Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-08
THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

SENATE.
AS stated in the Gazette yesterday
the steering committee of the Senate
submitted the names of the standing
committees to caucus which approved
them. 10 the House Speaker Ryan
announced the make up of his commit
tees.
The most important committees this
session will be those on finance. Mr..
Fairfax, of Loudoun, heads this COM
mittee in the Senate, and Mr.. Cooke, of
Norfolk, in the House, as he did two
years ago.
The other members of the Senate
committee are Messrs. Wickham for
merly chairman, but now president pro
tem.) J, Keezell, Morris, Barnes, Sands,
Lowery. Jrffries, Munford. EgglestoD,
Hartley, Leucher and McCune.
The members of the House finance
committee, besides Chairman Cooke,
are Messrs. Willard, Boaz, Surgene,
Murphy, Walker, of Ausu1sta, Craig
Withrow, Wharton, Wexford, Pen
dleton, Jennings, of Lynchburg, Stoner
and Turner.
The elections committees OF the TWO
houses are composed of FIVE meo. Mr.
Flood, of Appomattox, as chairman in
the Senate, and Mr.. Parker, of South
ampton, in the House, will be the par
ty leaders in their respective bodies.
The other members of the Senate are
Messrs. Fairfax, Maynard, Turnbull,
Jackson, Barnes, Hartley, Foster and
Parr, while in the House the members
are Messrs. Smith, of Northampton,
Galleher. Hale, TurpiD, Williams,
Bland, Of Portsmouth, Hobbs, Settle
and Taylor.
Senator Mushbach is on the commit
tees on courts OF justice, general laws,
counties, cities and towns (chairmap),
and to examine the bonds of public
officers.
Mr.. Barley is on the committees on
courts of justice, roads, internal navi-
cation, and immigration.
Mr.. Willard is on the committees on
schools and colleges, finance, roads,
and internal navigation.
4 bill was introduced to amend an
act in relation TO fundamental CONVEX.
sion of property held under trust deed.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Kiser presented a bill which pro.
vides that no child under fourteen years
of age shall be employed in any dance
hall or other place where liquor is sold,
or with surroundings that submit them
TO immoral influences. The penalty is
both fine and imprisonment, OF the dis.
erection of the court.
General Wharton introduced bill
which provides that every fire insur-
ance company doing business in
Virginia shall. before paying its yearly
license, be required to make affidavit
that it belongs to no combination
which was formed for the purpose of
controlling rates. The bill is supposed
to be aimed at the Southeastern Traffic
Association, which controls the fire
rates in large section.
The Senate bill designed to give full
er protection to the purchasers of lands
on which taxes are delinquent, was
amended in many particulars in the
House, and referred to the committee
on courts.
The House passed to its engrossment
the Joint resolution directing the attor-
ney general to procure copies of official
bonds of treasurers and clerks of courts
and papers, and ascertain if they con-
tain inaccuracies or defects, and to take
steps to protect the Commonwealth, if
such defects and inaccuracies exist.
Mr.. Quisenberry presented bill to
amend section 245S Of the code. AS the
law now stands any person who is in
solvent, when creditor attempts to
make his debt" the former will have
a deed of trust drawn on his property,
securing it in favor of all his creditors,
and often those who are not bona-fde
creditors. The object Of the amend
ment is to prevent this, and is in the
following words: Unless at the time of
such gift, conveyance, assignment or
transfer of or charge upon such estate,
real or personal, there be pending in
the County Court in which such estate
is located some suit to obtain a jUdg-
ment or decree for money against said
grantor.
Among the bills introduced were
To amend an act to provide for method
for the better assessment of personal
under the control of iduciaries
and the several courts of the common
wealth; to amend an act in relation to
fraudulent conveyances of property
held under trust deed, approved May
%, 1887; to prohibit the taking or kill
ing af black bass of less than eight !