Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-22

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Lear's road Till for Augusta county Wa
dismissed in the House yesterday which i
I. finality. A vote of adjusters with somt
debt payers instructed the committee 0
the House to report bill for calling a
State convention. We cOndense the fol
lowing from the Richmond papers:
A resolution offered by Mr.. Koiner, call
ing on the auditor for an itemized state
ment of all special appropriations of $1,000
and upwards since March 80, 1871 was
adopted. Mr.. Paul introduced resolu-
ton looking to the reduction of County
Surveyors fees. The bill for working the
roads in Page and Shenandoah was passed
and is I. law. A bill was reported incor-
porating the Grand Division of Sons of
Temperance. A bill was introduced to
furnish convict labor to the counties of
Wythe, Carroll and Grayson, to work upon
a turnpike road. 1t was resolved to in
crease the number Of Commissioners to
the Paris Exposition from to 16. A bill
was passed giving Michael Honlihan Of
Highland an artificial limb. A bill was
passed Is to to prevent the collection.
by an execution of creditors, of wages Of
laboring men. The Barbour tax bill was
discussed by Mr.. Fulkerson for, and
Messrs johnson and Daniel against it.
On Wednesday the debate in the Senate
on the Barbour bill closed and the voting
commenced. The preamble. was amended
as to make it lead that so cents was the
utmost limit to which this instead of the)
General Assembly would proceed in levy
lug taxes. Section 1st, appropriating 10c.
in the 800 to the schools, 25c. to general
government and 15c. for interest &C., was
amended SO as TO read that ''15c. in the
500, all other revenue except the cap
itation tax, and s75 900 of the Moffett
Register tax shall be appropriated to pay
ment of interest. An amendment raising
the rate of taxation to 6S5 cents was a.
dopted (Mr. Koiner voting in the negative)
by the Clair casting a deciding vote, but
was afterwards defeated by 80 to IA, MI.
Koiner voting to defeat it. A motion to
strike out the whole poverty pleading pre-
amble of the bill was defeatt d, Mr. Koiner
voting in the affirmative. amendment
to make taxes payable in coupons or money
was defeated, % to -, Mr.. Koiner voting
in the affirmative. The following addi-
tionai section offered by Mr.. Brooke was
then adopted by 20 to Is. Mr.. Koiner vo-
ting against it:
s. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed
as nterpoSng, or intended to terpose any obstacle
in the way OF The creditors Of she State asserting
any legal rights they may possess OF TO compel the i
acceptance Of any Compromise OF such rights with
out their full concurrence and consent, ii being the
intention of this General Assembly, by the provis-
ions OF this act to relieve the present financial en-
barrassneniS OF the Commonwealth with full pur-
pose il practicable and with he consent q the
Stale upon fair and honorable principles
The bill as amended Was then passed by
vote Of p to Is, Mr.. Koiner voting in
the negative. It went to the House for
its concurrence in the amendments, but
did not get it yesterday.
HOUSE.
A bill was reported permitting a man to
give in his dog for taxation as personal
property. A bill was introduced exempt
ing parsonages from taxation. The Brooke
tax bill was taken UP and, against protest,
vote was forced On it. On a motion to
dismiss it, which is final Mr.. Vanlear
voted aye, and Messrs Hanger and Echols,
no. The molten to dismiss Was carried
70 to Al. A bill was introduced by Mr..
Harvie repeating all acts by which Virgin
ia is liable to be sued in her own courts.
Gen. Echols offered bill s'to enable towns
and cities to confer honorary citizenship
upon persons of distinction" A bill was
presented empowering Notaries Public to
act as justices Of the peace in criminal
cases, and fixing the compensation. The
was instructed to enquire into the expedi-
ency Of electing members of the legisla-
ture for four years
Tie Re-apportionment bill which gives
Augusta Senator and only two Delegates
was passed, Messrs Van Lear, Echols
and Hanger voting for it.
In tile House Mr.. Henkel. himself a
forciEIe adjuster, from Shenandoah, offer
ed resolution instructing the Committee
On Finance to report plan for refunding
the public debt upon such basis and rate
of interest as the revenue will justify. Mr..
H., who seems to be getting his eyes open,
said he saw disposition among the re-
adjusters to postpone this ma ter of ad-
justing the debt, though they were sent
there for that special purpose. He said he
loI bo xuhi 40 foo in Of
conspicuous readjusters the day before,
when they talked of State convention
being necessary to settle the debt. MI.
HIS resolution was advocated by Gen.
Echols. Speaker Allen offered substi-
tute insructing the Committee to report a
bill to settle on the basis of the Barbour
tax bill, which was adopted 66 to 43, Van
lear voting for it and Hanger and Echols
voting against it.
A resolution instructlng the Committee
for Courts to report a bill for calling d
State convention was adopted, "A to 81,
Vanlear voting for and -Echols and Hang
er against it.
A discussion on the Mccormick tele
graph took place, in which Mr.. Bocock
produced telegram from Mccormick
saying it had not been given to Washing
ton 4 Lee University. and if the Univer
sity of Virginia does not get it it will go
out OF the State.
INFRINGEMENT.
The salaries of county Judges were re-
duced to $3.50 per annum for judges OF
counties having oyer 10000 inhabitants,
and 500 per thousand for each additional
1000, fractions Of 900 over 500 to be
counted as thousand. The salary of the
clerk of the Court of Appeals at Richmond
was cut down from $1,000 to $780, Mr..
Vanlear voting for and Messrs Echols and