish
of its virtuous and estimable opponent.
1t is said there is a reason for everything,
even in plum buildings. The exemplary
party who laid into "The Southern Asso.
citation" like thanksgiving into pumpkin
pie we suspect had been an unsuccessful
wooer Of the seductive and fleeing, now
you see it and now you don't '.gig" and
Saddle" When fellow runs s'gig"
and the wheels refuse to revolve smoothly |
it is not only natural, but a fine stroke OF
policy to be irate.
During recent oratorca exhalation of !
the Demosthenese of SpotsylvaLia he is
credited with giving utterance to the opin-
ion that the lega' profession think more of
presidents than what the law ought to be,
and, comparing the late war to the Deluge,
he said that the creditors bond was the
lawyers sole conception of Ararat. 1t
must be confessed that the class spoken of
ire rather hard set anyhow. Some who
'egetate in this city, who call themselves
awyers, but do not possess enough capa-
,ity to hurt themselves much, are the best
preserved specimens Of total depravity that
IN active life of something under hum
ired years has brought to our notice.
The subject Of taxation, as embraced in
he assessment bill. rolled round again to-
lay at the proper period, aad was buckled S
o with commendable assiduity by the
inanclal leviathans of the House. The
weet voice of many a cross-road states
nan swclled out thereon in mellinuous
rgumentative undulations, more captivat-
ng possibly, in some instances, from being
otally' irrelevant to the topic under de.
ate. 1t is emrently pleasing and salts
.ctory to the philosophic mind to see
ass on time s highway the powerful reform
tory currents setin motion by this bill of r
ne hundred and twenty pages and seven !
undred and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. even ifsuch
urrents are boosted along in their triumph i
Mt surging by heavy partisan material,
ONE Of it water-logged with more than }
fashionable associations. i,
Roll on, roll on, tax bill, strong and great,
III We die not soon we may be happy yet"
The members of the General Assembly
re deprecated upon as any other mortals.
.ately many of them have missed valuable =
'tters, with money enclosed. Upon inves- v
cation by Captain Frey, it was discovered
nat the theft had been committed by {
Jerk in one of the principal city hotels. o
he clerk has been discharged from SER Il
ice.
j. r. T. Suttle and Eustace Moncure, =
sqs., are spoken of for judge of the
ounty Courts of King George and I
Lafford, vice Judge j. B. Jett. resigned. u
he election is set for March 26th. .
Parties in favor of an extension OF the a
,ssion ofthe General Assembly are careful a
pipe-laying in order to attain that object. G
he following bills, among others, are not Il
ct definitely acted wiz: Tax and as !,
bills,immigration project, interest 4
A pubic debt, general appropriation bill, G
terest on money, settlement with West s.
irglnia, Maryland boundary line. sale of 81
rfeited and delinquent lands. remodeling
oyster laws, providing more accommo- =,
atoms for lunatics these are all pressing
alters, and even when the session just b
'mmenced, were so recognized, yet while IS
'ne hundred trihing bills and resolutions II
ave been passed, these remain unattended ;,
The joint committee. on constitutional tt
nendments is still hammering away on q =
lie subjects assigned to it and indicated by Il
5 title. o.
According to the provisions Of the con- 81
tuition, general reassessment of the =,
ac or ~ x.,;1l - -. | =