Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-06
LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

report from the auuiboi GIVING ehS -
ceipts from liquor licenses for several
years past.
The following bills were presented
and REFEREED
To prohibit keeping or exhibiting slot
machines and providing penalty Tor
violations.
Allowing an appeal to the common
wealth in cases involving the revenue
laws.
To establish department insurance,
to create the Office of insurance COM
missioner under the control of the cor
porations commission, and to provide tor
the expenses of the department. The
salary of the commissioner is fixed at
81, 500, duputy at 81, 900, actuary 81, 600
and stenographer $780,
To provide for the confinement OF
hs'itual drunkards and to define the
mea.. lg of the term. The bill provides
for the appointment of some person to
have control of such persons as shall be
adiudged habitual drunkards by a jury.
To prevent the granting of a charter
to any railroad to parallel the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
To impose tonnage tax on all out
puts of mines. The amount is placed at
4 cents per ton.
Providing for appointment OF boards
of directors of the various State hospl-
tails by the governor and prescribing the
duties and powers of the general board OF
visitors.
To appropriate $4,000 to the State
| Female Normal School for betterment.
Senator Clayton offered resolution
providing that when bills are presented
in the Senate and their titles shall indi-
cate their nature, they shall be referred
to the special committee on special, pri-
yate and local legislation, if they pretain
to matters concerning that committee,
without being read to the Senate. The
resolution was referred to the committee
on rules.
The committee on Courts Of Justice
returned to the Senate with favorable
report bill to declare the powers and
Jurisdiction of the county and corpora
ton courts in the exercise of the jurisdlc-
ton created by an act entitled can act
to amend and re-enact section 500 OF the
Code of Virginia as heretofore amended
in relation to sale of delinquent lands
purchased in the name of the auditor, "
which act was approved March 6, 1900,
and to prescribe when the same shall be
in force.
The judiciary committee of the House
Yesterday afternoon decided to recon-
mend to the House the appointment OF
special committee to take up and in
vestigate the charges against Judge
Clarence w. Campbell in connection
with his cowhiding Rev. G. ii. Craw-
ford at Amherst. Senator Barksdale,
chairman of the committee of general
laws in the Senate, to whom, it was re-
ferred in that body, said that when the
question came up before his committee
it should have the fullest hearing.
HOUSE.
The House bill making an appro-
priation of $50, 900 for the purpose Of
securing an exhibit of Virginia's natural
and manufactured products at the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition, was reported
from the finance committee with favor
able recommendation.
The following bills were offered and
referred:
For facilitating the work of the gen.
eral assembly in adjusting the statutes
of the State in conformity with the new
constitution.
: By Mr.. Stearnes: To prohibit the
keeping or being concerned in interest
in keeping or exhibiting slot-machines.
Mr.. Duke, of Albemarle, offered a
joint resolution for which he asked
immediate consideration requesting the
Capitol repairs commission to suspend
all further operations until the resolutions
now pending in the senate were disposed
of.
A motion to refer the resolution was
made, whereupon Dir. Duke withdrew
it, The skirmish over the resolution
indicted that there was a decided differ
ence among the members as to the plans
for Capitol repairs.
The House bill, entitled an act for the
protection of mechanics, miners, laborers,
etc, reported adversely by the commit
tee on labor and the poor was dismissed
The call of the calendar brought up on
its second reading Mr. Folke's bill,
entitled a bill "to secure to operatives
and laborers engaged in and about coal
mines, manufactures of iron and steel,
and all manufactures, the payment of
their wages at regular intervals and in
lawful money of the United States.
This bill was reported adversely by
the committee on agriculture and min
ing, but its patron desired to have the
House pass upon the measure
Mr. Folkes made an earnest plea for
the bill.
After a long debate, Mr.. Cation urged
the House to defer action on the bill, de-
claring that he desired more time for its
consideration before voting upon it.
Finally the House adjourned, after
the longest sitting OF the session. The
debate will be resumed today.
The committee on finance and banks
reported, without amendment, the bill
authorizing he.appropriation of $4,000
for the State Normal School. The pro-
posed measure was ordered to its engross-
ment
The same committee reported favor
ably the bill allowing the board of the
Home and Needy Confederate Women
to use and spend the $4,000 appropriate
ed for that institution at the last session
of the legislature for the purpose of a lot
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