The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
Epeats Of the Deck
Briefly Rev. eved.

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The Virginia Legislature had quite y
breezy time over the matter OF taxing
holiday and a Conference Committee had
nnaiiy TO settle the dispute between the
Rouse and the Senate. The new Con-
stitution provides that members OF .he
Legislature shall receive per diem only
"nen the body is in actual session. For
.lis reason many OF the members we're
IN idVor OF a very short holiday srccssa
oshers contended that in the even, o. "A
snort holiday both the houses would dud
themselves without q quorum when the
pody should reassembe after Christmas
ana ief several days the State would
pc paying about a thousand dollars a
day Tor work that it would not be getting.
IT was finally agreed to adjourn from, the
I'D OF December TO January 9Th. Pend
ms the discussion Of the matter Mr.. len
nlnss. OF Lynchburg, offered a bill in
es'ded 10 make members attend tho ses-
SONS more regularly and dock them
"ieh taey 90 not. The bill was referred
to committee. which will in due time
administer to it a dose OF chlorisorr, and
put 1t TO sleep in a nico little pigeon
hole
1t would seem that the legislature
looks with more or less serio,sness ,,ou
the Wise-Hayes five Thousand, ao,iar s,,;t,
being entered, or threatended to be en-
tered against State officers by Gisfran-
chised negroes. \ bill has been offered
appropriating the sum OF $500, 10 he
| placed at the disposal of the Attorney
General to employ counsel to assist him
| IN defending the State officers Tho
| probability s that but lttie il any OF this;
appropriation will ever be called for.
| Southern dealers usually contract for
their supplies of fireworks for the Christ
! mas time away back in the summer AMI
I nave the goods shipped in December
! The summer purchases for this year
We're unusually large, and yet the re-
port comes from New York that nearly
| every Southern purchaser has increased
| his order since it was originally made axd
the figures show that something over n
| million dollars worth of fireworks wee
| shipped from New York alone to Southern
| points. Nothing speaks louder than this
of the prevailing prosperity in the South
land.
a snow storm Is q very serious thing
to our friends who reside IN the Northern
cities. Just week ago a snow that was
not regarded as d very severe storm,
caUe, and the streets of New York were
carpeted in white. On last Tuesday there
/ came O downpour of rain, which saved
! the taxpayers of New York Sl6O. 900. Had
! the rain kept off another day it would
| have cost of the city according TO the o,f-
| Gals of the street cleaning department.
| S2Uv.otN to remove ffe snow rem Iudiug on
| the streets. With the help of the rain tho
work was done for $4,000.
| President Harper. OF the University o.
Chicago. has not lost his grip on tho
magnate. At the convention exercise last
| Tuesday DR.. Harper announced the gift
/ to the University by Mr.. Rockefeller OF
auother million dollars. Additional gifts
| were announced, the whole amount agr
gregating 81, 525, 600. President Harper adj
! vocated the pensiontng Of retired dro-
| fessors and officers of the University, but
| said that the details of the plan would
| have to be considered further before any
steps In that direction could be taken,
| It may not be worth mentioning but
! the fact is that contemporaneous with DR..
| uarper's announcement comes another
| from another source that the price of oil,
| has been advanced all over the country
| News. comes from down South that Ia |
Dor agitators and union organizers from
Chicago and Buffalo are making serious
trouble BY their efforts to organize the!
negroes into labor unions. They have1
| made 10 little trouble in the mining re 4
sions contiguous to Birmingham. and they]
have made New Orleans q storm center ot)
strikes. In that city the negro freight
handlers, Transfers and leaders are all
10 at no tirna suij tCk
have been satisfied with their wages bef0rCt
being visited recently by 4 labor repret
sentative from Buffalo. The agitators,
from the North are even extending theit,
efforts at organization to farm laborerS.
Congress has done nothing worth men ,
t1oring since its meeting in the earsyt
part OF the month, but promised to de-
many things after the holidays, and now7
that it is taking the holiday. there Isl
somo speculation as to what it Will dos
when the members get back to Washing
ton. One thing is conceded: That the
| suggestion OF the President that the.
tariff duty on anthracite coal be removed
viii be needed, and that bill 10 that
effect will be passed as soon after tho
holidays as possible. This action viii
heIp the coal situation somewhat, but it
is not believed that Congress will take
the tariff from soft coal. The Pennsyl-
vania coal interest cares nothing for the
import tax on anthracite coal, for very
little of it is imported in ordinary times.
but the mine owners DO object seriously
to the Importation of soft coal. and as
Pennsylvania will fight the removal OF
the tariff from the latter. we can all
guess what Congress viii do.
The reports Of the Florida orange crop
are in, and they show that it has been
nearly a million boxes, being $4,000
boxes more than last year. Nearly halr
of the crop has already been shipped our
| OF the State, and as the growers are re-
! ,i,,i,e, N average, net price of St3l uer