Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-04-10
LEGISLATIVE DOINGs.

Ine Mann bill has been reported
favorably by the House. 1t is now
sure of passage.
Senators Walker, Mann and Ander-
son have been named as the senate
members of the revision committee.
The House passed the bill making
four poles or four strands of wire
lawful fence in districts where
fences are required.
The bill to provide for the raising
and training of bloodhounds for
police purposes by cities and counties
has become law.
The bill arpropriating 100000
to the jamestown Exposition passed
the House by vote of 5S to 30. 1t
will have little trouble in the Senate.
The clerk selected for the commits
sion which is to make an investiga-
ton of the area in the Baylor oyster
survey is John j. Burke, of Mathews.
Mr.. Powers, of Caroline, has in
troduced bill to prohibit any man
serving more than once year on
jury. He is after the professional
juror.
The revenue measure which will
pass exempts boarding house keepers
from tax and aboiishes the 800 fee
required of attorneys to appear before
Legislative committees.
Senator Hartman presented bill
restricting the sale of opium, CO.
caine and kindred drugs. 1t pro-
vides they shall only be sold by
druggists, and then upon prescrip-
ton, under penalty from $50 to $500.
The new law in relation to justices
provides that where two sit in case,
and disagree, the judgment of the
one before whom the complaint was
made, or before whom the case was
brought, shall prevail as against his
associate. Where there are three
justices a majority shall decide.
Judge Campbell has filed his
answer before the Legislature, and
his case will be called April 9th. He
scores right and left, and accuses
Judge Loving of having to leave
Amherst because he had squandered
funds of widows and orphans. His
reply is considered a strong paper.
He denies the right of the Legisla-
ture to remove him, among his reas-
ons being, that he holds office now
under the new Constitution and not
by grace of Legislature, and another
that to try him both Senate and
House should have sat together and
not referred his case to a committee.
LAW AGAINST SLOT MACHINES.
Following is the new law against
use of slot machines:
If any person keep or exhibit, or
be concerned in interest in keeping
or exhibiting, any slot machine of
any description into which are drop
ped pennies or nickels or coins of
any other denomination, or other
device that operates on the nickel-in-
the-slot principle, in the operating
of which said machine or device the
element of chance enters in, or per-
init such machine or device to
be kept or exhibited in his place of
business, he shall be confined in Jail
not less than fifteen nor more than
sixty days, and fined not less than
one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars: provided, that this
act shall not apply to any slot ma.
chine or device that operates on the
nickel-ip-the-slot principle used ex-
clusively for disposing of cigars,
chewing gum, or other articles of
merchandise, or exclusively for musi-
cal, weighing or other like purposes,
in the operating of which said ma
chine or device the element of chance
does not enter in.
GREAT DEBATE ON MANN BILL.
When the Mann bill came up in
the House several eloquent appeals
WCiC ulduC III lIo DcudlI.
Mr.. Carter, of Scott, said the
question involved was one of clean,
pure manhood. When such an issue
Was involved, declared the speaker,
amid applause, as between damning
men and damning revenue let the
"revenue be damnedl"
''It is said," he went on, "that
because of the powerful lobby that
would he brought here to oppose it,
the bill was not made to apply to
cities. Let them come on. For nv
own part mean to do my duty. We
have passed pure elections bill, and
it does not behoove US to dodge on
this other great moral ISSUE"
MIR. Newhouse Interrupted to say
that the questions were not parallel,
but quickly the member from Scott
replied that he did not propose to be
thrown from his balance, and he
declared that the liquor people had
the Legislature on the run and that
the body should stop. He was OPP
posed to the Conference Committee
taking the Mann bill to the bargain
counter for pocket change.
Mr.. Davis, of Petersburg, closed
the debate In a magnificent speech.
He said ne was not treating the ques-
ton entirely as moral one, although
he contended that no law could be a
good one that was not founded upon
morality. He believed that public
sentiment demanded the passage of
the bill, and as representative of
his people he stood for the bill. He
took a drink himself, but he wanted
to put his hand on the man who
seduced his sons and the sons of
Others, and he would, if he could,
break up the indiscriminate sale of
liquor Ia saloons. He was here to
plead for the boys and the broken
hearted women in Virginia, and he
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