The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-29
THE JUDICIARY
REPORT TO. DAY
Convention May Discuss Sit in Com
mittse Of Whole.
MR.: HuNToN Il. GIVE HIS VIEWS :'
tie Will PROBABLY Be the First Speaker il
Behalf of the Recommendations
Made by the com-
miltee.

miltee.
The Constitutional Convention Will re-
sumo It's work at noon TO-DAY. Ie IS PROP
able that the report OF the Jualclary
conn,ittss will be taken up and cOnsld-
cred by the body sitting as the Committee
of the Whole. There will certainly be
lively and, perhaps, 4 prolonged debate
over some of the recommendations made,
Chairman Hunton will probably be the
tirst speaker to-day.
It is claimed that the report of the
Committee on Public Institutions and
Prisons has been completed in Committee
of the Whole and will not come up again.
This is the view of President Goode and
Chairman Ayers, it is understood. AT
any rate, the chairman OF the committee
vii, not make any further motion TO
so into Committee Of the Whole on the
report. 1t is remarkable that this report
is the only one that has yet been wholly
considered. Not a single one OF all the
others has been completed.
It is expected that the subcommittee
appointed by President Goode to look into
and report the ACCESSIBILITY of securing
another hall for the convention to meet
in during the session of the Legislature
Will reach n conclusion on the subject
to-day Messrs. Ayers, BoaZ and 'Thon
compose the subcommittee, aud are labor
ing diligently to discover what best to
BIS done. The question is veNed one,
like many others that have arisen 70
haunt and plague the convention, and, It's
solution is liable to give considerable trou-
BILE. No absolute determination Will De
reached until the Legislature arrives ana
appoints a like committee to confer with
those named by the convention. me
convention committee in the meantime
has been instructed to prepare for any
emergency that may arise. 1t is lmpossl-
Die at this time to conjecture what Will
be done.
Nothing further will be done on the sui
frage question until next Monday night,
when. barring sickness, Senator Carter
Glass, of Lynchburg, will speak for his
plan before hte Democratic conference
Some members believe that after MT.
Glass speech, owing to the promised con-
fusion incident to the meeting Of the
General Assembly next week, there will
be nothing further accomplished relating
to the elective franchise until after the
Christmas holidays. There are others,
however, who take q rosy view OF the
situation, and say if necessary another
hall than that now used will be secured
for the meetings of the conference, what
ever the convention shall do on the sub
ject. But is is. perhaps, the better opln-
ION that the new year will find The sui
fraSe matter unsettled.
The principals of thu public: white
schools OF Richmond, or at least por-
ion of them, are unalterably opposed to
he adoption by the Constitutional Con-
.cntion Of that section OF the report OF
the Committee on Education giving to
local boards the power to distribute the
ocal school funds. They hold that such
4 Constitutional provision would be
practical division of the scnool tuHd De-
tween the blacks and whites and tnat.
while it would probably be better for
themselves individually, it would operate
to the injury of the white race. The
,.,ards would be electoral and in many
sections the people would choose only,
those men who would agree to give the
negro only as much as lie pays III taxes,
The proposition as set forth by the
principals is as follows:
"Ths Watson resolution, which was
passed in the Educational Committee
lust before the recess, by vote OF )
to 5, permits the division of the school
fund in an indirect aud nlschieVous
manner While the resolution does not
1ivide the State fund. it permits the local
boards to dispose of the local funds as
they deem fit In the city of Richmond
we understand that the amount the
schools receive from the State funds is
about one-ifth of the whole for the
| schools. 1t seems then that about four
| ffths of the school money can be spent
| for school purposes in any manner the
| local boards deem proper. IN otheS
words. the convention delegates to the
| local boards a division of the school
| fund.-
| The Religious Herald of this week con-
| tains an editorial protesting against tie
| proposed division of the school fund by
| tl1c Constitutional Convention. The Her.
aid says in part:
Amy proposition looking toward the
! injury or destruction Of the negro prl-
mary schools is a blow at the Whote
| primary-school system. The State can
| Justify the pub!ic-school system only upon
! the around that in this way good cit'-
| zeIship is promoted; that thus the ave
nucs Of knowledge. at least, are opened 70
even the lowliest among US. just "here
| the need is sorest the argument LOT the
| schools is strongest Surely II VIII oe
| readily agreed that the negroes need en-
Northumberland just such enllghten-
n,ent. as the primary schools will afford.
| and need it far more deeply and mani
testify than the whites. who are better
| circumstanced."
Mr.. Nathan Phillips. member OF thE
| UNCONSTITUTIONAL Convention from Floyd
county, found a check drawn on the
! "Collcge National Bank by 7. J. Jack
| son for $40 payable to l.. P. Jones. The
| check is endorsed by Jones ana IS dated
| Richmond The number OF the check is