Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-01-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


Good roads are expected to demand a
big slice of the estimated pile of 500, :
600 in the States strong box.
In the election and drawing for Corr
poraticn judges ex-Judge Jno. T. Cool
rick was chosen for Fredericksburg,
and he drew long term, eight years.
Gov. Montague sent to the Legisla-
ture the name of Hon. Joseph E. Will
lard as corporation commissioner, reap
pointed for the term of six years from
February l, 1906, and he was confirmed
without dissenting voice. The new
governor, Swanson, will have the APP
pomtment of the remaining two mem
bers, one two years hence and the other
just before retiring from office four
years hence.
Among the committee assignments
were the following:
Senator Walker, chairman Fish and
Game; on Privileges and Elections.
Counties, Cities and Towns, Library and
Joint Legislation.
Mr.. Curlett, on Schools and Colleges,
Enrolled Bills and Chesapeake and its
| tributaries.
Mr.. Mason, on Courts of Justice,
Capitol Offices, etc, Chesapeake and its
tributaries.
Mr.. Lane, on Claims, Library, and
Chesapeake and its tributaries.
SOME BILLS INTRODUCED.
A bill excluding visitors from the floor
of the House, which was adopted.
To amend and re-enact Section So of
the Code of Virginia, so as to provide a
reapportionment of the members of the
House of Delegates.
To require all criminals sentenced to
death to be executed at the State peni-
Tertiary.
Authorizing bonded indebtedness,
Tor the purpose of improving public
roads, and to establish State highway
commission
To prohibit the game of football in
the State of Virginia.
To require the closing of all places for
the sale of spirituous liquor between
the hours of IL o'clock at night and 5
O'Clock in the morning.
To prevent fire insurance companies
doing business in this State, or their
agents, from entering into combinations
for the purpose of making or controll-
ing rates of fire insurance, and to create
board of insurance.
By Mr.. Curlett-A bill making all
larcency committed between sunset and
sunrise grand larceny, and punished as
such.
To create board of tax equalization.
Tomcrease the compensation for COM
monwealth's attorneys.
To make more efficient the public
school system.
To legalize party primaries.
To provide for the appointment of
commissioners of revenue by the courts.
To break the Baylor oyster survey.
To inaugurate the Torrens system of
land registration.
To redistrict the state into congress
sional districts.
To increase the appropriation for Con-
federate pensions.
BY Judge Taliaferro: To protect the
fishing interests in the waters of Chesa-
peake bay and it's tributaries.
BY Messrs. j. M. Lewis and John
Curlett: To prevent the evil of minor
under l6 years of age using tobacco and
having certain deadly weapons.
XIV .IObD Crrrlott.
laws; abolishing office of inspector of
schools; increasing allowance of travel
ing expenses of State superintendent;
salary of division superintendent and
duties; pay of district school trustees.
BY Judge Sims: Joint resolution for
submitting to vote of the people
constitutional amendment to abolish the
constitutional of prepayment of capita
ton tax as prerequisite to right to vote.
BY Mr.. Spessard: Resolved, By
the General Assembly of Virginia, that
the appointment of FIVE district school
supervisors by the State Board of Edu-
cation is unnecessary, entailing as it
does useless expenditure of about ten
thousand dollars oslo, O0O per year of
the school funds of the State; and that
the efficiency of the public schools has
not been promoted thereby
Senator Camm Patteson, of Bucking-
ham, has prepared an amendment to
the Constitution, which provides for
separation of the taxes paid for public
schools by negroes and whites, and the
payment of such taxes, for the support
of public schools in proportion to the
payment made by whites and blacks.
He says this will give all white schools
full term of nine months, and the
negro school from two to four months
with an increase of so per cent in paw
OF white teachers without an increase of |
taxation.
HOT FIGHT OVER JUDGESHIP.
The first real fighting of the new
Legislature came in the Democratic |
joint caucus Friday night, and it was
hot from start to finish.
The five judges of the Court of Ap-
peals were reelected together, and by
Several of the other contests were
warm, but that over the judgeship in
the Thirteenth Circuit reached a boiling
point more than once. Judge G. Taylor
Garrett, of the Thirteenth, was defeat
ed two to one by Claggett B. Jones, the
vote being. Garnett o. Ionas IA