The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-02
COZ INVENTION MADE !:
MUCH PROGRESS.
legislative Report Nearly Dis.
posed OF,
NO AFTERNOON SESSIONS.
III. s;thsrs wanted them, But Convention
D.d Not Concur ~ a'sy Reduce
Clerical Force Gays
Proceedings.
8 AFTERNOON SESSIONS.

,,he constitutional Convention made Up
...I,rtiay Tor ali inc me Il lost ~ not
having /, session on Monday.
1h,. pougF was IL. SESSION fror1 iu.SV
ociock a VI. antil 2s.tss Z 81. anc n.iisn
,,royress was made With the report q nc
Committee on the iseSiSiallEe i'si't. =
men, In Committee OF Inc Whoie. Ct';;t--
nan II. Nation Moore had returned, ana
he managed the REPORT OIL the itoof Win Will
his Characteristic dextci.ty ard ability.
There was considerable debate over seT-
! eral sections OF tile report, but only 4
few amendments were adopted. ne
amer, G,Iient offered By Mr- Parks I,fohad-
ing Tor legislative authority TO enact oos
laws was adopted, but one presented "
ar. Brown. of Eccford, comforting the
same authority as TO local soah ih"s
VA, rejected The committee viii proc
AL, come near disposEg OF the report
to-Gay.
There we're sixty-six members in their
se,ts when President Goode called the
convention TO order
i l,.re were not many visitors on the
Gcor Judge S. Is. Witt and Mr. IL ~.
Smith, of This city, were present Tor
While.
The flow of memorials and petitions
MS Slight, and there We're but two reso-
.1ItI0ns. both OF WHICH were presehtSh ny
iJi. ANitncrs.
One provided for after noon sessions and
..ls defeated. while the other called upon
tho Committee on Accounts and EN-
apt,lses TO look into the ACCESSIBILITY OF re-
ducing the force of clerks and pages in
The convention. This was adopted.
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
j. The convention met at 1880 o'clock.
prayer being offered by DIR. j. j. GraNatt
of The Episcopal Church. SiNty-siX mem
) hers answered to the roli-call.
MIR Keezel, rising to a question OF per-
sonal privilege. called attcntion~to the
inaccuracies of the official report of the
proceedings Saturday. he called attan-
ton to the fact that he was mixed in
his ss,eech with The remarks made by Mr.
Thornton, who was talking on the other
side. He exlonorateG the stenograph-
,.s from all blame ana said it was due
TO careless worl: in the Office of the
newspaper that published the official re-
ports.
Mr.. evitners introduced ths following
resolution:
Resolved, That the COMMITTEES on Ac-
counts and Expenditui es of the conven-
lion be instructed to report to the con-
vention as sooi: as may be how many OF
The present force of clerks, pages and
other employees may be dispensed with
pfirr October 5. 1891.
The resolution was unanimously ADOPT
ed.
Mr.. Witncrs said the committees would
soon have all their reports in, and five
hour sessions We're better now than
scight-hour sessions in the winter, which
would be inevitable unless doubleday
sessions were begun now.
MR.. WATSON OPPOSED.
Mr.. Watson said, except as to one or
two committees, M. Nithers was Very
much mistaken in saying there were
oilers ready to report. He said the 1ldu-
c,itional Committee, the cities and towns
and Suffrage Committee had a great deal
OF work before Them, and the passage
OF the resolution would seriously embar-
ras.s the work of the committee.
The resolution was then defeated.
Memorials ana petitions relative to
sale. of liquor were then SEM it from
several members.
Leave Of absence was granted to va
1ious members.
Memorials against appropriations to
sectarian institutions We're sent forward.
Mr. iunton sent forward a notice Of
amendment to rule 20, which provides
that seven members can compel the yeas
LEGISLATIVE. DEPARTMENT.
The convention then resolved itself
into committee of. the whole TO consider
the report of the Legislative. Committee,
s AIR. Eoaz presiding
Subsection Five of Section Twenty four
forbidding the Legislature from passing
any special or local law relative to the
assessment and collection of taxes, was
first taken up. An amendment was pend
Ing to make an exception, 50 far as re-
lated to animals that were injurious to
farming interests.
Chairman Moore opposed the amend
,aent on the grounds that the general
law covered all cases CT stock laws, &c.
AR. keezel said there was a .fox-scaip
law passed for Rockingham county and
it was soon discovered that his county
was paying Tor foxes belonging to half d
dozen Other counties, and the law had to
lie amended by the Legislature. Mr..
iurnbull said the trouble was that law
showed the evils and danger Of special
legislation
ON THE WRONG TRACK.
chairman Moore thought Mr. keczell
vas on the wrong tract, and would End,
Oh closer Investigation, that dogs, hogs.
foxes. sheep, COWS and all other animals
could be as well regulated by general
.aNS anu Dei.er IMAM by a SPECIAL leglS-
i;tiNe enactment. He said the General
Assembly could delegate power to the
Enard OF Supervisors of each county to
have local option or all such questions.
ar 3innton said the question OF a tax
{ on dogs seemed a rather small matter to
s,e hasTassing q Constitutional Conven-
ton ahont, but il was 4 matter OF Very
( great importance TO agricultural inter-
issts. Local option would not do for the
reason that negro With one dog and a
: gun coald vote 10 prevent n man having
larse sheep industry from continuing
in the business. One section of a county
E might not haze any grazing land and
woald fail 10 sympathiae with the need
Z % protection Which ,!le shcep-raisng
scctian rallied was Imperative. This
S would give rise. not only to great injus-
itcc. bat to a great deal Of friction and
excitement, He moved as a substitute.