Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Interesting News Gathered from
Our Exchanges-The Gen.
eraI Assembly, etc.

Governor and Mrs. Tyler and
family have been invited by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley to attend
the reception at the White House on
February 18th. Mr.. Heth Tyler
will probably attend.
The Saunders bill requiring all
the railroads ia the State to fence
in their tracks has already passed
both houses, and now goes to the
Governor for his approval. The
measure is an important one in the
interest of the farmers, as it requires
the roads to pay for all stock killed
II the tracks are not fenced. The
railroads antagonized this measure
vigorously when it was first brought
toward, but their opposition seems
to have waned.
The friends of the University of
Virginia will make big fight before
the Senate Committee on Finance
against cutting down the nppropria
ton of that institution from fifty to
forty thousand dollars. 1t is insist.
ed that of all the years. this is the
one III which such a stroke of econo.
my should not be attempted. The
university has to rebuild it's struc
lures destroyed by fire and contract
ed the debts therefor in the expecta-
tion of receiving the usual allowance
from the State. To curtail this ap.
preparation now, the friends of the
university maintain, will be manifest.
ly unfair They will make great
hght to prevent the adoption of the
suggestion of Senator Barksdale's
committee in this matter. They may
be successful, as it seems likely they
will be.
The Senate Committee on General
Laws last night decided to. report
favorably the bill forbidding the use
of trading stamps and trading checks
amending it SO as to make it effec
tive Jelly LIST. There was decided op
position to reporting the ll,and the
final vote was 4 to 2.
Captain r. S. Parks, of Page
county, yesterday introduced in the
House quite an important bill, pro-
vlding for the appointment of COM
missioner in every city and town of
the State having over 5000 inhabi
tants, whose duty it shall be to at.
tend to the better assessment of
such personal property as money,
notes, bonds, and securities, and who
shall make a report to the Commits.
sioner of the Revenue. The bill is
framed on the lines of law now in
force in the city of New York, al
though not so drastic as that ordi.
nance.
Mr. Bland. of Portsmouth, intro
duced bill to prohibit railroad and
steamboat companies from loading
or unloading freight.cars or freight
steam ers or other vessels on Sunday.
and also from running locomotives
or cars, except such as shall be run
for carrying passengers or the mails.
The term Sunday in the bill is con.
strued as only referrii g to that part
of the day between sunrise and sun
set. The violation of the act is
classed as a misdemeanor, and the
penalty ia fixed at not less than
$500, to be paid, when collected, into
the State Treasury for the public
schools.
There was introduced in the
House yesterday the committees
substitute for the bill reducing iail.
ers' fees. The CHIEF change in the
bill is that which raises to 18 cents
the minimum daily charges for main
tanning prisoners. Several other
changes are made. which are design
ed to prevent the bill increasing the
salaries of the keepers of small jails,
which would have been the effect bod
the other bill been enacted.