The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-06

would not, In the sllgnteSL ue8Tec, IL
feet anyone's religioti. therefore, ne most
heartily supported the act
GRANTING or FRANCHISES. y
The Anderson bill relating to granting
OF franchises by cities and towns, was
mnda tho special order for 1890 o'clock
f to-day. Ne. a. s5
ing boundaries of wards of cities and TO
provide for representatives of the several
wards OF the cities In the councils there
o. were ordered to thfls o n,
10 Mr. shackelford's bill to prevent au-
fhora n,,hlishers. etc., from becoming
members OF the State Board Of Educa-
ton. @
The House.
The House was called to order at 10
o. clock by Speaker Ryan, and there was
no prayer.
The Following bills were offered and
referred:
charlottesyille to close certain street.
Nv Mr. Stearnes TO allow the Water 4
View Development Company to, erect
! wharf on Hampton Roads In Elizabeth
City county.
Nv Mr.. Stafford: To incorporate the
PULASKI Home Benevolent Association.
BY MIR. SeDrell: 10 t-1iieiiu llo SitIA SSt 4
Of the town OF CORTLAND,
BY Mr.. Hoffman: TO provide for the
Involvement Of the public roads OF
Shenandoah county. .i,
By Mr.. Angel: TO require certain
state officers to give bond in surety COM
panles.
lation to the erection and maintenance
~ telephone and telegraph wires.
BY Mr., Whitehead: Petitions from
commission merchants In Norfolk city
against the Owen bill. HI,
By various member Petitions favor
ing the passage Of the Mann bill. "a
There was some discussion over ing ~
Senate bill to allow cities Of over 80. 900
spopulation 20 appropriate money to,
Charitable institutions. The matter Il
nnllyiwer1t BY on motion Of Mr.. New
house. on I. motion OF Mr.. Churchman,s
the bin relating to corporations was tax
en- up, taking precedence over the an
nexation 1neasur Q. Mr.. Churchman OK
necessary in order that the Corporation
Commission ID might proceed to grant
charters and do OF her things assigned to
81 By the Constitution. Upon rol-call,
the reading Of the bill was dispensed
with and it was taken up and considered
by sections. The billsfinaily went over
on motion Of Mr.. Boaz.
t5I7 l155i555 JAMESTOWN BILL
Mr.. Whitehead made strong ana
vigorous speech in favor of setting the
Jamestown Exposition bill as @ special
order for next Wednesday. si4
He said the State should stand by nor
folk, as 1t was a State institution a1lu
| she should care for her own. q
Mr.. Boaz, chairman OF the finance
| Committee, opposed the motion in a
strong speech, and declared that the FIX,
| position scheme was a Norfolk one ana
not in the interest Of the whole State
The House, by a vote Of 40 to 70, re-
| fused to suspend the rules It recurring
! two-thirds Of the members IN the al
| firmative.
Mr.. whitehead stated that he proposed
| to bring the matter up on q question OF
making TIA special order each day untll
he either won or got finally and forever
| whipped out. o
gressional re-apportioln1mee'nrIt,N measure
was reached In It's order on the calendar,
and after 1t was read, Mr.. Lee moved 70
pass by. This was opposed by Mr.. Cum 'Llr
ming and lost, ayes, 81; noes, 50.
MT BILL TAKEN Up.
The vote by which the House refused to
pass by the bill was as follows:
Ayes: N1essrs: Angel. &C. BAKER.
ROM Gamma day, Christian, Churchman,
Duke. Early, Edmondson, Elan, Folkes.
Gent. Gravely, Green, Hartman, Hofr-
man, Lacy, Lawson, Lee. Lewis, Lyell,
| Newhouse, Orgain, Powers Purdy. Rice,
Robson, Stafford. Woody Weaver ana
| ,West-31. =,
Noes, Messrs. Allen. Armstrong, Chas.
- Bland. Branch, Cabell. Cardwell. Ca
ton. Cumming, Edwards. Fulton, George,
Jennings, f. c. Jordan, Walter Jordan,
Kelley. Lassiter. Lion, Mathews, Mort,
Murrell, Nottingham. OVERLY Owen.
owens, Reynolds. sebrell, simmer1nan'
southall stearnes. Taylor, Ware, White
head.-33
Nj. Lee offered his bill, re-enacting
the present law as a substitute and MT,
Cumming begun a very strong open
ing speech for his bill. He had gone but
a little way. when the hour OF 1910 ar
rived which was the time for taking up
the Barksdale Pure Elections bill. =
Mr.. Cumming suspended ana the n,il
charge Of the bill. stated that he was
willing to a vote by the House without
debate.
SUBSTITUTE OFFERED.
Mr.. Cumming offered as a substitute
a pure election bill, presented by MT.
Barksdale some years ago. and 1t was
read by the clerk Mr.. Duke declared
that the views of the Halifax Senator
had broadened since the bill was offered
The annexation bill set for consider
ton at ly:o0 lnITllSeu t'pohA tI4o = SeAN''Ao
of the substitute and Mr.. Jennings moy-
ed. to \ postpone the former. but this was
| lost, and the Gardner bill was laid before
the House, Before this was done, Mr.,
Davis rising to question Of privilege.
made the following statement;
ION Saturday. the 18th ultima, took
occasion 10 refer to an editorial that
appeared In the News Leader Of Feb
ruary 9th, with reference to the expect
ed action OF the Committee Of Courts OF
Justice, OF which am member In the
| "snce that time in a correspondence
between the editor Of the News Leader
and myself, + have received from the
au thor OF that article satisfactory as
surance that he had no Intention OF re-
flecting or being offensive to any men,
her Of the committee; and in view Of
this assurance desire now to say that
I withdraw all offensive language then
used by me, and express my regret at
| the occasion that called It forth, ! would
have made this statement on last Tues Tue IS
| dny, but have been necessarily absent
| from the city until now"
49, IIJE 'ToR THE PEoPLp.
Mr.. Lee, OF Fairfax, took the floor TO