Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-01

borough. OF Manchester. and r, b. Jane
OF Danville. TO serve three years enc
from April Is, 1853.
Immediately upon concluding the execr
tive session the Senate took recess unit
SIP. NJ.
The Night Session.
Inc chair was resumed al $40 o'clock
win a large attendance of spectators
ME- flood introduced a bill TO declar,
vacant after May 81, 1898. the offices o
JUDGES ot election. He said the Com
mlttA's on Privileges and Elections of tn
TWO houses had reported the electora
Dodrus Tor the counties and cities of tn,
state and that these would be elected 10
-FOUR years. The bill was designed to max,
II ciear as to whether the outgoing or in
coming boards had the right to appoint
the judges He said he had Just receiver
telegram stating that the old board IN
washington county had appointed Judge,
Oh election for the ensuing term. III
characterized this as a hlgh-handed usur.
patton of power.
Nr. steele said the board in washington
county had not violated the letter or the
spirit OK the law, and ne resented the i'm.
putauons OF the Senator from Appomat-
tox.
MT Boykin said he believed the law au-
thorlzed the present boards to appoint
judges before the 1st of March. why.
then' should their action be stigma tized
as an arbitrary exercise Of power and an
act or unprecedented presumpticn7 He
understood Henrico and Spotsylvania
counties had done the same thing. Il de-
clare the bill introduced by the Senator
from Appomattox as an unjust and arbi-
trary attempt to iegislate these Judges
out OF office"
Mr.. Boykin was very heated IN his 1p-
position, but Mr.. Flood. who followed
him, was equally warm in his remarks in
advocacy Of the bill. His was chiefly a
legal argument, and was very earnest.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
At $40 O'Clock. while Mr.. Flood was
speaking, Mr.. Cooker chairman OF the
House Finance Committee, appeared on
the moor, and reported that his body had
passed the substitute for the Senate APP
preparation bill, which substitute he held
IN MS hand, very bulky document of
many pages Of typewritten matter The
Dill was borne TO the Clerks desk by
page, and Mr. Wickham moved that the
Senate disagree to the amendments, and
ask the House for n conference
Mr.. Morris and Mr. Opie supported Mr.
Wickham, but Mr.. Keezell said he want
ed the Senate TO see first what items IL
could agree upon i'm the substitute. There
was some discussion as TO what was the
proper method Of procedure as regarded
tho bill.
Mr.. Keezell said he had been unavoida-
bly, absent when the Senate appropria-
ton bill was passed, and, therefore, he
did not know it's provisions. He wanted
the bill gone over in order to learn its
provisions
81 think an opportunity will be given
the Senator from Rockingham 10 put
himself 'rectus in curla. as the lawyers
would say" said Mr. Wlckham, mis-
cor as we politicians would
say, right with the boys" Oaughter)
COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE.
Mr.. Jackson asked 20 have the substi-
tute reported, and the Clerk began to
read the House bill. A half-dozen sena-
tors sprang to their feet simultaneously,
against the reading of the bill.
Mr.. Wickham undertook to explain the
iu the House bill as compared
10 the Senate bill. when Mr. KeeZell OBJ
ected that he was giving no figures.
and at the request Of Mr.. Jackson the
Clerk attacked the House bill and read
he changes, which consumed some time,
and at the expiration of which Mr.. Nor
is moved that the Senate refuse to adopt
he substitute, which was agreed 10 al
most unanimously.
Mr.. Fairfax reported the action Of the
Senate 10 the House. and in a few min
ties Mr.. Saunders appeared and an
,Ounced that the House insisted uDOn
is substitute. and desired a committee
II conference.
The Chair appointed the following
members of the Conference Committee:
,lessrs. Fairfax. Keezell, and Wickham.
THE JUDGES OF ELECTION.
Mr.. Flood concluded his speech on the |
Electoral Board BIN, and Nr. Steele spoke !
II opposition, defending his constituents,
md concluding by moving that the bill be |
made the special order for to-day at | |
,'clock.
This was rejected, and the bill was en- |
crossed by a vote of 10 to 8.
Mr.. Boykin introduced a joint resolution /
roviding that after last night no bills |
5 10 which there was objection made
hould be considered, except the apprO- |
ration bill, bills affecting the revenue |
f the State, pension bills. bills relating /
D the constitutional convention, or
mendments to the Convention, the bills
satng TO the erection OF additional |
buildings at the penitentiary, to the APP
ointment OF judges of election, the cleo
on of electoral boards, and bills of
The motion was not acted upon. when,
n motion Of Mr.. Munford, the Senate, at
)IO adjourned until noon to-day.