Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-22

marked for its bitterness and align
ing of the parties in n way that will
have Il result that will surprise the
voters and the politicians.
Health Laws and the Doctors.
The question of amending the health
laws of the state in many particulars
VIII be presented by the state boaru
OF health. The laws rs now enforced
DO not meet the approval of the auth.
critics and the records are far from
complete. There is no way to get
at the vital statistics in any OF the
counties aud in few of the cities. The
practitioners are the ones most con-
cerned in the move. They will ask
for more money with which to en-
force the laws as regards public
health and vital statistics.
There is report. and 1t seems to
be well founded, that the state board
OF medical examiners, the body which
grants licenses to practitioners in
Virginia, will ask that the laws be
so changed as to require the gradu-
ates to take all the examinations on
the general subject of medicine and
surgery at one time. AS the law
stands at this time, when a student
completes any group of studies he
is allowed to get them or before
the board and is free to pursue his
ether studies without having to keep
ali of the others up. The board il
Is said. will ask that this be abolish
ed and the students be denied the
right to take any examination till
they have completed the course. Ii
is pointed out that in the case OF
graduates in law this rule is applied
Tile full examination at one time.
PareIleling the r. F. G P.
The general assembly will certainly
be asked to repeal the statue which
iorbids the parallelng of the Rich
mond. Fredericksburg e Potomac
railroad. The presentation of the
application for charter for The
Fredericksburg C Southern, and 7.1e
avowaI of the hope to have line
TO compete with the old line between
this city and the North. has begun
The agitation along this line. There
Is Raw which prevents the building
OF line to compete with the t.ch-
mond, Fredericksburg e Potomac so
long as the state has an interest in
that property. The question now is
whether it is not better to give the
people of the. state competition be-
tween this city and the North than
to be within the power OF single
line between this city and the North.
Ii is said that the state would gain
much by selling her stock and re-
During the Richmand, Fredericks-
burg & Potomac to pay taHcs. rs
it would then have the taxes that
would come from that iIiIe and the
competing line and have the assur-
ance that feeders" would be built
to many points which are now WITH
out railroad facilities.
Money for Military.
One of the first bills to be present.
ed will be that to amend the mill
tary laws of the state to conform TO
The provisions of the Dick bill, SO that
the military establishment OF 5iie
state will receive about $4,000
yN"i 1lOli TIC ~ CQCidl
The adjutant general will ask for
an Increase in the fund from the
state from $4,000 TO $4,000, so that
the militia may be brought up to the
very highest standard of efficiency.
Single Book List.
The state board of education, after
striving for long time. has at last
gotten rid of the multiple book list,
and with the beginning of the next
school year there will only be
single book list for the entire state
books used in the counties being
the same as those used in the cities
for the same grades and studies. IIis
means an enormous saving to the
people of the state. The change is
TO be gradual. so that patrons will
n0 be required to buy complete
new set at once. The possibility for
a change from the multiple to the
Single list was only made after a
bitter struggle. when at least two
men who stood for the principle OF
the multiple list were defeated when
their term expired The matter was
an issue in the state two years ago.
alt the candidates at that time ex-
pressing themselves for the single
list. The list to be adopted the COM
ing spring will hold for four years
Getting Feady for Business.
Preparations for the coming of the
members of the general assembly are
proceeding on all sides. Clerk John
w. Williams of Giles, has been here
and has provided all the stationery
and pencils and inks and pens for
the law makers. and the hall of-sne
house Is being given an extra clean