The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-07


sums for furniture and for the regilding
OF pictures were passed under a suspen-
sion of the rules, and the supplemental
bill was then taken UP. a
supplementary of the bill, as it came from
the House. with the Senate changes
follows:
jamestown Expostion-s3o,0o for
military display and public State en-
tertainments. Unchanged by Senate
committee.
Jamestown Expositon-sI0.0o 900 for
State building and exhibits. Senate
amendments change number on state
Exposition Commission from five to
seven and provide that $4,000 of this
fund shall be given to the Associa-
ton for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities for improvements on
Jamestown Island. =
Improvement OF Capitol grounds
etc, $4,000; unchanged.
Agricultural exhibit in Capitol
10000: unchanged.
University of Eirginia-ss5,ooo for
improvements; unchanged.
Virginia Military Institute-sSo,-
600 for improvements: unchanged.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute-s6o,-
600 for various special purposes; un-
changed.
William ana N16TS 1putSe~SiD,VvV
for improvements: unchanged.
State Library-s7.5oo for travelling
libraries: UNCHANGED.
Western State Hospital-s25,o 600 for
epileptic colony: unchanged.
Board of Fisheries-s20.o0 900 for oys-
ter police boat. Entire appropria-
ton strickent ont by Senate conf
mittee.
Virginia Normal and Industrial In
stitute-s5. 600 for repairs; unchanged.
Negro Reformatory Association
$500 for improvements: unchanged.
Supreme Court-new section added
to bill by Senate committee allows
$3.50 for Court of Appeals library.
The Danger Point.
An independent amendment proposed
by MIR Sadler. of Powhatan, to increas
the appropriation to the virginia Norma
and Industrial institute from 5000 a
allowed in tho bill to $1,000, was adopted
The school is colored institution whic
fact apparently did not add to the en-
thusiasm with which. its claims wer
considered.
Both Mr.. Sadler and Mr.. Lass!ter, o
Petersburg, made hard fight for tn
additional sum declaring that the build
the State, which owns them Wee golni
to waste and that the conditions II. III
SCHOOL were pitifully cramred an,
poverty In face OF chs apposi
ton of many OF the financial leaders. tn
two senators won out and got the money
Tie vote was 16 to IA on the roll call
The change was made the occasion
~ Mr.. Wickham, of Hanover. chairman
NJ lilo ETipapra. Copoypitton
mint to the Senate of the condition %
the State treasury. The general appro
pr'aion bill he showed carried an arpro
priation of about $4,000; the supple
mentary appropriation bill nearly $4,000
and the various special appropriation bill
an aggregate of considerably over 10000
The grand total of appropriation for Il,
next twp years exceeded the entire est
mate of the auditor and created an an
parent deficit of over S2S5,OO0.
we have cut a sluice beneath Tn
mll-pond.' declared Mr.. Wickham. IAN
II Is for that reason ] warned the Sen
ate few days ago that the danger poin
has been reached. Every cent we ad
10 this amount now means just that muc
oil an Increase in the deficit. I think
is perhaps safe to go ms far asSwc hav
Done for there Will be large increase
curing the coming two years In the reve
nues from railroads and from You
licenses But we must ln very caref,
Tor we can never tell what the next da
WI bring forth. a great coal strike
now threatened, might destroy or serious
~ AFFECT the unexampled prosperity q
the past year in all branches OF trad
and particularly the ,piirnptis ti,n ,,r,s
revenues have been very greatly in
creased, We can never count with al
solute certainty upon the future. N tb
Judgment of our Finance Committee "