Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-03-11
END OF THE
SESSION.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
'o7-os PASSED INTO HISTORY.
YESTERDAYS SESSION ONLY FORMAL.
The Governor Said He Was
Ready for 1t to CLOSE, and Ad
journment Promptly Followed.
The House in the Biggest Hur-

luded it's labors yesterday.
The proceedings attending the closing
moments OF the session were extremely
simple, and interesting only because they
marked the end. The attendance i'm each
house was not a semblance of a quorum,
though nearly every Delegate and Srna-
tor who had not gone home was in his
seat.
There were but eleven Senators present
when Lieutena T. Governor Echols called
the Senate TO order. Nobody seemed to
expect business TO be done and nobody
was disappointed. 1t was realized that
all business was done aud that final ad-
iournment was only few minutes away.
Mr.. Barksdale offered a Joint resolution
appointing five Senator's and five Dele
gates to wait upon the Gonernorand in-
form him that the General Assembly
was ready to adjourn. The resolution
was adopted and the Chair appointed
Messrs. Barksdale, Lowry, Eggleston,
Wickman, and Opie to act upon such
committee.
THANK LIEUTENANr-GOvERNOR.
MIR. Wickham offered the following:
Resolve, That the Senate OF Virginia
hereby tenders to the Hon. Edward
Echois, Lieutenant Governor of the Com
mon wealth, its cordial acknowledgements
OF the high appreciation that its mem
bers entertain for the skill and Impair
tiality with which he has discharged
his duties as the presiding officer of this
body, aud for tho pleasure his uniform
courtesy has given, and for the dignity
he has added to it's deliberations
The resolution was adopted unami-
mously.
The committee retired, and, meeting
the members appointed by the House,
went up TO the Governors Office. Gov
ernor Tyler shook hands with each MEM
ber of the committee, and then Mr..
James Lewis Anderson informed him
briefly that he had been chosen by tie
JOINT committee to inform his Excellency
that the General Assembly was ready
to adjourn, and desired to know if there
were any further communication the
Governor desired to make.
THE GOVERNORS GOOD-BY.
Governor Tyler said: 81 have moth
ing to communicate, gentlemen, aud SO
far as am concerned, the labors of this
General Assembly are completed. In
parting with you, thank you for the
uniform courtesy your two bodies have
shown me, and desire to assure that
it is with sincere regret that part with
you"
The Governor then spent few minutes
in conversation with the Committee
making several OF his characteristic iocu-
lar remarks, and the committees with
drew.
Senator Lowrey reported to the Senote
that the Governor had no further COM
inunicati0n to make. Senator Harry
Maynard, OF Portsmouth, was appoint
ed to notify the House that the Senate
was ready to adjourn for the SESSION, but
ne soon returned, and with rather a
crestfalIen air, announce that the II ,use
had adjourned.
Soto voce remarks as to the irregu-
larity of this proceeding of the other
, branch were numerous, and not alto
f, gether complimentary. Delegate PiIch-
er, oil Fauquier, who had come into the
chamber in order to give the semblance
OF regularity to the final moments of
, the Assembly, informed the Senate that
! the House OF Delegates was ready to
adjourn.
| THE WIND-UP.
Mr.. Wickham then moved that the
Senate adjourn for the session, and the
motion was carried.
1t was 1898 O'Clock when Lieutenant
Governor Echols arose and said: 81 de-
clare the Senate OF Virginia adjourned
until the first Wednesday in December,
1899, unless earlier convened in extra
session BY the Governor OF tho Common
wealth."
/ smart blow of his gaveI upon the
table followed, and the session OF the