The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-13

SESSION
CLOSING.
Present Legislature Ex-s
tends Into Three Years. VI
1T MAY STRETCH
INTO FOURTH YEAR
Quantity oftWork Must be Com.
piled Before Adjourn
ment. 3ss3s
IMPORTANT MEASURES 5s5
NOW ON THE CALENDAR \ I
The Bill to Break the Baylor
c,,r,,ev IW;ll Occ,1nv Several s8
Quantity Of Work Must be Com
piled Before Adjourn VI.
IMPORTANT MEASURES 55I
NOW ON The CALENDAR

The longest session OF the General As;.gE
sembly Of Virginia Ia more than thirty
years, and one Of the busiest u Is now Y
drawing to close. No other LIE gtslass la,s
turo's life has extended into three cal -!8
endar years, as has the one originally
known as the General Assent bly, OF lsol-$S
1902, and as II must now be known, that II
Of 901-2-3. # is4ssF 81 fg44si ts4s
Five sessions Of the Assembly have
been held sine the body con vened for Il
the first time December 4, 1901. these
sessions covering q period OF SO3, 9 day5.sl u.
Including SUI, ,ays and one Christmas IS. res MI
cess, but exclusive Of all Their recess ses.ssSS
This is equivalent to almost q years pay I Z
at the regular per diem, exclu slve 8Sot e nj
a bout So 200 expended BY the Joint revision
committees, and nearly s., 900 expendedsss
to defray the expenses OF the joint com IIS
mlttee on the oyster question: and numer-As
cost OF printing, too, has been unusually
heavy. ESTIMATING the Item Of per- diem
Of members and pay OF employees q Z $bOOS
a day. low estimate, the cost e the ses.g
sions has been about 1so 100, e &c, VIII
must be add n the Cost 5of printing and
many other8i 8incldental expenses, the two
Items forN tho specs p q joint committees
named above. q and various OF her smal ller55s
sums sums FER for many n Y S,ca paSpo1Nss: efN 1.o1 1
49,
The preseAts ssessfon be gan y; DMecamberG M e.
1851, ui1d err stKes old. Or adsrW III
stitution. an Nhile thess Cons SIT a.
Convention was then sitting. Owing sto III II
the sim two such iargs 9
adjourned Decent Der 20.s 1901 until Fe ebru- Is
5aryj 10, 1902 by which time It was hoped n
the ConstitutlonalrC Convention might 5haye 4.
concluded Its lahors., The Conventio s#ss N
work not balag concluded aoweyer...th q me
body gave ri1c TO the; General ssemoiys
and secured leased quarters for !I.ss
Tho Assem- bly, sat from ebrun ry ls ssS
until April 9 1902, and lthenaad joprned, sssss8
Onfthe 18th daytof July the General al:As;-ssE AS
sembly was convened by tho Cons titution4-.
al Conventio,. and the executive call 5stors Nh
tion to the now and then recently pro-t4S
claimed orvn1.c Il law OF the State tiA
was at this brlet session, ,3continuin g. 8untts3 ~
July 2Sth, thar the mem bers OF the Leg
lslature were sworn to support the new y $s
Constitution. 1s5 II. si t (! NH
The CONVENTION when It adjourned final..ss&
ily recognized that a. vast volume of es, w
,Yslaton had been made impera tive BY tho q
proclamation OF the new organic ala 5ss
which was IN tho nature OF revoiuttion 81
General Assembly in November OF that
year with authority to sit 3 as long U as III
might be neco,rary, within the llml lta-.s5
ton upon the life OF the Assembly. Under
this authority ana With this duty and re,s u.
sponsibiity, the Assembly was conveneds p, enc
November 12tn,. 1902, and sat unit May
10TH 1908. T hen being convinced that the sS
vast volume or essential work In the NJ
matter OF code revision and conformation
OF the statutes to the new Const1tu tion5s
State reduced thereby, a Joint committee
on revision OF the statutes were constr
tuted with authbrity to sit urlng the res
cess and recommend such statutes aS VI
were necessary. suggest those that should SsS
be repealed. and generally revise tnss ~
code. The Assembly thereupon aoJouFneo Ri 3ss
until November 10th, II sSs
The body reconvened then, and has S
been sitting since with the almost apso-i8
lutte certainty that tho session VIII cons
tlnue until December 2ad, even Y, y pc
not necessary to return after the Christ.
mas recess and work up to the limit OF
life, January l., 10o4,s II that be thc5si
case, the Assembly will have extended 55i
Into the fourth calendar year. y ne es-S
tlmates OF expenses above supmn.ea ,l az
based on the theory and expectation that
the Assembly will adjourn sine de about
Aecsu'0vt VoLusiB Ii NE OF BUSINESS. M
with but nine working days left be-3't
fore December sd, when the Assembly
adjourn without day, there Is yet to ba 4
enacted a rather formidable volume &ot ~
Important and much OF It. imperative busr
iness, on the Senate calendar now are 5S
tue Insurance bill. long and Important XIX
measure which will provoke con siderable
debate This Is a bill covering ninety. y
eight printed RACES. On the calendar IS Bsss
the Jordan bill 10 break the Baylor oys-8 8Rs
ter survey, set as q special order for III
next Tuesday. and which will certainly
consume the greater part OF two days, ~ Ia
the debate does not continue longer.Ss y s
the Senate committee ID the very impor,
tant bill In reiation TO the right OF er'ig *
nent domain on which the committee has Ss
worked for thiY, days without conclud- gis
ing licn, THIS will In all prob-
ability occupy two or three days M ore s#
OF the Senates time, Then there IS tna a
long and very important bill relating 10 n
pullc service corporations, covering nlne7
ty-nne pages. and being perhaps the Ba
most Important single bill OF the session, y
This has passed the House, but has nor
vet reached tile Senate. Then the house sI
Bill in relation to tho powers and duties
OF county officers, boards OF supervisors, w
etc, vet to pass both houses.
! Besides all these the Senate has 9.
few OF the Senate code revision bills 70 is
dispose of. aa
\ After all of these have been disposed OF IA
the Senate must consider a number OF gS
other House bills than those namelt.
Among these are House bill 800, ffteen
pages In length, and relating to the s.sc- N
ton OF STATE, county, district and csty III