The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-05
WAS DAY
IN cow EN- ton.
The Corporations Report .1 is
Finally Disposed OF.
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED .1:
Mr.. Goode Was overruled, But Later on the
Body. Reversed ltsslf-Employe
Liability Bill-eonvsn.
ton Gossip.
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED

There vas moro ginger in the pro-
ceedingS of the convention yesterday
thar: tor several days.
While the report Of the Committee on
Corporations was finally disposed of and
sect 10 the Committee on Final Revis--
ion ana Adjustment, its progress there
was beset with difficulties and some eA-
ci,i:.E episodes.
After al long 6reary# debate of several
hours over the employers liability bill,
{ in which the first and only recorded line
up on that proposition has been dis
closed, every amendment proposed by
Chit, man BraNton was adopted and all
others rejected.
The atrons Of the original employers
liability bill, NIessrs. Withers. Meredith.
Green G. Is. Anderson and others, who
wire not on the Corporation Committee.
Ill: eli along vigorously protested
against the language reported In one
clause by the committee. They Claimed
that a few words nulified the whole in-
tention and efficacy Of the measure, and
insisted on having the language OF the
bill changed. This Chairman BraXton
agreed TO do, and his amendment ac-
colmplished that object
Mr.. Wysor, who had secured the COM
promise clause in the committee, fought
d
reported by the committee reinserted,
and was ably assisted by the element
which had formerly antagonized the
whole report.
THE VOTE AN. INDEX.
Those few little words seemed to pos
sess a talsnanic power or influence, Tor
they caused one of the most compii-
Gated and spirited legal debates yet
heard The whole employers liability
bill seemed to revolve around the word
ing of p paragraph The vote taken is
interesting, as an index to the real feel
ing for and against tho measure, be-
cause it is the first time the matter has
ever been discussed or voted on tor-
mally in the convention.
Bat the last shot at the report was q
cruel one It was taken as having been
fired for the purpose of discred1tlng tho
whole report.
1t Was directed at the convention as
body, but glanced and struck the hon
ored president first, in the form Of a vote
reversing a ruling he made upon 1t as
being out of order
This was a resolution declaring mem
mcrs of the convention ineligible to APP.
pointment as members of the commits
sion.
The vote overrulin sthe presidents
decision was reconsidercd, after the
game stand he took in defense OF his
position.
After sustaining the president, the
majority managed to sustain themselves
also by putting the same resolution in
different shape, voting it in order, with
out a ruling of the president on the
question, and then d; new majority lined
up and killed the resolution as dead as
Hector. Thus ended the corporation
fight.
an hour was devoted to the taxation
and finance report, and one section was
adopted before the hour of adjournment.
THE DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Rev. 1. M. Mercer, Of West-View Bap-
list Church, opened the convention with
prayer, sixty-one members being present.
Section Il of the corporation report,
which had been passed by, was taken up
for consideration on an amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Ayers Monday. The section
provides that no foreign corporation shall
be permitted to do anything which a
domestic corporation is prohibited from
doing Mr.. Ayers amendment was the
addition of this clause at the end OF
section il:
but this section shall not prevent any
foreign railroad company, operating a
railroad in this State, from building
branch roads not exceeding twenty miles
in length from any point on it's present
line as now authorized by law
After a series of brief speeches by Mr..
Ayers and Chairman Braxton, the amends
ment was defeated by vote of q to 81,
and the section was adopted without
amendment.
It was announced that the motion to
re-insert section S relating to the right
of any telegraph and telephone company
70 use the railroad right of way to erect
no,as Sc which had been stricken out
in Committee of the Whole, had been
withdrawn. and this section remains
struck out.
section 5. which provides that failure
of q corporation for two successive years
To nav its annual franchise or license Zee,
81. to make its annual reports, snail op.
crate as a revocation ana annuli1lSilt oi
its charter. was taken up
An amendment was pending, offered by
| Mr. Ergleston. to modify this languag &c
so that a discretion should be given the
Corporation Committee.
The amendment was rejected. the sec
| tion being adopted as i'll Committee OF the
! Whole
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY BILL.
There was a long debate over section
eleven, which embraces the provisions OF
| the employers liability bill. 1t came ur
| on an amendment offered by Chairman
Braxton the effect of which was to en-
large the remedy to the employe, so thai
knowledge by him of the defective ma.
| chinery, ways. appliances or structures
| of The railroad company would not re
| licve it from liability or from the doc
/ trine of contributory negligence. The ar
| Eument on the point was of a technicn
| legal nature.
! The doctrines of employers liability
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