Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-04
RICHMOND VA, !
March Goth, 1876. (


The last hours are upon US. Mem
bers are adding to the confusion of
legislative dissolution, by emptying
their desks and showering dead bills
and useless joint resolutions upon the
floor, which looks more like slOven-
ly kept Office Of some job printer, than
aught can compare It TO.
The Senate amended the Salary bill
for members Of the two Houses, by
striking out $40 and inserting $685.
This leaves the President Of the Sen
ate and Speaker Of the House still
with nine dollars day and the Clerks
six dollars per day. The House disa-
greed az the Senate well knew aud in
tended. Their object was 10 defeat the
bill we sent them, knowing there was
not time for an agreement. The sharp
tactics Of the Senate Is peculiar. -
There is an entirely necessary and
competent Clerk in the Auditors
Office, whose associations and opin-
ions are not exactly in harmony Of
thOse Of leading Funders, and that
DOdy has stricken from the Assess
meut bill the appropriation necessary
I fDT his salary. In short. an Anti
/ Funder II not wanted there, and even
/ when the House refused " concur, the
| Senate remained stiff as iron. Two
committee OF conference failed to
unite the knot and the fate Of the bill
| Il yet undecided.
! The Equalization bill was dead born.
! A kind providence gave II death in
! the act OF parturitlOn. 1t was intend
] ed to raise the assessment of land, and
! thus increase that one tax which reach
es and Expresses every soul in the
| Commonwealth.
! Lay It ont tendcrly,
Deck II With care;
Fashioned slenleTly,
SugAr-COAt8d SO fair
! As last resort, the Senate on Mon
/ day evening tackled whiskey for q
tax Of ten cents additional on the gall
! lon. BE it understood that a majority
Of the Senate favored it, but Judge
Cochran, of Augusta, an d some ten
others, were deadly hostile to the
measure. Augusta is the county
where whislIcy seems to run from the
earth AZ oil does in the free State OF
! West Va, and the mountain regions
Of Pennsylvania. Augusta is the
Bourbon OF Virginia, Perhaps it was
so in days of old, for doubtless Wash
ington knew what he was talking
of, when he said that ho could'retire to
| west Augusta anu "ulp inc "OIiu' -
Ii Cochran could bave taken the Sem
ate TO Augusta, he could have carried
his point, but az IL was, he lost it
Tho true blue eleven fought wonder
fully for hours, They called the ayes
and noes, and called them often. They
were raped down by the President,
and raped down loudly and often. -
Thye arose often and appealed from the
Chair, and when the Chair decided
against them, they appealed from that
Then they argued the appeal. They
raised a hundred points of order, and
argued them all, AT last Senator
Quizeuberry found rule, that when
the pending question was called and q
motion to adjourn made, and that mo.
ton decided out of order, and an APP,
peal taken from that decision, itshould
not be debated. Then the eleven sent
nine ofstheir members out Of the hall
| so that no quorum would appear upon
roll call, but one of the eleven was
seen to stick his nose In at the door
and the Chair counted that nose, and
the mo quorum" was burst" The