The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-27

,,,,,;no off from herself the great South Wesl
s.u aa,, railing farmers Of that secfion to
p w. Jo hr,Ik ut BurksYiIle. He desired mgIe
;ntor,not;on than be now bad pei ore 3n f'
could no willing 10 act upon the ptI. ,.,,
Wr Or,p said almost oil the Weann
hronobt to the State was by the rallfo s:Es
"a no believed the money spent IN Dunu.ns'
s, hu wos wisely spent. 1t Woula De w
liz ond unjust TO require this ROAD 10 SUI SUI,
r ~ her right of exemption Witnon QUIZ s .
Inc II inst equivalent. he iuItnel ,r apon
he merits of the whole questlon ,ro or the
md made an eloquent appear III penaA u wy
city of Richmond. 6,d ;mnos,n o
~ mon fine road, not from any untaVoIa-
q a., I'H sis,os;tion towards It, but because DC
.,,a,a,,t II n most favorable opportunity ior
.t,o State TO recover the right OF taxation'
lie bod favored the extension OF tnelr pre-
IL ;mmunity for ten years because OF the
oreot value of the right they were asKeo TO
Ss,,rronder. ANY man who Is familiar VIVID
tbe railroad system Of the country must
Lnow that the great war between the broad
and narrow gauge was decided In favor OF
the latter. That gauge prevailed all around
ne md in twenty years no ROAD in the coun-
try would have any other.
Mr. MASSEY favored the change OF gauge
and surrender of exemption.
Mr.. R1pDLEBiRGER was in favor OF the bill
with MIR. WnLIANs's amendment. He
wanted to give Richmond fair opportunity
70 compete with the world; but he would
seize every opportunity to compel railroads
having exemptions to surrender them. He
"would not allow them to grease wheel
until then"
Mr., WILLIAMS did not want anybody to
suppose he would yield to any one in his
appreciation of Richmond, but people should
not get the impression that Richmond runs
this Legislature. BE would waive his doubts
about the propriety of the change of gauge,
but must insist that this privilege be not
granted except upon simultaneous surren-
der of her exemption.
DIR. OULD said, in reply to Mr.. WILLIAMS,
No, sir, Richmond does not control tins LIE
gislature, and she has not desired TO 90 SO.
Every member Of the General Assembly
knows in bis heart that they had at this ses.
sion passed q most onerous and unequal
burden OF taxation upon her,
Hessrs. J. Fl. LACY and ARMSTRONG sup
norted the amendment, and Dir. ANDERSON
opposed it. ..
4 call for the pending question was sus-
tanned, which was upon Mr. WILLIAMS
amendment, and it was agreed to by ma
jority Of one:
hYas-Messrs Allen, Armstrong, Bagwell Bea-
ton. Blair, Brown, Campbell, J. A. Carter, Cecil,
A. j. Clark, Fitzpatrick, Flood, Fuksrson, Graves.
Raden, Henderson,, Holbrook VIM. Hosklns, Hun
Ing, Lybrook, Massey, MCMILLAN. Moore, Morrl-
son, John l.. Nash, Pcndlcton, Riddlebsrger, no
gers, Sellers, Shumate, Swami, Taylor, wallace,
Williams WitherS and Yager-42.
EoHs-Messrs. Anderson, Branch. BROOKS, JacA
Carter P. j. Carter, Cox, Doole}; Einney, Games
4. s. Gibson, Gilman Grayson, Hami,.1h, fsrs
Koincr. Lamkin, Lee, Lewis. Lightner, Lipps, LG-
yenstein, Magruder, Nickeus, Guild Panni Pors,l'
Whitaker, Young, and MIR. Speaker-41.
Dir. MCMILLAN moved to reconsider in or
der to offer an amendment to that of Dir.
WILLIAMS. Pending the motion the House
adjourned (11:10 P. NJ.