Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-21
CAPITOL NOTEs-s7ATEAN AND


CAPITOL NOTES-S7ATE AND
NATIONAL.
We learn by telegraph that the Demo.
cratic State Central and Executive Com,
mittees, in session at Alexandrla. yesterday
fixed Richmond as the place. and Wednes.
day, May 18th, as the time for holding
the democratic State Convention. They
also adopted resolution deprecating the
agitation of the tariff question in the
Democratic party.
The Legislature adjourned sine die on
Wednesday. The Augusta. Rockingham
and Highland delegates arrived In Staun.
ton yesterday, returning home, except Mr..
Echols who was attending the session OF
the Democratic State Central Committee
in Alexandra.
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Two important bills directed against
the coupons became laws last week
One requires the coupon to be at
tached to the bond as an evidence
OF genuinene S, and the other gives the
Commo wealth the right of appeal where
coupons are decided by jurles to be
genuine.
A bill providing that the First Auditor
and not the county judges shall appoint
the assessors for 1885 aud that they shall
be paid So per day has passed both houses.
The bill to organize the volunteer mill
tia of the State has passed both houses. 1t
appropriates about $4,000 per annum
The is in the Appropriation bill an item
of So 900 for military contingent fund;
also. one of $500 for salary of Adjutant-
General.
A int resolution approprlating $4,000
to the relief of the families of the white
and colored miners killed by the explosion
in the Pocahontas mines last Thursday,
was passed by the house. butin the Senate
failed. only receiving six cen votes where
twenty-one we're required. Those who
refused to vote for it, did 30 on the ground
that such an appropriation of State money
was unconstitutional. Notice was after
wards received that the mining company
would provide for the sufferers.
The legislature elected Judge Waller R
Staples, of Montgomery. Judge E. G.
Burks, of Bedford, and John w. Rely, OF
Halifax, as revlsers of the Code. The
whole sum to be paid for their work is
81 $50, and it is to be completed in two
years.
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The Senate showed conscientiousness
and good sense. as we'll, in refusing to vote
its employees extra pay at the close of the
session. but afterwards destroyed 1t all by
voting them $50 each. i+ 1910
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The legislature elected II. G. Moffett
Jr., of Rappahannoek, Railroad Commits
soner,to succeed Geo. A. Martin in Apri
1885 The new Commissioner is abo vi
thirty-two years of age and is now Com.
monwealth's Attorney of his county.
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The full Election Committee OF the
House on Monday adopted the report of the
subcommittee in favor of seating Charles
T. O'Ferrall. The report decided in favor
of O'Ferrall on the illegality of heappoint
ment of collectors of delinquent taxes
by the Auditor, as we'll as the other
points. This looks favorable. to Hon
Jno. E. Massey, whose case. largely de
pended on this tax receipt question. In
the Massey Wise contest the brief of thu
contestee compares unfavorably with tina
of the contestant. Massey's is temperate
searching. and business-llke; Wise's il
abusive and full of matter Irrelevant tc
the merits of the contest. He seems tt
put much weight on the fact that Massey
himself, when Auditor, appointed collec
tors of delinquent taxes. 3 fact, however
which does not lessen the lllegality O
similar action by his successor. ,.,r
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The Senate has, after amending it in
some slight particulars, passed the bill
exhonerating Gen. Fltz-John Porter, re-
storing him to the rank of Colonel, and
placing him on the retired list without,
however, giving him any back pay, The
vote was 36 for the bill and 25 against it
Riddleberger voted for the bill, but Ma
hone absented himself. The amendments
made in the Senate send it back again tC
the House for concurrence, and open the
road for more unpleasant scenes.
Col. VIM. E. Sims, whose indammatory
speech at Danville was followed by the
riot, gave his testimony before Sherman (
Danvllle Committee. 1t was pretty mucf
what he had previously published. Now
that the turn of the Democrats to send
witnesses before the committee has come
there seems to be hitch between the
House and Senate as to the appropriation
made for the purpose. Prominent Repub
licans in Virginia will be summoned by
the Democrats to testify as to the causes
which really did bring on the Danville
riot, and which were of charac-
ter to cause many more riots. -ta#EEv
A Washington letter says that the Re-
publican Malone delegates at-large from
Virginia to the Republican National Con-