The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-01-22
SENATE.
January 16.

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ing, and a succession Of routine bust.
ness, the Senators began to get in
their work in Bills and Resolutions.
The following are the
BILLS INTRODUCED:
BY Kirtley: S. B. No. SO, to prevent
members Of the County Courts, over
seers Of the poor, and members ofany
other county or district offices, from
being pecuniarily interested in the
proceeds Of any contract or service in
the award Of letting Of which they
have any control,
By Kirtley: S. B. No. "a, toamend
the law in regard to the license upon
shows, etc.
By Butler S. B. No. IS, to confer
additional Jurisdiction on Circuit
Courts.
By Turner: S. B. No. Sc, re-enact-
ing with amendments the law organ.
izing the Supreme Court Of Appeals,
defining its jurisdiction and powers
and describing the manner Of proce-
dure before it.
RESOLUTIONS:
0neby Jones, directing the Com.
mittee on Education to inquire into
the expediency of amending the
school law so as to dispense with
trustees, and in lieu thereof elect FIVE
school commissioners in each dis
trict. .t
RESOLVED, That the Committee on
Counties and Municipal Corporations
inquire into the expediency of pro-
hibiting by law the allowance ofany
claim against any county or district,
unless the same has beef previously
authorized by the county court or
other tribunal established in lieu Of
u county court, or by the proper dis
trict authorities, or by law; and that
they report by bill or otherwise,
ByNewlon: RESOLVED, Thatthe Com.
mittee on Public Buildings and HUI
name Institutions inquire into the
expediency of making an appropria.
tion to complete the buildings for the
hospital for the insane.
Resolved, That the Judiciary Com
mite inquire into the expediency Of
requiring the Dockets of the circuit
and county courts to be SO arranged
that the jury cases shall stand first
on the list, and be first disposed of,
SO that the jury may be discharged
as soon as possible, and all unneces-
sury expense for jury saved to the
counties,
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS,
The President announced as men,
bers on the part of the Senate, Of the
joint committe TO whom all measures
looking to changein the judiciary
shall be submitted, Messrs. Brown,
johnson and Tarr.
Senate Bill No. 5, providing that
all fduciary bonds, and bonds Of
county and district officers, iniunc-
tion, receivers, commissioners and
appeal bonds, and all bonds taken
pursuant to any decree or order of
any Court, or Of any Judge thereof,
shall be recorded, was taken up on
its tshn ife 1 Bfl Nc p was passed, re-
lating to evidence in actions Of as
sumpsit.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Bills were then taken up on their
second reading, and amendment
Some discussion was caused bya mo-
ton to indefinitely postpone Senate
Bill No. 40, reducing the sum neces-
sary to be stolen to constitute grand
larceny from $40 to $40. In this
Faulkner, Newman, Baxter, Adams,
Brown, Dennis, Newton, Butler, Sum-
mers, Woods and Stout participated.
The discussion was by turns excit-
ed and amusing, but brought out lit
tie worth preserving. Newton and
Stout spoke favorably of the whip
ping post. Brown referred rather
Slightly TO the "Old Dominion" rails
| lug laugh by the remark: "Virgin.
ia has not been Virginia for years"
He also dubbed Virginia Young Viz
ginia." The ayes and noes were call
cd for, and resulted i'll the defeat of
the motion.
Woods then proposed an amend
ment making the sum SIS, which
was rejected. Butler wanted the sum
SIS; Dennis wanted to make it only
81, Both amendments were lost.
In the original bill the penalty is
made confinement in the penitenti-
airy for not less than two nor more
than ten years.
Mr.. Dennis moved to make it not
less than one year.
This was the cause Of more discus
sion by the moverand Senators Sum.
mers, Brown and Turner.
Mr.. Newman proposed as a substi-
tute to imprisonment, the inaiction
of thirty lashes.
The first amendment was agreed
to. The bill was then ordered to its
engrossment for third reading,
Senate Bill No. IS, amending the
school law, was killed by refusal to