Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-12

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800, ,or,n,,t+raa among them being one
from tho Committee on Counties, Cities
and Towns, providing for the election Of
commissioners OF revenue oy tne people.
The report is the sense Oh majority OF
! The committee. the minority filing more
mort hut freserving the right TO oppose the
| report on the floor Of the House.
Another bill reported to me mouse was
| the C.nhell bill against child labor in mills
ard 1actories which was fayorably re-
ported without amendment Inc text OF
the bill has been printed: .
INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
nv Mr. Mort: An act to provide a rem
edv for purchasers and sellers in con-
ditions! sales of personal property:
These engrossed bills were passed WITH
out objection:
House bill authorizing any person en-
ploved under and by virtue of an act Of
| congress of the United States, relating
to the surveys Of the geological survey
TO enter upon the lands within the
boundaries of this State while in the dis
! charge of official duties.
House bill to provide for telephone ser
vice In the Office of the secretary of the
Commonwealth and to appropriate money.
for that purpose.
The house passed the senate bill to ap-
! prcpriate $1,000 for bstterments to the
! State Female Normal School at Farm
Vile
LOCATION OF PEsT-HOUsEs.
When the house bill prohibiting the es-
| tablishment and location Of smallpox
hospitals and pest-houses within 200 yards
| of the streets of city or the public road
Whitehead. the patron of the meas
! ure, made speech in advocacy
of it. which contained some rather
startling disclosures. He charged that
there was now located within the city
limits of Norfolk AMI within twenty-five
yards of two street railway lines and two
streets, a pest house containing one hun
dred smallpox patients, and that the dis
ease was being spread all over this Com
/ monWealth
| The disease had cost the city $4,000 last
| year and it would continue to spread dis
ease and impose expense unless some
| such remedy as that proposed in the bill
was afforded.
| When asked ii there we're not remedies
| in the board OF health or in the courts.
| Mr.. Whitehead explained that owing TO
| the conflict between the board of health
! and the municipal authorities it had been
! found Impossible to secure remedy.
! This he said. was in spite Of the fact that
| the government had offered an isolated
site for a pest-house on Craney Island
He urged nc house to pass the bill, max
ing it applicable only TO smallpox hos
! pitfalls or pest-houscs. if it so desired.
A DISCUSSION OF GERMS.
The speaker became involved in col
loquy with DR.. Snead. Of Princess Anne,
and DR.. Ware. Of Amherst, as to the
| germ theory of the transmission OF dis
ease in which Mr. Whitehead silenced
| his opponents by asking II any OF them
| had ever seen a germ.
Mr.. Churci1rnan. of Augusta proposed
to amend by prohibiting the location Of a
| pest house within $50 yards of any public
| road. He explained that his county had
| had some experience with smallpox. and
he was opposed to the idea of the cities
dumping its disease upon the counties. He
! thought the amendment he proposed
| would protect the counties.
! The bill was amended SO as TO prohibit
| location hereafter of pest-houses within
! fifty yards Of any street or within l50
yards of any public road. AS amended,
| the bill was ordered to its engrossment.
ORDERED TO ENDORSEMENT.
The house ordered these bills to their
| third reading and engrossnent:
House bill to prohibit the establishment
| and location Of smallpox hospitals or pest
houses within so yards of the public
streets and roads in any city, or within
$50 yards Of public road.
| House bill providing for the erection Of
a fence around Lee monument, at Rich
mOnd.
This bill was. on motion of Mr.. Boaz
recommitted, it having been offered
and advanced to its present stage with
| a view to having it printed.
House bIil to raise revenue for the sup
port OF the government and public free
schools and TO pay the interest on the
public debt.
The house thereupon, at 1:s0, adjourned
until to-day