Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-08
RICHMOND.

AlVAMVN0s
A DISTRACTED LIE GISLATURE-ALL
SORTS OF BILLS--A DESCENDING STATE
MENT BY THE AUDITOR, BECAUSE
THERE rs NO MONEY THE ADJCsTERs
WANT "A CONSTITUTIONAL. CoNvEN-
TON, AN ADJOURNMENT orr SMASH
UP-THE DEBT-PAYEks COOL,
sc, &C., 50.
The news from iiiciinOld Ibis week is
not very far from confusion, and hard 10
get together. We give Il summary from
the Richmond papers:
SENATE.
A bill was passed making it obligatory
with town councils Except Richmond) to
vote the amount for The public schools
asked by their school boards, SO it is no
more than double what they get from tue
Sta5e. This passed the House, and NO
only needs the Governors signature.
not the first biennial session, and that II
first biennial is that OF 1879, vas adOpte,
This was followed by The adoption OF
resolution extending the present sessio
ten days, only the extreme adjusters We
ing against it. On Friday, when NJ
Koiner called up the joint order of the da.
the election of circuit judges-and i.
was found on sending a senator to the
House that that body had adjourned in the
face of the order, there was quite lively
debate upon it, but, of course, the Senate
could do nothing. Another veto from the
Governor was received, this time stopping
Mr.. Massey's bill for the collection of the
school tax in money. &c. The Governor
says he vetoed it for the same reason he
did the Barbour tax bill, and adds:
of the freeschoo system, think this i bill does moi
tend to gain them. Nothing, it seems to me, ought
to be done which will either make it enemies OF
raise question with regard to the justice or validity
of the adopted for its support and further
growth
[Signed] FRED. w. M. HOLIDAY.
March l. 1878.
A motion to pass it over the veto was
defeated, "a mot the required two-thirds)
to 16, Mr.. Koiner voting against the pas
sage. One thousand copies of the veto
we're ordered to be printed. In the cleo
tion of officers Smith, for Treasurer, got
10 votes to 18 for Hunter. MI. Koiner vo-
ting FOR Smith; for Auditor, Rogers got %
to 10 for MCMILLAN, Mr.. Koiner voting
for Rogers; for Judge of the Hastings
Court of the city of Richmond, Christian
got % to 10 for Neeson, Mr.. Koiner voting
for Christian. and for Railroad Commits
sloner, Carter got all the votes cast.
On Monday the Senate performed what
looks like good joke. The excellent bill !,
cutting down salaries and other pay, and
thus saving the state $4,000 year. which
was passed quite savagely by the House,
came up in the Senate on it's passage and
passed like a shot by 80 to 6, Mr.. Koiner
voting aye. This didn't seem to be what
the adjusters had expected, for Mr.. Fulk-
erson, who had voted aye himself, moved
a. reconsideration of the vote and was
sustained by Mr.. Paul, but the Senate re-
fused to reconsider it and the bill now on
ly needs the Governors signature to make
it law. Mr.. Koiner on Monday present
ed bill for the consolidation of the pub
lie debt.
The Senate had quite warm debate
over a motion to commit Mr. Koiner's bill
to the Finance Committee, in which Mr..
Fulkerson characterized the bill as a fire
brand calculated only to further irrivate
the legislature and distract the country
He said if we were to promise to pay pei
cent we could not do it; that this legisla.
ture could not settle the debt question, and
NOBODY but the people could, and the sooll-
er it was submitted to them the better
Mr.. Paul took pretty much the same view.
The Senate refused to commit the bill, by
a vote OF 20 to 3. On Wednesday Mr.
FulkersOn offered resolution chat The
legislature adjourn March 9th, which the
Senate refused to consider by a vote OF
ayes II noes II. The bill incorporating
the Warm, Hot, and Healing Springs and
Covington Narrow Guage r. r. was pass
ed,
Mr.. Koiner presented d bill to authorize
the trustees of the Methodist church at
Mount Scion, in Augusta county, to sell
cert ain property and re-invest, proceeds of
sale.
HOUSE.
The first thing the House did on Thurs
day morning was to try to pass the Bar
bour tax bill over the veto. The effort
failed by vote of II (not the required
two-thirds) to ~. Mr.. Vanlear voted for
the passage and Messrs. Hanger and
Echols against it. The following is the
vote
nard Bland, Brown, Durham, j. R. Carter, Chase,
Coleman, Crank Curlett, Dance; Dickerson, Dick
Ter, Frazier, Fry Fulkerson Fulton Goode, Grigsby,
Hamilton. H H. Harrison, R. N. Harrison, Harvie,
Henkel, Henson Hunter, r. Z. James, W, 7. James,
Johnston, Kelly, Lacy, Lady, Lee, McCabe, McCaull,
Mcmillan, Norton, Parrish, Pitts, Popham, E, c,
Robinson, J. Fl. Robinson, Ryland shannon Shu-
nofa Gnit C,,,,t1,x orI ,rI