The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-26
LEGISLATIVE WORK.
The Gisf OF It-Rnilroad Commission
ers' Biil-Norfolk.

! There is growing opinion among men,
bers that the neutrality-suspicious. bust.
ness Is not worth the time or cost or dig.
nifty that the House insists upon giving it.
| But unless the House reconsiders It's ac.
tion nothing is left but for the Senate 10
hold an extra session and try the case.
Valentine is school superintendent for
Hanover.
! Norfolk seems to be the iavorite as the
place Of meeting for the Democratic State
| Convention to choose presidential electors
and delegates to the Democratic National
Convention.
| The railroad commissioner bill that
passed the House yesterday will easily pass
the Senate, though possibly some amend
ments will be necessary. There are some
members who think that the commissioners
should be elected by the people instead Of by
the Legislature. The chief commissioner
gets $1,000 and his two assistants 81, ,25O
each per annum.
The act TO "provide for the manner OF
choosing registrars and judges and clerks
OF election for the several counties and
cities Of the Commonwealth. and to repeal
sections and "a Of chapter s, and sections
2 and OF chapter 7, OF the Code OF 1ST3,"
has been printed, and members have ten
copies each TO send their constituents.
A bill which has passed both houses and
been sent et0 the Governor makes it the
duty Of our City Council to elect q new
School Board within thirty days after the
bill becomes law.
The bill to allow, in effect, the City
Council Of Richmond to give Clay, Jack.
son. and Monroe Wards each an additional
voting-precinct has passed both houses. II
will hardly be vetoed.
The registrars bill requires that the
electoral boards shall be " freeholders," )"
but bill was introduced yesterday and
passed the Senate to strike out that word.
There is very little opposition to the bill
providing for the establishment OF Nor
nal School for girls, but some members
are OF opiDson that it would be well to
! first pass n law creating the school and
then by subsequent act decide between the
multiplicity Of places which wish to be-
come the location OF the school.
The canvaSs-as 1t NAV be called-for
places on the asylum boards goes on with
unwavering assiduity, and in the list OF as
pirants are legislators and other office hold
ers.
Ut Oc-l ~ 'uul lDt OcIltIdl AZ
sembly will soon adjourn is to be found in
the anxiety and vigor with which men,
bers are pushing through their private and
local bills. The wheels Of legislation will
not run very long after the salary ceases,
unless some momentous question rises to
claim attention.
The Democratic caucus had a session
Yesterday evening to consider the West
Virginia debt question, but after two
hours session adjourned, leaving gentle
men to act for themselves on the bill, which
is to come up in the Senate to-day as the
special order.
Both houses have passed a bill putting
Norfolk (Which had been eXcepted) under
the new general law as to appointment
OF registrars and judges Of election.
II is expected that the House will very
soon be called upon TO unseat Griffin, the COL
ored member from York. who, it has been
proved, is postmaster OF the town, though
his wife is now acting in his stead. II is O
case similar to those OF Senators Stevens,
Rue, and Jones, all Of whom resigned their
senatorships when they found the Demo-
Gratis had carried the State. Griffin, il
seems, did not act so wisely.