Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-22
The State Legislature.

The Senate Committee on Public
Institutions and Education Monday,
by vote of 81 to 2, decided to report
unfavorably the McCune Anti-Flirt-
ing bill.
There is big lobby of insurance
people in Richmond against the
Wharton bill, which prohibits COM
binations among insurance people
for the purpose of controlling + ties.
s. great many members of the Legis-
lature are receiving kilograms from
insurance agents among their con-
stituepcy, protesting against the
passage of the act. This bill has been
reported fayorably in the House.
Mr.. W. f. Reddy has introduced a
bill in the House providing for the
casting, of ballots at the various
precincts for United States Senator
at elections for members of the Legis-
lature. The ballots are to be deposited
in separate boxes. Public notices are
to be posted twenty days before the
election. The special ballot is to be
allowed upon the petition of one
hundred votes in the counties and
three hundred in the cities.
In the line of retrenchment the
House has adopted resolution dl
recting the finance committee to look
into the eXpediency of reducing the
States appropriations to public in.
situations and all other objects, and
| il it be found practicable to frame
the appropriation bill accordingly.
a more novel proposition was the
resolution of Mr.. Winter, OF Bedford,
which was referred, directing an IN
ouiry into the expediency OF employ
ing female clerks in the various State
departments and to report how much
can thus be saved in salaries.
A favorable report has been order
ed on the bill allowing motion for
a Judgment to be made in the county
court, when the amount claimed eX-
ceeds twenty dollars and does not ex
coed one hundred dollars. This act
will have the effect of placing the
plaintiff in the same position now
occupied by the defendant, who has
| the right to remove warrant Tor
any amount over twenty dollars from
q Justice to the county court.
Senator Massie has offered bill
provi ing that the Commissioner OF
the Revenue shall asc rtain from
each person residing in bis district
the aggregate amount OF money and
the value of principal and interest OF
personal estate, and credits under his
control as court receiver, or commits
sioner, and it shall be the duty OF
court clerks to furnish the commits
sioners with list of all evidences OF
debt under control of the court, pro-
vided that tax upon property held
| for the benefit of another shall be
paid in the district where the bene
iiciary resides. provided he is q resi-
dent of Virginia.
- There was an extended debate in
the Senate Tuesday on bill offered
by Mr.. Turnbull to the system OF
paying fees to witnesses for the Com
monwealth in criminal cases heard
by justices of the peace. The bill
was by almost a unanimous vote or
dered to its engrossment. 1t is claim
ed that this act, il it becomes law,
will save the State $50. 900 annually.
The committee of the House on
Roads and Internal Navigation met ia
executive session Monday night and
decided almost unanimously to
report Mr.. Saunders's ''fence law
bill with an unfavorable recommend
. alton. There will probably be a
strong fight made upon the floor OF
the House for the passage of the bill,
however, as Mr.. Saunders is very
much determined in his advocacy OF
| it.