Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-10
TALK HERE IN TOWN.
LEGISLATIVE EXPECTATIONS.

LEGISLATIVE EXPECTATIONS.
The Work that is TO be Doue-Former sum-
mer sessIons-von Doreke-City iialI-tsas
suppIy-Fublic gsaith-Personai, sc., Sc.
The General Assembly meets Wednesday.
Though we have had a charming summer
here-no olong-continued heat-the members
VIII no doubt come well provided with linen
coats and palu-leaf fans. Their stay will
likely be short; not more than two weeks,
probably, for General Wlckhnm, whose
signature vas indispensable to make the
Governor call the session. had il understood
with leading members that the business
would be confined to districting the State
for presidential electors, remedying any
defects that might be found in the congress
sional rcapportionment, electing judges,
and considering any matters that might be
brought to their attention by the Executive.
The Supreme Court OF Appeals has de-
Glazed the congressional reapportionment
good. SO the Legislature will not have TO
bother with that. Governor Cameron will
hardly press much business upon them.
The preslGential-elector law-to provide
| for the election Of twelve instead OF eleven
electors--can be quickly disposed Of.
In view OF the errors that arose from
hasty legislation last session the disposition
at this session viii be to scrutiniZe every
| thing very carefully. and never or rarely 10
suspend the rules requiring reference 20
| committees.
al, ,h,t. mill 10. al 10 1ratr
| $3.50 salary whether the session lasts one
weeL or more, but leading member has
prepared paper TO offer proposing that all
Of them rclinquish any pay in excess OF q
per day.
A sumner session OF the Legislature Is
quite unusual, hut net unprecedented. On
| Nav %, lSi9, the two houses met here in
| Richmond in special session TO receive the
| report OF Messrs. Robinson, MOncure. and
! Patton, the rcvisers OF the Code, and rs the
cholera was feared they adjourned to the
| Fauquier White sulphur Springs, whose
| prop.ictor bargalned 10 board the members
| at seven dollars per week and TO furnish
two legislative halls. The House sat in the
ballroom and the Senate in some other
large room. They were at work about two
months. Again, in 1870, the two houses
I
! Capltol disaster occurred April 9Th, and
drove the House out OF its hall. First
thereafter it met in the Ballard House
| dining room. aud thCn--some time in
| May-fhe old sycamore church, now the
| Sulrcme-Court room, was secured, and the
sessions were for some weeks held there,
while the repairing Of the Capitol was done.
Members returning here now VIII lind the
| Capitol full OF workmen, who are extend
ing the library 10 where the Governors
room was, ard are making for the Cover
nor elegant Offices in the northwest corner,
Just where the room wa, jn which the Con-
fcdeTate Senate sat. lately covered by the
Offices Of The Superintendent Of Public In
etIucion and Superintcr dent of Public
Printing, who have rented Offices else
where. The halls Of legislation are not in
terfCrred with by these changes, but the
Governor has 10 90 his Office business at
the Executive mansion.
There are several vacant judeeshps to be
tlled by the General Assembly, and there
is no difference OF opinion as 10 the pro-
lriely Of dong that work right of.
Mtssrs. Willis j. Dance and Frank ID.
Irving. and Mr.. Martin Of Charlotte conn
ty, will be put in nomination before the
Democratic caucus for circuit judge to
succeed Judge Asa p. Dickinson. who died
recently very suddenly in Orange county
after taking q bath III the RappahaInock
river.
Tie death OF Judge Newman, OF Han.
over, leaves that county iudge.hip vacant,
and the name OF Mr.. Il. ii: Cardwell
member OF the House. and that Of ex-Judse
Rodd. Judge Newman's predecessor, are
mentioned in this connection.
The General Assembly at the last session
made proyision for the establishment OF {
aor,ial school Tor girls at Farmville, wher'
buildings have cen given the State for III,
purpose, but by a recent decision OF th'
Supreme Court Of Appeals the money can
not be drawn oct Of the treasury. 1t il
necessary for the Legislature b amend the
act 20 that the money can he drawn out OF
the common treasury Instead OF out o
the fund for public schools. II = hopr'
that they viii promptly do it. No doubt
! tie subject will be brought 10 legislative
. attention either by the Governor or by The
{ Board of Education, OF which he is presi
dent ,I-oficiO. Dr. RufIner is the principa
of the school. and has already given Srel
. study ana labor to 1t. Or. Curry, the agent o
! The Peabody fund, takes the greatest inter
ct IN It. and horcs that the necessary lcgis
aiou muy be obtained at this session, s.
that the school may be opened in October
r The sword Of Won Borcke, requested o
him by Lee Camp ior the State, Will be zen
10 the Legislature when assembled. Thi
! genial cavalier Is now in North Carolina
! but will be in Richmond next week, an
on fhe goth sails for home. Being an office
in the Pruspsn army, he got a fUrlough
h. ard io,ned our forces just before the battl
! Of seven Pines. and fought always at tn
: front until disabled by a bullet, which
D striking him on the shoulder, went lhrOug
G his wirdpipe and buried itself in his lung
: where it remains. He was great fayort
in the army. lie was engaged in sewers
:. haud-to.hard conflicts. and is believed t
. have been wounded trying 10 shield Sir
{ at. The Confederate Congress made hli
! "A colonel. General Lee wished the sea-
d tered bands OF Confederate cavalry 60
= lected 81 Richmond under Won Borcke
Il leadership and organized to rep,
: raids. stuart loved him, and he ido
ICES stuart, and the affection OF his war;
+ heart goes out 10 all OF that name and dhlood
\ He is big mau-taller and heavier tha
n General RuDy Lee. He Is active and grae'
.. | III. nuN, III inc " aitt tAiilhNif "h'AN Al
q recently spent several weeks, was cor
| stanily in the company Of ladies-and n
n man moved among them with greater ca'
h and dignity. Ills command OF English
Il very good. Colonel Won Borcke Il not
: count, but his family ante-dates counts.
Is After leaving this counr! ne was IN u
n Austrian war. He was not in the Franc
n Prussian war. He t now out OF Il
p. arpy-rcsigned or rctired-and lives
p. comfort and elegance at hs castle, fot
h hour,' ilde by rail from Berlin.
Y There il contingency possible in whiC
y The Legislature would have TO take sou
II action relative to debt matters. Juda
re hughes will this week deliver here son
p opinion, in which Judge Bond concurs,
l. one Of the cases brought TO their attentic
n through the eXertons Of Mr.. Royal, Il
70 able and untiring attorney OF the Coun'
O. OF Foreign Bondholders.
J. Mr.. John L. Branch, who Is now in h
eA rore, ha. seen influential men in L0ndo