Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-03-14
General Assembly Practically
Ready TO Adjourn on Con
Etitutional Date
EXCEPT FoR BLACKSTONE
Members Hold Over Five Days 20
Add Finishing Touches-WM
Return on oath 20 Dispose
Of Aecomac JudgsShip.
RrcHMoND. vA--sp.elsl.

I've work untu March i2th. pursuant
20 the joint resolution extending the
lession. 10 has been agreed mat no
original bills are 90 BE- considered IN
either house. and only those mat
have been fsvorably acted on iR one
branch and referred 90 me other Cor
concurrence viii Do taken Up me
calendars % both houses are stiA
but the bills now remain
Ing % be considsred are largely of
local interest Il
The session has been an extremely
busy one The legislature lost no
time when 90 assem- hled aa January Il
Sth in getting down % work. ana /
has kept a. 80. hammer and tong,. tor
every moment since. Possibly a.
many as seventeen hundred billa Aave
been introduced IN the two houses.
have been referred 20 com nittees ana
given confederation. The work 81 isE-
islators in sitting out these measures
the calendars hiss been terrible but
erectlve 10 can % fairly stated that
Few bills or genera interest nave
lacked discussion, and few Or Een-
era welfare have failed OF passage.
Investigations.
The investigation OF N. htness 81
Judge Rhea 10 be a member 81 me +
Corporation Com ission. and me .
time consumed in discussing the re-
ports ~ the rnvestiEnung Committee
as SO me FNI.ANN NlIIN'NA NNf'NN'H.''r
tv che presentation 90 charges against .
Judge Hlacksrons. seriously interrupt .
cd The program OF legislative Work.
but were disposed ~ in due course
such legislative invest cations can
hardly be said 90 have been in con-
f temptation hv the framer- on the Conc
stItutInn when tnc sessions of the 9en-
eral Assembly we're limited % sixty
DAYS There may De macy Ieg.s'a-
/ lures before a similar condition may
larIre ar least BE- ls not reasonable %
presume chat each Assoc bIy VIII Do
called upon 20 inquire into Che char
arfer and fitness % the virginia jn-
.dIcary. or of any other or the state
o1cla.s
Through with It's Work.
70 has been persisfcntiv suggested.
ever since the Constitution was adopt
ed that the sessions should be eN-
tended 20 ninety days. A Joint reso-
Hutton has been adopted 90 aunmif the
Iqlcation 80 the voters ~ me state
A glance over the calendars az this
time would hardly Justify me con-
ciusion that the General Assem- o. y
needed an additional thirty days 90
complete - labors. In fact. It's work
except FOR a Few finishing touches and
the deposition Of the blackstone case
may now De said % be an in-
Here are some or the principa
measures OF general interest tnat have
been passed hy both houses and sent
up 20 the Governor FOR signature
! To conform the state militia 90 pro-
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Appropr.aung s1e5.00o annually q.
che sinking Fund 20 pay The state
debt
Iassiter- yvithers Bill 90 sentence
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