The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-07
general hSSBHBIE on VIRGINIA.

GEhERAE. ASSEHBM ,W fikGlNlA.
~ Tuesday, February 8, 1867.
I SENATE.
The Senate met at IL MIR. QUEsEE-
BERRY, president pro sesn., In the chair.
INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. ALLAN: Bill providing Tor special
terms OF the county courts. :.
BY Mr.. MoFFETT BILL req uiring the mill
owners along the Shenandoah river to con-
struct schutes and suices for the protection
Of fish.
By Mr.. COCHRAN: Bill for the relief Of
W. A. Reed, Of Staunton.
y By Mr.. Tanner ! Bill to incorporate the
State Grand Lodge, No. l.
VACATION FOR CORPORATION JUICES.
On motion OF Mr.. MARSHALL, House bill
allowing the corporation judges vacation IN
the month OF August was taken up, and the
vote by which it was rejected on Saturday
last was reconsidered. On motion OF Mr.
MARSHALL the bill was tabled.
,..,..,, ..-s -...-ar, PASSED. (. VS. .,
. House bill to authorize the county OF
Clarke to establish toll-gate on the Ashoy
road. : :s.l,0z .'.i.
House bill to release certain citizens OF
Henrico county from the payment OF fines
imnosed nv the County Court OF sand county
for violation OF the law for the protection
of fish. aiE'aa5 Es't''
Senate bill incorporating the Jennings
House hill for removing the disabilities
Incurred under the anti-duelling law OF
Messrs. p: G. Coghlan, j. B. Donovan,
John r. Moss, and James Barron Hope.
ayes, %; noes, fMr. NEwBERRY). 9"
LEASE OF THE PENrTENT1ARY. s..
AT 1914 O'Clock the order: OF the day,
which was Senate resolution providing tor
the lease Of the penitentiary, came up-tne
question being upon the amendment offered
!by Mr.. QUEsENBERRY, providing That all
conyicts found in the Institution at the time
of the closing Of said lease are to be en-
braced therein. Adopted.
Mr.. JOHNSON moved to amend the bill SO
as to provide, in case the lease is made, that
no work, article, or goods manufactured at
the penitentiary under the proposed con-
tract shall be sold in this State.
Mr., JOHNSON also presented petition,
signed by the various trades-unions in this
CITY. looking to that end, and urged the JUS
tice and Importance OF its adoption.
Mr.. OUEsENBERRY expressed as much IN
terest to protect the mechanical and labor
ing interest as the Senator from Richmond,
but he said the stand that gentleman mad
taken in this matter was to require the les
sees Of the penitentiary to manufacture ar
ticles under this contract so cheap that they,
could bear shipment to distant States, and
debarring the people OF this State from get
j.. ting the benefit Of these cheap products.
| BE thought the gentleman OR. JoHNsoN) had
in his arguments proved too much. He had
endeayored to show that the American artl-
san was prominently skilful. Then, If that
be- so, why should these men fear the COM
petition of these conVicts?
AIr. OUEsENBERRY held that these men
were placed In that institution as Il punish
ment for crimes committed, and it was i'm
portant that during their incarceration the
right policy was to learn them trades AND
make them support themselves. He thought
that the Senator from Richmond should
have entered protest against the hiring OF
conyicts to the various internal improve.
ments, as that course, according to his view
of the matter, brought these men in compe'
tition with the day-aborers Of the State.
Mr.. GREEvER concnrred in the remarks
suggested by the Senator who bad pre-
coded him. @~Er'. 't T.. ..i."t.."'
Mr.. JOHNSON. in reply to the remarks Of
Mr.. QUEsENBERRY, said he did not want the
conyicts to remain in the penitentiary with
out working, but he was sure that they
could earn their support in that place with.
out competing with the labor OF this com.
munity: that was all his people demanded
The eminent skill of the artisans referred to
by the Senator from Caroline were not those
of our people, but in the States further
North, who had become more skilled in
some Of the mechanic arts than ours. He
intimated that the city Of Richmond would
at no distant day submit proposition tc
the State to remove the penitentiary. attheil
own cost, to some other point in the State.
Mr.. CRITcHER thought that the gentleman
from Richmond could attain his ends as vel
by naming the various industries that would
be detriment to his people, II permitted tc
be manufactured in that institution, in hi:
amendment; and he submitted that amend
ment to Mr.. JoHNsoN's amendment.
The question being upon the adoption o.
Mr.. JoHNsoN's amendment to the bill, it was
rejected, and the vote recorded as follows
AyEs.-;MesSrs;;, Cochran, Johnson JONES' Lee
Noes aiessrs. Beazley, CLARK, Diskenson DIf
field, Eastman, Elliott, Eupank, Fipney, Gayle
berry, Num-. Quesenberry, Slenp, Splitter, Stevens
Ward and Wooa-22. 49,. -.t
Nj. COCHRAN moved to amend the bill Sc
as to require the lessees to pay all the eN
penses incurred in transporting all prison
ers under their control from the iails to thu
! penitentiary. H..
The amendment was adopted-ayes, Is
noes, II. ..... ...... ....,,.1'. ,. -
The question OF adopting the substitute
for the bill as amended was decided in tht
affirmative, and the bill passed to its en-
! grossment. .......s, ii. ii. .-..- -. a-.5
49,. VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Senate bill, with House amendments, re
leasing the Virginia. Agricultural Societ!
from the payment of taxes upon sixty-foul
acres OF land belonging to them, came up
and on motion OF Mr.. COCHRAN it was re
ferred to the Committee for Courts OF jus
tice. b. =. .,!.w r. :-r vi -s
~ CLOTHING FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
On motion Of Mr.. GAYLE, the Copmitte,
on Public Institutions were requested to in
quire into the expediency furnishing tn
different State lunatic asylums with clothing
manufactured at the penitentiary. Agreed
| to- ~: tbs. y rl@.-: - ~.'.''
Adjourned, on motion of Mr.. WOOD, a
2:20 P. NJ.
s. HOUSE OF DELEGATES. -
Prayer by Rev. II. Melville Jackson.
~ :. BILLS REPORTED. .,,rr
l. From the Committee on Counties, &c.
bill prescribing the. width Of roads in Wytht
and Bland counties. II i, i
L ~ 49, d..