Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-27


non, Oglesby. Patton, Pay ne, Peters. Pollard,
Roberts, Row. Ruegles. Schoolneld. Smith,
Southworth. Taliaferro. Tavenner. Terry
Thorne. Turner, Waddlll. Webb, Wescoti,
and Wise-60.
NoEs. .-Me,srs. Brown. Cardwell. Dabney,
Downing, Goad, Hoge. Huffman. Hurt.
johnson. Leftwitch. Lightner, Loving,
Mauck, Munford, Porter, Ryan. Saunders,
and Stribling-l9.
MADISON FLANIGAN's CLAIM.
The first special order was the House
engrossed bill to provide for the pay
ment Of q judgment about s6,00W Sc
cured by Madison Flanagan against the
Board Of Directors Of the Central Lu-
natic Asylum, Of Virginia, which was
taken up and passed.
DISMISSED.
House bill to amend the Code Of 1873,
in relation to registration, which was
reported with the recommendation that
it do not pass. was taken up and dis
missed.
COUNTY JUDGE or CAROIISE.
The Dill to allow the Board OF Super
yisors of Caroline county to increase
the salary Of their county Judge came
up on q motion to reconsider the vote
by which the House rejected it.
Mr.. Smith rose and said
Mr.. Speaker ask as personal
favor that this House will pass this
bill. ] cannot understand why the
members Of the legal profession should
oppose this measure. They seem to
thoroughly understand every PROPOSE
tion before this House. and / am per-
fectly amazed at their knowledge, and
often have to hold up my hands and
exclaim " Nrdbile dictu Such WIS.,
dom is too wonderful for me. cannot
attain unto it. In rounded periods and
beautiful flights they tell us Of the
mineral wealth that is imbedded in yon
mountains, towering their majestic
heads with godlike splendor above the
surrounding plains, around whose sum-
mits the storm.clouds brood and the
thunders crash and then, with the agil-
ity of first. class circus-rider, they jump
astride the iron horse and ride him,
painting and breathing, across this grand
old Commonwealth, and tell Us all
about the intricate problem Of passen-
ger and freight-rstes, and when the
pressure OF steam gets too high they
show us how to blow OIL. Then. land
ing on the shore Of grand old ocean,
they stand upon the pebbly beach
wrapped in the solitude Of their own
originality, and gazing out upon the
blue deep where the hurricane
howls music, and the big waves
shout their chorus to the sweep
ing march Of God, they tell US all about
the little fishes that swim in the sea.
Turning their gaze upon the placid wa
teTS of the Chesapeake and Mobjack
bays, they grapple up the hard-crab and
oy ster and explain the incubation and
growth Of these little animals. Again,
jumping into two-hundred-dollar oys-
ter-bOat and waving fond adieu to
the bleating calf, they sail up the majes-
tic James beneath the light OF the same
moon under whose silyery rays the In
dian warrior padded his red canoe and
wooed his dusky maid. They shoot
straight into the penitentiary, and tell
us all about the convict labor as fami-
liaIly as though they had been there all
their lives. Then, Mr.. Speaker, they
60 deep IN yon cellar-undcr ground,
black with the smoke of poisonous
gases, and checked with the stencil of
, INK corruption-and prove to US that
. is better to guard the revenue Of the
ate than to discountenance the sale Of
ne dea1liest enemy to man.
At last, putting aside their legal
robes and laying down the judi
cial ermine, as spotlesS as the un-
trodden snow, they become school
boys again and tell us how many books
the average school-boy will use in a
year and the cost thereof. Once more,
with close fists and penuriouS hearts,
they enter the sacred confines Of the
grand old county Of Caroline, stretch
ing from the Pamunky to the Kappa
hammock, through whose centre flows
the sluggish waters or the Mattaponi,
whose flats are covered over with corn.
and tell us honest farmers how much
we must pay our judge.
| believe, Mr.. Speaker, il we should
offer an enabling act for the benefit of
some of our legal friends who have no
children to play with their tax bills
they would undertake to tell us whether
it was in the Constitution. Now, Mr..
Speaker, hope the House will pass
this bill, as it can affect no section but
my own county. Applause.
Mr.. Mayo got the floor, and said
" 1t is with diflidence that bring the
members Of the House from the heights
to which the gentleman has Just lifted
them to the consideration Of that
very uncommon thing-common sense
Laughter lie was opposed to the
bill, and hoped it would not pass.
The bill was then reconsidered, and
the House passed it.
SCRIP BILL.
The next special order was the House
bill to allow the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts TO borrow money to meet casual
deficit in the Treasury, &c.
Mr.. a. FulkersOn offered several
perfecting his bill, and they |
we're agreed to.
Mr.. Waddill moved to strike out the |
preamble of the bill, which he charged |
was untrue. There is no deficit in the |
revenue, and consequently no use in
borrowing money to meet it, he claimed. |
Mr.. A. Fulkerson replied that there
would be no deficiency in the Treasury |
if the Riddleberger bill was fully car
ried out-that is, if all the outstanding |
bonds were funded under this bill but |
at present, really, there is yearly de-
ficit. He explained that this was not a
debt bill but finance measure purely, !
without reference to the debt bill or any |
other act on the statute-boOks. II it |
in any way affects the coupon-hOlders,
that is their fault and not ours, and we
cannot help it.
Mr.. Mayo opposed the bill vigorous
". He said to pass it would be to say |
hat the Riddleberger settlement is Il
lie, and that we are the most atrocious
rraudS in the world. We stand on the |