Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-11
THEIFGIsIATURE.
The adjourned meeting of the legisla-
ture was to have been held yesterday but
there was no quorm in the Senate.

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there was no quorm in the Senate.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Boaz offered the report Of the COM
mittee on revision, together with a great
mass OF bills prepared by the committee,
and also presented resolution making
the report the special and continuing or
der for12 O'Clock, Nov. is, and each
day thereafter, to the exclusion OF other
matters. 1t was the opinion OF Mr. Boaz
that the oyster commission report could
be disposed of between this time and
Nov. Is. The Boaz resolution went by
for the time being.
Mr.. Cumming introduced bill
amending the laws in relation to social
clubs and to require them to obtain the
regular bar-room license. 1t repeats the
act of February 20, 1898, relating to
social clubs, and, more important still,
amends the revenue act approved April
l6. 1903, in sections l43 and IA. Mr..
Cummings bill amends the section so as
to provide that no social club, by virtue
of its charter, shall dispense liquors, but
shall, in addition to the poll tax requi-
site TO maintain the charter, obtain a
regular bar-room license as provided in
section 143.
Section 14S imposes tax for the re-
tail sale of liquor amounting to Sl76 in
country places or 10 towns having less
than 1000 population, aud $3.50 in
towns and cities having in excess of
l 900 population. Section 143 is fur
Their changed so that clubs, having taken
out the license in the manner indicated
above, may sell to members on Sunday.
This is a privilege denied regular saloon
keepers, and, under the Cumming bill,
is the chief privilege the clubs are al
lowed in consideration of their poll
tax.
Mr.. Cardwell offered the report of the
oyster committee, and it was ordered
that the usual number of copies be print
ed. Mr.. Mathews, who will put in a min
ority report, made request, which the
body respected, that no action be taken
on the majority report until his report is
ready. The report says that the oyster
bottoms of Virginia are being gradually
depleted and that unless there is some
remedial legislation this valuable asset OF
the State would ultimately become worth
less. The report says there are 225, 600
acres of oyster bottoms within the Baylor
survey, rs per cent. of which are worth
less, or so depleted by overworking that
they will not reseec themselves within
three years, and some not at all, under
present conditions. The report concludes.
''Your committee recommends that this
general assembly pass an act appointing
committee to lease out such barren and
exhausted or depleted bottoms to the citi-
zens of the State, and that such COM
mittee be given sufficiently broad powers
and discretion in making such leases as
will enable them to deal fsirly as between
the large and small planters, as well as
TO advance the best Interests of the State. 4"
Other bills introduced we're:
Establishing aschool for the education
of colored deaf. and colored blind
children.
Authorizing councils of cities to have
legal enumeration Of their population.
Imposing penalties for the indiscrimi-
nate throwing of sample packages of
medicines in yards, halls, porches or
doorways.
Mr.. Barksdae will INTRODUCED bill in
the Senate making radical changes in the
law bearing on the subject of trusts. 1t
is stringent in its provisions against
combinations, and prescribes q fine of
from 5000 to $4,000 for every offense
The bill provides that any corporation
of any kind, organized for any purpose,
that shall enter into any pool, agree
ment contract, or association for the
purpose of fixing the price or controlling
or limiting the production Of any article
of manufacture or merchandise or prod
uct of agriculture shall be deemed
guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
The fact became known in the Capitol
yesterday that DR.. w. N. McNeal
(dem.) was elected to the House from
Lee county last week by 250 majority.
1t had been supposed that the repub-
lican candidate was elected, as the
county gave 200 majority against Mr..
Irvine for the Senate.
Dr. f. S. Keen, democratic candidate
for the Senate, has served notice of con-
test on Tyler Turner, republican, who
won in the district composed ofFranklin
and Floyd counties. The ground is
violation of the Barksdale law.