Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-12
IN THE OLD DOMINION
LEGISLATIVE CONTEST OVER RE
DIsTRIcTING THE STATE.
Special Dispatch to The S,

special Dispatch to The Star
RICHMOND. Va, February 1o-The gen
erai assembly is fighting over the bill TO
reoistrict the state for members of Con-
gress. The bill was reported to the senst e
several days ago, and It came up for debate
ana consideration a day or two ago 1t
was what Is known as the Holt-Sale bill
ana was at first meant to apply to only the
hrst' second and third districts but It was
amended SO as to apply to the three dis
tricts named and also to the district which
Is presided over by Represe NATIVE Camp
bell Slemp and the district of Mr.. Garter
Glass
Under the terms of the bill as 1t passed
the senate the districts will hereafter be
composed as follows:
F1rst-The city of Fredericksburg and the
counties of Accomac, Caroline, Essex. Fred
eTichsburg Gloucester. King and Queen
lancaster. Middlesex. Mathews Northum-
periand' northampton. Richmond Spotsyl-
wanna ana Westmoreland, with the follow
ing counties from the present second dis
trlct: Elizabeth City Warwick York and
the city of Newport News
,sS,econd-Norfolk, Portsmouth Isle OF
w ight,Surry, Nansemond, Norfolk County,
Princess Anne and Southampton
Thlrd-Richmond, Manchester, Henrico
Gcochiand, Chesterfield, New Kent, Han
over and King William, and the following
counties from the second district: James
City, Charles City and the town of Will
iamsburg
sex. Dinwiddie. Greenville. Brunswick.
Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Anne
ma, PoWhatan and Prince Edward
Fifth-Danvile, Pittsylvania, Franklin
Henry. Floyd and Patrick.
sixth Lynchburg. Roanoke, Radford,
Montgomery. Bedford. Campbell Roanoke
County,. Charlotte Halifax and the fol-
lowing counties from the ninth district:
x-fh o jey Dbl
SeVenth-Winchester, Charlottesville and
the counties of Frederick Clarke, Warren,
Rappahannock. Madison Greene. Abe
marie. Rockingham Shenandoah and Page
Eighth-Alexandria and the counties OF
Loudoun. Fairfax, Alexandria, Fauquier,
Culpeper, Orange, Louisa. King George
Stafford and Prince William.
Ninth-City of Bristol and the counties OF
Lee, Scott. Wise. Dickinson, Buchanan,
Russell, Washington and Smyth.
Tenth-The cities Of Stanton and Buena
land. Bath, Rockbrdge Amherst, Nelson,
Allegheny, Appomattox, Buckingham, Flu
wanna, Cumberland and Botetourt.
There was hot fight over the PROPOSE
ton to alter the sixth and ninth districts.
Senator Thomas, who represents Represen-
tative Glass district, declared that he saw
no reason for desiring to make the change;
he was not opposed to having the people OF
the counties named made part of the dis
trict, but he did not believe in weakening
the democratic forces of the ninth district
and to allow Representative Slemp 10 have
undiSputed sway over that section of the
state. The amendment to split the ninth
and to increase the size of the sixth district
was carried by a narrow margin of one
vote, while the amended bill was adopted
by vote of "a to - 1t will now go to the
house and will occasion the biggest sort of
a fight.
The present session of the general as
sembly seems to be determined to get some
thing out of the railroads for the benefit of
the state. This is in striking contrast to
what has been the action in the past. y
bill has been introduced in the house and
faverably reportfed providing for rate of
two cents per mile on the roads of the
state, the tickets to be issued 1000 miles
al a time, and all the members of the fam
fly of the purchaser are to be allowed TO
use the ticket at such time as may be
deemed necessary. convenient or desirable.
There is one railroad which is willing to
make the arrangement at this time. the
only condition being that the purchaser
shall agree to have the ticket used exciu-
sively by members Of the family of the prr-
chaser and not. to allow It to go into the
hands of the scalpers. The people all over
the state are flooding their representatives
with letters to vote for tire bill. The rate,
if established, is to hold till the state cor
poration commission shall fix n rate for
the carriers of the commonwealth.
Following The Introduction OF bill by
Senator Mann, the patron of the bill which
bears his name, the senate Is being Hood
ed with petitions from all sections OF the
state to members to vote for the amend
ment proposed by Judge Mann. The bill,
as amended, will require all clubs to get
out regular saloon licenses, to sell to none
but members, and for violations of the law
the officers of the club are to go to jail and
to pay heavy fines. The officers of the dis
tricts in which the clubs are located are to
have supervision of the clubs, and distil-
leries are to come within the purview Of
the law.