Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
D0|NCS IN. VIRGINIA
Legislature to Consider Age
Retirement of Judiciary.
PROPOSITION IN FAVOR
Congressional Candidates Receive
Refund of Entrance Fee.
NEXT ADJUTANT GENERAL
Four Candidates in Field-Negro,
Annoying White Girls, Sc
verely Punished.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Nd., november l9nS.
/ The next general assembly. which con-
venes here January To- will be called on
to make provision for the retirement Of
! members Of the judiciary on reaching the
age of three-sc0re and ten
/ The scheme Is take care of old Judges
after they are too feeble to discharge
their bench duties.
4 A man who has served in the general
| assembly for years saws the matter has
| been discussed among the members of
| the general assembly and that it finds
/ favor.
/ The proposition mapped out Is to make
| retirement optional. The judges. in or
| der to come within the purview of the
| law. will have to serve at least ten
/ years on the bench, and then they are
| to have the right to retire when they
| shall have reached the age of seventy
years.
The bill is to provide for full pay for
! them when they snail leave the bench.
After the law shall have been in opera
! ton for ten years or more the idea is to
make it apply after a term of not less
| than twenty years
The plan is similar to that provided
| for members of the federal judiciary.
| which permits the retirement of judges
| after service of twenty years with full
pay. There are at this time only about
| ten judges who would come within the
provisions of the measure. but there are
| on the bench today several judges who.
when they shall have completed the terms
! for which they were elected, will be
eligible for retirement.
Reduced Entrance Fee.
The district committee of the fourth
| district, in which election has been
| ordered for the purpose of filling the
vacancy In Congress due to the death
of Maj. Francis Rives Lassiter. has
duced the entrance fee to $3.50.
| The time for filing notice of candidacy
expired n day or two ago. Entrance of
| four candidates permitted reduction of
the assessment. They returned to each o.
| the candidates $50.
Blu. in that time the barrier had done
! its work. The field was restricted 10
| four. when there had been q dozen or
more other men mentioned. The pro-
i hibitivc fee of $500 deferred them, when
| they knew that following the payment
of that sum they would be called on to
eXpend four times that in the campaign
The four candidates in the contest are
! Robert Turnbull of Brunswick. w. j..
| Cooke of Sussex. State Senator Charles
| T. Lassiter of Petersburg. a brother of
| the former representative. and Judge Asa
| D. Watkins of Prince Edward. All are
| well known and have a strong follow
| ing
Chairman Slenp of the republican state
committee announces that his party will
| place a man in the race for the vacant
| seat declaring the party will seek to
| gain another member from Virginia by an
active and vigorous campaign. There Is
about one chance in a hundred to elect
| a republican in that district, as the dem
| ocrats have a normal majority OF some
| 5000. For the last three or four cleo
| tons they have not even put UP candi-
date to oppose the democrat.
Who Will Be Adjutant Generale
Gov Mann will have to name a new
adjutant general when he takes Office.
Already there is much speculation to
who will get that post. Four candidates
are already mentioned, and there may be
others.
Gen. Charles j. Anderson. the incum-
bent. is an aspirant. Then there Col.
Thomas ]. Nottingham of Norfolk, Col.
Granville Gaines of Fauquier and Col.
Robert E. Craighill of Lynchburg
Col. Craighill is thought the most likely
candidate. He Is a young man and has
been identified with the military since
he was twelve years old. He is an en-
| thusiast and is said to be capable sol
der.
Col CraighiIl served in the Spanish
war. He ranks with the best informed
officers In the state.
Negroes Punishment Severe
George Bell, a young negro who has
800 and sent to Jail for a year. One of
the lpafing and vicious class, he has per-
sisted in annoying white girls returning
from labor.
He approached two girls night or two
ago and grossly insulted them. They
reported 1t to men in a store. Policemen
were called and the negro arrested.
Bell denied the charge, but the identi
cation was complete. His record served
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The offense incensed the people of the
city. His arrest saved him from the
popular wrath.
Paying Poll Tax.
Whether the unusually heavy payment
Of poll taxes at this time means that a
fight is impending the liquor issue is
not known.
Voters are paying up more generally
| than ever before. There were in this city
| last year some 1900 who failed to exer-
else the right OF suffrage or to quality
by payment Of taxes
Included in the elections of next year
| there will be the selection of city officers
| in many cities of the state, members of
Congress in all districts and the posi-
| bility of more local option elections and
| the remote proba bility of d statewide
prohibition contest
The taxes will have to be paid by the
voters themselves out of their own funds
|
| Der
| 1t is believed that the vote for repre-
! sentatives next year will be larger than
| for years, due to the fact that the voters
are gradually getting used to paying their
| taxes. The poll taxes go to the school
/ funds for the payment of teachers i'm the
| public free schools.
japanese Not White or Black.
| Newyo Basshe, former steward in the
F.! United States Navy wants to become a
citizen OF the United States Judge Ed
| mund Waddill of the United States dis
trict court has denied his right to citizen
| ship. holding that he is neither white
nor black
I Basshe has appealed from the decision
| of Judge Waddil The case is now in
| the United States circuit court of an
! pea!s, Basshe standing on his rights and
| demanding that he be given his natu
| raliZation papers
| The man has fine record for his work
| III the navy.
Clear Water for Richmond.
I After wrestling with the water problem
| for more than half century, extending
many thousands of dollars, many scan
dals and Investigations growing out of
thee matter. there is chance that with
| the beginning of the new year Richmond
| will have drinkabe water.
/ The building of a settling basin, the
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