The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-05

stated that the Judiciary Committed. had
this resolution efore lit the very da Y gle
acted on Major Anderson's BunA vista
ISCorporati ion Court. Tha t. had beensS re-
ported, but the one relating to- electinss
1.-The Supreme Court by the people had been
Evoted on, but the commit tee had not re-
ported it. lie moved to discharge the
committee from further considerat1 lion OF
the report. The committee was S. dis
charged and the resolution was taken up.
An effort was made to pass BY con-
sidcration until tho matter Of follower
sclared that If the State tax@was. 50 cents
| every dollar of 1t would be spent by tho
General Assembly. on account OF the
| immense pressure brought to bear on
members to open the doors of the state
| trea sury. He declared that so cents
would provide all the money necessary
from the class OF property mentioned,
| and the S cents allowed in addition 70
that for pensions would be all sufficient.
Mr. Glass said that If he had voted
against tax reduction when 1t was
| adopted several weeks ago, his expert
ence in the Legislature Of Virginia IN the
past three weeks would have changed
him into an ardent supporter of the re-
duction of taxation now. He was not
present when the vote was taken before
but he hoped the resolution to rescind
| would be rejected. He said In the face
Of the organized opposition against the
convention and the desperate purpose to
defeat it on the part of a. well-knownE ele-
ment. friends of economy should stand
firm in support Of tax reduction. He
declared that in the past three weeks
the Legislature had appropriated nearly
every dollar Of the surplus that had &C
cumulated in the past three years, and
he believed it was done with the deiibe-
rate purpose to discredtt the work u
this convention.
WAS pDITrTED
The motion to rescinG was rejected
amid applause-c3 to 56. The vote was
| as follows:
Yeas-W. "A. Anderson, Brstow. Brooke.
Brown, Cameron, Clarence J. Campbell,
| Crismond, Dunaway. Fletcher, Hamilton,
Hancock, Hatton, Hubbard, Hunton, In
| gram, Lincoln, NIcIlwanie, Moore. OFlail-
crty, Portlocls, Quarles. Willis, Wysor
| 20.
Nays-Allen, Ayers, Barbour, Barham,
| M. H. Barnes, Thomas Fl. Barnes, Blair,
Boaz Bouldin, Braxton, p. ". Campbell
| Catrer, Cobb, Davis, Earman, Epes. Fair
| fax. Garnett, Gilmore, Glass, b. T. Cor
| don. James ". Gordon, r. l.. Gordon.
Green. Gregory. Gwyn. Hardy, Claggett
B. Jones. G. W. Jones. Keezell, Lindsay,
Lowell. Marshall, Meredith, Miller. Mon
cure. Alundy, Parks. Petit, Phillips, Pol
! lard, Rives. Robertson Smith, Stebbins.
Tarry, Thornton, Turnbul, Waddill, C..
Harding Walker, Watson, Wise, Withers,
! Yancey, Mr.. President-56
follower SENATE.
1t was stated that Mr. Flood would be
present this afternoon and the resolution
! to rescind the action of hold-over Senate
was passed by until after the noon recess.
RECESS FOR SIX WEEKS.
The next action was the adoption of the
| following resolution to adjourn until May
22d.:
| DAG I,1f xr,H,op no
adjourns to-day it shall adjourn to meet
again on Thursday, the I'D day of May
| 1902.
THAT the Committee on Final Revision
and Adjustment Of the various provisions
Of the Constitution that may be agreed
upon and the schedule, be authorized to
/ sit during the recess with authority to
print ten thousand copies of the Constitu-
| ton as finally revised by it, and its mem
bers and clerks shall receive pay and mile
age during such time as it's members act
ually attend It's sessions; that the other
| members Of the convention and Its Off
GERS and employees shall not receive pay.
but shall be entitled to mileage
! The hour Of two arriving. the conven-
1 ton took a recess until o clock.
| Afternoon Session.
| When the convention. met at o'clock
| the resolution offered by Mr.. Flood to re-
! q
| abolishng the hold-over Senate was taken
| UT.
| Mr. f. Walton Moore stated that Mr..
| ITI0oc, had not returned but he supposed
the matter could not be postponed long
err He said a proposition had been made
to compromise by having all the Senators
elcc1ed at one time every four years,
| the members of the House of Delegates
! to DO elected bicnnially as at pre- enr.
l q
fore the vote on the resolution to re-
SER d was taken because If the action OF
| the co1lI ention requiring the election
| Of the Senate every two years was re-
scinded, it would take a majority Of two
thirds to substitute anything IN Its
place
ACCEPT THE OLIVE BRANCH.
Mr.. Hill Carter said he had been very
much opposed to the action Of the Conven-
ton in abolishing the hold-over Senate,
but he was willing to accept the olive
branch held out and would be glad to
have the section changed so that all SEN
/ ators should be elected every four years.
| judge G. X. Anderson offered a reso-
luton providing that a full Senate shail
be elected every four years
Mr. Walker submitted a substitute a,l-
thorizing the Committee on Revision TO
so amend the section on the Legislative
/ Department as to provide for the cleo
ton of all Senators for a term OF tour
years. every fourth year.
/ ACTION WAS NOT IIASTY.
Mr.. Withers, arising to a question of
personal privilege, said the Richmond Dis
patch had repeatedly charged that the
hold-over Senate was abolished without
discussion or an opportunity for consid-
Grafton by the opponents. He produced
copies of the. Dispatch days before the
vote was taken, in which the official re-
port of the debates, to the extent Of sever
columns on one day. showed that the
whole subject was gone into by himself
and others. He also denied the charge
made in the same paper that his propo-
sition related in the remotest degree to
the aspirations of any man for the United
States Senate. He was in favor of the
| compromise proposed.
Mr.. Hatton opposed any compromise.
/ He desired the hold-over Senate, and
would not agree to vote for anything
else
THE COMPROMISE ADOPTED.
| Short speeches in favor Of the compro-
l misc were made. by Messrs. heezell.