Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-15
The Legislature.

SGTuCteU 10 TcpOTU UilA WAiCu SuaAl PlO
vide for twelve judicial circuits in the
State instead ofeighteen, as now provid-
ed by law" was adopted by vote OF IS
ayes to 40 noes.
Echols and Hanger voted aye, and
Vanlear voted nay.
In the Senate last Tuesday, Mr.. Koin-
err presented bill to provide for con-
solidating the public debt and the pay
ment of the same rate Of interest on the
whole.
In the House, on Tuesday last, Mr..
Hanger, from the Committee on Prlvl-
leges and Elections, submitted the re
port of the committee in the case OF the
contest of w. II. Shield against Robert
Norton, to the effect that Norton (who
is colored mani is entitled to his seat.
Mr.. Robinson, of Portsmouth, for him
self, presented minority report in ia
vor of giving the seat to Mr.. Shield.
Mr.. Robinson's substitute was reject
ed.
The committees report was adopted.
Motion to reconsider rejected.
The House, by vote of 81 to SO, re-
fused to appoint committee to ask the
Governor for copy of his inaugural ad-
dress to be printed under the order of
LuG L AOSC VIII NOCC0 III ChC
negative avowed as their reason for so
doing that it was not.an official document
and not as discourtesy to the Governor,
nor because of the views expressed in it
Hanger voted in the affirmative and
Vanlear in the negative. Echols' vote
is not recorded. He was absent.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, the
Senate bill prescribing the manner in
which public free school funds shall be
collected, and requiring them to be paid
to the credit of the literary fund and u.s.
ed only for public free school purposes,
being the special order of the day and
| the unfinished business of Tuesday, was
taken up, and Mr.. Fulkerson finished
his speech.
Mr.. Koiner said this bill was but the
advance column of an attack upon the
public debt. This is the strongest col
umn, and the attack is being made from
the bushes. To hold out the idea that
those who are opposed to this bill was
opposed to the free schools was very
unfair idea-it was a mask held up to
deceive the minds of the simple. The
free scpool system is a fixture, and 10
one will deny it. We have been told by
the gentleman from Washington that
this old State is the poorest in the land
that she is so poor she can hardly buy
the Governors breakfast. The speaker
confessed to the poverty of the State, but
we are not so poor as he Mr.. FulkersOn)
would have us believe. In the opinion
of the speaker the prime object Of this
bill is so to set apart the currency paid
| into the Treasury for the support of free
4 schools SO that the wheels of the govern.
ment must come to o. dead stop, and in
duce the people to sasqst to revolution
in opposition to the States contract-to
induce the State to make war upon her.
SELF He dwelt for some time on this
point. 49,
He said the next step was in the di-
rection of forcible readjustment to set
aside another portion of the currency of
the State to the support of the govern
ment, and so divert the money that
comes into the treasury that the public
creditor shall 20 unprovided for, as we
have promised. But the main objection
that the speaker had was the manner ID
which it proposed to settle this question.
Nearly every senator had come here I'M
der the platform Of the great Donserva-
tive party to try to adjust and settle the
public debt in an honorable manner to
the State and the public creditor. He
was of opinion that these pioneer bills
were intypded to SO circumvent the pub.
lie creditors as 10 Etf;Ggel them to sub
NIT. He urged ecohoii'y and npYss,y
in the administration Of public affairs
4 and q concilatory course towards the
creditors, apd if this was done he beleiv-
ed that we would overcoHae oar difficult
ties. He thought we should appeal to
our creditors TO make us . libera! pro-
position.
The discussion was continued by
Messrs. Paul, Smith, and Brooke, after
which Mr.. Massey then took the floor,
and was proceeding to address the Sen
ate when the body adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Hanger presented
a resolution proposing gariona amend
ments to the election law.
The following bill was passed by q vote
of Cd to 57:-~
l. Be it enacted By The General Asae,7a-
6y, That the first section of chapter 235,
Acts of Assembly of 1876-'77, be amend
Ell and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:
IL. That 1t shall not be lawful for any
person to kill or capture, or offer for sale
or buy, any cartridges or quail between
the lst day of January. and the 18th day
of October Ofeach year within this State !;
NJ sn@t. :. ~ "~tqt W S4pltte pa
tflages OF iGa'. ~ any ttne ~ means OF
hets OF traps o. any kina antii a!tef the
expiration VI two years rom the pas.
sage oI tnls aGt' frooSoeo, this sectlon
snall mol apply 10 the owner or tenant
OF lands IN capturing paftrldges or quail
by means OF nets or traps on MS own
premises at any tlme between the 1oth
Jay q NctePer ana the ISL gay OF jan
uaFy n eacn ysas; nninss !ef SAFE.
q. rms oi'l shall pe IN roEee fKoni It's
passage:
Nahisaf e9teq fpf the hlli ana hanger
! against ~; ilchois was abseht.
- LIE senate, on Inursday; Mr.. Mas
sey resumed Ia remarks. he coEpn
mented Mr.. Brooke's remarks OF wed
n s lay, and then answered the re mark
ofsenators on the other side. He assured
Mr.. Eoines that the bill was no man, nan,
trap to capture the upw&Ry no iA4ske ed
battery no advance column, as he fear,
ed. OF obnoxious schemes but q bill
plain, clear. and straightforward in ev'
cry notwithstanding what II says,