Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-02-28
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
1t was decided that the Railroad
Commissioners for the term to end
in 1905 should be appointed by the
Governor. The salary provision was
amended to maze each $4,000 instead
of $4,000.
A supplementary report provides
for the election of the State treasurer
by the people and the election Of the
auditor of public accounts by Joint
vote of the houses of the general as
sembly.
That will be sorry looking sci
of Lawmakers which will gather in
the hall of the new Mechanics Insti
tnte this morning. The kodak fiend
will, of course, be there to perpetuate
to posterity the spectacle of President
Goode, perched on dry goods box,
and presiding over a slerder quorum
of deskless delegates whose SOW
ereignty has relinquished the right
of way at the capitol to the lesisls-
ture.-Peters6ttyy iadeT-Appeal.
NEW OFFICERS TO BE CHOSEN.
From informal conferences had sc
far by the members of the Constitu-
tionai Conventions Committee on
Final Revision and Adjustment, it
can be ssfely predicted that:
The terms of members of the
Senate aud House of Delegates will
expire January L, 1894.
The present General Assembly will
be directed in the schedule ssto meet
on the first Wednesday in January
1908, to enact laws to put the new
Constitution in effect, and continue
in session as long as may be necessary
members to receive four dollars pei
diem while actually in session."
Commonwealth Attorneys who are
now members of the General Assem-
bly, will be excepted from operation
of inhibition in the new Constitution
until January /, 1904.
The new judiciary system will &C
into effect in January, 1904, the regu.
lar session of the new General As
sembly elect;ng new judges, Com.
monwealth's Attorneys being elected
by the people in November, 1908.
ALI county officers, such AS treas
urers, &C., whose terms are extended
will be required to give new bonds
for the period of extension.
Election for all members of the
General Assembly, all county and
magisterial district officers, will be
held In November, 1908.
LIQUOR RESOLUTION DEFEATED.
The Barbour Quarles provision was
defeated last week after a stiff fight
by vote of rs to "a, and the follow
ing resolution substituted:
"The Legislature shall have the
full power of enacting local option
or dispensary laws, or any other laws
controlling, regulating or prohibiting
the manufacture or sale of intoxicat.
ing liquors"
This substitute was offered by
Delegate Quarles, who went back on
the resolution offered by himself and
Mr.. Barbour. Mr.. Quarles says he
introduced the original resolution
"by request"
Rev. w. +. Dunaway, Delegate
from Lancaster and Richmond, put
up the stiffest kind of fight for the
Barbour-Quarles measure, and carried
on good running fight. One of his
bitterest opponents was Mr.. Wescott,
of Accomac, and, with the exception
of Judge Garnett, Mr.. Dunaway con-
stituted the principal support of the
measure from this section of Tide
water. The reverend gentleman's
speech was fine one and it is repro.
duced in part here;
DR.. Dunaway SAID a great refor m
wave was coming, and 10 time there
would not be licensed bar-room in
Virginia. He said that there were
enough people in the State who
favored this resolution to defeat the
constitution if they so decided. He
said that he had been always MEM
Der of temperance organizations, but
he thought no reform would be ac-
complished by them. 1t was the
saloon to be attacked, and he was
glad to see an anti-saloon league.
Mr.. Quarles: Will the gentleman
permit me to interrupt him?
Mr. lnnou,op. We -.
Mr.. Quarles: Do you believe the
sale of intoxicating liquors is an evil?
Mr.. Dunaway: believe the sale
in licensed bar-rooms is an unmiti-
gated curse in any place where it
exists. (Applause).
Mr.. Quarles: Then you believe in
prohibiting it?
Mr.. Dunaway: No, sir. 1t does not
necessarily follow.
Mr.. Quarles: You are willing to
sanction, in the Constitution of Vir-
ginia. the sale of it, are you, though
you believe it an unmitigated curse?
Mr.. Dunaway: Mr.. Chairman, if
we cannot accomplish perfect and
thorough reform in regard to this
great evil that afflicts our land, L
am for striking at what l consider
to be the tap root of the tree of evil,
and that is the saloon. Just let me
get the saloon out of the Common
wealth, in the first place, and in the
you may go on and have
whiskey sold. Yes, sir, 1 would
compromise with the whiskey element
IN the Commonwealth of Virginia
upon that right now. You may sell
{ as articles Of merchandise are sold
IN your respectable stores, in certain
quantities, gallon quantities, as pro-
vided here, not to be drunk where
sold. | do not regard it as the chief
Evil in Virginia that whiskey is made
and drunk, but i regard it as the
chief evil that the Commonwealth of