Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-15
LEGISLATURE.

1nt NlA a
work yesterday looking to adjournment
Committees were discharged from further
consideration of a large number OF bills,
10 order to get them on the calendar be-
fore adjournment, and every effort was
made toward adjournment either today
or Saturday.
Much business is yet to be
done that will have to go over
until November, at which time the
legislature will pass on the report OF the
special committee on revision, and flnlsh
the work Of this extra session.
SENATE.
The Senate considered large number
of bills, and disposed or many matters,
the most interesting being the refusal 70
make the desired appropriation OF $50,
900 to the University of Virginia.
The Senate passed the Angel bill re-
curing the corporation commission to
fix storage demurrage and car service
charges by railroads, after amendingit SC
that the shipper may be allowed to accept
actual damages for loss.
A prominent member said yesterday
it had been determined to adjourn this
week, and while great deal of work
would be left unfinished, it would be the
same if they remained a week longer,
and they had to stop somewhere. Even
if the legislature adjourns this evening,
it will be constructively in session FOL
several days longer, to allow the Gov
ernor time to sign the bills that have
become laws. fa. sr..
The Senate yesterday afternoon adopted
a resolution to adjourn Tuesday. The
House, however, is working 10 adjourn
tonight, and will probably not concur.
The Senate passed the joint resolution
providing for the purchase of Pollard
annotated acts of assembly, but it was re
iected by the House by avote of 80 to 30,
House bill providing for the election
of city, county, and district officers wa:
passed, and the rejection of the bill
making registrars of election conservator;
of the peace was reconsidered and the
bill passed Besides, number of bills
of minor Importance were passed.
HOUSE.
Among the bills in the House from
which the committees we're discharged
was that providing for an appropriation
of $25, 900 for the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. the bill providing an increase
for the Farmville Female Norma
School, and the bill providing that rail
roads receiving through freight from
shippers shall be responsible for its de-
livery at destination.
Mr.. Lassiter, of Petersburg, moved tc
have the committee discharged from con-
sideratiOn of the bill appropriating
So. 900 to the Colored Female Normal
School at Petersburg, but it was reject
ed by a vote of 32 to "a. The House
agreed to the Senate amendments TO
large number of House bills, most o.
them being local, and then proceeded
with the calendar.
The House refused to recede from it,
position, on the bill relating TO the gov
eminent of cities and towns, and asked
for a conference thereon, and the chair
named Messrs. Jennings, Hartman ant
Allen on the part of the House.
The bill providing for the removal Of
the remains of the wife and daughter o.
President Monroe from Loudoun county
to Richmond came up on motion Of Mr.
Whitehead to reconsider the vote b!
which the measure was rejected, and Mr.
Davis made strong speech in favor o
the motion. The bill was passed-yeai
So, nays s.
The House yesterday afternoon passed
the bills making appropriations to thu
Farmvile Normal School, and also thu
Clayton bill, making the initial railroad
responsible for goods shipped over its lines
The military bill, heretofore passed b!
the Senate, was agreed to by the House
Iron Works SHUT DowN.-Severa
thousand employees of the big Hecla iror
works i'm williamsburg. N. Y. one O