The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-20
TO
GET NEW SCHOOL
After Fight Lasting Entire Day
Senator from Rockingham Laid
His Opponents Low.
MEMBERS IN HEATED DEBATE
Keezell and Noel in Senate
M5ssie and Stubbs in House,
Slap at Each Other.
BY LEWIS H. MAcHEN.

~ He features of the day in tie
Legislature were the passage of
the child labor bill in the House
In such congloremate form
that no person living can tell just
what change it will make in the pres
ent law. and the debate in the Senate
over the establishment OF new fe-
male normal school.
This normal school debate was be-
gun at the morning session, and was
continued at the night session. The
Committee on Public Institutions hal
reported In favor of Harrisonburg as
the proper location for the new school,
but when the matter came to be dis
cussed many were amendments offered
with a view to obtaining the school
for other points. One by one they went
down in defeat. Senator keezell, him
self former chairman of the Com
mttee on Public Institutions, was
able to secure the approval by that
committee of the Harrisonburg site,
result was that he occupied the citadel.
and other Senator'S who wished to
have the school located at other
points. We're compelled to offer their
proposals in the shape of amend
ments to the bill. to which all the
friends of Harrisonburg We're opposed,
and to which also the advocates Of
the cities not voted upon were op-
posed. AS a consequence, these several
| amendments We're killed one by one,
and finally the original bill passed,
The Senator From Rocl<ln CHAM.
The Senator from Rockingham loom
ed high in the debate, in every sense
OF the word. Earnest and forceful, he
was at times somewhat personal, and
once or twice 1t looked as though the
Importance of the question under dis
cussion was nearly overshadowed by
the personal considerations involved
An effort was made to pass the mat
ter by, but the Senator from Rocking
ham made vigorous and somewhat
lengthy protest. Before he had con-
cluded. Senator Noel made the point of
order that on a motion to pass by, the
Senator from Rockingham could not
speak longer than two minutes. Senator
Keezell replied that he was speaking
to motion to pass by for definite
period, which was fully debatable and
that he thought the point OF order
came with bad grace from the Senator
| from Lee, who, as leader OF this minor
| ity, had esjoyed privileges upon the
floor not allowed to other members.
To this Senator Noel responded hot
lily that he had enjoyed no unusual
privileges, and that such statement
did not come with extraordinary grace
from the Senator from Rockingham
who, as he was informed, had drawn
a salary as Senator and at the same
time a salary as member of the
Constitutional Convention and as a
member of the Board of Fisheries
Senator Ieezell denied that he had
at any time drawn salary as mem.
ber of the Board Of Fisheries, but had
received only such amounts, In the
nature Of expenses, as the General
Assembly had chosen to appropriate
The manner and tones Of the twt
Senator's was anything but concilia'
tory, and for time 1t was uncer.
tain just what kind of explosion would
occur. The Senator from the great
county OF Rockingham delivered an
other blow at those who he said, were
lighting his bill under cover, This
! brought forth protest and disclaimer
from the Senator from Roanoke, who
took the remark as referring to him
self.
Laid Them All Low.
| BY the evening session, however
these acerbities had been ysugaret
over, or at least modified. Senator
Keezell was as aggressive as ever ane
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