The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-07
Sitln,ond Qispatth.
TUESDAY. .....v.....MARCh q 1857
The General Assembly.


Tho General Assembly adjourned sine
die yesterday. That Is TO say, the TWO
houses adjourned because the Constitution
forbids that a session shall exceed ninety
DAYS. But Il il understood that an extra
session Is to be called by the Governor.
why should the Governor waste thirty
ar forty or fifty thousand dollars OF the
money of state too poor to pay her debts
What measure do the Readiusters propose
IN mass which the State would not I've the
better withouts The tax bill is continu-
ing act. So IL the law for the assessment
a property. The act OF Congress pro-
yides for the election OF ten congressman
from this State Eext fall. What bill, then,
is before the Legislature which calls for an
extra session.?
Do the people Of Virginia wish to have
their Judges legislated opt OF offcey No.
DO they wish TO have the county superh-
tcpdcnts Of schools legislsted ont OF Office
They do not; nor can IL be done. Their
title 10 their offices is as good as Governor
CAMyRoN's to his. II they can be legislated
out of office before the expiration OF then
constitutional term, so can he. No lawyer
can point ont defect in their title which
does not exist in his. But the fact Is that
both his title and theirs arc indefeasible.
Do the people OF Virginia desire to have
the business OF the courts entrusted 10
mere partisan commissioners in cbancery z
They do not; and Governor CAMERON well
knows that Of the white men Of this Com
monwealth at least two thirds are opposed
to any such revolutionary measure.
Shall there be an extra session in order
that the present competent notaries public
may be succeeded by set OF incompetents
Is all the curial business Of the State to be
entrusted to new hands? Shall nothing be
held sacredY
Or is the Legislature to be reconyened
in order that commissioner OF land-sales
for each county and city may be appointed,
and thus every lawyers case taken out OF
his own hands when he succeeds in getting
a decree Of saes Why should the General
Assembly even think Of such thing! Not
n dollar will be saved to the parties
litigant il the percentage now allowed
for making sales Is not reduced. a sys-
tenn of mere favoritism will grow up,
II not one OF downright corruption.
Where In the broad limits Of the Common
wealth is there a lawyer who has asked
for his business to be taken ont OF his own
hands, and put into the hands OF an APP
pointee OF the Governors Where is the
client who has asked that his case shall be
taken out of the hands OF the lawyer en-
ployed by himself, and put INTO the hands
of a commissioner selected by stranger!
Where is the Judge, Readiuster or Debt
Payer, who has confessed his unfitncss 10:
the bench by asking that another officer
shall be empowered to appoint either his
commissioners in chancery or his commits
sioners to sell lands!
And yet these and such as these, and
even worse, measures are what the General
Assembly expects to be reconvened 10 con-
slider. We would that we could hope bet
ter things from the Governor. But we are
afraid that he cannot Withstand the pres
sure OF his surroundings. We shall very
soon learn the worst.
Z. g.. The Governor has called an extra
session. There Is no limit to an extra ses-
sion except the fact that the members can
draw only $3.50 each, whether the session
be long or short. However, we trust the
Democrats will exhaust every legislative
device in their efforts to defeat the abomi-
nable schemes Of the Revolutionists. These
mischef-makers won't stay here long for
$3.50 which they can draw for one days
work