The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-15
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The Brooks Bill came mp as. unnnisnea
business; the substitute OF Mr.. aENKi 1ssy-
fnopBis Of which was given yesteraay) 0e'ug
the pending question J;
MIR. HENRY spoke for ten smlnlutes III au'
y0cacy of his substitute. !, So
Mr.. HENRY, in explaining his substitute:
said in drawing his bill ne hao proceeueu
on the idea that hereafter by q proper econo-
nv we could nav SIX per cent. on the prin-
cipaI OF our debt. pay all the money to the
free, schools required by the Constructor,
and have the amount needed to support the
government left. This we could DO II tue
expenses OF the government are Ieouced
to S75O,0O0, as promised by the ma
iority of this House, and the net IN
crease OF revenue from the Mofett liquor
tax equalled $4,000, which we are as
sured it will be by proper Legislation.
His bill, therefore, proposes to offer new
ifour-per-cent. bond to creditors who Will
fund past-aue interest and prlnclpal IN q
proportion not exceeding 500 OF interest,"
and to 800 OF principal, thus not increasing
our annual interest, while we fund our past
due interest and have the running OF the
bonds-to wit, fifty. years to pay IL IN. All
other schemes propose to pay pas1-aue IN
TO appropriate towards it some 5000, 600 per
annum, while he proposed to liquidate that
and the principal by sinking fund, COM
mencing after ten years, and running 1orty
years, with slight tax required Tor u per
annum. The bonds not exchanged Tor
these four-per-cent. bonds he proposed TO
pay off after 1881, when they are redeem
able at the option Of the State by sale OF
four-per-cent. bonds, as the United States
is now doing. He proposed to issue only
registered bonds, but to pay the interest TO
the foreign bondholders in London, and to
give Virginia holders the right to pay all
their taxes, except that for free schools, by
orders on the Treasurer for the interest past
due on the bonds to be issued. He was
we'll satisfied that the Commonwealth
could not protect itself from pillage so
long as she issued coupon bonds; as
the coupons, and in some cases the
bonds themselves, like bank notes, passed
from hand to hand, payable to bearer, and
| If stolen would deceive every one. He
proposed to burn the bonds held by the
sinking fund and all those returned to the
Treasury. He proposed to credit all the
interest paid on old bonds since the war
on Virginia's two-thirds OF the debt, and
the West Virginia certificates should dis
tinctly release Virginia OF all liability ex-
cept for what she received from West Viz
ginia.
When Mr.. HESRY's time expired Mr..
JOHNSON, Of Accomac, moved to extend his
time. Mr.. GRAVES and two or three more
objected.
Mr., MoFFETr opposed the substitute.
,5,, DopuI,f I1ol tho pon6iur nnnctiOna
and il was ordered.
The substitute was reiected-ayes, "a;
noes, So.
A vote was then forced on the BROOKE
bill, cutting off all debate, against the pro-
test OF General TALIAFERRO and others.
Mr.. WALLACE in the chair.
The question being upon dismissing the
BROOKE bill recorded vote resulted as fol-
lows:
AYES Messrs. Akers, Bernard, Bland, Brown,
Burnham, j. r. Carter, Chase. Crank, Curlett,
Dance, Davidson, Dickerson, Dickinson, Dyer,
Fuikerson. Goode, Grlgsby. Hamilton. H. II. Harri-
son, L. N. Harrison. Harvie, Healy, Henkel, r. p.
Lady, Lee. McCabe, McConnell,s Mcdaniel, SIcMul-
Ian, Moffett, Norton, 0gesby, Parrish. Pitts. Pop
ham, Powell. Z. g. Robinson, J. Il. Robinson, Shu-
j. walker, Walsh: Waring. 8; J. r; White. T: NJ.
White Witmer Winngheld' Witeen' Wr'fht' Young
NoEs.9Messrs Anderson, .Bocock. Bohannon,
Burger, Cox, Crutchfeld, Davis, Echols Edmnnds'
err, Hardesty, Henry, Henson, Hunter, johnson,
Jordan, Kyle, Lowell, Luck, McCraw:. Moneure,
land, Reese, sandidge, shannon Shelburne shriver,
G. .a1 Walker, w. II Walker, Wallace, watson, and
Whitacre-47.
Motion to reconsider rejected.
Speaker ALLEN in the chair.
FLOOD REASsEssMENTs. -
House bill, with Senate amendments, for
reassessment of lands injured by the late
floods came up. Several Senate amend
ments were agreed to. One was amended
so as to restrict reassessments to property
damaged by floods in November and later in
1877.
On motion Of Mr.. HANGER the bill was
recommitted to the Committee Of Finance,
where the effect of the Senate amendments
can be better studied.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSES;.
Senate bill, with House amendments, de-
fning the status Of tobacco warehouses was
passed.
MECHANICS LIENS.
House bill amending the law in relation
to mechanics liens was dismissed.
LEASE OF PENITENTIARY.
Mr.. MoFFETT moved to make Senate bill,
with House substitute, the special order for
Tuesday next. Agreed to.
THE sALARY-BILL.
Mr.. BoHANNoN in the chair.
At l O'Clock the consideration of the sal
ary-bill was resumed.
AS to the expediency OF cutting down the
pay of county judges there were brief
speeches from Messrs. w. B. TALIAFERRo,
MCMILLAN, JOSEPH WALKER, LADY. HENRY,
LACY, MoFFETT, EDMUNDs, LEE, and FRA
ZlER.
Numerous amendments were rejected.
One or two were adopted.
Section 10 was then adopted.
The specific salary is $3.50 per annum for
Judges of counties having over 10, 900 inhab-
itants, and 800 per thousand for each addi-
tional 1000; fractions Of 1000 over 500 to
be counted as thousand.
CLERK COURT OF APPEALS.
The next section ~ fixed the salary Of
the clerk Of the Court OF Appeals, at Rich
mond. at $500, and the clerks at Staunton
and Wytheyille $500; the clerk Of the Cir
cult Court at Richmond, $160-a reduction
of twenty per cent. Fees are not touched.
Mr.. STEVENS proposed to strike out $500
and insert $500, and would thereafter move
to put $500 everywhere $500 appears, max
ing the salary Of each clerk Of the Court Of
Appeals $500.
The motion was opposed by Messrs. BER-
NARD and HENRY.
It was stated by Mr.. BERNARD, on the au-
thority of Mr.. Christian, that the gross
amount Of the income Of Mr.. Christian. the