The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-12

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nlause and many congratulations.
: The conversion adjourned until to-day
at 10 o'clock.
CONVENTION NOTES AND GOSSIP
County Treasurers to meet To>Night-Mset-
ing Of the Legislature-Personai Notes.
The first formal official protest yet
formulated in the State will be register
ed IN this city tonight against the action
Of the Constitutional Convention on any
subject
1t will come from the County Treasur-
ers, who will meet at MurTfrWs at
O'Clock to protest against the proposed
change in the Constitution rendering
themselves Ineligible for reelection after
q second term of four years. 1t is believ-
ed that the meeting will be well attended,
and much interest centres around the
probable action Of the body.
The proposition to hold such con-
ference does not meet with much favor
with the convention members, and from
what can be gathered from them, II the
action taken is at all drastic, there Will
b.. no move looking to a reconsideration
OF the ordinance, which had now been
adopted and referred to the Committee
on Final Revision. Some of the conven-
ton people are talking very plainly on
the subject. They say they regard the
movement as most remarkable one,
and that it only confirms them in the
belief that the change is o. good one ana
ought to stand It is hard to say What'
If anything, the convention VIII accom-
plish and the outcome OF the meeting
will he looked for with great interest
There is much speculation as TO what
the convention Will do when the Legisla-
ture returns here next week. There IS
talk of the former body taking recess
until the latter adjourns, but on TINS the
members are badly divided.
1t is urged the convention might take
a recess and allow the Committee on
Final Revision and Adjustment to take
up its work. One thing seems to be set
tied, and that is that the Hall OF the
House of Delegates cannot be well used
again for two bodies to meet in
Tho convention yesterday received an
invitation to sit in the assembly room
Of the Chamber of Commerce. It was
referred with franks to the former Hall
Committee, composed Of Nfessrs. Goode,
r. Walton Moore, Boaz, Ayers, and Lhom.
Upon the return of President Goode to
the city, the committee will probably
take the matter up and dispose of it.
CONGRESSMAN Hal D. Flood is back
from Washington and is attending to his
convention duties Before leaving the
capital city Mr.. Flood presented bill
compelling the street car companies IN
the District Of Columbia to put vestl-
bules on their cars for the protection or
their men.
The bill offered by Mr.. Flood is SINH
lar in many respects to the one which
w:s offered several years ago in the Vir-
s:nia Legislature by Hon. Il. c. Foikes,
and which is now operative in Richmond
and other cities of the State Mr.. Flood
IS very hopeful that his measure VIII
pass.
Senator Carter Glass stated last night
that Senator Daniel would not return TO
the convention, unless it should he for
the last few days of the session, and then
h. would come only for the purpose OF
signing the new Constitution.
Senator Glass evidently knows whereof
he speaks He is just from Lynchburg
anu says Senator Daniel was anxious to
return here with him, but that he was
nositivelv forbidden to do SO by his ply
sician.
Among the prominent visitors on the
floor Of the convention yesterday We're:
Hons. John w. Price, of Bristol; ". L.
Dup,ly, of Roanoke; Colonel W. W. BerS-
lev, of Salem; Judge S. 3. Witt, ex-Unlt-
ed States Senator Eppa Hunton, Mr.. W.
*. Glasgow, Jr., of Roanoke; Colonel w.
( ". Sale, of Norfolk, and Sheriff S. 5. Cur
tbs, of Newport News.
Emmett 3. Faison, the bright little
mage Of the convention from Ports
mouth, who got tangled up with the
detectives in Washington the other day,
and who ..untangled'' himself with so
much dexterity, has had several Sood
business offers to take effect AFTER the
convention adjourns. Among them IS
one made by General Rufus a. Ayers
who offers the youth a place IN Dank
at Big Stone Gap.
There were seventeen members of the
convention of 1890 whose names We're
Identical with those of members or the
present body. They were as follows:
Messrs. Marshall, Anderson, Harrison
Chapman, Moore, Smith. Miller. Barbour,
Campbell, Garnett. Summers, Green,
Stuart Gordon, Jones, Goode, and Wat
son.
Hon. joseph c. Wysor, of Pulaski,
made an able speech in Committee of the
Whole yesterday in favor of the report or
the Committee on Corporations There
was a large attendance of both members
and visitors, and the great orator was lis
tened 20 with marked attention. He had
4 great stack of books and papers on
his desk, and spoke with characteristic
force and earnestness.
Hon James Lindsay Gordon, former as
sistant district attorney for the city OF
New York, spent few minutes IN the
Convention hall yesterday. and was
warmly greeted by his many friends in
tina body. Mr.. Gordon left on the 245 train
over the Chesapeake and Ohio for Stauu-
ton tc visit Hon. -Armistead 6. Gordon,
his brother.
Artist Foster has succeeded in getting
pictures of ali the convention members
for the proposed group save Messrs.
Cameron, Daniel. Smith. and Flood. Mr..
FOOD FOR A YEAR.
Meats 400 lbs.