Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-24

The bill aboshes the night-watchman
at the f-Appeals-rooms' Tor whlch
the Senate appropriated 5000, and the APP
preparation of $500 for labor at the Elk
ecutive Mansion is omitted entirely by
the House.
The same appropriations are made Tor
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1899,
with the exception that the Virginia Mill
tary Institute is reduced from $4,000 10
s25, 600 for the second year, and that the
following additional amounts have been
omitted $3.50 for ventilating apparatus,
Hall of the House of Delegates $500 TO re-
place certain buoys on boundary line be-
tween Maryland and Virginia; $3.50 coun-
sci fee I'm the case of Mccullough against
the Commonwealth of Virginia; S225 pre-
miums on insurance policies on the Capt.
to building; S132 for four telephones
total saving over this year of s6.6S7.
ITS FATE NOT CERTAIN.
OF course. the fate Of the bill in the
House cannot be very well predicted. II
is hard enough 20 form an idea ap-
preaching correctness as 10 what will be
the form of the bill when II leaves the
House. 1t is always uncertain what 100
men will do, but never so much so as
when such a diversity Of local influences
are at work forming motives for action
lt seemed to be the prevailing opinion
among members Of the House last night
that the general character OF the bin
would be found when a final vote shall
have been taken 20 be not greatly
changed from what it is at present and
that its final form would be a compro-
mise reached In conference. This means
that there will be mutual concessions
and that the final bill will be something
like half way between the Senate bill and
the one now pending I'm the House. Thus
X may be expected. with reason. that the !
bill when signed by the Governor win
a total saving Of something up- |
ward of 100000.
MR.. WITHROW'S WITHDRAWAL.
Despite the inclination to pass over az
a mere tempest In a teapot" the ac- /
ton or the House Finance Committee in /
entertaining and passing upon the mo- |
ton to reconsider certain appropriation l
bills after the patron OF the measures 4
Mr.. Withrow, had been given 10 under /
stand as he asserts. that they We're \
finally disposed Of. and were only IN he \
held by the body until all OF the appro- 1
priatiOn bills had been reported. the |
lower branch OF the General Assembly IS 1
likely to hear from the Delegate from !
Bath as 20 whether his treatment was
just or not.
ne MOUSE committee on Counties. |
Cities. and Towns after deciding 10 re-
pert bill amending the charter OF the
town Of Hampton, decided when an ef-
fort was made to again bring up the
measure, after II had thus been disposed
Of, that the action OF the body was anal.
and their recommendation must stand
This action on the part OF that body is
contrary TO the position taken by the
Finance Committee in allowing a mat
ter TO be again opened up after deci-
sion had been given upon II.
Mr. Cooke, chairman OF the committee. |
and Mr.. Boaz, a member, said yesterday
that the body had not acted unfairly
with MIR. Withrow. bat had merely re-
considered its action. al a meeting when
more members were present than on the
occasion when Il was decided 10 report !
the bills in question. However, there is