The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-17
General Assembly Of Virginia
THURSDAY, March 16, 1915.
SENATE.
Lieu.enant.Govcrnor THOMAS in the chair

Lieutenant.GOycrnOr THOMAS IN the cnalr.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. HERNDoN, from the Committee for
Courts of Justice, reported without amend
ment House bill for the relief of the late
sheriff Of Charles City county. he also sub
mitted report, in response to resolution.
IN effect that the act approved March ~,
1870, is not repealed By section 8 OF 81 act
relating 20 public printing, Sc, approved
February 10, 1873, but that the provisions
of ssid act nave not been enforced by the
Senate; and the committee recommend that
hereafter the requirements OF said act should
be complied With.
Mr.. SMITH, from the Committee on Agri.
culture, Mining, and Manufacturing, report
ed House bill prescribing the number Of votes
to which the stockholders Of the Shenandoah
VALLEY Agricultural Society are entitled in
the u?ce.iDgs Of the company; which was
subsequently passed.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
b. Mr. EuBA>K: A bill to provide for a
Board of Equalization.
By Mr. HERNDoN: A bill to incorporate
the Virginia Baptist Historical Society.
By Dir. ALLAN: A communication from
james D. Brady declining to speak in the
Portsmouth contested.election case.
REJECTED.
Senate bill to amend and rtcaact an act
approved March a. 1874, to prevent the sale
Of intox eating liquors to minors, was taken
up, read the second time, and rejected.
Senate bill 10 amend and n enact section l
Of chapter 100 OF the Code, in relation to
masters and apprentices, was taken up, read
the second time, and rejected.
Il ouse bill to amend and re nact section Is
of an act approved Apr! 2, 1874, in relation
to process on presentments, indictments, or
information, was taken up aud rejected.
TABLED.
A number Of bills were taken up from the
calendar aud laid on the table. II
ThB PORTSMOUTH CONTESTED ELECTION.
The unfinished business of yesterday, being
the reports of the Com mttee on Privileges
and Elections in reference to the Portsmouth
contcstcd-elGction case, was taken up, the
question being on agreeing TO the minority
report. which retains Dir. GAYLE in his seat.
Mr.. BLAND took the floor and advocated
the minority report III lengthy argument.
Mr.. DrFFlELD followed Mr. BLAND, and
spoke in behalf Of the minority report.
At the conclusion of Mr.. DUFFIELD's re.
marks MIR. CLAuGuToN addressed the Senate
in behalf OF the majority report.
At o'clock the CHAIR interrupted Mr..
CLAUGHToN, and announced that the hour
for taking the vote had arrived.
Mr.. QUEsENBERRY moved to rescind the
rule, aud that the vote be taken before the
Senate adjourn.
The motion TO rescind the rule was re.
jecled.
Mir. DANIEL then moved that the time be
extended to half-past O'Clock.
Considerable talk ensued, in the course Of
| which the question Of courtesy was freely
diseased by Mes,rs. DANIEL, HINTON, HURT,
and others, the debate embracing the to
bacco-inspection discussion and the Knight.
johnson contested election.
Mr.. QUEsENBERRY moved to modify Mr..
DANIELS motion by ordtling that the vote
shall be taken ut the conclusion of Mr..
CLAUGuToN' s remarks.
This modification was accepted by MIR.
| DANIEL, and the motion as modified agreed
to by the Senate.
Mr.. CLAUGHroE then proceeded with his
| argument, aud at lis conclusion the CHAIR
announced that the Senate would now pro-
coed to vote on The substitute offered by the
minority of the committee, retaining Mr..
GAYLE IN hts seat.
| The vote resulted in the adoption of the
substitute by vote Of Is ayes to IL noes
as follows:
AYES. Messrs. Beazley, land, Clark, picken-
Hurt, johnson, lawson, kann: siemp, Smith,
| Tanner, Terry, and w itham-lS. $1,000
NoEs.-sies;rs. Allan; Claughton, Daniel, Daw-
son, Greevtr, Lathrop, Newberry, Powell, Quesen-
| berry, Stevens, and Ward-11. =.'
Messrs. COCHRAN, CRITCHER, ELLIOTT, and
WOOD, all of whom would have voted "no,"
sisted that they had paired with Messrs.
| GRIMsLEY, SINCLAIR, HAIR,TON, and MAR.
SHALL, all Of whom would have voted cage"
| The majority report as amended by the
adoption of The substitute Of the minority
was then agreed to. "-.
Adjourned at 3:45 P. NJ.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met at II O'Clock A. NJ
Speaker HANGER in the chair. Prayer by
Rev. A. E. Dickinson, Of the Baptist Church.
REPORTED FROM COMMITTEES. -.l.
Farorabty.-Senate bill to incorporate the
Grand United Order of the Vanguard OF
Freedom and Temperance; Senate bill to
incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth
Cotton Exchange; Senate bill to incorpO.
rate the Portsmouth Water Company Sen.
ale bill to incorporate the Rockbridge Bath
Grange Cooperative Association; Senate
bill to amend the law relative to
the protection Of games Senate bill to
amend the Sd section of chapter SO
of the act Of 1873 to authorize
the supervisors of Wythe county to
contract for keeping in repair certain
public roads in said county; Senate bill TO
amend the act prescribing the duties, pow.
ers, &C., OF county officers, so as to empower
the superintendent of the poor to appoint
and discharge muses., attendants, and SER
wants employed at the poor-house; House
bill to incorporate the Richmond and New
port News railroad. :. "a.
Under 8 suspension OF the rules, Mr..
FLooH submitted resolution Of Richmond
CRY District Grange protesting against the
repeal of the seth section of the law in re-
gard to tobacco inspections. which was res
TERED to the Committee on Agriculture.
WOULD HAVE VOTED "AYE."
MrsHowAgp stated that he would have
voted in the affirmative had he been present
when the vote was taken uponythe passage
Of the Military Institute annuity bill.
AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE TO BEAProIETED.
Mr., MORRIS of Campbell submitted the
following: 1zi'sts .aa.a.a ~.
Resoiued, That special committee, to
consist of i've members, be appointed to in-
Equire into the relations OF the Common
wealth. Asra creditor of the Atlantic, Missis:
'sippi and Ohio Railroad Company, the ma
ture and purposes of the 9suits recently
brought in the United States Circuit Courts
for the Eastern and Western Districts OF
Virginia asking for tho appointment Of re-
ceiyey of said railroad company and the sale
OF their assets, and particularly II any, and
II 50 what, steps should be taken by this