The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
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all extra sessions, the president of the
Senate and the speaker of the House of
Delegates, each $3.50, and the other mein-
bors of tho General Assembly, each tho
sum of $40 for attendance upon tho
duties of their respective houses; the aaid
salary to be paid in the following man
ner:
To the president OF the Senate and
the speaker Of the House OF Delegate
each the sum of $50 per week. and the
other members OF the General Assembly.
each the sum of $50 per week, until their
respective salaries are exhausted, or I'M
til the General Assembly adiourns: at
which time the Whole amount of their
salaries remaining unpaid. IL any. shall
then be paid. Any sick member, or ono
who shall have obtained leave OF ao-
sence, shall receive such salary az is dua
him In the same manner as il he had
been In his seat.
Railroad and insurance bills are be-
ginning to appear on both sides In large
number. and will precpitate q number
of sharp fights. Mr.. sadler, IN his bill.
proposes to require all transportation
companies furnishing flat cars to ship
pers to bp loaded with freight within this
State &c equip such cars with sufficient
standards or sides and cross-arins or
supports to secure the safe transportation
of the freight to be- loaded thereon. and
to provide penalties for failure to COM
ply with the provisions of this act.
Any transportation company failing To
comply with the requirements Of the act
Will forfeit It's right to claim demurraEe
for the detention OF any such car or cars
occasioned by the failure of the shipper
to load the same. and In addition thereto
BILE for any and all damage sustained
by tho shipper. to oe recovered by suit
or motion before the court having proper
jurisdiction.
Senator Sears yesterday introduced a
bill providing that in view of the onerous
duties imposed upon the second auditor by
the management of the literary and the
efficient manner in which that fund is
being handled, the second auditor shall
be allowed commission of one-half of
one per cent. upon all money passing
through his hands on account of the lit
erary fund, the same to be paid by order
of the Board of Education. as in case
of all other claims upon the literary fund.
BY a bill offered In the Senate by Judge
Phlegar and referred to proper commit
tee. the South and Western Railway Com
pany is Immediately relieved of any pos
sible forfeiture of it's charter rights or
any of them by reason of it's failure to
have thirty miles of road in operation
in Virginia within two years after the
Incorporation act, or by reason OF any
other act or omission to act whatsoever
The forfeiture or cause of forfeiture. il
any such existed at any time. br now
exists, is In the act RENTED upon the
condition that the South and Western
Railway Company shall hereafter hold
its charter subject to all the provisions
of the Constitution of Virginia. and of all
laws passed in pursuance thereof
The South and Western Railway COM
pany was incorporated by chapter 1859
of the acts of the General Assembly of
Virginia, approved April .. 1902 section
s of the charter providing that the COM
pany should have thirty miles of road In
operation in Virginia within two years
from the date of the act or the rights
thereby granted should cease. The South
and Western Railway Company has since
consolidated with the South and Western
Railway Company of Tennessee and the
South and Western Railway Company OF
Kentucky. under the name of the South
and Western Railway Company. On the
18th of November. 1905. the company APP
piled for and obtained from the State
Corporation Commission an amendment
and extension of its charter. Some cues
ton of the charter rights of the railway
has been raised.
The question of insurance was up again
last night before the House COMMITTEES
on General Laws, Mr.. Williams, of Giles,
having secured consideration of his bill
re-enncting tho Wharton anti-compact
law.
Tho measure was advocated and opposed
by various gentlemen until about II
o'clock, whom recess was taken until
Wednesday afternoon. when the bill will
be finally disposed OF.
The Committee on the Chesapeake and
It's Tributaries last night. for the second
time. reported formally tho bill offered
by Mr.. Rev. OF Accomac, making closed
season against tho taking II crabs from
the waters df Virginia from October to
April. The bill was earnestly opposed
by Mr.. Geo. Schmez. of Hampton. and
others. from that town and tho city ot
Norfolk.
The portrait of the late Colonel John
Bell Bigger, long the clerk OF the House,
which was In the old house, has been
hung upon the walls of the new House
of Delegates.
St. Johns Cemetery Committee.
Tho st. Johns Cemetery Committee hold
a short meeting at the keepers Office In
tho cemetery late yesterday afternoon.
and quickly transacted the usual monty
business. This was merely to pass upon
and order paid tho bills for month.
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