Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-14
TIE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

The Senate yesterday passed the in
surance commission bill and ordered to
its engrossment the companion meas.
ure making certain changes in the in
snrance laws.
There was some discussion upon a
motion made by Mr.. Mushbach to re-
commit the bill providing that no To-
surance company shall issue policy
for more than 10 per cent of its capital
stock. The motion was finally carried.
Mr.. Brown introduced bill to APP
propriate $500 to assist the Society OF
Colonial Danes of Virginia in their
work of copying and preserving GER
tain parish vestry books and registers
running from the 1868 to 1880.
A Joint resolution was passed thank
ing Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, OF
New York, for his gift of s25, 900 to the
University of Virginia.
Mr.. Winters introduced bill to
amend the code in regard to the term
of enlistment of volunteer soldiers.
The bill fixes the said term at three
years.
A petition was presented from DIR.
w. w. Evans, asking for the right to
obtain a quarterly license to conduct
various amusements at watering
place on the Potomac river at Colonial
Beach.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Murphy's bill to punish petty
larceny with stripes came up in the
House and its patron gave to the mem
bers some interesting figures with ref
erence to how the criminal expenses
had increased since the whipping.post
was abolished. 1t was dismissed after
a lengthy argument, which brought
forth much eloquence.
There was some debate over the bill
looking to the establishment of quaran-
tine lines in this State by the experts at
Blacksburg, in order that the cattle of
the entire State may not be quarantined
against by the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington. The measure car
ries an appropriation not exceeding
$500. 1t was finally passed without a
dissenting vote.
The bill to restrict schools and
churches to the possession of seventy
five acres of land in the cities and towns
and fifteen acres in the country free
from taxation was dismissed.
Mr.. Cabell introduced bill for the
relief of INDECENT citizens of the Com
monwealth requiring treatment for dis.
ease at the Sheltering-Arms Hospital.
The House passed 10 its engro;s ment
and third reading the joint resolution
to provide for the creation of labor
reform commission for the purpose OF
investigating how best to employ the
convicts confined in the penitentiary
and reformatories and prisons in this
State other than by the contract sys
tenn.
The House committee on PROPOSE
tons and grievances unanimously re-
ported Mr.. Newberne's anti.prize fight
ing bill. The bill prohibits all sorts of
fights between man and man and man
and beast for which prize is offered or
to which an admission fee is charged.
This act applies to glove contests.
Bills were introduced to place James
S. Oden, of Fairfax, on the pension
list; in relation to how and when er-
roneous assessments Of land il the
town of Manassas be corrected, and to
establish standard tread for vehicles
used on the public roads of Virginia.
Bills were placed on the calendar
prescribing certain additional duties to
to be performed by the superintendent
of the poor in Southampton, Clarke,
and Fauquier counties; to empower the
boards of supervisors of Southampton,
Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make
rules concerning the working of crimi-
mails sentenced to work on the public
roads or farms or other public works of
said counties, and to provide suitable
buildings for the care and custody OF
said criminals; to prohibit the running
at large of sheep in certain districtln
Prince William.
The House passed Senate bill to pro-
vide for the protection of domestic AMI
mails and to authorize and empower the
Board of Control of the Experimental
Station of the Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College, at Blacksburg, to
establish live stock quarantine lines,
rules and regulations, and to prescribe
penalties for violating the same, and
House bill TO amend section 1888 of the
code declaring when certain officers
shall not be paid fees in criminal cases,
and to whom allowance shall be made
in certain cases.
The House committee on roads has
favorably the bill to require
railroad companies to provide separate
coaches for the races.
The House adopted the report of the COM
mittee on militia and police in reference to
the investigation of the method by which the
grigadier-General was elected without objcc-
ton.
The report enouerated Adjutaut General
Anderson in the matter Of the voting of the
Gaines proxy in the election of Brigadler-
General Phillips.
The new oyster survey bill had lively
time before the Joint committee Of the two
houses last night. The Oystermen's Protec'
tive Association was represented rs well as
the opposition-the men who now have the
privilege of the rocks inside of the geodetic
survey. The new survey will open these
grounds to the tongmen and all the oyster.
men. The bill was acted on favorably.
THE INSTITUTION INVESTIGA-
TON.
Yesterday was the third day of the investi
cation at Stanton OF the alleged misconduct
in the management of the Virginia Deaf,