The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-26
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FRIDAY, January %, 1878.
!..s3 SENATE. ga ss s.,
& Senator puEsEsBERRY In the chair. No
MI. LsE. from the COMMITTEES on Roads,
Senate bill TO amend the I'd section
n Al, act TO Incorporate The washington,
Cincinnati aud st. Louis rnilroa 4,
Mr.. SNIrH, from the Committee OF Fi.
nance. reported a bill to amend section IL
81 chapter SO OF the Code, In relation to
taxes collected by clerks OF courts, notafies
pubiic, and Secretary of the Commonwealth
MIR. GRrMsIEY, from the ,Commhtee Tor
Courts Of Justice, reported House Dill 20
amend sections II aud 10 OF CHAPTER l2o OF
ehe Code, providing for recordation OF fid gt'
ciary accounts, with amend rnenfs. 81 q
BILLS, &C., PRESENTED.
nv Mr.. WuaTHAM lat the request OF one
OF his constituents: A bill to abolish capi-
Cal punishment. Referred. ~
By MIR. HURT OF Pittsylgania A resoiu-
dion as 20 the expediency Of prohibiting
Judges OF the County and corporation
C0uIIS taSGtStn6 80
this Commonwealth. Referred.
Nv Mr.. sCRIMsLEY: Aabi1 toEamend Sec
tions q and % Of chapter 100 OF the CODE
ne amended, with reference to the coiiection
OF officers fees. Referred. !,
/ iBy same A bill to amend section 3f OF
chapter 40 OF the Code, in reference TO the
exemption OF property from distress.
Nv Mfr. SMITH of Nelson: A bill TO amend
and reenact section OF chapter LOG Of the
Code, in relation to a Widows dover.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE. ......--.....-
4, On motion OF Mr.. PAUL, Mr.. NASH was
granted leave OF absence for three days.
On motion of Mr.. BLISS, Mr.. POWELL
On motion OF Mr.. NUM-, Mr.. BROOKE
was granted leave OF absence for one day.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The two bills in relation to readjnst-
ment Of the public debt, being the unfin-
ished business OF yesterday, were taken up,
and Dir. KoISER completed his argument IN
favor Of the substitute.
MIR. TYLER moved to amend Mr.. KOINER's
substitute by striking out three per cent.
interest and inserting five per cent.
Mr.. PAUL spoke in opposition to the Dill.
In the course of Mr. PATL's remarks Mr..
KoINER inquired how he proposed to re-
cover from the public creditor the power to
enforce their taX-receivable coupons.
Dir. PAUL read the sixth resolution OF MS
series which he presented during the early
part OF the session, in reference to the pub
lie debt, as follows:
..That while we are anxious and deter
mined to pay to the creditors OF the State
all that the diminished resources OF our
people will Justify, and we repel and utter.
iy discard the idea OF reputation, yet we
are determined by all legal and constitu
tional means to resist and defeat the opera
ton OF the funding act, and to reassert the
sovereign right OF the State to control hel
own revenues" 49,
He asserted that the school bill which had
Just passed the Senate is one Of series OF
measures 10 accomplish that object. Other
bills are pending for the same purpose
one of which provides for setting apart a
portion OF the revenues for the support of
government. Other bills OF like character
will follow.
Mr.. griffin was about to address the
Senate when MIR. 1GRIMSLEY suggested it
would be well to postpone the considera-
ton of the bill until there was full Senate
and several unimportant bills had been dis
posed Of H.
Mr., FULKERsoN moved to lay the bill on
the table and make it the order OF the day
for Monday at 2. NJ.
Mfr. HURT of Pittsylvania, as substl-
tute, moved to pass by the bill: Lost on
recorded yote-ayes, Z; noes, 20.
Mr.. FuLKERsoS's motion was agreed to
on recorded Yote-ayes, 16; noes, 10. Il,
s@5.fnf&sa4 OTHER BUSINESS. ..-..ass !,
Senate bill, with House amendment, to
incorporate the Rochelle Mutual Co0pera.
tive Association. &c, was taken up, on mo-
ton Of Mr.. GRIMsLEY, and the amendment
agreed to. ..a,
Senate bill to provide for the lease Of the
penitentiary was taken up and ordered to
be engrossed and read third time.
Senate bill to provide for the erection q
toll-gates on abandoned turnpikes was
taken up, amended, and ordered to be en-
crossed and read third time.
PASSED.
Senate bill regulating the reports Of insu'
rance companies.
House bill for the relief of Gideon W.
Jones, Of Warren county.
| Adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Speaker ALLEN in the chair. "
., REPORTED FROM COMMITTEES. ~
House joint resolution about remonetiza-
ton, &C., with substitute; House bill re-
ducing salaries of members and of
officers OF government with an amend
ment; House bill to amend section G8 of
chapter 81 OF the Code Of 1878. as amended
by an act approved February IS, 1877, in
reference to insurance companies, with
q substitute House bill to amend
md repenact section IL of chaDter 81
Of the Code, in relation to the duties and
salary Of the Vaccine Agent reducing pay
from $720 to 5000; House bill to relieve
Theresa NJ. Baeigalupo from the payment of
a fine; House bill to repeal chapter 212 OF
the Acts of 1877, for the protection Of fish
in the waters of che Commonwealth above
tide-water adversely; House joint resolu-
ton appropriating $1,000 for the collection
OF specimens showing the resources OF Vir-
ginia at the Paris Exposition.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
was granted Messrs. Fry, ATTKIssoN,
HANGER, and FAUNTIEROY two days each,
Luck three days, and GREEN and SANDIDGE
four days each. .
- PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. JOSEPH r.. ANDERSON: Resolu-
ton that the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments inquire into the expectancy
Of submitting to the vote OF the people an
amendment to. the Constitution striking out
the clause which leyies tax on property
for the support OF public free schools, and
ia lieu thereof increasing the capitation tax
to 81, the whole of which shall be applied
to the support OF public free schools, as re-
peatedly recommended by the Superintend-
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