The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-02-21

earnest and emphatic protest against meas
ure which seems to me inefficient for good in
the the and prolific Sf II ioF ey in
The bill was passed over the veto by q
strict party vote-24 to II.
1.-THE bill provides that the registrars,
Judges. and clerks of election for each
county and city shall be chosen by an cleo
toral board of three. Such electoral boards
are to be elected by the General Assembly
by one or more joint resolutions. The pay
coed SIS per annum.
Saturday-Senate.- Mr.. Trout intro
duced bill giving the United States so
much land as may be necessary for a gun
foundry and other necessary buildings in
or near the city of Roanoke.
| Roanoke is always alive, and she has
representative in the Senate who is con-
| tinuously looking out for her interests and
ever prepared to present her claims when
anything that may be turned to her ad-
vantage comes up. If the other repre-
sentatives exercised as much common
sense and consulted the interests of their
constituents as does Mr.. Trout, this leg
islature would be distinguished for some
thing more than revolutionary measures.
House bill to prevent the officers and
employees and records of the Treasurer,
Auditor Of Public Accounts, and Second
| Auditor from being taken and removed
| from their respective offices for the pur-
pose of testifying and being used as evil
| dence in civil and coupon cases. was passed.
! Mr.. Powell, from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, presented a re-
port in the contested election case of Cal.
| 10 OF in
Mathew P. Rue as senator elect from the
| Thirth- third senatorial district. The re-
port was signed by J. S. Powell, A. K.
Grim, and Robert Barnes (all Coalition
/ ists.
Messrs. Thurman and Diggs, in a foot
note. said that they concurredin the above
resolution but not in the report, and re-
served the right hereafter to give addi-
tional reasons in writing.
Mr.. Mccormick, a member of the COM
mittee, announced that he did not concur
report by Monday.
/ The report was laid on the table and Or
dered to be printed.
The minority report will be signed by
MesSrs. Mccormick, Meredith and Glas-
goW.,
House.-Mr. Soule introduceda petition
OF the citizens Of Rockingham for local
option law, and various other similar petit
lions were presented.
Mr.. Gibson introduced resolution that
| the Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments be instructed to prepare and report
a bill providing for so altering the Con-
stitution as to require white trustees for
white schools and negro trustees for negro
schools.
| Mr.. Moon, by request, introduced bill
to protect the citizens of this Common
wealth from injury by the careless running
OF railroad trains, and to prevent trespass
on the tracks OF railroad companies. The
bill provides that locomotive whistles must
be blown when the locomotive gets within
| 50O yards OF any crossing, and makes it a
misdemeanor for any person to walk or
ride on a railroad track, except to go from
one portion of a farm on which person
resides Oh is employed, to another portion
of such farm. The penalty is fine of not
less than one and more than five dollars.
Mr.. Camper offered the following =
| Whereas the laws now regulating the col
lection of the State and county taxes offer
a special compensation to collecting officers
| to delay the collection of the same there
fore,
ResolUed, That the Finance Committee
be directed to report bill providing for
| the more prompt and efficient collection OF
the revenue, and to regulate the compen-
| alton of county treasurers.
| Adopted.
| Monday-Senate-M Atkinson pre-
| scented q resolution requesting the Com
mittee on Constitutional Amendments to
| report on the expediency of reporting an
amendment to the Constitution delegating
to the General Assembly the right to pro-
vide colored trustees for colored schools
and white trustees for white schools, which
was agreed to.
| Mr.. Wickham presented letter from
| Hon. John T. Harris in relation to claims
| of Virginia on account of the war OF 1912
which he desired to accompany the report
of John A. Parker, agent of the State of
| Virginia.
| Mr. Thurman, member of the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections pre-
esented a report in the contested election
case of Callahan VS.. Rue, signed by him
self and Mr.. Diggs. In it the gentlemen
gave their reasons for agreeing to the res
olution proposed by the committee in their
report in favor of seating M. p. Rue. 1t
was laid On the table and ordered to be
| printed
The Governor sent the following veto
| message to the Senate
To the Senate of Vargiaa5a:
The Executive has received, through
the Committee on Enrolled Bills, Senate
| Bill No 231, entitled IAN act to appor-
tion the representation Of the State of
Virginia in the Congress of the United
States In discussing that measure
| may trespass upon the patience of your
body, but may surely plead an abseace of
| other purpose than to do justice to all the
people of Virginia in declining to affix my
| signature to the bill
In the session Of 1882 l communicated
to the Legislature several veto messages,
all of which, so far as the record shows,
were sustained without dissenting voice
from either party in that body. The fire.
quent disapproval of measures passed by |
this General Assembly have not met with |
the same favor. But now. as then, the
motive of disapprOval, no matter what En-
rors of Judgment may have been COM
mitted, no matter what conflicts of opin-
ion may exist as to the measures involved, |
has been to recognize a general obligation |
and to discharge duty whose limits are |
confined only by the boundariesOf the Com |
monwealth.
In respect to Senate bill No. 231, I re-
specially suggest among the reasons for |
Withholding my approval the following:
First. do not believe that the districts |
therein laid out conform as far as might |
or should be to the constitutional require |
ment that they shall be ''of contiguous |
counties, cities and towns. be compact, !
and include as nearly as may be, an equal |
number of population"
Second. 1t cannot, in my judgment, be |
right, when the voting population of Vir-
ginia, as shown by the last general cleo
ton, is nearly equal to SO apportion the
representation as to give one political ele- |
ment Of the State possibly eight and prob |
ably seven of the ten districts.
Third. Without reference to any mere |
party question, it is to my view manifestly |
against public policy to throw together |
counties and cities located at different |
sections of the State, joining the noun
tains to the Underwater and the mining to |
the agricultural counties, and losing the |
identity of sentiment and interest which |
should be observed.
Asking your attention to these sugges-
tions, | herewith return Senate bill No. |
231 without my tignature.
WILLIAM e. CAMERON.
On motion of MI. Koiner, consideration |!
of the veto was passed by.
House-Monday.- Bolen introduced |
a bill to amend and re-enact section ~ of
chapter of the act approved March IA. |