The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-05

| Sessions OF
FOLLOWING the discussion OF the site
.or temporary post-otice for Rich
iilolid IN corner of the Capitol Square,
aep s,r elsWhsre, the House took up
| d Dill TO regulate the employment OF
children IN factories, which had been
returned from the Senate with certain
amendments, adding to factories and
WORKSHOPS the words mercantile es-
adjustments" The bill was advocated
as amended by Mr.. Eugene c. Massie
and Mr.. Goolrick, of F'redericksbtirg
! Mr. Craig objected to the bill. asking
that II be passed by. Mr.. Massie ar
sued against delay saying that coun-
Jury stores and workshops were not ar
! fected. since the bill applied only to
cities and towns OF 1000 or over The
| House refused TO pass the measure by.
/ The Senate amendments were adopted,
/ and the bill passed as amended
| Senator Mann notified the House that
| the Senate had agreed with the House
resolution accepting the report OF the
House Committee for Courts of Justice
on the charges against Judg j. w. G.
Blackstone, which commits the Legis-
The Senate has not yet acted on the
House resolution looking to an extern
sion and as to the methods of pro-
cedure in trying Judge Blackstone
| All eSteHueu ulSCuSSlOu IOIlO"eu Tile
call for Senate bill No. $50, in relation
to the duties of the State Board Of
| Education and of division superintend-
ents of schools, to the composition of
school divisions and the salaries of
division superintandents. On the roll
call the bill received forty-hve ayes
| to thirty seven noes. and was declared
| lost. not receiving tho constitutional
majority of the House. motion to
| reconsider was made and passed by
TO Notify Judge Blnckstone.
Mr.. Hill Montague. of Richmond, in
! troduced resolution directing the
4 sergeant-at- OF the House to notify
Judge Blackstone of the charges
against him and of the intention of the
| Legislature TO proceed to trial at
| the end of the constitutional time,
| when Judge Blackstone will be given
an opportunity to show cause why
/ he should not be removed from office.
| The resolution was passed, and later
lin the afternoon, when the Senate
agreed. Sergeant-at-Arms j. NJ. John
son. of the House. and f. B: Watkins,
of the Senate, visited Judge Blackstone
at his rooms at the Richmond Hotel.
where he is confined by an attack OF
! grip. and served the notice of the
charges and cited him to appear on the
| date specified to show cause why ne
| should not be removed.
| Physicians Must Pay Licenses.
\ The House took up the Senate meas
ure designed to exempt physicians
| from the payment of license fees, and
/ one of the stormiest debates of the
| session ensued, the measure finally be-
1 ing defeated The proposition was
! discussed by DR.. S. II. Love, of Lunen-
burg, as practicing physician VINO
I thought his fraternity should continue
/ to pay their licenses. saying that there
/ was no profession in the State SO Wen
! paid or more able to contribute to the
/ support of the Commonwealth. MI. w.
NV Old. of Norfolk. opposed the meas
ure. saving that his feelings were with
| the doctors, but his convictions were
against them. Mr. A. NJ Bowman OPP
posed the bill, saying that 1T had not
| been fought in a legitimate way, the
1 lature having been blacklisted in the
| .Medical Legislator" medical PUBL
cation which favored the bill.
Mr.. Bowman saw no reason why the
tax should be kept on lawyers ana
other professions. while the doctors
were exempt, and also charged that
unfair methods of lobbying had been
employed b. the doctors who favored
the exemption The bill takes $4,000
or more from the State Treasury an n
| nually. tax, he said. which the State
could not stand at the present time.
Mr.. Taliaferro. of orange. who IS
chairman of the Finance Commute, u g,
members by lobbying such as he had
never known, preventing the memo .,l
i from considering the merits of the
case, if it had any merits Narrower,
Mr. Taliaferro contended that the ex
4 emption was an unconstitutional piece
of class legislation. The doctors
favoring the measure were referred 70
| as the medical trust" and their METH
ads of lobbying by "browbeating and
blackusting" were roundly condemn
ed. oharging. that those members who
had pledged their support to the
measure were transferring the eN-.
penses of conducting their political
campaigns directly to the treasury of
4 the State of Virginia.
ME-. Evans for the Doctors
Mr.. Evane, of MiddleseX. argued in
favor of renting tile tax, telling of
the charity work and the good done
every physician Mr.. Massie, of Rich
|mond, asked whether 1t was true that
those in the last House, who voted
against the measure had been black
no fear of such measure, and that he
considered the exemption just and
4 equitable.
MI. Craig. of Rockbridge. supported
the exemption. and was followed on
the same side by Colonel Thomas S,
West. of Bedford, both speakers pay
ing tribute to the physicians. and
denying that they We're pledged, or
their votes.
Mr.. Massie opposed the exemption
He said that the methods pursued b.,
were discreditable to any body of men,
As to the plea of the amount of char
ity practI:sd BY the doctors. Mr.. Mas
4 sic said there was no profession or
class OF men in this community who
/ did not do all In their power for char
aIity.
The methods of doctors in "hound-
ing reputable citizens" who We're not
of their school of medicine We're de-
scribed, the speaker claiming that ply
sicians We're no better than other
classes of citizens, and that II it had
not been for the lobby the measure
would have been unanimously voted
down. Mr. Massie, said there We're some
$50 classes who paid license in Vir-
ginia, "includng stations, jackasses
i and hobbyhorse machines" and he saw
no reason for the exemption of doctors
Denies Lobbying Charge.
DR.: Powell. of Brunswick, patron OF
the bill, said he had paid the license
tax of the State for fifty years, and
that il he had not believed it to be, d