The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-04
General Assembly of Virginia.
FslpAx, March 8, 1916.
SENATE.

Observation-Disclosures TH0AAS presi0ins'
No prayer.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
Bv Mr.. GRinsLEY "A bill for the protec.
ton of fish In the waters of Rapidan and
Rappahannock rivers.
By Mr.. GREEvER A resolution requesting
the Auditor TO iHform the Senate why div
idend has been declared among the States
bopdholders when there is due the school
fund scveralhundredt thousand dollars, which
Is set ssids by the Constitution.
By Dir. SINCLAIR: Preamble and joint res
olution authorizing NJ ID. Ball, o: Alexan-
dria, to take charge Of and photograph the
original will Of General George Washington,
now fled with the records of the county Of
Fairfax, &C.; said photograph to be exhibit
ed at the Philadelphia Centennial; said ID.
D. Bali to give bond In $4,000 for Its safe
keeping, &c. 40 :yea s-
By Mr.. GRIMsLaY: A resolution to ar
range the entrance to the gallery of the SEM
ate as to separate 1t from the floor Of the
Senate, and, with view to ventilation, to
open the fire-places in the chambers and to
cover them over with suitable wire-screens,
and to Introduce therein gas.burners, DC.
Agreed TO. ss ... D.
81. :. ~ coMNIrrER RKPeBTs.
Mr.. HEgNDoN, from the Committee for
Courts Of Justice, reported, with an ameno'
ment, House bill to amend an act approved
March 26, 1875, entitled an act to Tx the
terms of the circuit courts; which was SUD-
sequently passed.
Mr.. NEwBEnRy, from the Committee on
General Laws, reported Senate bill TO moor
porate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton
Exchange.
ENGRoSsgD. '.
On motion Of Mr.. CLARK, Senate Dill TO
incorporate the Commercial Bank was taken
nm out of it's order, and ordered to be en-
crossed and read third time.
PRINTED.
On motion of Mr. SMITH, the James River
and Kanawha Canal bill, now before the
Senate Committee on Roads, was ordered TO
be printed. ...
RICHMOND CITY GUARD. ... {
On motion of Mr.. COCHRAN, House bill to
permit the Richmond City Guard to uniform
themselves as they may decide was taken up
out OF its order and passed.
Senate bill to prevent the catching or
taking Of oysters from Russe's rock, IN Rap
pahannock river, was also passed.
LANp-puReHAsgRs AND SETTLERS.
Senate bill to amend and reeuact the LIST,
ID, 81, 4tb, 5tb, 9Th, 7th. and 9th sections
of the act for the encouragement OF iana-
purchasers and actual settlers in virginia,
and to repeal an act approved March ~,
1873, entitled an act for the encouragement
of immigration, approved March "a, 1910,
was taken up and read the second time.
Mr. ELLIOTT made an unsuccessful motion
to amend the first amended section by
- Er
The bill was then ordered to be epgrossed
and read third time. '..-s1
TIE TEXAS PACIFIC.
Senate Joint resolution instructing our
senators and requesting our representatives
In Congress relative to the Pacific railroad,
being the unfinished continuing order OF
Yesterday, was taken up.
MIR, DANIEL addressed the Senate briefly,
and corrected some of the statements MADE
in his remarks yesterday. ~.
Mir. BLAND followed Mr.. DANIEL in favor
of the substitute proposed by Mr.. DANIEL:
MIR. HERNDoN spoke in behalf OF Mr..
CRlTCHHR's resolutions. .,..@a
Mr.. JOHNSON presented 8 resolution post
poniue the whole subject and making 1t the
special order of the day for the second
Wednesday in December neXt.
Mr.. JOHNSON said that he felt somewhat
embarrassed OF interposing in so able and so
interesting debate as had been ELECTED og
the resolutions of the senators from West
moreland and Campbell, but sense OF re-
sponsibility to public duty required hlm 10
offer this resolution. The effect Wouid De,
if passed, to postpone indefinitely the resolu'
tions now before the Senate, and enable them
to 20 to work on the matters entrusted to
them by their constituents, and which vitality
affected the interests Of the State.
The General Assembly has been In session
ninety days and has not passed tax bill nor
| q general appropriation bill. So far as the
Senate is concerned neither measure has yet
| been brought to its attention. 49,.
We have now pending before us the ques-
| ton OF a through connection Of the canal to
Clifton Forge, with which the prosperity and
regeneration of the whole State is vitality con-
cerned.
We have the administration of criminal
expenses, involving the conduct of the peni-
| tentiary, which includes over $225,000 OF
annual expenditure. We have the law
concerning the inspection of tobacco
made the order Of the day last Monday
postponed until Tuesday; then made to
give precedence to this railroad question,
and made the order of the day for Thurs
day-a matter which the trade, the com.
merce, the manufactures, and the agricultu-
raj interests are all intimately connected
with, and the settlement of which one way
or the other is important to all these inter.
ests. This business is now postponed until
! this debate concludes.
Further than this, we have bankruptcy
before us in the deficit of $500, 900, as reported
| by the Auditor of Public Accounts, which
will stare US in the face on the 1st day of DC.
| tober next. ...#
! This is our position as regards questions
Of home and State concern. They press us.
| We have exhausted the legal limit of our
session, and no ", instead Of addressing our
selves to questions of taxation, of finance, OF
economy in administration. we are consuming
the public time in the discussion Of questions
| that can as.wcil wait as be considered now.
1t is not parliamentary to refer to the opinion
of other public servants In other spheres OF
public duty; but it is matter Of public
and general notoriety that there is no posi-.
bility Of ANY Pacific Railroad bill being re-
ported at this session Of Congress. II is
generally known that there is no possibility
of any action by either house of Congress on
this matter at this session.
| Further than this, it is generally known
as a matter Of common consent that every
Virginia member Of Congress, senators and