The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-08
LAWS AS TO
ELECTIONS
Many Statutes Proposed Along
Line Of Amendments to Banks
dale Law, But None Passed.
8.rHE LAST ONE DEFEATED.
A The Senate Refuses to Pass the
Grand Jury Bill-Lively De
bate in the Senate.

NJ The defeat by the Senate yesterday BY
4 an Overwhelming vote OF the House DIN
rroyiding for special grand jury 1nves-
4 LEGATIONS after all regular and primary
elections means tho end OF legislation
relating to ,e;ections a this session.
n.be bill was voted down. % to 2, after
prolonged debate.
The bill in question is the net result
II o. the agitation concerning the Banks
dale n,lre election law, which was upper
n !, os, IN the minds Of legislators when the
II General Assembly rcconvened Est fall.
Al that time Mr.. Folkes, OF Rlchmonn.
onened the assault on the Barksdale Dill
& by charging that 1t was a huge farce
and offering a bill to repeal 1t. This he
s,,,seclently withdrew, there being little
Is prospect of passing It. various other
amendments to the law were offered ana
3 debated In the House. but AL were finally
voted down. save the one which the SEN
ntc put to sleep yesterday in such q decl-
EiN:a manner.
The defeat OF all efforts to amend d, re-
y peal the law. tried for the first time last
fan, is generally regarded as indicating
81 purpose on the part OF the General
X Assembly to give the law fair test.
+ 1t is admittedly imperfect. but no efforts
20 perfect 1t appear to have found favor
sufficient to secure their enactment AS
Il Is the law it stood when the leSls-
lators came here In November, knives in
hand, to cut ii down and uproot It. stid
stands unscathed Many favor the law
and declare that 1t has had a wholesome,
a effect while others who disagree with
them yet regard an effort to repeal 1t
+ Az open to the construction that the
Democratic party Is opposed to pure
IS elections and do not wish to have them
fairly conducted. These AND various
ether views have sufiiced to hand the
law over in ils pristine form to the next
IS General AssemstlSas n subject for debate
and for the injection of politics into
d debate on tho floor. Whether II shall be
Z amended or repeated remains to be seen.
8 When the bill was taken UP yesterday
s Mr.. McIlwainc, an original and unalter-
4 able opponent of the law and ot tho
amendment under discussion, hung out
I n decoy in the shape Of a resolution pro-
Syiding that all candidates in elections
VI should he summoned to testify before the
N grand jury in the investigation of such
elections.
sI3ARlisDALE 10 RESCUE.
4tE Mr.. Barksdnle, patron of.:he ;lw which
b / he bill on the calendar was designed to
II strengthen, promptly rushed to the res
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