The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-06
GENERAL ASSEMBLY or yRsINIA
FRIDAY. March >, 1880.
SENATE.

FRIDAY, MsSco =, lcoV'
SENATE.
Tic Senate met at IL O'Clock A. NJ
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WALKER n tne cua,r.
A commsntcati was reccHeu from .nc
rr.,,se Ans0anciug the passage OF numper
~ senate HYts heretofore repersen.
Ths hif, 10 amend the Code In relation %
10 sn,rir.vaent Of convicts in the county
Ss s,ls wsS discussed by Mr.. STovAlL OF hcnry
II lie faxor and MIR. HENRY In opposiion
thereto, and rejected.
The vote was RECONSTRUCTED.
Mr. SuYuof Nelson amended so as 10 IN
.,,,ss ,,ersons In jail ~s1o should elect 10 DC
81 bsvsd out on the public roads.
TIE bill was passed.
coYyscr-LABoR.
House bill instructing the Governor 70
hire ont the convicts at the Granite Com-
narv works TO Messrs. Mason. Shannahan
& yioce for the sum OF TWENTY-FIVE cents per
d.y In addition TO their maintenance was
referred, the Senate refusing to suspend Inc
rules.
THE Upper srroMArTox COMPANY.
The bin to permit the Upper Appomattox
Company 10 liquidate its indebtedness 20 toe
state in bonds was opposed by Mr.. HENRY
Al length, and rejected for want OF consul
tutional vote-ayes, Is; noes, IL.
DEATH OF JUDGE MONTAGUE.
A message was received from the Gov
erpor ANNOUNCING The death 81 Hon. hoocr,
l.. Montague, Judge Of the Eighth judicial
circuit. Laid on the table and ordered to
be printed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. PAUL moved to reconsider the vote
bv which the Senate re- cied the bill for the
relief OF the Upper Appomattox Company.
Mr.. SMITH OF Alexandra moved that lie
motion be laid on the table. Adopted.
AID FOR ISnIGEST WIDOWS.
A bill providing for the relief OF indi-
gent widows OF Virginia soldiers and sail
ors who were killed or died in the late Con-
federate army or navy, or died IN conse.
ouence OF wounds or disease contracted
therein, was taken UP, and discussed at
some length by Messrs. PAUL, HENRY, ana
DANIEL.
Mr.. THURMAN offered the following amend
ment, which was defeated:
Strike out tie words "who may not have
married since"
He claimed that the object OF the bill was
to extend the bounty of The State to indl-
gent widows and children Of Confederate
soldiers, and did not think that the chill
dren of Confederate soldiers ought TO be
denied this bounty when In needy circun-
stances because the mother had since mar
ried.
Mr.. DANIEL offered an amendment levy
ing tax of 2 per cent. on the 500 10 carry
out the provision OF the law.
The question wac pending when the hour
OF recess arrived.
Afternoon Session.
Lieutenant. Governor WALKER in the
chair.
Mr.. RAwLEs presented joint resolution
that the General Assembly will adjourn
sine die on Saturday. March 6, at III 7. NJ.
Lies over under the rules.
Senate bill to provide Communication for
the widows OF INDECENT Virgins soldiers,
&C., was taken up. the question being on
the amendment OF Mr.. DANIEL to lew a
tax OF two cents on the 500 to pay the
same.
Lost-aye.. 4; noes. 21.
Mr.. FULKERsON moved to strike out $780,
900 and insert $4,000. Agreed TO.
The bill was engr0ssed.
Senate Joint resolution to protect the
States interest in the Upper Appomattox
Company was indefinitely postponed.
Senate bill to permit the Upper Appomat-
tox Company to liquidate its Indebtedness
to the State in bonds was passed.
Mr.. CANNON presented resolution for the
election tomorrow Of judge 10 I'll the va
cancy caused by the death OF Judge Mon
tague, 81 tho Eighth circuit. Agreed to.
Mr.. Paul. sent up to the Clerks desk aud
had spread upon the Journal the following
protest:
The undersigned senator's do hereby re-
spectfully enter their earnest protest against
the passage Of Senate bill No. 253, entitled
An act to authorize the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company TO discharge its
Indebtedness 10 the State" the effect OF
which is 10 exchange valid or solvent debt
for bonds deprecated on account OF the
poverty and necessity of the State, and to
virtually present flourishiDg corpora
ton with bonus out OF a meagre and Of en-
empty treasury. Were this company the
owner OF the State bonds which 1t pro-
poses to pay there might be some color
Of equity and justice in its petition to dis
charge with them the debt to the State;
but to authorize II to go upon the market
and purchase them for the purpose Of IL
Quidating the debt Is to give the privilege
10 speculate upon our misfOrtunes, and to
extinguish solvent claim Of between $780,
600 and 100000. which II utilized as part
of the Sinking Fuad TO which it belongs
would take in several hundred thousand
dollars more Of the State debt.
n In short, the State, by this act, gives away
without adequate consideration the eQuiva-
lent OF two or three hundred thousand dol
lars; and we regard such policy at such e
time as this as in the highest degree unwise,
not to say ruinous.
Very respectfully,
JOHN PAUL,
John w. DANIEL,
JOHN L. LOWELL,
A. FULKERs0N,
JOHN Z. STRoTHER,
II. g. Wo0D,
SAMUEL .LEECE,
SAMUEL PICKETT,
III. A. ATKINSON, JR.
Mr.. FULKERs0S presented a resolution re-
questing the House to return to the Senate
the bill referred 10 in the protest. Agreed
TO.
House bill to authorize the construction
OF the Halifax and Shady Grove railroad
was passed.
House bill 10 authorize the consolidation
oi the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway
and the Richmon6 aud Allegheny Railroad
Companies was passed.
Senate bill to authorize the Atlantic, Mis-
siSippi and Oaio Railroad Company TO
build lateral lines, &c., was passed.
House bill to authorize the Governor to
bire out certain conxicfs to Mason, Stamina
han a. Hoge for ihirty-fiye cents per day
was passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.