Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-24
THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.


uhorize the consolidation of the Rich
mond aud Petersburg and the
Petersburg Railroad Companies under
/ the name Of the Atlantic Coast
Line Company. He stated that
the bill passed by the Senate was dis
missed by the House on Tuesday, and
he thought this was done under mis-
apprehension. This act was practically
the same as that rejec'ed by the House,
the only material difference being the
change Of name. The bill was placed
on the calendar, and under suspension
of the rules was passed.
The Withers constitutional conven-
ton bill came up as special order.
Certain amendments proposed by Mr..
Wickhem were accepted by Mlr.
| Withers. Mr.. Wickham then offered q
substitute providing for a commission
to recommend amendments to the con-
stitution in accordance with the Gov.
errors suggestion. The substitute,
and original, as amended, were
ordered to be printed, aud the special
order was passed by until to-day. The
substitute provides for committee Of
fifteen with pay at s. per day, five to
be appointed by each, the Senate,
House and Governor; paid secretary
is to be employed, and q report made
to another session of the legislature.
A bill was introduced to incorporate
the Old Point Comfort College. This
institution is to be under the control
and management of the Naverian
I T.; to No cd in Erli1o-
beth City county or elsewhere in the
State. The iDcorporators are authorized
under the provisions of the bill to
establish other schools aud colleges
elsewhere in Virginia. 1t is provided
that the brother provincial of the
Xaverian Brothers in America and his
successors shall always be the presi-
; dent of this corporation.
The Senate disposed of the bill pro-
viding for the nomination of United
States Senators by primary. The mea-
sure was rejected by vote OF 25 to 10.
The fight was probably made for and
against the proposition largely on per-
sonal grounds. All of the most init
mate friends of Senator Martin in the
Senate antagonized the measure.
HOUSE.
The House committee on finance
submitted the appropriation bill to
that body. AS compared with the
general appropriation act, passed two
years ago, it shows saving of S177,-
253. Of this amount, however, the
sum of $4,000 is estimated to be saved
in criminal expenses. The reductions
in the House bill from the Senate bill
amount to $50 $50, but it is hardly to
be supposed that they will all prevail.
In fact, many of them will undoubted-
ly be restored to the Senate provisions.
The Senate allows the University of
! Virginia SAT 500, and the House COM
mittee in their bill places it at $40, 900.
The auditor of public accounts is al
lowed for clerks in this bill $500,
against 1000 given by the Senate.
{ The salaries of State officers are all cut
and public institutions exempted from
reduction by the Senate will feel the
+ knife of the House. The bill abolishes
the night Waterman OF the Court OF
Appeals rooms, for which the Senate
appropriated 5000, and the sppropria-
ton of S400 for labor at the executive
mansion, is omitted entirely by the
House.
The same appropriations are made
for the fiscal year ending September
so, 1899, with the exception that the
Virginia Military Institute is reduced
from $50, 900 to S25, 900 for the second
year, aud that the following additional
amounts have been omitted Five hun.
dred and eighty dollars for ventilating
apparatus hall of the House of Dele
gates; $500 to replace certain buoys on
boundary line between Maryland and
Virginia; $3.50 counsel fee in the case
of Mccullough against the Common
wealth of Virginia; 1925 premiums on
insurance policies on the Capitol build
ing; 1882 for four telephones; total
saving over this year of Sc 6S7.
DR.. Winston offered joint resolu-
ton, which was placed on the calendar,
providing that, inasmuch as the Capt.
toll building was not safe in regard TO
fire, the Houdon statue of Washington
be removed to the library building, af-
ter proper place has been procured,
the expense not to exceed $500. The
resolution was placed on the calendar
under suspension of the rules.
The House passed the bill requiring
all executions to take place in the peni
Tertiary in Ric mond. This bill re-
quires condemned person, as soon as
sentence has been passed upon him, to
be brought and placed in the peuiten
tiary until executed. An effort to re.
quire that the commonwealth should
return free OF cost the body Of the
doomed person to his family failed.
The House passed the Watkins bill
! fc..55::11Iiiiug dealing in futures. The
measure makes the offense of selling
futures misdemeanor, punishable by
fine and Imprisonment. The question
was raised in discussing the bill
whether under its provisions person
could transmit an order for futures to
person 10 another State. 1t was insist
ed that in accordance with q statute
now existing this could properly be
done.
The House dismissed the bill with
regard to long and short hauls, and
prohibiting railroads and other trans
| portation companies from charging q
greater rate in proportion for the short
: han for long haul.
The Senate hill providing for the Ell
lergement OF the pvnite1.'!,erY Was re-
ported adversely in the House.
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