Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-03

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Adjourned at 2:4O o'clock.
House OF Delegates.
The House met at noon--Speaker
Cardwell in the chair. No prayer.
FILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED,
By Mr.. Crowell To protect rabbits
and hares in the county OF Harrison.
By Mr. Pitcher: To amend and re-
enact the twenty-fourth section OF the
44sth chapter 1T Acts OF 1866, taxing
telephone companies
By Dir. Young: A bill to repeal special
road law for the county of Lee.
BY Mr.. Parr: To amend and re-enact
section 10 of chapter l24 of the Code OF
Virginia, in relation to the wives OF
insane persons.
BY Mr. Quisenbery To repeal the
charter Of the town OF HiisviIle.
By Mr.. To amend and
re.enact the section Of the Code relative
to the collection of taxes.
HOUSE BILLS REPoRTED FROM COMMITTEE
To incorporate the Groenleaf John
tton Company to amend the act to IN
corporate the Craig Company ; TO reg1l-
late the construction OF railroads through
mountain passes and defiles to establish
bureou Of labor and industrial statis-
ties and defining the duties and powers
of the same, and fixing the salary of the
commissioner thereof to allow Joseph
f. Fudge, treasurer OF Allegheny coun-
ty, further time to distrain, levy, and
collect certain tax-tickets for which he
has accountable the States TO give aid to
soldiers, sailors, and marines Of Virginia
manned or disabled in the war between
the States, and to the widows of Vir-
ginia soldiers, sailors, and marines who
lost their lives in said war in the military
service.
SENATE BILL REPORTED.
To amend the law incorporating the
Danville and Seaboard Railroad Com
pany.
NOT IN FAVOR or TWO SESSIONS.
Mr.. Landers, of franklin, introduced
resolution providing that on and after
Monday the chair be vacated at 2 O'Clock
and resumed at 4 O'Clock. The House
refused to agree to it and it was referred
to a committee.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Leave Of absence vas granted to
Messrs. Wright, Dickey, and Baldwin
for three days.
WHY NOT?
Mr.. Waddlll, OF Henrico, introduced
resolution requesting the AttOrney-Gen-
eral to inform the House what steps have
been taken, if any, to ascertain whether
the charter of the Richmond, Williams
burg and Central Turnpike Company, in
Henrico county, has been forfeited pur-
suant to the act of the General Assembly
Of Virginia, approved March 3, 1884,
and if no such steps have been taken, why
not? Agreed to.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
For the relief of the sureties OF B. B.
Baldwin, late treasurer of TaZewell
county.
To incorporate the Bee, temperance
paper in Danville.
TO incorporate the DanvIlle Storage
Company.
To authorize the issue of bonds and
stock by the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company.
To authorize the council of the town
OF Gordonsville to issue bonds for the
purpose of constructing water-works.
To incorporate the James-River Valley
Construction Company.
10 amend the act securing to opera
tives and lsborers employed in and about
coal-mines and manufactures OF iron
and steel payment of their wages.
To allow the Charlottesville and Uni
versity of Virginia Electric-Light Com
pany to erect poles and run wires in the
streets and alleys of Charlottesville.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The hour Of l o'clock having arrived
the House proceeded 10 the considera-
ton of the special order-to provide for
the establishment Of board of agrIcul-
ture, &c.
Mr.. Saunders. of Franklin, moved to
amend the bill so as to do away with
lecturers on scientific and agricultural
subjects and the printing of their lec-
lures.
Mr.. Buford opposed this.
Mr. Harris delivered carefully-pre-
pared speech, in which he said that the
farmers assemblies and grangers de-
handed that some such measure as this
should be enacted by the Legislature.
Mr. Saunders replied that he was not
opposed to this bill. He only wanted to
so amend that the appropriation asked
for would bring abont the most benef-
cent results.
Mr.. L. II. Tyler said he hoped Mr..
Saunders would withdraw his amend
ment. If the gentleman would not he
hoped the farmers Of the House woulG
vote it down.
Mr.. Figgat feared that the amendment
might cause the State to lose the $500
per snnum, appropriated by Congress for
experimental stations He moved that
the section by which the State gives its
assent TO the grants of money from the
Federal Government, and by which the
experimental stations be established at
the University OF Virginia. in connection
with the Miller School of Agriculture,
be stricken out He read telegram re-
ceived from the Controller of Currency
to sustain his position that there was no
authority for the establishment OF ex-
perimental stations except at the points
named, and in connection with the col
leges mentioned by the law of 1852. "If
you attempt to divert this appropria-
ton, said he, you may probably lose
it altogether.
Blacksburg is one OF the colleges
named under act OF Congress.
Mr. Anderson, OF Rockbridge. said
that he had an amendment to offer which
he hoped Mr.. Eiggat would accept. Ii
provided that the board of agriculture,
after its appointment and qualification,
should proceed to select site for the
establishment of an experimental station.
He did not think that the General Assem-
bly, in the limited time at its command
was competent to select site. Notwith-
standing the fact that the happiest days
and years of his life were passed at the
University, and although he had not the
slightest hard feeling against any part of
the county of Albemarle, he thought a
worse farm than that on the University
grounds could not be found.