The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-01-10
Legislative Notes.

Mr. Diggs- introduced very sensible resolu
tlon instructing the Committee on Courts O
Justice 10 inquire. into the expediency of in
creasing the compensation to jurors to 81. 90 pei
day Now, If provision shall be made for de-
creasing the number of juries the interests O.
the people Will be better served.
The following school superintendent were
continuation Wednesday and Thursday:
W. F. Jones, Brunswick county.
T. w. Radcliffe, Buchanan.
Iaaac L. Jones, Elizabeth city.
p C. Grigsby, Lynchburg.
VIM Jackson Watson, Louisa.
John d. Turner, New Kent.
Samuel Martyrs, Prince William.
/ Marshall FrantZ, Roanoke.
w. N. Blow, Sussex.
! C. F. Groome, Warwick.
/ e. 7. Broyles, of Page.
The following nominations were rejected
! j. G. Deane, Amherst
L. f. Crocker, Fairfax.
A. NJ Pierce, Frederick
sydney Ruckman, Highland.
/ e. Z. Jeffries, Halifax.
Rev. f. d. Surface, Montgomery.
! ID. II. Pannil, Pittsylvania.
| In tbe,House the resignation of Judge Mays,
! of Botetourt, having been accepted, the Com
/ mittee on ourts of Justice asked to.be dischar-
| ged from.the consideration of the charges pre-
| ferred- against him.
bill to pay Judge E.iP.. cambridge $1,000 for
! legal services in defence of certain county
Judges of the State. of Virginia before Judge
! Rives, of.the United States Court-of the West
ern district of Virginia. was passed. Mr.. Barton
explained the reason why the BILL should be
passed All the colored members 'oteu aSainsI
| the bill
| Nv Stt1ar Mr. offered
the following, which twas referred to the FL
nance Committee
Be il enacted on the General Assembly OF Virgin
/ id, That'nO action or suit brought TO recover
or promise in writing made OF issued by the
| Com monwealth in payment OF interest snail De
maintained in any court, nor shall any lender
OF coupons in payment OF any taxes, ueDts, or
| demands due the Commonwealth be made, nor
| the same be received by any officer OF the
! Commonwealth, unless such action or suit shall
be commenced or said coupons he rendered in
| payment of taxes, debts or demands due the
| Commonwealth, within one year from the time
| when such coupons or sum of money has or
shall become due, when the same has been or
! shall be made payable to bearer: Provided that
! any such action, suit, or tender as Is now pro-
! vided by law may be brought or made within
one year after this act shall take effect Provi-
ded, further, that this act shall In no case be
/ action or suit may be brought under laws here
| tofore existing.
FRIDAY.
Mr.. Koiner's bill to exempt from jury service
farmers actually engaged in saving their crops,
came up.
The bill was further debated and at some
length by Mr.. Edmunds in its favor; by Messrs
Meredith, Glasgow and Hubbard in opposition
to 1t.
Mr. Berry spoke in favor of the bul. Come to
think of it, he said, he'was surprised that such
a law had not been passed years ago. He ex-
pressed the opinion that there never would be
any difficulty in getting jury. There are plen-
ty of honest men in every community who are
not farmers there are plenty of farmers who
would be in condition to serve at any time
Replying to remark from one on the other
side, Mr.. Berry said his experience as lawyer
led him to declare that he had as leave have "a
professional jury as any other.
Mr.. Hubbard contended that this law would
throw the trial of important cases into the hands
of men who hang about court houses waiting
for such jobs.
Mr.. Wickham said the bill ought to pass that
if he were counsel for man on murder trial
he would n OF like to have on the jury man
who had been torn away from the harvest field
he would not be apt to find the juryman in an
amiable mood. Mr.. Wickham said that there
was opinion abroad that there was too much
lawyers legislation here, and for this, the first
measure that promised some benefit to the far
mer, he asked favorable consideration.
Mr. Heaton thought the "bill an emineutly
proper one"
Mr.. Glasgow opposed it as dangerous inno-
walton, and as likely to cause the empannelling
of inferior juries, and as likely t > be greatly
prejudicial to the public interests. His people
asked for nothing of this kind.
The bill was passed:
AYEs.-Messrs. Atkinson, Berry, Coltrane,
M.
Lovenstein, Mccormick, Newberry, Rogers
Thurman, Trout, Twyman, Warwick and Wick
ham-IS.
NoEs.-Messrs. Bliss, Crunepler, Glasgow, Hub-
ard, Mcdonald and Norto1,-6.
PAIRED OFF-Mr. Meredith.
Coalitionists in italics.
The Senate Committee on Elections reported
that Judge Crumpler (Coalitionst was not by
reason of being county judge when elected, in
capable of being elected member of the Sem
ate, and that he is entitled to his seat. Signed
by Messrs. Thurman, Diggs, Twyman, McCor-
mick, Meredith, Grim and Powell. Mr.. Glas-
gov dissented.
Goes on the calendar.
Mr.. Lovenstein, from the committee appoint
ed to examine the Treasurer's office, submitted
a report They found the office all right, Money
in the State repositories Jan. l. 1884, l,67S2S7.
L.
adopted providing for converting SCI, 900 of4 per
cent. United States bonds into three per cent.
Riddleberger bond. These bonds are the prop
erty of the Miller Manual School,
SATURDAY,
In the Senate the Committee on Privileges
and Elections presented their report in the con-
tested election case of Geo. B. Keezle against
]. B. Webb, from Rockingham county. The
hiatt Iai
of the contestant, Geo. B. Keezle, to a seat in
this body is not only justified but absolutely de-
manded by the clear and conclusive evidence
in the record and recommend the adoption of
the following resolutions
Resoyeed1. That J. B. Webb is not entitled to
a seat in this body.
ResoEvvd2. That George B. Keezell is entitled
to a seat in this body as the senator duly elect
ed from the Eighth district.
Messrs. Grim and Powell declined to sign the
report, and in separate report recommended
a new election.
Mr.. Edmunds presented a bill providing for
the sale of all reports of the Court of Appeals
now in the State Library, to members of the le-
gal profession at Sl.50 per volume. Mr.. Edmunds
says that there are now in the Library several
thousand volu mes of Grattan and other reports,
which have been accommodating there for the
past one hundred years. Many of them are rat
at s.. so per volume than to allow them to be dis
troyed by age and other natural causes besides
it will be great benefit to young lawyers, who
are just starting out to practice, who are in ma
ny cases unable to pay $3.50 per volume. The
bill was referred to committee.
By Mr.. Wickham Bill to give an appeal as of
right to the Commonwealth in all cases where
suits are instituted under act of January 18th,
1882, entitled an act to prevent frauds against
the Commonwealth, and the holders of her Sc
curities, &c. Referred.
MR.. oPIE MAKES A SPEECH.
From the States report we copy the following:
The resolution in reference ito mismanage-
ment of the Western Lunatic Asylum by the
present officers of said asylum came up imme-
diately after the House opened.
|. Mr.. opie (Democrat) arose and said: hold
in my hand, Mr.. Speaker, the report of the Su-
perintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum,
at Staunton. This report contains an outra-
geous, malicious and 'vindctive charge against
my party in the county of Augusta. The Super
intendent of the asylum, after the poisoning
which occurred there, which is familiar to every
| reading man in the State of Virginia, employ
ed a Pinkerton detective, He was introduced
into the asylum That man was allowedfto visit
the neghboring town. That man made q re-
| port. which say contains upon the face OF 1t
feIonious and outrageous charge. say 1t is lm-
portant and necessary that this committee (the