Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-05
MISSED In THE LOBBY
DEPARTURE OF LAWMAKERS
NOTICED AT THE HOTELS.
SESSION OF VERY HEAVY WORK.
An Unusual Number of Bills Enacted
Into Lnws-Mensures That Were
MISREPRESENTATION.

The adjournment of the General AS
sembly was a most evident fact about
the hotels last night.
Familiar figures were missing from the
Hobbies. and subjects of legislation as
topics Of conversation gave place to the
state Of trade and stories of experiences
In the lives OF knights OF the grip, for
while the commercial traveller is not the
only man who stops at the hotels he
puts distinctive Character upon the as
| semblage I'm the lobby. as truly as the
law-maker has done during the past three
months
The lawmakers and the knights of the
! grip fraternized We'll 1t would be de-
| cidedly improper to say that a bond be-
| tween them was the fact that they were
both in trade. But certain it is that they
chimed well together, and many a WELL
dressed. well-satished-w himself drum
mer has been taken for one Of the law
makers of the Old Dominion. He seldom
resented II, nor did a legislator often COM
plain.
Though the law manufacturers were In
an apparent hurry to leave, they undoubt-
edly enjoyed a three-months' stay in
Richmond. They certainly took advan-
tage Of almost every opportunity which
the finest city in the world presented to
the man who wanted a good time They
will be missed by nearly everybody in
Richmond. Among those who atil linger
In the city on the James are Messrs. J.
n. Stubs, of Gloucester; w. S. Hale, of
Grayson, d. NJ Switzer, of Rockingham;
L. {. Pitcher, of Fauquier, and ID. q.
Eggleston, of Charlotte.
WILL SEE GAY MANHATTAN.
Colonel Joseph Button, Speaker Ryan,
Senator'S Flood, Maynard, jackson, ana
Barksdale, and Delegates Hicks, Thomas,
Barley and Pitcher, accompanied by Mr..
Clarence Young, left for New York las.
night, and will spend two or three lays
in the metropolis. From New York they
will return to their homes. Colonel But
ton will spend week at his home. in
AppomattoX, and will then come back to
Richmond and finish the work of pre-
pairing the journal and other duties.
Delegate Il. +. Montague. of Elizabeth
City and Hon. Joseph Lawless, Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth. preceded the
party to New York but they will all have |
a good time together
Colonel John Bell Bigger, the Clerk IT |
the House, said yesterday that all the |
acts were about ready for the printers, |
and he hopes to have them in their hands |
to-day. Colonel Bigger will take brief |
rest. and then return to Richmond and |
finish up the work of the session.
Several of the clerks of committees Of
the two houses have gone home, and the
rest will all probably leave to-day.
THE QUANTITY CONSIDERED.
Colonel Bigger says that not during his
long connection with the House of Dele
gates have so many measures been :e-
ported in that body as during the past
session. The number of bills reported
was g9l, as against $40 last year. The
number introduced, he thinks, would ag-
gregate 1850. There were 59i bills intro
duced in the Senate this year, as against
7i3 last session.
1t is not now possible TO state exactly
the number Of bills passed. but the total
cannot be very far from l,0O0. This leaves
the number that failed at somewhere in
The neighborhood of 600. The vetoes this
year have not been numerous, but they
nave been sustained in every instance.
FAILED OF PASSAGE.
The bills which failed to receive the
Governors approval in the last hours Of
session were:
House Bill No 42J. TO amend sections
1853 and 5000 OF the Code. providing that
Ill business before the Supreme Court or
Appeals for the city of Roanoke and the
,ourts on the eastern side of Blue Ridge, |
except the counties of Patrick, Albemarle,
Amherst. Nelson Franklin. and Bedford,
hall be disposed of during the sttings
If that tribunal in the city of Richmond.
House Bill No. 7S3: To incorporate the
southern Town and Development Com ,
ANY. I
Senate Bill No. $50: To empower the 7
rustees of the corporation Of Front /
Royal TO establish a dispensary for the
ale Of malt and spurious liquors.
House Bill No. 657 To amend an act Z