Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-03-07
LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate Tuesday Feb. 28th, the
House Bill to amend the charter OF Char
lottes7ille was passed.
MONEY FoR TEE REv,sERs.

In the Senate Tuesday Feb. 28th, the
House Bill to amend the charter OF Char
lottes7ille was passed.
MONEY FOR TEE REvfsERs.
Mr.. Koiner called up out of its order the
bill presented by the Finance Committee
providing flual compensation to the revisers
of the Code and their clerk The bill gives
the revisers 50 500 each and their clerk
81, 200. The bill was passed-ayes, %;
noes, 4.
GRAND CONFEDERATE CAMP.
In the House Tuesday, Mr.. Starke, under
a suspension of the rules, introduced bill
to incorporate the Grand Camp of Con
tederate Veterans. Department of Vir-
gnia.
The corporators are Colonel Charles f.
Collier and J. L. Rockwell of Petersburg;
/ Captain R c. Marshall, of Portsmouth;
/ Colonel LID Starke, Major Charles Pickett,
| Major W. E Foster, Captain E. NJ. Henry,
| Dr. J. W. Thomas, and Captain Washing
ton Taylor, of Norfolk; Colonel A. L.
Phillips, Colonel J W. White, Colonel
John Murphy, Major Thomas A. Brander,
Major n. V. Randolph, and Major e. A.
Semple.
The trustees are B. D. Core and ]. W.
| Thomas; Sergeant Major D. s. Bedford,
Color Guard Thomas J. Smith, Captain
J. Taylor Stratton, Captain John Maxwell,
and Captain Arthur A. Splitter, of Rich
mond
The object of the association is to per-
petpate the memory of fallen comrades, to
aid NEEDY and suffering survivors, and to
cultivate a fraternal spirit between the ex-
soldiers of the North and South. The cor
poration shall hold such property as may
be needed for its purposes, and may also
receive such donations as shall be made to
it.
The following are the officers: John 81.
| Cooke, grand commander; E. NJ. Henry,
| first-lieutenans grand commander; Charles
T. Collier, sec0nd-lieuteuaut grand COM
mander; G. W. Murdaugh, third-lieuteu-
ant grand commander; Arthur A Splitter,
| acknowledgement n. V. Randolph, iuspsc
| tor general; Washington Taylor, quarter
master general; r. B. Slower, surgeon
general: J. D. Powell, chaplain general;
| D. NJ. Lee aud E. A. Sample, aides de-camp
to the grand commander.
The bill was placed on the calendar.
ADMISSION OF LUNATIcs.
In the Senate Wednesday, Mr.. Koiner,
! from the Finance Committee, TO which had
! been referred resolution on that subject,
presented bill providing that all persons
who are deemed insane shall be admitted
into and remain IN the several lunatic asy
lums of this State on the SANE terms. and
DO distinction shall be drawn between pay
patients and State or INDECENT patients. pro-
vided that liberty is allowed the friends of
the patients TO add to their comfort as they
may choose, subject to the approval of the
superintendent.
| AGRICULTURAL BILL.
At 1 30 o'clock House bill to provide for
a hoard of agriculture for Virginia and
making appropriation therefor, which was
one of the special features for 1 o'clock,
came up.
The vote on the passage Of the bill res
ulted-ayes, 15; noes, 16. Koiner voted
aye. Mr.. Gordon, who voted in the mega
tive tor that purpose, moved 10 reconsider,
I which motion was passed by.
GENERALIZATION.
Ia the House Wednesday, the joint re-
solution in regard to memorializn0 Con
gress as to the public debt of Virginia
was reported favorably from the COMMITTEES
on Federal Relations and Resolutions.
LevE-ovBRBY.
The coutested-election case of Love VS..
OVERLY came up. The minority report
favored the retention of J. ". overly
DEMOCRACY, the sitting member, as dele
gate from the county of Lunenbnrg. The
committees report signed by e. R. Poi
lard, chairman, favored seating D. r. Lows
Republican,. The pending question being
called, vote was taken on the minority
report aud it was adopted, as follow: Ayes,
AZ; noes, 45.
! Crawford and Echols voted aye.
WORKING THE ROADS.
The Senate bill to amend the Law in rsla-
ton to working the roads in Clarke, War.
rem, Frederick, and Augusta, was passed
THE SOLDIERS BILL.
In the Senate Thursday, March 1st, the
House bill to give aid to soldiers, sailors auC
marines Of Virginia manned or disabled il
the war between the States, and to widows
of Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines
who lost their lives in said war ia the mill
tary service, came up in the Senate.
Mr.. Wickham offered an amendment pro-
vidng for an annual tax of two cents on tht
500 of real and personal property in tbs
Stste to be applied solely to carry out tn,
t requirements Of the act.
Mr.. Berry was opposed to increasing tax
) es for any purpose. He asserted that the
provisions Of the bill could be compiled
) with without the special tax proposed BY
the amendment of Mr.. Wickham.
Mr.. Read said that his objections to the
bill were that its stringent provisions vii
exclude great number of worthy persons
and if passed will soon be repealed.
Gen. Wickham, in support of his amend
ment, said that there would be deficit il
The State Treasury OF a half million of dol.
lars at the end of the fiscal year that the
proposed tax of two cents on the one hun
dred dollars would amount TO SOS, 600 thai
he did not expect the amendmsnt would be
adopted, but be did it to call the attention
Of the senators to the condition of affairs
He thought the bill a proper measure, and
as the revenues of the State would not justi-
fly tue appropriation, he was willing to levy
a special tax.
Mr. Hea5on said that the farmers were
now taxed to death, and he would never
vote for any increase of taxes on real or per
sonal property ; that if anything is to be
taxed let it be on liquor pass uuiform
tax law throughout the State.
Mr.. Wiekham said he didn't object to
levying tax on the stills in the State
Mr.. KoDer said he was opposed to any
increase in taxation that there would have
oeen enough money in the Treasury if the
, General Assembly had not made so
many extra appropriations.
The pending question was ordered and
Mr.. Wickham called for recorded vote.
which resulted as follows
Ayes, noes, 80.
Those who voted aye were AIessrs. Hold
ges, Houston, Mcdonald, and Wicbham.
The bill then passed by the vote Of 10 ayes
} every member of the body-to no noes.
This is the first bill passed by this BODY fol
years which received forty votes.
The bill as thus passed by the Senate pro
vides that pension OF $50 per annnm shall
be given every person who has lost an aru
or leg or foot or hand in the discharge Of
his dnty as a soldier, &c. For the. loss O.
two eyes or two feet or two hands or a HAND
and foot, $50 per annum; any person 10
tally disabled, $50 per aunum. To every
widow of any soldier, sailor, or marine
] whose husband lost his life in discharge o.
bis duty of the military service Of Virgins
during the war, $50 per annum, provided
she remains unmarried. This act provides
that no person holding a national, State
municipal, or county Office which pays hin
over $500 pei. aunuln, Or whose gross income
from any Service amounts to $500, or vha
owns 81 ,000 worthy of property, or who re-
ceives d; pension from any other State o.
the United States, Or who is an inmate Of
any soldiers home, shall be entitled to ans
, | 6 IL baueFss Of this act