Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
HIGH CRIMINAL TOLL
Virginia Spends $403, 201.79
for That Account.
STATE REPORT FIGURES
No Liquor License Revenue From
Sixty-Three Counties.
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT
Temperance Forces to Push State
Wide rohibition-Gossip
Over Appointments.
ROADS MOVEMENT
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va December IL, 1909.
This year Virginia spent S403, 2o1. 70 for
criminal expenses Of all kinds. This Is
larger than last year. showing that. the
charges for criminals is each year
growing heavier. Some interesting facts
are gathered from THE report OF the state
auditor lust issued from that depart
ment. New Kent county expended for
criminal expenses OF all sorts just
SaO935, and in Norfolk county the same
item calls for so1, 1903. TO- There are sew
eral of the counties in the state which
received more from the state treasury
than the total taxes paid by the counties
to the state. All tile cities paid money
into the state treasury in excess of en-
penditures on account of the criminal
charges Strange as it may seem, the
records show that the city of Norfolk.
with approximately t@o-thirds of the
population of the city of Richmond, spent
81, coo more than this city for the arrest,
trial and keep of criminals.
There are fourteen dispensaries in Vir-
ginia, and part of the revenues thus de-
rived are covered into the state treasury
in lieu of license taxes for the sale OF
liquor. In several instances the receipts
by the state are not nearly SO great as
ever. the state receives $1S,0t513. The
dispelsary at .Abindgon does the biggest
business of all the places at which LIQUOR
is sold under the South Carolina plan.
The revenues to the state from that place
were S4,37S1S. But this will be greatly
reduced another year, the city of Bristol
having re, urned to the open saloon after
dry spell Of more than two years.
Prior to that time Abingdon had to sup
ply all the section of the state west OF
Roanoke and great part of the state OF
Tennessee.
The state received for liquor licenses
during the year. $685.. 9O4.5 from the
counties and cities. The report shows
that there are sixty-tl1ree counties in
which there are no liquors sold or manu-
featured under the sanction OF the law.
1t also shows that there are nine cities
which do not recognize the handling or
sale of liquor in any form.
During the year ended September 30
1905 the state paid pensions to the Con-
federate veterans and their dependents
amounting to 32.O85.O9. This amount
the state. Alexandria county getting the
smallest sum of any county or city, $4S
Franklin county is largest pensioner. re-
ceiving $16.937.50 with Pittsylvania, Bed
ford, Carroll and Halifax following IN
the order named. The number of pension
ers is changing rapidly, and as fast as
one is added there are some three or more
deaths.
From the report it is ascertained that
the total value OF real estate owned by
white people in Virginia Is 1914, 335, 479.
the total acreage being 23379.82O The
acreage owned by the negroes is 1,517, $40,
the value Of the lands and buildings
thereon being fixed at SIS. 1855 In the
counties of Buchanan and Dickinson
there, is not a negro voter or owner of
property of any sort. The total value OF
all lands town lots and buildings owned
by white and colored is $394.424,c56
Building Good Roads.
The movement for good roads is taking
definite shape. and while the expenditures
by the state for this purpose have been
during the last year only> $66, 3SSOS, this
does not represent more than one-fourth
of the actual work that has been done.
The sum named is that provided by the
state in aid of the development of per-
manent roads in the several counties,
which contribute the same amount as
that given by the state. Then there are
the convict road forces. and TINS one
branch of the improvement Is some foul
times greater than that represented by
direct expenditures. The counties which
have engaged in the road Improvement
as represented In the expenditure of the
$66,3S do not employ the convict forces,
the law providing that counties which
avail themselves of the convict forces
shall not participate in the division OF
the funds from the state treasury. The
convicts are furnished by the state to
the counties. the latter guarding and
feeding the men while they are building
the roads.
The temperance forces are to make a
stand for statewide prohibition during the
next year. They are to open the battle
soon after the general assembly convenes
by presenting petitions asking that the
law be passed allowing a vote on the
subject. Such is the declaration of the
Rev. J. d. McAlIister, the secretary of the
Anti-Saloon League. He declares that the
agitation is already under way, that the
temperance people are determined to take
advantage of the conditions. He also
says that the liquor people are planning
and scheming to pad the poll lists of the
state by having every i.ogrO that can be
induced to do so enter his name and pay
his taxes to qualify him to vote. He
charges that in Roanoke and Harrison
burg the liquor men have conducted
schools for the instruction of the negroes
as to answering the questions that shall
be propounded wlen they offer for regis
tration. Roanoke and Harrisonburg. he
says. have had these schools, and the
results are to him plain by the recent
vote cast in those two places. Detectives
in the employ of the league got into the
schools and got the information on which
he bases his statements. He expresses
the belief that the negro will be far
more dangerous in such contest than he
has been in the past, when it was the
intention of keeping the negro out of
politics except when they were and are
qualified for the exercise Of citizenship
The league meets here January 49, and
the notices for the meeting lay stress on
the fact that the general assembly will
be in session and you (the deIegates)
will have a chance to look in on your
delegate and senator and see them at
work..
Judge Williams Silent.