Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-12-11

1t was proposed, he said, to turn out
Maj. Hanger, who was the finest pre-
siding officer in the State. This was
another thing unheard of. Such men
had been kept, heretofore, in office for
20 years.
Col. Barbour replied in a speech
of admirable humor and keen satire.
Mr.. Hanger was not to be turned out,
he was not in. The speakership was
vacant, and ITO hew members pro,
posed to select speaker without the
dictation of past Legislature. Mr..
Popham's speech was humorous and
pointed,
Mr.. Harrison made a speech of
real pith and marked incisiyeness and
great boldness. We intended to make
REIMBURSEMENT the issue, and to or>
ganize the House omit. We meant
to nominate the speaker, elect him,
and control the House in the interest
Of REIMBURSEMENT. We meant bust
ness, we had the honor and meant to
use it.
DR.. M0lfett made speech of great
force and splendid effect. He said
the speaker appointed the committees
and had great power. If we had the
power we meant to organize the
House and use it. If the Funders
had it we would expect them to do
the same. If they had the majority
they were entitled to it. If we had
it we would have the committees and
exercise our power. Personally he
was Maj. Hangers friend, Politically
he was opposed to him. He, Hanger,
had voted for .he Funding Bill, and
had announced that he favored re-4n>
acting it. He could not vote for
him. We meant 70 fight them on
this issue, and they could take notice.
THE VOTE
was then taken with the following
result.
ALLEN. -Messrs. Akers, Atkinson,
Barbour, Bernard, Bland, Burnham,
Carter, q. r.. Chase, Crank, Dance,
| Dickerson, (Amos,) Farr, FauntlerOy
Fowler, Frazier, Fry, Fulkerson. Full.
| ton, Harrison Oh. H. Harrison, (R
| NJ Henkel, Hunter, James (W. Il. y
Jordan, Kelley, Keyser, Lady, Me
Cabe, MeCaull, Mcconnell, Mcdaniel
McMullin, Niche. MOtlett, OglesbY
Popham, Powell, Robinson, %. II. 81
RyIand, Shelburne. Shumate, Smith
u, H., y Speesard. stevens Sykes Tay
| lor "a. j. J Taylor (W. NJ y Trout
Walsh, White (Thos. NJ aud Wit
ten So.
HANGER -Messrs. Adams. Ander
son, Ashton. Bo.ock, Bohannon
! Brown, Burger, Clarke, Coghill, Cos
I Crutchfield, Davis, Dyer, Echols, Ed
munds, Edwards, Ficklen, Fihney
Goode, Graves, Gray, Green, HILL
Healy, Henry, Henson, Hiner, Low
ell, Luck, McCraw, Norman, Mush
back, Pace, Parrish, Puliam, Rag
land, Reese, Sandidge, Shriver, Talia
ferro, wv. b. Taliaferro. W. T.,
Van Lear, Walker (Geo.,) WalkeI
wv. NJ. y Wallace, and Watson-46.
BoCoCK.-James ID. Johnson.
The result produced the greatest
CONSERVATION among the Funders
Gen. Anderson declared he would
not abide the action of the caucus
An effort had beer made TO rule out
the Independents, but it was voted
down and he was unwilling to bC
bound by the caucus. He insisted
that a majority of the whole vote, 81
was necessary to nomination, bu
the chair announced that Judge AL
len had received the nomination anC
the caucus adjourned in the midst o
cor siderable confusion
When the House met on Wednes
day the enemy had surrendered, ant
Judge Allen was elected speaker.
Reimbursement had won the organi
cation OF the House. Mr.. Bigger wa
reelected Clerk, Gen. Hill, Sergeant
alarms, Capt. Cottrell, of Henrico
First, and Sullivan, of Montgomery
Second Door.Keeper. Only two Pa
ges were appointed, one of which wa
from Washington county, Claud
Craig, son of DR.. II, G. Craig, bein
the lucky boy. The basement officer
will not be elected for some time ye
There are stormy times ahead, an
we mean to press the enemy SEE.