Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-03-10
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. William T.
| Clarke was sworn 10 as Senator from Plttsyl
vauia county, vice M. H. Clarke, deceased.
1t was reported inexpedient to l~egislate OF
| the resolution to make parties who Kill Others
in duels pay the insurance on their lives.
An amendment was reported to the bill tn
establish law libraries at Stanton and Wythe'
vile for the courts OF appeal.
An adverse report was made on the House
bill to prevent the obstruction OF streams and
the passage Of fish, etc.
Bills were presented Incorporating the Val
ley Cemetery Association; Incorporating the
New Market River Bridge Company, and au-
thorizIug a donation OF money by Richmond
city to narrow-gauge railroad.
directors of the Western Lunatic Asylum to
sell certain lots OF land; Incorporating the Vir.
GINA Mining and Improvement Company, and
in relation to the docket of causes ready for
hearing 10 the Supreme Court of Appeals.
The bill amending the Code 10 relation to
canvassing election returns was rejected-yeas
3, nays is.
The committee reports on the subject of to-
bacco inspections, one for and one against. were
debated till adjournment.
To the House of Delegates a petition of citi-
zens Of Shenandoah county, asking an amend
ment to the charter Of Van Burensville, was
presented. j.;
The till to provide for the establishment of
a true meridian line 10 each county OF the
Commonwealth east of the Allegheny noun
tains was reported from the Committee 90
Propositions, etc.
A bill was reported to prescribe the price to
be paid for land warrants for waste lands, with
a recommendation that it do not pass.
1t was reported iuexpedient to legislate on
amending the Code 10 reference to violation of
sepulture. .
The bill to enlarge the accommodations of
the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylum was
debated till adj ournmeot.
Mr.. J. HORACE LACY, of Spottsylvania, a
member Of the House of Delegates, is a great
talker, aud according to the Richmond papers,
affords a good deal of amusement by his odd
sayings and doings. Ga Monday last when
the bill to provide additional accommodations
for the insane came, up Mr.. Lacy continued
his speech, commenced Saturday. The Wbig
SAYS Some of his remarks were very spicy.
He is for enlarging the accommodations OF the
present asyluus, and opposed to the erection
of a new asylum. He said if a new asylum was
necessary, it was for born idiots, such as the
fuuders, and there would never be another
quorum of this House if they put them in.
Again, he said, Virginia had maintaid her
splendid civilization in spite of war, pestileDce
aud famine, of blood, ire aud the Fuodiug
bill. He spoke of the would-be statesmen and
the little county court lawyers that aspired to
rule the Commonwealth, and of their narrow
curriculum He made some dabs at the
veual press and quoted Governor Berkeley's
remarks about the peace and tranquility that
prevailed in Virginia, and which be attributed
to there being no common schools and no news.
papers in the colony. Speaking of the public
men of the present day, he said the country
had been raked With a 6ue tooth comb and the
smallest men bad been caught. He compared
them to sardines 10 a box. and said that one of
our uld-time giants would have swallowed the
whole at a mouthful and then asked for beef.
steak. Alluding,to Dean Swift S mental trou,
bles as being the result of too muct, brain, be
said that he never saw a body less likely to be
afflicted with such troubles than this Leglsla,
ture.