Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-02
Virginia Legislature.
SENATE.

The only bill to pass the Senate yes
terday was one relating to cemeteries,
making valid disposition of property in
p%erpetuity for maintenance and care OF
same. 1t was Senator Opie'sbill and had
been on the calendar for several days.
Mr.. Sadler has prepared and will pre-
sen when the bill making the a%ppropria-
ton for the care of Confederate graves
comes up, al amendment providing that
the cities, towns and counties of theState
shall have power 10 make such appro-
pristion.
The following bills were introducedand
referred:
To amend an act so as to authorize the
sale of an estate, real ofpersonal, heIeto-
fore of hereafter given, granted, convey
ed, or devised by deed or will, or lie,
with a remainder over, either vested or
contingent, and to provide further for the
sale or leasing of the coal, oil, gas, and
minerals, or either ofthem, in case where
such estate is real property, whether the
vested re~mainderman or the persons in
being and ~contingently interested be in
fants or adults.
To amend the code in relation to
fraudulent c~onveyances.
To amend the code in relation to d.
vorce.
Permitting the qualification Of division
| school superintendents before the judges
of their respective counties and cities.
HOUSE.
Out of a large number of bills passed
in the House only these were of general
interest: A bill, providing for ample
theatre exits a bill to tax gypsy bands,
and the bill requiring steamboat CON-
panies to provide separate waiting-rooms
at wharves for white and colored persons.
Mr.. Garrettintroduced bill to prohib-
it travelling c~ircuses from advertising
what they fail to show in the perform
ance.
Mr.. Hoge introduced a bill imposing
a sentence of from 60 days 10 6 months
for carrying concealed weapons, and a
fine of from $50 to 5000. This would
bring the offense under the class OF
felonies.
Mr.. Persons introduced a bill requir-
ing boards of supervisors to make public,
by advertising and posting, all amounts
paid out in the county by warrants.
Mr.. Stearns introduced a series of res
| olutions from the Chamber of Commerce
of Newport News in opposition to the pro-
posed appropriation of $l2, 900 to the
Memorial Hospital in Richmond.
Mr.. Lowry introduced a joint resolu-
ton providing for committee to revise
the pension laws. Its understood that
the present law gives much dissatisfaction.
Mr.. Harrison introduceda general bill
authorizing boards of supervisors to pay
bounties for hawks and other classes Of
destructive birds. ~
Mr.. Jennings introduced a bill to rec
ompense clerks, sherifs and town
sergeants for work in making out and
posting the tax list as required by law.
Mr.. Hoge sought to make more severe
the punishment OF those convicted of car
rying concealed weapons by a bill fixing
the penalty at confinement in Jail from
three to six months and a fine of from
$50 to 800.
The house killed the bill designed to
allow circuit judges to employ stenog-
raphers in felony cases at an expense
not to exceed $40 per day.
A bill was introduced and referred pro-
viding compensation for clerks of courts,
sheriffs, and sergeants who copy or post
the names of those who have paid their
capitation taxes.
The Senate bills passed yesterday by
the house we're as follows
To amend and re-enact section 4 of the
code relating to the time statutes take
effect, and the publication thereof.
Among the House bills passed were:
For the protection of pheasants and
other game birds imported for propaga'
ton.
To provide for the payment OF con-
tingent and incidental expenses of the
General Assembly, and to appropriate
money for the same.
The democrats in the House will
meet in caucus tonight to consider
the right of Messrs. Parker and
Owens, who represent Norfolk coun-
ty, to sit in the councils of the
party. These gentlemen, it is claimed,
were elected by a fusion of democrats
and republicans, some of the latter hav-
ing been frsudulently registered. The
caucus Will be marked by stormy success.
DESTpITCTIVC