The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-30
GIeQI uncertainty in RECORD 10 Re-
ITeDCnnenI Qld Reform Measures.
SCORES OF Bills TO REDUCE EXPENSES
Siose Observer Says Legislative Ke.
irenrfamcnt Is ImpracticnbIc-
Son"tt"it"nai Convention the
Kennedy -APproprinlions for pubs
lie cInstitutionS Will Hc Reduced,
especial Dispatch to The Eirgnian)
Richmond Va Ian 30 ,SoS

| 'speciai Dispatch to The Eirginian.)
Richmond, Va. Jan. %, 1898.
| There is no question about the fact
that the Legislature is in Il fearful
tahsie concerning retrenchment and
reform measures. No one can with
any degree of certainty predict what
Will lie done with the various measures
now pending looking to cutting down
expenses In fact, II begins TO look
very much as If nothing would be
uohe. The more reirenchment meas
ures are discussed the wider becomes
the gap that separates the warrjpr
elements. To-day most Of the time of
'He House was taken up with dis
cusslnG motion TO recommit the bill
WHEN IS designed TO reduce the fees
| Oh city serSeants. The body refused
to recommit. Various amendments
were men offered TO the bill ana in
| Inc midst of the confusion the House
| adjourned. There are probably a score
Oh 'DillS designed TO reduce expenses
| pending III The two houses. IT will be
next 10 Impossible to agree upon any
oL tHehi. ne retrenchment and re-
| !orhl committee he's reported favoro-
piy' ana with remarkable unanimity.
| several reVenuc-saving measures hui
| not one OIL them seems likely 10 1ass
| a gentleman who has mude II close
study OF the situation said to-day he
/ was luiiy convinced that there could
not be any retrenchment by lepIsln-
tive enactment. and that the 'nnly,
ihing that could save the State would
ne convention to revise the cCnstitu-
tion.
| The committee that has been invcs-
'isating the public Institutions will
iiiahe NAN us report next week. 1t is pretty
Wen understood that large cuts in
| most Oh the appropria tions will be re-
commended. The University OF Vir-
| Slnia will, no doubt, suffer along with
the other institutions. The committee
hopes TO be able to recommend saw
.liE Oh Slooo00 annually in the appro-
prlations to the public institutions.
mere Is no doubt that the bill to
allow The people to vote again on the
| question of calling a constitutional
| convention Will pass. The measure has
! been reported favoraDly in the Srnutc
| ana VIII come uD for considera ton
next week. Mr.. Withcrs will have n
| bill.
The bin to provide method where
by the voters may express their choice
! or candidates for United States Scna-
tor VIII be considered by the Senate
| Committee on Privileges and Elections
next Tuesday. \ big fight will be
made ior and against 1t. Senator
l8arksdale will champion the bill Sena-
Tor fiood is chairman of the commit
| tee and is understood to be opposed
| to the bill
a Dill OF Importance was that offered
in the House to-day by M. Ncwbcrne
! To prohibit life Insurance comnanics
from discriminating in favor OF in
| diNlduais az TO rates Of premiums. This
is copy of the Maryland law.
| Mr.. Cooke introduced a bill in ;hc
House requiring treaSurcrs 10 deduct
any tax due by the party in whose favor
| the warrant is drawn
The bill to make the 10Th of January
a legal holiday and ills companion meas
urc 10 amend the Code in relation TO
| legal holidays were made the special or
der for 1890 O'Clock next Thursday in
the Senate. These are the bills that are
designed TO abolish the legal holiday on
January 10, the birthday Of General Lee.
and 10 make January 20 the holiday in
honor of the birthdays OF both Lee and
Jackson, the latter having been born
| on January 21
| Two bills were offered by Senator
Turnbull in relation 10 the sale of lands
! Sold for delinquent taxes purchased in
! the name of the Commonwealth One
measure repeals the present provision
! whcrcby 4 person may buy such lands
| by making application TO the Clerk OF
the County Court. The other bill pro-
| vides that the Auditor of Public Ac-
| counts shall make out list Of all real
| estate purchased by the Commonwealth tn
ana furnish lists to the County and CIV
| Trcasurcrs, who shall sell the same,
unless sooner redeemed, in the month of
! september, 1898. The law as Il now
! stands does not require proper notice
Of applications made to buy such lands
| to be given, and the House having failed
/ to pass the Senate bill correcting the
| evil, Senator TurnbuN thinks the best
! way TO proceed now IL to repeal the
present law and to direct all delinouert
| lands to be sold after sufficient notice
is given. The amount now due the Com
monwealth on delinquent lands is $551,-
! 329.S7.
| a bill was offered by Senator I.ecato
| TO authorize the County Treasurer OF
Accomac county to levy upon and sell
| for unpaid taxes any property OF the
telegraph line In Accomac, extending
along the line OF the n. Y. p. and n.
| railroad.
Mr.. Joseph Button has declined to ac-
ccpt the position on the Governors
staff rendered him, and Mr.. c. j. Camp
bell, the Delegate from Amherst, has
been appointed to succeed him.
Mrs. Charles II. Read. wife OF Rev.
! c. II. Read for years pns.or Of Grace
Street Presbyterian Church, and now It's
pastor emeritus. died at o'clock this