Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-02

met ana ready 10 receive any cOmmunica
'lon ne might have to make them. I'm
edlately afterwards, Mr.. Diggs appeare,
ami announced that the House hat
agreed TO the appointment OF the Join
| committee
Ihere was delay OF several minutes
"hile waiting TO hear from the Cover.
nor which the senators employed in ex.
| changing social calls and beginning tn,
'ne Jocular amenities OF the session.
Finally the committee appeared and
| reported that the Governor would in a
! re" minutes communicate in writing
but there was considerable more delay
before his private secretary appeared
and delivered general and a special
message.
JUDGESHIPS FILLED.
The special message was with refer
ehce 10 the vacancies occurring in cir
cult and county judgeships since the ad-
Journment Of the last Legislature. The
message follows:
Governors Office. December /, 1897.
To the General Assembly:
AS required by law, j herewith submit
the names Of circuit and county-cOurt
judges, who have either died or resigned,
thereby creating vacancies in their respec-
tive ,Judgeships, since the adjournment OF
the last General Assembly. together with
those said vacancies:
l. Isaac Hudson, Judge of the County
Court of Pulaski county; departed this
lie. Appointee-Seldon Longley.
2. J. ID. Cole. Judge of the County Court
Of Pittsylvania county; departed this lie
AppOintee-JameS Il Treadway
). John w. Gillet, Judge of the County
Court Of Accomac county; resigned. APP
pointee-W; G: Blackstone.
4. 5. w. Williams, Judge Of the Circuit
Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.
Appointee-Robert c. Jackson.
D. George w. Ward, Judge of the County
Court of Washington county; departed
this life AppOintee-D. G.. Cummings, Jr.
g. ID. NJ. Chichester. Judge of the County
courts OF Fairfax and Alexandria Icoun-
ties; departed this life. Appointee-James
NJ. Love.
Z William d. Taliaferro. Judge of tine
County Court of Gloucester county; re-
signed AppOintee-James L. Taliaferro
All of the appontees We're commissioned
as provided by the Constitution TO serve,
until thirty days after the commencement
OF the session of the present General AS
sembly. CHARLES r. O'FERRALL.
on motion of Mr.. McIlwaine, the Cover
nors general message was ordered laid
upon the table and printed. Two hundred
and fifty extra copies were ordered Tor
the use of the Senate.
THE FIRST BILL.
The first bill of the session was intro
duced by Senator Withers. 1t was en-
titled "a bill to amend and re-enact the
title and sections l and of an act en-
titled an act TO prescribe the mode by
which unpaid subscriptions TO joint stock
companies may be recovered by said com
panies. receivers. or assignees.'
TO RELIEVE LANDOWNERS.
Mr. Claytor, of Roanoke, introduced
measure. whose adoption he asked under
fl,a ,1f1 n C11G
operation of the law whereby delinquent
lands are sold for taxes due, after no
tice Of thirty days.
There was much interest manifested IN
Mr.. Claytor's bill, and discussion upon
II was earnest and prolonged. The patron
said that great hardships had been
wrought upon landowners in Roanoke
through the operations Of the present
law, citing an instance in which n lady
had come near losing property worth
thousands of dollars because she did not
know that there was due upon II a tax
amounting to s1S for the year 1882 two |
years before she purchased it,
Mr. Wickham admitted the hardships |
wrought by the law, and sympathized |
with the innocent sufferers, but said he |
vas unwilling that such radical change |
n the taxing laws be made in such a
lasty manner.
MIR. clayton pleaded for the adoption
If his measure, and Senator Fostec, OF
Norfolk, came TO his aid, declaring ;hat
n his district hdrdships such as those
described by Senator Claytor had been
in several instances.
Mr. Turnbull spoke in favor Of the mo-
ion. using the general arguments al
eady advanced. which called forth from
.fr. Mushbach the question as 10 whether
he vested rights of innocent purchasers
,ere to be affected. Mr.. Turnbull thought
ot.
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE.
Mr.. Withers offered the measure say
1g that purchasers of property upon
,hich there were taxes due were guilty
f negligence in not knowing whether the
md was clear, and that this deprived
hem of standing in law.
Messrs. Foster and Clayton again spoke
! favor of the measure, but Mr.. Boykin
,troduced a substitute, which was adopt
4 after an earnest speech by the mover,
which he vigorously declared against
ronouncing not innocent purchasers
lose who bought realty upon which back
tXes were due, for people are not IN
10 habit of making or having made
arches through records for the pur-
1se of finding defects of title of this |
Mr. Boykin's substitute provided for the
opointment Of a committee of five to be
1pointed by the observation-disclosures TO
port as speedily as possible upon THIS
lbiect. or report a bill intended to ac-
nplish the end aimed at by Mr. Clay
r. This committee consists of Messrs.
ov<in. Wickham, Turnbull, Mcllwaine,
I'd Mushbach.
THE PARTRIDGE LAW.
MFR, Flood introduced a bill whose OBJ
ct is the repeal of the law passed jan {
Iry q. 1896. forbidding the killing OF
rtridges in the State for two years. 4
nator LeCato also offered similar {
easure. Mr.. Flood said the law had !
complished its object, and was now be- {
2 generally disregarded. He asked that
Q bill be placed on the calendar under
suspension of the rules.
yessrs Morris, Fairfax, and Mushbach 7
posed the. bill. the first two because of G
general repeal character; the latter a
cause. he said the Senator from APP ;
mattox wanted to legislate backwards, u
tting upon representatives, from coun- q
8 that favored the bill the work of Il
wing such counties named in IT. o.
Ar Flood finally consented that the q
| lie over until to-day. when the list .
counties in which the law is still to
main in force can be inserted. -
BILLS INTRODUCED. p
n addition TO the bills alluded to above, IL
! following were introduced and appro- "
ately referred:
~ senator Sands: bill to amend 5;
a re-enact section Of an act entitled, n
n act to incorporate the Progressive n
dowment Guild of America" and 10 y
tor.