The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-29
@sRat Slow Progress Is Made In the InYsstlga-
s5 lion as There Was No Interpreter.
CORPORATION TAX BILL is SIGNED
Tho Crop of Congressional Candi-
dates IDcrensins-A Large Crowd
Disappointed by the Junction on
tho Anti.slambling GiiI-.Suspicious
n Baseball Tinkcring.

sS out for profit and all such real estate
~ can be assessed in February Tor taxa
s. ton. There Is considerable OF this prop
~ erty in Norfolk
sS Mr.. Newberne offered a bill 10 incorpo-
81 rate the Southern Branch DrawbridEe
4; Company with Francis Richardson {.
81 r.. johnson, George w. Curling, II. W.
VI West, Foster Black. T. W. Butt Alv:ih
& III. Martin, J. p. A. Mottu. 5. w. Lyons,
x Samuel Bland. E f. Crowcll and H. L.
y Morgan as corporators The bridge is
& to be erected NJ point south oil the
81 Norfolk and Western bridge. The cap
\ atnl stock is to be not less than S5'op''
Z nor more than $4,000.
The Senate passed the bill to incorpo,,
& rate the Peninsula Gas Light. Fuel ana
4 Power Company with an amendment
providing that If II throw any refuse
matter in the river al Newport News the
+ charter shall be forfeited
The bill to incorporate the Virginia
8 Telephone Company was passed in the
Senate.
y There was big crowd of people nj
i The Capital to-day in anticipation of
y disappointed as the subject was not
g gone into. The bill reported by the
Committee on Counties. Cities and
Towns of the House is not the original
B Reddy measure, but it embraces also
! features of the bill offered yesterday by
Z Mr.. Pitcher. Had all the members of
Z the committee been present when the
/? vote was taken the Maupin bill would
y certainly have been approved. Mr..
Maupin Is now prepared to make a big
fight on the floor for his measure. Some
OF the ablest members OF he body will
nome to his assistance
The investigation Of the charges
against the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In
stitute preferred by John l.. Randolph
!. was continued this morning with the
Il complainant on the stand. Slow pro-
gress was made. as there was no inter
4 prefer and Randolph had To be given
S written questions and had to write out
q tho replies. Delegate Bland Of Ports
mouth. sat by Mir. Randolph as his
friend and advised with him. Once o:
twice. Mr.. Bland had sharp debates with
y the members of the committee with re-
ference to how the investigation was
being conducted There was nothing
i; new in Randolph's testimony UP 10
a noon, when q recess was taken. He was
! examined chiefly with reference to the
character and conduct OF Superinten-
= dent Doyle. All he could state was that
& MIR. 'Doyle's breath often smclt Of Wits
q key. MrJ. II. Lind say .cditorof the Char
lottesville Progress. and a member Of the
I, Board Of Visitors. was allowed to make
a personal statement, and said il had
Z been reported that he took one of the
girls to Ocean View and registered hey
"A as his wife. This he denied and cx-
planned that when in Norfolk one sum
q mer he called on n pupil OF the insti-
ton and at the request of the girls
Z mother took her TO Virginia Beach
Il They spent the day there. but did not
3 even take 4 room nor did they register.
AT the session this afternoon of the
) committee Investigating charges against
! the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute
& Randolph was on the stand and was
4 examined as to his accusations agans;
Principal Doyle. He stated that he had
never seen Capt. Doyle take whiskcy
] but often observed the effects upon
him. He claimed that Cant. Dolye did
not attend faithfully to his duties and
4 neglected the pupils. Randolph said h,
made similar charges against the prin.
3 cipal when he was at the school. II,
wrote to John t. Harris. Jr., a member
B OF the Board of Visitors. and called hi:
& attention 70 these things. but no motto,
was ever taken of the matter as far a:
y he knew.
The committee was In session agaii
1: tonight with Randolph still on tn
stand. He made no other charge
q against Doyle than those of imprope
use of liquor and failure to attend to hi
z duties. The charges against Scar
Quit and Williams were taken mp ant
q Randolph reiterated all he had sale
.
had to tell about alleged immoral con
+ duct was from hearsay. and not from
his personal knowledge of anything
wrong.
There are no less than three candi-
dates for the Democratic nomination
i for Congress in the Second District in
: the House of Delegates. They arc Sen
: ators Boykin. of Isle of Wight, and
Maynrd. of Portsmouth, and Delegate
II CHARLES T. Bland, of Portsmouth. Not
all OF them are avrwed candidates.
4 DUE their friends have their IN trairi-~
& AS Mr.. Mayard and Mr. Bland reside
y near to earn other ar1
sonar friends, 1t is not likely that but
( one OF thein VIII run, 10" 1! Incy su0t!4
s nsht each other neither could hone to
WIN. congressman Tyler will be in the
race again. ana it would MT hc c,r-
b prising If Mr.. ]. c. Parker, of South
,aihptoA' should become a candidate
8 The two houses ,laszed cu'.7 -..,-,
per OF bills to-day, but most of them
Is were O. only lo-a! !t,elegt,
Y them are relief measures 70. county
u I1Easu:ers Among those passed in tho
~ mouse was the one 10 amend the Code
SIN relation 10 saalers of weights and
ST measures; Il amend the act cstabJishinn
81 ah aocitN.a! count at Norfolk. and ~
g 1 Ss,.,.l NE charter of the town OF Boy
a Nh q IN southampton county.
inc Senate Committee on Priv,ncee
saha nlecttons met this morning In, Si6
l;StHot taka up the Parrish Fla nns,rn,,
sf ease: Delegate NJ. a. Coles yyns 49,,
I'm iaFrr Of the Hale election hin snd
33s sefSator Wickham spoke in advoranv ~
,ssS W, s,he Iasasuie introduced by himself
EMO action was taken m these hiiis !,
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