The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-11
AGAIN AT
WORK ON
The LAWS
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Legislature ReConvened
at Noon;On Yesterday.
AN OYSTER AND
REVISION REPORT
A Decision to be Reached To-
day Which Sha1lbe Con-
sidered First.
4. LAW AIMEDSAT
THE He SOCIAL CLUBS
9istf4 'agt't tsig@ M
A Move to Put Them on the
Same Footing as Bar-Rooms.
Senate Adjour11s Ont Of Re-
spect to the Memory Of
Hon. Graham Glaytor.
Bills introduced.
A LAW AIMEDSAT.
THE SOCIAL CLUBS
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The General Assembly pf Virginia con-
vened at noon yesterdays An adjourned
extra session. this being, the fourth ses-'
sion during the two yeatS OF the lifc OF
the Assembly. These numerous sessions
wcro made necessary by the adoption OF
new organic la " FOR the State and the
consequential legislation m4ds i'm perative
or desirable. There was a. bare quorum
Of the more numerous branch yesterday.
and Ave or SIX fewer than q quorum OF
the, Senate. when the respective presiding
officers called those bodies; to order, The
crowd OF visitors and spscta tors in at
tendance was not 80 nunlerous as usual
at the assembling OF the legislature. but
not a few, well known and prominent vir~
ginians were present
The Senate session continued scarcely
two minutes. Mr.. Mann, Of iNottoway.
informed the body Of the death OF one
OF Its members. Hon Graham. claytor OF
Bedford county. and moved TINT. As q fur
ther mark OF resbeny to the memory of
the deceased the j Senate adjaurn until
noon wednesday. .3the motion prevailing,
The session OF the House Of Delegates
continued for nearly an hour, there being
probably quorum OF mem bers inttheir
seats, As sforecasted yesterday, the first
question to come up In the General As
sem bly,. was that as to the precedence Of
business In the limited time remaining,
and with much important, not to say I'M
perative. work to be done. Mr., Boaz Of
fered the report OF the Joint Committee
on Revision printed document Of lbs
pages, with a suppleme entary report Of
considerable volume In each house, one
embracing Senate bills and the other
House bills left undlsposed Of at the au-
journment last spring. The report en-
braces ..all the contradictions. omissions
and imperfectlons ln the general statutes
passed at this session. as compared with
each other and with pre-existlng statutes.
and the draft OF such bills as are deemed
necessary to reconcile. perfect and supply
the same, and such other bills as are
deemed necessary to put the new Con.
stitution into full and complete operation.
The report is in great detail. showing the
sections OF the Code amended and briefly
stating the reasons for the suggested
amendments, together with the bills them
selves and such other bills as do not
properly fall under any section Of the
Code.
In the report the committee directs
especial attention to the number OF stat
with section e3 OF the Constitution, and
especially with sub-sections s and II OF
that section.
"A Joint Resolution.
Coincident with submitting the report
of the committee. Mr.. Boaz presented
joint resolution making the same spe-
cial and continuing order for noon No
ven,ber 18th. and every day thereafter.
to the exclusion OF all other matters. un-
til consideration of the report shall have
been competed. and providing for two
sessions daily. In supporting this he sug-
gested that the report OF the speclal JOINT
be disposed OF before next Tuesday. Ac-
t1on on the matter went over until to-
day.
Mr.. cardwell chairman OF the special
joint Committee on Oyster Legislation,
offered tho report Of the committee.
typewritten document Of four pages. and
II was ordered printed. Dir. Mathews
= member of the committee. stated that