Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-25
RICHMOND.

A WEEK OF DIsAsTER-THE FEEBLE
ADJUSTERs SMASH THE FORCIBLE AD-
JUsTERs-ALL THE STATE OFFICES
CARRIED BY TIE LEE CAUCUS-THE
LEGISLATION OF THE WEEK-JOINT
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO HEAR
RANGE THE JUDICIAL CIRCUITS,
&C, &C., sc.
The news from Richmond is quite in
teresting this week The straight out
Conservative caucus, which has DecH ridi
cuIed 10y the Wing" as the ''reepiv All
ju ters,'' as distinguished from the For
chile Adjusters, elected tAelr whole tick
ct for State offices, "Wednesday, which
must have astonis ed the Forclbles con
siderably. The question now is, where
will the Forcib!e. 60? A pers' Nal collision
in Il committee room, betMeep Gtu B adj e5
johnson and Col. Hln,on. vi Peitrst.u, g.
is reported anon. the L., ldeIts vi tit
week. We cUndenso the following iroe
The Richmond papers. pre- ul>.ng Ii at th'
I'd A uditor will 40, be erected until the
inyes;ig. ton in that office is cone lnded-
neither caucus nom mated for that office:
OFFICES.
The Conservative members under Gen.
Lee, "a strong, and the Adjusters and IL
dependents under Senator Quesenberry
70 strong, assembled in the two wings of
the Capitol, Tuesday night to make nomi-
nations for State offices. OF the first or
ganization Senator Hurt was absent, sick
Gen. Echols, Of Staunton, was absent in
Washington, and two other enrolled men,
bers were hot present. OF the second Or
gaDization all were present. The Lee eau
Gus went through the form of lnviting the
regular COnservat We members of the @.
caucus to assemble with them, and finally
decide on tile question of Independents.
They got in reply resolution from the @
caucus telling them If they wanted to come
into the c. S, the door was open for them
Hanger and Ficklin had opposed inviting
the @. S atal and favored, from the first,
After the reply came from the Q.'s. Daniel,
Bocock and Hiner advocated going on with
the nominations as there was no hope for a
| union. The following ticket was nomi-
! mated Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, W. II. Ruffner Nominated by Mr..
Hanger J First Auditor, VIM. F. Taylor
dominated by Gen. Jos. r. Anderson J
Secretary of the Commonwealth, James
Mcdonald, dominated by Mr.. Bocock y
Superint endent Of the Penitentiary. Sam
uel Swan, Nominated by Mr.. Gayle, ard
beating Lindsey Walker;) Storekeeper of
the Penitentiary, n. I. Taliaterro: Super
ntendent of Public Printing, Richard b.
Frayser, Nominated by Senator Mum,
and beating R. T. Walker, by a vote of Al
to 81 ) and S. H. Boykin, for Register of
the Land Office.
AT the the G. caucus MI. Shelbourne
moved to make no nominations, but MI.
Paul objected to the motion. Just then
the committee from the Lee caucus APP
peared with the invitation which was ex
tended by Bocock and Taliaferro in earn
tst speecl es. Speaker Allen then offered
a resolution appoint ing a committee of
conference with the Lees, but meanwhile
av,wed like Mrs. Micawber, he would
never, never desert the Q's. Mr. Massey
offered a resolution inviting the Lees to
Walk Over and Mr.. Hinton off red another
telling the Lees that if they did wa k over
they would tind the doors open, which last
was adopted, and Messrs. Bar bour, n offett
and uunter appoint to carry the message.
Then a hot time came, over going Into the
nominations. Pop am, Dance, Taylor, and
others opposed it and Quesenberry the
Chairman said he would not be bound by
any nominations Fulkerson accused the
caucus of not having backbone, Mofett as
sured him he was mist aiken. Chairman
Quesenberry resigned his Craftsmanship
Then they went into the nominations.
they nominated the same ticket as the
Lee caucus except VIM E. Cameron, for
Secretary of the Commonw. alih Gen. r.
L. Walker, for Supt. of Penitentiary; r
f. Walker, Supt. Of Public Printing, and
w. Gaines, for Penitentiary StOre-keeper.
Messrs. Fulkerson and M; ssey opposed
MI Taylor for Au litor, but Mr.. Barbour
carried him through. When the election
anne Oh next day the whole Lee ticket was
elected by the legislature. Cameron for
ii cretary of the State YVES beaten by 103 to
to 81, Walker for Public Printer was beat
EN- liy 81 to 20, Lindsey Walker for Super
intendent Of Peniten;iary was beaten by
81 to II, Gaines for Penitentiary Store
keeper was beaten by 80 to 81. The only
change in the State officers is putting in
Frayser as Public Printer in place of Wal
ker. Il test vote says the ''Dispatch"
howed the Quenesberry caucus has just ~
re ular Conservatives in it. Hanger and
KOiner voted for the Lee nominees straight
through, Vsnlear voted for the @. nomi-
nees syrai 5ht through md Echols was alb
emf.
SENATE,
A resolution by Mr.. Hurt, of Halifax,
instructing the Finance Committee to re-
poi such tax bill as i'll, with reduction
of State expenses, pay full interest on the
public debt, and on two thirds of the I'M
funded debt, Was laid on the table by the
following vote:
AYES. Messrs Broke, Chiles Elliott, Fukerson,
Griffin, Hurt OF rittsylvania, .Koiner, Marshall
Massey Murray Norton r Pa sa P9lgar Powell
NOES. Messfs. B. it's, Blanl, Gayle, Grimsley,
Hinton, Hurt of Halifax, johnson, Lee, Nash, Num-,
Ques MERRY Smith, Stevens, Walston, and Worth
am-l5
The bill requiring the school tax to be
paid, in money and not in coupons was Or
lered to lie engrossed equal to its passage)
by the following vote:
AYEs.-Messrs Bliss, Brooke, Chiles, Elliott Full
kerson Griffith, Grimsey, Hinton, Marshall, Massey,
Murray Nash, Norton Paul, Phi gar, Powell Q.t-
senberry, Sherrard, >lemp Stevens, Tyler, Ward,
and Wood-23
NJ RattC Ilaria Hon