The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-04
CLEANING UPl
THEIR WORK
House Passes Capitol Approp'r1ialr--
ton BillIi,1 a5NVhitl- Senate
Notwithstanding.
SALE MEASURE is PASSED

SALE MEASURE is PASSED
Anti4Elcction Swearing Bill Is
Bcatcn-- Both Houses Declare
Against Negrocsi i'll Pulln'1ans.
The General Assembly made great head-
III way witllsits work yesterday bot y houses
holding two long sessions.
Tho feature 81, the senate side was The
,ussag. OF THE sale congressional re-
:,I ,i billy d vote OF 10 70 D..
asIhc mcasura was advocated by Messrs
l,arkElolc. Sale and holt. and opposed
~ Mcssrs. Muchcli, Walker and Stnra.
lilo debate was good i,ltt!rcd, bur was
cni, senator was IN Ills scat. they having.
ali gore to their State convention ut
norfolk.
BOTH honsos parsed the ould Bill. 70
& prevent negroes from riding on Pullman
Ii c,i,st and q grca u mass Of ,ntontesteu
y bits were disposed or OH both sides 6t5
Tho House passed the Capitol Surpro.
priatlon bill by iii overwhelming vote
& and II now oriy awaits the lslgnpttilt;s
a or tile Governor IN order TO becomsea5la@
u rho bill .ppropriates $4,000 for Tic re.s
pair Of Inc Capitol bnlldinG and pro
vides that the work shall commence I'm.
Il Gqi:.ral Assembly. Major Green's mite
election swearing bill was defeated .in
lie House. and Mr.. Person withdrew his
measure TO sell, the Medical College 4 or
Virginia. - y. 5$g ID IS rs ,3..J
II x resolution was offered by Mr. Slhugh-
ter OF culpeper. and adopted, calling on5
tho ylrgnla Representatives In Congress
to@rotc for the bill appropriating money
i0r tic permanent Improvement q Of Inc INC
public highways or tho State, and n large.
tl,rr f,f t1ct
At3thc aftorEp0n session OF tic House
Il General Simon Bolivar Buckner. % Sen
Il tuciy, was given a warm reception, Inc
a clair having been vacated for f1EeSmi'i-
u : ,Itcs ~ iii; honor, on motion OF General
8 Charles y. ANDERSON who introduced MN
s 10 the members
rho senate will meet at noon day.
and tho House ut u o'clock.
#8 The Senate.
When Iieutenant-Govern Willard let
The Senate gnycl drop at y o,ci o. ynss
to-day considerably less than half the
senators were In their3srats. Rev.HJ oin
y NIdnc,,ra offered prayer g
After a few new bills had been offered
ard the comu,jttees had reported 4 OH
Il various and silndry billy, most o (which
j were OF minor Importance, Mr. aHSaiker.@
K of Northumberland. asked and obtained
Il unanimous consent for inlmediate con
sdern,ton Of bill offefedlh hin, for
Tho Better enforcement of the law IN coLn-
ties where local OPTION prevails. The 4
real Object Of Tie Bill lis to reach by law
tho FLOATING bar rooins or streams
Y that run through or around locai nption,
counties especially those on the Kappa
]iarnock River Under a suspension OF 4
II tho rulcs the bill went through It's scTcral
readings and was passed land rel rye , "
tho House.
Mr. Rison naked aud obtained unhl,it
NOUS consent 10 lake ur Senate bill 10
providing for ltIc establishment OF q
S@tiispansarys5 IN The town. Cha thaIl.
Y After the assage3 of amendments making
s Tie date. for the election In Chatham
on the dlspensary question the third
Monday in September Instead of ~, July.
ard putting tho dIspensqry IN Operation
d III October. 1904 the bill was passed by
vote OF II to p senator Mann castins tlse
only vote IN the ncgatire.4aas3
Mr.. Mnchen asked and obtained unani-
nous consent TO take UP &out Of lis order
r. senate bill go The bill, which MAS PASSED
under (, suspension OF the rules, amends
subsection 6 OF sector Isl OF the Code
tho effect OF which is To raise the salary
or the judge of tile Corporation Court OIL
Alexandria.
Under a suspension Of the rules. also,
House bill No. T., providing for the es-
adjustment OF a dispensarE It Pulaski.
MAS taken up and passed.
THE REDISTRICTINGa BILL.
Atnthis point Mr.. Sale called for the
regular. order. which was Senate bill NO
81, the Sulc-Holt congressional reappor-
4 tioninent bill. The bill WAS placed on
its passage aud Mr.. sale spoke briefly
in, favor of the passage of#the bill.
planning what he regarded as the apso-
Lutte necessity OF SO rearrln2ing the con-
sagrcssional districts as to place Newport
News and Norfolk IL different districts
Mr.. Machcn who, by tho way, is outside
of tho two districts particularly affected
by tho bill, spoke In opposition TO the /,
u bill. lla WAS followed by Mr. Sears, Of
Mathews. who voiced. he said. the oppo-
sition5 OF tho people OF the First Dis
tflct. n
Committee on Privileges ana Elections
which had reported the bill favorably, de-
tended tho action OF the committee. Tho
senator from Halifax. who is always 5elo.
quent. often humorous. and sometimes
convincing. was ut his best on all points,
and tho frequent interruptions by First
District senator did not dsconccrt HIN
at nll lie answered all&qucstions fired
at himNand in tie end made q sstronS
argument In favor Of the bill. a aif
Mr.. Holt made n brief argument y n
favor of tho bill and appealed TO theqI
senate 10 pass it, Mr. Walker closed the
debate In an argument AGAINST the piil'
POLITICS AND BUSINESS.
The debate was sparkling and enter,
tanning Ina nutshell 1t was business
against politics. The Newport News and
Norfolk senators asked for the change
3n tito bounds Of tho First and Second
Districts purely on business grounds. poll.
Teal balances being equal. and tie First
District people. who 1t seems. did not
want their district enlarged by the add-
ton of Newport News and two Peninsula
counties, took purely political view OF
the; situation their sole idea seeming TO
be that enlarged territory would Increase
lie number Of Federal office hunters ana
an enlargement Of tho hungry army IS
cvidentlyInot TO the liking OF the present
representative from the First District,
whose Influence seemed to be strong "
the debate yesterday
In the course Of his able argument
against the bill. Mr.. Sears, Of Mathews,
read from The Times Dispatch OF yester'
III III wiaicl found annlc ~ ho I post