Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-31
LEGISLATIVE.

His trials are many. STRoNGBoW'
LEGISLATIVE.
In the State Senate yesterday bills were
reported TO incorporate the Fredericksburg
and Chesapeake Railroad Company; to
transfer to the county Of Clarke the interest
of tho commonwealth in the Berryville and
Charlestown turnpike; to incorporate the
Western Virginia Railroad Company to
confirm the organization of the Washington
Ohio and Western Railroad Company, and
declaring such company vested with all
mowers and franchises possessed by the
Washington and Ohio Railroad Company !;
to authorize the Washington, Ohio and Wes-
tern Railroad Company to make contracts
of lease and consolidation with certain
other railroad companies, and TO connect
cross and unite with other railroads to
amend the code in relation to judgment leins;
and to amend the act TO incorporate the Eir-
gina and West Virginia Railroad Com
pany.
Mr.. Mccormick introduced bill to pro-
vide for the manner Of choosing registrars
and Judges and clerks Of election for the
several counties and cities Of the Common
WeuIlD. llG UlIl pIONluSS tUuU WV SSbSie'
Assembly or Senate shall elect for each
county and city registration board, said
board to appoint all registrars and their
clerks and Judges of elections and tn cir
clerks; also, the county or city commission
ers of election.
Mr.. Heaton introduced bill to incorporate
the Gymnasium and Athletic Association,
which was referred.
A resolution, was agreed to authorizing
the Committee on Public Institutions and
Education to investigate the transactions OF
| the Board Of Directors Of the Central Lu.
matte Asylum.
| The report of the Committee for Courts OF
Justice, that unless within sixty days S.
| Brown Allen, late Auditor or John r..
! Hamilton do settle with the present Auditor
the balance found due by the report of the
Committee for Courts of Justice, the Auditor
| of Public Accounts be instructed to employ
Messrs Writ Henry and Holmes Conrad TO
bring action against s. Brown Allen, late
| Auditor, and the sureties Oh his official
| bond, TO secure the sum or sums illegally
paid by him to John E. Hamilton and that
action shall be brought against J. +. Hamil-
ton, was adopted.
The House bill fixing the time for holding
the circuit courts of the several counties OF
the sixteenth judicial circuit was passed.
A bill to incorporate the Society for the
Relief of the Preachers of the Virginia Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South and their families, their widows and
| orphans, was referred.
In the House OF Delegates 4 bill was in
troduced to incorporate the Albemarle and
Nelson Railroad Company.
| The Norfolk contested election case was
taken up and after discussion Banks and
Parks, coaitionists, were unseated and the
cases remanded TO the people for new cleo
ton. This is the last Of the House con-
tested election cases involving the right OF
a sitting coalitionist.
A resolution was introduced directing the
committee on courts ofiustice to inquire in
to the title of the property occupied by the
federal government at Old Point and the
| Rip Raps. This also involves the title of
the Hygeia Hotel property.
The committee appointed to investigate
the recent poisoning at the Western Luna
tic Asylum presented their report in which
| they state substantially that whether the
poisoning was done by parties inside or out
side of the asylum, by accident or design,
| the management was TO be blamed. There
exists not the slightest evidence that the
poisoning was done BY parties outside of the
asylum.
The Pinkerton detective is cheat and
fraud, whose purpose was to extort money
from the Superintendent, who testified that
be had paid him one thousand dollars and
still considered him in his pay at s. per
diem The detective declined 10 give any
information either to the attorney for the
Commonwealth or to the committee. The
committee regret the partisan spirit which
| pervade the entire management, and which
seemed in many instances to overstep The
plain mandates of duty as applied to
faithful! service. The committee found that
the old, tried, and efficient officers and at
PENDANTS were summarily removed for no
other cause than that they were democrats
and their places were filled by untried and
| inexperienced coalitionists, who were called
upon by the coalition county chairman to
! contribute Of their pay sums of money to be
used for election purposes. 1t was in evil
dence that these assessments were literally
responded to by the officers and attendants,
| from the Superintendent down to the humb.
| lest employee with one or two exceptions,
| The committee considers that too much can
not he said in condemnation of this policy.
The public charities of the State should be
conducted upon higher plane than party
politics, and honesty and fidelity in the
discharge Of duty should characterize their
management through all the vicissitudes Of
party.
The report Of the committee was adopted.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The dead bodies Of De Long and his com