Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-06


ing salaries? The people and not the
office-hoders. The people are not here,
but the other fellows are. | am afraid
they will decide his bill TO be unconst-
tutional, and we can't do anything I'M
constitutional you know.
The people of North Carolina may
know something about their State Consti-
tuition but there is no man in Virginia
who knows anything about ours. II we
had one man in Virginia who knew as
much about our State Constitution as the
gentleman from Gloucester knows about
oysters, this Legislature might do some
thing. but, as it is. I can't see that n
great deal will be done. We work on
bill in committee sometimes for a
week. All parties interested come be-
for the committee, and are heard. or
course, two or more lawyers are on all
committees. We can't do a thing with
out them, because the bill. without their
aid might be unconstitutional you see.
Finally it is finished, and has the unani-
nous endorsation of the committee,
which feels proud of it's bill, and takes 1t
before the House marked "A Revenue
Getter," or "a Revenue Saver" as the
case may be. The chairman Of the com
mittee gets the floor and presents his
BILL states the saving OF revenues under
the bill, or increased revenues by the
bill-as the case may be-and cites Boat
UNI VS. Bullem, and Insides VS.. Outsdes,
10 show its constitutionality. He is
fortified, and feels sure OF his position,
put, alasl he is attacked where he had
not thought The bill is declared 'class-
legislation" because you cannot tax one
man on thing unless you tax every
man on the same thing, whether he has
got il or not Verify, this Constitution
is a son OF a gun Of a thing.
II 1 thought no fellow would tell
Governor Tyler, I would advise him TO
lay his pipes for the Senate. Tell you
why: This Constitution will ruin the
constitution OF any man who fools with
il. Look behind us. Look at the good
men--and they are good men: you cannot
deny IL. Where. O, wherel are they now?
Their constitutions wrecked by our Con-
stitution. 1t is demoralizing-destroy
ing the State, it's Governors, its Legisa-
lures. and its people You can't do a
constitutional thing under this Consti-
tuition, because nobody knows what the
Constitution is Let us be rid OF 1t; let
us find out where we are at"
Sitting in my seat listening to young
WinbOrne presenting and advocating his
four companion bills which, he claims,
would save in the aggregate 100000 10
the State, his face flushed with the Joy
| that comes in the hour OF supposed
victory from long and honest toll in a
good cause, and in a moment his hopes
and bills are crushed. the scene was we'll
nigh pathetic. To frame bill for the
betterment of the people under this Con-
stitution would be no less difficult than
10 safely pass Gallagher through the
rapids OF Niagara In a birch canoe. You
Just can't do it, and that is all there is
TO it,
Well. Winborne, we will fight 1t TO the
end. and when we get home we will rally
the boys and fight until we win. LOOK
at that picture and you see the shadow
OF one of the most faithful, capable, and
efficient members Of the House-R. w.
| Winborne, of Rockbridge county.
There Is much talk nowadays about
| the Daughters OF the American Revolu-
I ton every age must have have its rad
/ you know. Doubtless, many OF these
good people are descendants Of the half
clad patriots that wintered at Valley
Forge; possibly, some are the descend
ants Of the Tories who jeered at the
| barefooted soldiers who followed across
the tawny sands Of Jersey that distin-
! guished gentleman OF whom the mem
Der from Pittsylvania said "he would
never have heard OF him, sir, had that
reformatory school at Laurel been KNOW
when he was a boy" because dear Ola
| George w. would have been sent to tna'
| institution for chipping his papa's cherry
/ tree, and there left to drag the clnklhe
| chains of slavery, instead OF drawing the
sword that gave peace and liberty TO MS
| country" BE that as 1t may, my dear
Wilson, We have here. beyond the perad'
venture Of a doubt, a man whose name Il
Boaz, OF the sons OF Abimeleck tsee BOOB
| OF Ruth. with an ancestry anteuatlns
English history and the Engllsh-speak
ing tongue. On the paternal side We
find that sense OF honor which reeos
nized duty and discharged IT; on the ma
ternal side, the pure, the hooie' en'
matchless Ruth. / challenge the spnere'
for ancestry superior to that. Loos
| t.of~ ora down tho aH0ois OF time, hcdTcI