Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-16
run RICHMOND Observation-Disclosures FEBRUARY l6. 1886.

0rder--relative to the annual SAFE VI
lands returned delinquent since 1851
arrived.
, THE PUBLIC DEBT COMMITTEE.
A message was received from the
Senate by Mr. Rhea who informed the
House that the Senate had adopted a
Joint resolution relieving the members
Of the special committee on the public
debt from service upon standing COM
mittees on Wednesday and Friday OF
the present week and from attendance
upon the session ofthe General Assem-
bly, on said days; and that the General
Assembly as far as practicable consider
local bills on said days. The resolution
was agreed to by the House.
DELINQUENT LANDS.
Mr.. Pollard proposed an amendment
to this bill by adding an independent sec
ton which provides that the Auditor oil
Public Accounts on or before the LIST oil
August next shall make copy of the list
Of all real estate in each corporation or
county returned delinquent for the year
1884, which has not already been Is
sued as provided by law. and send the
same to the clerk Of each court from
which said list originally came, and
said clerk shall within thirty days send
a certified copy thereof to the treasurer
of his county and corporation, and such
treasurer shall make sale Of such real
estate in accordance with the provl-
sions Of this act.
Agreed to. -,
The bill as amended was then ordered
to its engrossment and third reading.
REDEMPTION OF DELINQUENT
LANDS.
Mr.. Waddill called up House bill IN
reference to the redemption OF delin-
ouent lands, and TO require clerks OF
courts to keep indexed records thereof.
The bill was ordered to its engrossment
and third reading.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS
BILL.
The next special order was the rail-
road commissioners bill.
The first question was the motion to
pass by the motion to reconsider
Mr.. Ryan hoped the House would
not pass by.
Mr.. Munford asked that the bill be
passed by, which the House agreed to.
PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION or
VIRGINIA.
The next special order was the bill to
incorporate the Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation of Virginia and to regulate the
sale Of poisons and the practice OF
pharmacy.
Mr.. Pollard moved that the bill be
Indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Black hoped the bill would not
be postponed. 1t is an important one.
and had received due consideration by
the committee. Its principal objects
are to prevent the adulteration of medi-
cineS. and to provide for competent
pharmacists to dispense the same so as to
prevent the poisoning Of persons. which
evil has become so common on account
Of incompetent physicians.
Mr.. Arnold said he knew Of cases
where prescriptions filled at one place
had totally failed to accomplish the de-
sired results, and the same prescription
put up at another place had acted with
entirely different effects.
The bill allows country stores tOselI.
in unbroken packages. nearly all the
medicines they now sell, but there Is
Prohibition on the dcadleSt drugs. All
pharmacist, and druggists now in bust
ness can remain so without standing
on examination. but hereafter all new
parties must be examined before they
will be permitted to go into business.
Mr.. Downing moved to postpone the
bill until II o'clock to-day. Agreed to.
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
Mr.. O'Bannon got the floor and said
he rose to a personal privilege. lie
said 81 see in tO-day's issue Of the
National Republican, Of Washington,
an article under the head Of Oysters
and Sugar the following The iDves-
tigation Of the affairs of the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum, whose officers and
directors are generally believed to have
gotten as drunk as lords, has been
Delightfully."- smothered up In re-
gard to this / desire to say that the
committee have not yet made any re-
port in the matter, as the evidence.
which is very yoluminOus, is in the
hands Of the stenographer. In this IN
yestigation the committee have extended
the broadest privileges to all, and al
lowed all who cared to DO so to prefer
charges. desire to say further that
the author of this article is an Infamous
slanderer. and his charge is basely
false. as that committee, when they DO
report, expect to make no whitewaShed
report in regard to any matter con
nected with the asylum"
CONVICT LABOR.
The special order-bill providing for
the employment Of convict labor on
county roads and other internal i'm.
proyements-wsS pending when the
House Adjourned.
Alas alas T." the dude eNclaimS,
Il" in my slender ankle I've got pains
Don't fret" said ma, for whom he