The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-08
S0L0NS TO
COME in
THIS WEEK
Legislature Opens Up on
Tuesday at Noon.
NEW SESSION
INJANUARY
Lawmakers to be Here Prac-
tically all the
Winter.
COMMITTEE ON
FINAL REVISION
Their Report the First Thing inii
Order, But Much Other Busi.
ness Will be Transacted,
Something About the
Work Of the New Body.
Ryan a Winner.
COMMITTEE ON
FINAL REVISION

Richmond will be flooded with states
men nearly all the winter. two sessions
Of the Legislature being booked tc at
In the Capitol between now and spring.
The present body will meet at noon
next Tuesday. and will proceed ct once
tc the consideration OF the report Of
the Committee on Final Revision and
Adjustment. much Of which Is now Ia I
the hands OF the printer. The report will
necessarily be a long ono. and will have
tc be considered with the utmost care.
and this In itself will require great; deal
OF time. though a great many bills left
over from the last session and others
yet to be introduced will be considered.
so that the prediction that the body
will sit hero until nearly Christmas Is
rot tar wrong. .,3 AK
When the House Is called to order next
Tuesday there will be two new mem.
bers. One will be Major j. W. Bruce,
OF panville. who was elected on Tuesday
to succeed Colonel George e. Cabell, Jr.a,S
tastgned, and yhe othAr L Hon. HAnry
E. Lee. OF Nottoway, who takes the
place YoIS SConEressrnan r, G, Southall, Of
Amelia. They Twere botha also chosen FOR
the full term Of two years. from jan
uary 1st next. &, f}i.. 4. .9 ".
ONE NEW SENATOR. \.
{ In the Senate there will be new
member to succeed the late Graham
claytor. Of Bedford, but his term will
expire with the going out OF the old
Legislature. unless he. shall be chosen
for the full term to succeed the late
Judge Galloway Brown, who died on
Thursday last
There will be no delay incident to the
work Y OF the old Legislature. All the
committees are organized. and will pro-
{ ceed as though the recess had been only
for week Instead Of six months
It Is likely. that the Revision Com
mittee will ask that the report he con-
sidered In sections. and that they be al-s
lowed to sit during the sessions OF the =
Legislature. as their work lis not yet
complete. though all the ollls have been
finally disposed of and placed In tho
hands OF the printer. The report has
been worked out up to q certain point,
and this can be taken up BY the two
bodies and considered while the other =
being completed by the committee.
WILL DO MUCH WORK.
Those who believe the old Legislature
i Hill not take up any business save the
report of the Revision Committee are
vastly mistaken. All the bills that went
over from the last session will be con-
offered. Ssfs. w. ii3
The Revision Committee will make re,
Communications as to each bill left oyer.
end many OF them are Of vast impor-
tance. Tho committee has prepared some
bills, and will offer them as new meas
ures In the two houses aS
One OF these Is one relating to the
subject OF insurance. 1T provides for the
creation of the office OF insurance COM
y,,}c Of lcala 81 n wilt ~
ss COO for expenses. The insurance COM
missioner Is to be elected by the present
Legislature. and his term Is to be four
years from February /. 1901
a LIVELY FIGHT.
II the bill passes. Colonel Joseph But
ton. Colonel Grenville Gaines. OF Fau-
auIer and Mr.. f. &. Akers. Of Lynch
burg, Will be the candidates It seems
Pretty we'll settled that9no attempt will
he made to modify the Mann liquor bill
at the present session. Some amendment
may be offered by some member who
voted against the bill, but the body "
manifestly in favor OF 1t. and will not
permit 1t to be changed in any respect,
The Cumming Sale congressional redls-
tricting bill will be pushed but will likely
fail. Senator Rarksdale will press his
general primary law, and there will be
many other measures OF public interest
',lr at tho short session.
No one well posted on public affairs
expects the old Legislature to leave R!ch-
mond until about December 10th. and
all those connected in any way with
the body are preparing to stay that
long,
As 1t will be an adjourned session.
Governor Montague will not submit q
message to the body when 1t meets next
Tuesday
The New Session.
Some lively times are expected when
the new Legislature meets on January
lIth for its regular session OF sixty days.
II will be the first elected under the new
Constitution. and that instrument will
apply to its proceedings in every re-
spect Forty-six OF the House members
will be new ones, and fourteen out OF
the nineteen Senators IA not serve In
the present body. though the following
have hitherto been in one branch or the
other. H. G. Lowry. Bedford; DR.. r, H
Powell, Brunswick; c. H. Harrison. Pow-s
hatan; T. p. Clarke Dinwldd!s: =. m.
stubh., Gloucester; pr. Charles Smith.
Northumberland; DR.. s. r. saysrs.
Wythe; Camm Patteson. Bucsangham,,
and A, A. Phlegar. Montgomery.
I A new Senator will have to be chosen
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