Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-02
Virginia Legislature.
SENATE.

The Sale bill, approprieting $40, 900
for the benefit of the INDECENT sick of the
State-the special order in the Senate
on a reconsideration of the vote by
which the measure was ordered to its
engrossment, was laid before the Senate
The bill provided for the treatment
of the sick at such hospitals as are al
ready incorporated under law and are IN
operation. The vote of pay was to be
Is cents day for each patient. The
vote was reconsidered and the Senate
then declined to order the bill to its en-
grossment by a vote Of 13 to l9.
The Shackelford bill, requiring en-
ployers of large bodies Of laborers to
have them inspected by boards of health,
was taken up. The prevalence Of small
poI in many sectious was referred to.
The bill was amended 80 as to provide
that the inspections should be made in
case where the corporations or employ
ers have no regular physicians. When
inspections are made the physicians may
vaccinate such persons as they see tit
and shall make a charge therefor. The
measure commended itself to the mem
bers and it was passed.
The Senate concurred in the action OF
the House in placing license tax Of
5000 on gypsies travelling in Virginia.
The bill at first was defeated and came
up yesterday on a motion to reconsider.
The following bill we're introduced
and referred:
To punish the unlawful or malicious
taking or removing of the waste or pack
ing from any journal box used or oper-
ated upon any railroad, whether the
same be operated by steam or electricity.
To amend section 50 Of the code in
relation to the election of State, county,
district, and city officers and the terms
of their Offices aud filling vacancies, ap-
proved December Is, 1908.
To provide for INDECENT widows OF
Confederate soldiers, and to appropriate
sum therefor not exceeding 81, 25O
per annum.
The Senate passed the bill providing
for the collection of the Confederate
muster rolls of the State, and it now
only awaits the signature of the governor
in order to become law.
The Senate bill to extend the time
sixty days from March 1st to May LIST,
in which corporations may pay the an
nual franchise tax provided for by the
corporation commission was passed.
House bill No. 100, to authorize the
erection of bronze statue of Governor
William Smith in the Capitol Square,
was passed.
HOUSE.
As stated in the Gazette the House
killed the bill providing for putting into
effect the Torrens system of land regis
tration. The vote was moi taken directly
on the bill, but on an amendment offered
by Blackburn Smith, patron of the bill,
making it apply only to a number OF
localities enumerated in the bill-and
requiring personal service. The recorded
vote on this amendment was 46 to Al.
The House then, by an unrecorded vote,
refused to engross the bill, killing it for
the present session.
The House adopted resolution, by
Mr.. Cardwell cutting off the introduction
of new business after next Saturday.
Mr.. Stearnes in the House, and Mr.
Holt, in the Senate, offered bills to make
April next a legal holiday. On that day
the battleship Virginia is to be launched
at Newsport News. Mr.. Holt also offered
a bill to appropriate $4,000 for a silver
service for the ship. This went to the
finance cOmmitte.
The House after debating without
reaching q vote the measure prescribing
a Jail sentence for carrying concealed
weapons, took up the general appropria.
ton bill, and devoted the greater portion
OF the day to its consideration.
Mr.. Wallace presented bill the pur-
pose of which is to discriminate between
hardened criminals and men committing
crime for the first time and who may be
reformed. 1t takes from the jury the
power to determine the length of confne-
ment and provides that the judges shall
impose the maximum number of years.
The penitentiary board is then empower
en- to grant conditional pardon based on
the conduct of a prisoner and his previ-
Gus good character.
A Joint resolution was introduced by
Mr.. Stubs, providing for the appoint
ment of committee to look into the
establishment of school for colored deaf,
dumb, or blind children, and to report
to the next legislature.
Under a bill offered by Mr. Hunley,
justice of the peace may order the killing
of mad dogs or dogs whose owners allow
them to become q nuisance by running
at large.
The House passed the Senate bill au-
thorizing the penitentiary directors to
grant conditional pardons. These have
heretofore been granted by the governor
on recommendation of the board.
At its afternoon session the House
made considerable progress with the APP
preparation bill. An attempt to set aside
$500, 900 for schools, instead of 5000, 900
was defeated. An appropriation of 81, 900
was made to enforce the pure food law.