Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-02-01
THE GENERAL ASSEM- ely.

amount of money realized by the State and
paid into the Treasury, under the sales made
since the year 1865 of land delinquent for
taxes in the several counties, at S37 ,6S2 81.
The bill to amend The code in relation to
public health was passed.
A bill was introduced to prescribe the
mode of cancellation of bonds, coupons, and
other evidences of debt of the State surren-
dered and taken in, which provides that
these bonds, &C., shall be cancelled by the
Treasurer in the presence of the Board of
Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund, and
the Treasurer shall carefully preserve these
papers and keep record of them.
Also bill 10 provide that when vacancy
occurs in one of the electoral boards the re-
naming members or member shall fill it,
and the person SO chosen shall hold Office
until the end of the term for which his pre-
daces.or was appointed.
The Committee on Courts of Justice re-
ported it inexpedient to provide for any
general Encouragement of the circuits. The
committee, however, reported bill which
suggests some changes which they think
viii more nearly equalize the labor Of the
respective circuit judges.
A large number of bills were advanced on
the calendar.
The Auditor was requested to report a
general abstract and statement of the annual
receipts of the State government, together
with the sources and subjects from which
derived; the amounts required for the me-
cesEary and ordinary annual expenditures
| 10, t,n % toto IN to arol
| Gepur ments and the rate OF taxation neces-
sary 10 provide the ways and means therefor
upon the several subjects also to furnish
the General Assembly on the first day of
each regular session an itemized statement
Of ali moneys paid out CT the treasury, to
whom, and on what account.
la tho House of Delegates resolution
was agreed to directing the Auditor to re-
port The county treasurers who were in de.
fault to the State at the time prescribed by
law for the last settlement of their respect.
i've accounts, and the amount from each due
the State; also, a statement showing the
amount due from previous treasurers and
their counties, and what action, if any, has
been taken against them.
4 bill was introduced TO refund certain
collateral Inheritance taxes improperly paid
by Douglas w. Gordon's executors, etc.
A bill 10 provide for an annual appropria-
ton of $1,000 to the State Agricultural So
ciety was introduced, as was one to allow
John R'Alrich, treasurer of Spotsylvania,
further time to collect delinquent tax bills
The bill prescribing 4 penalty on county
treasures who collect taxes in money and
pay the same in coupons to the Slate was
ordered to be engrossed.
The local option bill was then taken up
the pending question being on the adoption
of the amendment proposed by Mr.. Stuart
of Alexandria, in effect exempting from the
operations Of the law all cities having q
population OF five thousand and over.
Mr.. A. Fulkerson thought this discrimina
ton unjust and unfair, aud believed that il
would be 50 considered by the people Of the
country.
Mr.. Wise rep also opposed the amend.
ment. He thought the law should be gen.
eral. He was voting for the bill because bis
party platform pledged it.
Mr.. Martin (rep.) thought that citieS need
cd local option even more than the counties
Mr.. Thorne rep contended that if wits.
KEY did no harm iu the cities it would 90 nc
| 4
did harm everywhere. There should be NC
discrimination.
Mr.. Loving opposed the amendment. If,
as Mr.. Stuart says, the people of Alexaudria
are nearly unanimously opposed TO the law,
they needn't have any election. 1t takes
orc fifth of the voters to petition for an
election, and if the one-fifth are not gotten
the election will never he ordered
Mr. Thorne read dispatch from man
in Alexandria, stating that 1900 men,
hers of the Reform CLUB, and one hundred
and fifty Good Templars of Alexandria are
anxious for the passage Of the local option
bill, beides q large number of citizens not
connected with either organization"
Mr.. Stuart naid the man who sent the
dispatch had pledged himself to get 600
| votes for st. John. st. John got four. Two
| Of these were sons Of the sender of the dis
| patch, and the other one was stranger.
He does not represent the Reform club !;
| that club has done good service, and this
| man is the only one who has ever attempted to
iuteriect politics into it. The Reform Club
hes been great blessing; but not because
it seeks to control men, but because it at
tempts 10 persuade and entertain them in
sensible ways. Mr.. Stuart explained that a
temperance man had come out against him
;Of the iLtblslature, anu IuOuSu Tue SPEAKERS
rositou on this matter was we'll known
that opponent was ingloriously defeated.
Local option would be defeated in Aexan,
dria overwhelmingly, but they did not wish
10 be annoyed by an election. Mr.. Stuart
further contended that the democratic plat
form expressly exempted cities. AS for the
man,,who sent the message, be spentvery little
OF his time in Alexandria, and was not en-
titled to represent the views of the people
Of that city.
Mr.. Pollard advocated the amendment
because, he said, he believed it was in the
interest Of temperance to have it adopted.
The temperance reformation, like all other
determinations, must proceed by graduation.
Mr. Waddill contended that the amendment
proposed threatened the very life of the
bill. Adopt it and the bill is practically
killed.
The amendment was then rejected by
vote Of IS to Al and the announcement of the
vote was greeted with great applause by
portion Of the House.
Mr. Hay moved to reconsider.
Mr.. Terry said that he was waited upon
hy the secretary of the Local Option ALI