The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-06

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY or VIRGINIA.
sixty.secona Day. 5.ss s
TUESDAY, February 5, 1878.
SENATE. s.ss ..| .,.s5 st
The antGoyernor presiding:
PRAYER by Rev. Henry Mel Donald, D. D.. OF
the Second Baptist church. !.
COMMITTEES REPORTS.
u, Mr.. HArRsTos, from the. Committee on
Grneral Laws, reported bills to incorporate
rho Port snouth Library Association; to in.
corporate the Rappahannock Home Mutual
.Fire-rnsurance Company; to authorize
Grace Memorial church Of Lynchburg to
borrow money. DC. !; to prevent insurance
companies from printing the conditions and
other restrictive conditions Of their policies
in small type; to amend the Code granting
rewards for killing panthers. wolves. &C.;
to incorporate the st. Georges Hospialfor
the United States and Capada.
Mr.. LEE, from the Committee on Roads,
reported bill to amend the act to incor-
porate the Petersburg and North Carolina
Railroad Company: to provide for repairing
the Riyanna. canal with convict-labor.
Mr.. DANIEL, from the Committee Tor
Courts of Justice, reported the following
bills, with the Recommendation that they 40
not pass: To amend section OF chapter loo
of the Code, in regard to suits for divorce;
to amend the Code in relation to the con-
struction Of statutes; to amend the Code
in relation to fees OF. commissioners In
ctancery to amend an act to provide a
general index to deeds, wills, and tduclary
accounts, in counties or corporations that
have not been supplied, approved March
%, 1877. He also reported, with an amend
ment, House bill to amend the Code in re-
gard to the limitation OF entry on or action
for land.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
By Mr.. GAYLE: A resolution as to the eX-
pediency OF electing county Judges at the
present session OF the General Assembly.
By Mr.. Tyler: A resolution for forcl-
BILE bill 20 reduce expenses of government
to an amount not exceeding 100000.
Passed by. .4s.
By Mr. PAUL: Petition of citizens OF
Rockingham county praying that there ne
no change made III the present arrangement
of the counties composing the Eighteenth
judicial circuit.
BY Mr.. WooD: a bill to take the sense OF
the people as to calling constitutional con-
Bv Mr.. GI1MsLEY: A bill to amend va
rious sections of the Moffett-register liquor
law.
PASSED.
On motion Of Mr.. TYLER, Senate bill to
Incorporate the Virginia, Kentucky ana
Ohio Railroad Company was taken up UNI
der a suspension of the rules and passed.
Senate bill for the relief OF the Peters
burg Aqueduct Company was ordered to
be engrosSed.
THE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
On motion of Mr.. BLAND the Coleman
Bliss contested-election case was taken up.
On motion Of MI. BLAND the case was
postponed until Thursday at l O'Clock.
AN ADDITIONAL. TAX FOR THE SCHOOLS.
Mr.. DANIEL presented the following:
Whereas it is essential to the existence Of
the government Of the State that its eX-
penses should be paid; whereas it is essen
tial to the preservation Of the public faith
that the State should redeem its pledges by
paving interest on the public debt; where
as it is the requirement Of the Constitution
that one fifth Of the taxes on real and per-
sonal estate shall be appropriated to the
public schools, and we deem it the dictate
of true policy to support and maintain
them; and whereas these objects cannot
be accomplished by the present rate Of tax
alton on real and personal property, and
we consider that it would be unjust to edu-
cate the children of the State at the expense
of its creditors; therefore be it
ReSolued by the Senate, That in order to
provide fund to support the public
schools without trenching on the neceSsi-
ties of the government and its obligations,
the Committee OF Finance be instructed to
report bill increasing the rate of taxation
one mill on the dollar, the fund derived
therefrom to go exclusively to the public
schools.
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
THE DEBT QUESTION.
After sundry motions to pass by the I'M
finished business 1.-THE public-debt bills) had
been Detected,
Mr.. PHLEGAR, being entitled to the floor,
SAID that many and variant objections have
been made to the bills under consideration.
Some object to them because the coupon
feature is contrary to their principles; some
because the people are chatting under the
coupons, and it will be worse for the credi-
tors to offer them; some because the debt is
fraudulent, and should not be recognized
in its present shape; one because he is not
willing to pay until he knows how much we
owe in equity some because the bills prom
Use more than we can pay; some because
they don't pay enough; and some intimate
very plainly that it is question OF how
little we can get off with.
The do-nothing policy has added five mil
lions to our debt in seven years. The OBJ
structionists have managed to increase the
volume of debt above us without providing
an outlet. They point out no manner OF
creating one. They are like the builder of
dam who provides no waste channel, but
builds higher and higher as the water
rises, until at last the water carries away
the dam and derastates the country below,
or else the water is pressed back upon the
spring, until its weight forces the veins
through other channels and the spring be-
comes dry. So, sir, the policy OF obstruc-
ton will accumulate debt that will either
sweep away the property or the govern
ment Of this State, or will press back upon
the fountain head until it bu1ies the name
and the prosperity Of Virginia forever
Il, the mire Of reputation and disgrace.
fear, sir, from what has passed from the de-
laws to which these measures have been
subjected, from the strange arguments used
AGAINST them-strange because OF the source
from which they come--that there is O de-
IA n that