Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-23
GENERAL ASSEMBLE.
Newport News Railway Bills
Reported Favorably.
OTHER LOCAL MEASURES
Act Amending Section loI of the Charter.
of This City Side r..ckl<ed by
the House. Work of the
Committees.
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RlCftMCND, VA. Jan. 22.-.rhe CON-
ntttee on roads and internal naviga-
ton last night had up for considera ton
the construction of electric RAILWAYS IN
Newport News, Hampton, Old Point
and hamlets. All of them were ordered
to be reported favorably 57 81
Mr. Powell today introduced a bf!ls
to incorporate the s.Laborng Mems
Bright Star Beneficial Assocla zion, 81
Newport News, and county % War;
wick" That is the name of the con-
Germ. The following are named as in-s
corporators: Samuel William Stokes.
Emmett Fowlkes. william Johns5n.S
Charles Rowlett, George Monroe aa,iS
Fred Brown. The object of the assacfaGs
ton is to care for the sick at s1.56 per-
week and to bury the dead to the .ex-s
tent of SGT. -|5ss33
Mr.. W. b. Pendleton, of Louisa, to-
day presented a petition signed by If
ty-six members of the House calling
for caucus on the 25th instant, to take
.mmefiate action on measures laaoking
To retrenchn1ent and REFORM ssN
House bill to amend and re-enacts
section l0l of an act entitled an act to
Incorporate the city of Newport News
IN the county of Warwick, and to pro-
vide charter therefor, approved Jam
uary 16. 1886, was passed by. tn
House bill to authorize and permit
the Old Dominion Land Company to-
erect a wharf or pier and to construct
1 bulkhead ON and along Its Ratars
front in the city of Newport Naws,9,
Virginia, and to authorize the issue BY
It of negotiable notes or bonds, secured
by mortgage deed of trust to pay for.
the same, was passed in the HOUSE, to-
day. sSg
Delegate Kizer introduced bill .to
make it a nlisdemeanor FOR any person
not a member OF labor or fraternal Orr
CARNATIONS to wear any OF the insig-s
MIA of orders. 4o,s.4s:' 89sssssa
In the Senate today Mr.. Witherst off
fered a bill providing that at general
election to be held in Virginia for the
election of entatiyes of CangresS,s
there shall be submitted to the voters
the question: Shall there be a con-
Vention to revise the constitution and
amend the same?" The bill was referr-.
ed. sssss3
The Senate passed the House bill tos
make 1t unlawful for any lawyer, ply
sician. surgeon, dentist, or any other
person engaged in a pro- essioa or cal
ing, taxed by the law. of Ihe State
who has his residence in the Sfates to-
practice his profession In 81 q n sssers
county or city oe this com sasyfca 51ss
Inyfer a license-tax from AIRY OF he's
state or the District of Columbfa.s ";
Mr.. Ghales T. bland today nna He'd
the following reply to Mr.. Herman sSsss
Niemeyer secretary CT the Board tf4
Trad and Exchange of Portsinc u is.&
l<SAS III lolslnS H-UEil4
INST. containing resolutions as passed.
| BY your body Directing to the 5oifses.
Inspection Dill, now pen ling in tia
House Of Delegates. at hand.
desire to say to the Bnard of Trade
and Exchange through You, that am
The patron of the bill in question, ana
| rs have never. during my brief pub
| lie career. given my humble SupporrS to-
any measure which did not resui lin al
most beneficial way to the grea. ma
f.ly.I
such is a fact, see no reason NOW why
[ should change front, and mays in ans
| opposite direction. sS35
| The bill now before the Iiouss, and
which bears my name, and which IS
| hope viii become a law, is uneS$Which8
will give protection of the proper kind
to more than a million and a half pea
pie who reside within the borders OF The
State of Virginia, and who are crying
aloud to the law making pows,rS Of fsS
state for legislation beneficial to them
I. of course, understand from whence
+! objections come, and am sorry hat
The gentlemen who object to this bill
| becoming a law cannot see 1t in the
same light as viewed by myself II yJlIs
want Legislation of the proper kin heras
S an opportunity to get it, for whevfa
million and a half people say ir isa
good thing against 1000 peopteS sSho are
effected from a small. very snIsfra H.
nancial standpoint, and who say itiEiss
a bad bill, then there is no question:
where should, and with all due defer
! ence to you and your honorable .lss32s
citation, I expect to be found-on the
side of the people. 55sSf
You have only to look a bout You Just
a little for facts, to bear out an asgtI-
| ment why a State should have a.tbo.1era
| inspection law as an experience eurs
local affairs in that direction Will show
great loss OF life. and destruction az
property, which would in all probahfii-s
| ty have been averted, if there had been
such law in Virginia. ss5ss8
! Then this measure will place net
revenue in the State treasury IL ,r5t
| less than $4,000 annually, and any one
knows that the larger the reyenua the
State derives from different sources,
the less the general rate of taxa ton Wilis
| be. M: nj
| There are various either reasons why
this bill should pass, but have enun.-s
mera'ted sufficient number.
Very truly yours,
| CHAS. t. lBLA,E1lD:Ss. ~
| The Senate committee on roads gave
| 4 brief consideration to the Winners
railroad commission 1ilts yesterday "a f.
| ernoon. There ere three companion
measures. One of them creates a COM
mission of three members, 10 be elected
Toy the Legislature. The at yves the
commission authority III make freight
| and passenger rates, to examine the
| cocks of officers of railroad conlpanies,s
| % order stations ESTABLISHED wherever
they are needed by The public, and TO-
require separate ears n BE- surnsshe1
! soI the two races.
| Very broad powers are conferred
| upon the commission. Ano.aeF bills con-
s:itutes the commissioners a beard To-
arpraise raiiroad properly orataxasion8
and the third makes the board a court
| If record. 1T
| Mr.. Witners made a brief address to-
1.-THE committee in support of the meas
| Ires, and further consideration WAS
| postponed until Tuesday, February 1st.s
at T. NJ. 1t was distinctly understood
| that there should be no further post:
lponement. Mr.. Alexander HamiisoR.of
| Petersburg. will be one OF those who
Twin speak against the bills.
A measure that viii likely occasion
some discussion in the House is the bill
in relation to pawn brokers. 1t WAS
introduced by Nfr. Wallace. at the In
stance of Mr. Sam Stern, one or the
best known men in his trade IN Viz
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