The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-25
MANY DRUNKARDs
IN DRY TERRITORY
Member Of House Says
This Is Usually
the Case.
GOVERNOR WOULD
COLLECT BIG SU M
Urges Investigation of Enormous
Claim Against United States.
Many Bills Pass Legislature.
Consolidation Bill Hearing
Tomorrow Senator
Elected To-Day.

| Governor Swanson asto,ndcd the
Legislature yesterday by special
| message calling attention to prob
ably valid claim which the state has
| against the Federal government, and
| which may bring In not less than 312.-
100000, and perhaps more. Both houses
were very much interested In the prop
osition, and 1000 copies were ordered
printed in the Senate and 500 in the
! House, OF both the message and the
| papers which accompanied It, so that
the members, and the public may be-
come thoroughly conyersant with the
| subject.
The Governor, at the instance of
Superintendent J.. D. Esgleston, Jr..
OF the Department of Public Instruc-
| ton. and OF DR.. Robert B. Fulton, SUI
perintendent OF the Miller School. near
Charlottesville, asked the General AS
sembly to take up certain claims
against the United States, dating back
to the original cession OF the North
west Territory in 1884. AT that time
Virginia. which then had most Of the
territory OF the country by charter
from the British crown. by conquest
and by actual possession, ceded her
vast holdings north of the Ohio River
to the United States.
This land was to be used for public
purposes only. such as the creation OF
new States. large part Of 1t has been
used for other purposes. being made.
to subserve local interests, and it ap-
pears from the minute research which
has been given by DIR. Fulton. at the
| request of Mr.. Eggleston. that Vir-
ginia ought to and can recover large
sum. even it computed only on the basis
I of So an acre. the price at which the
government sold the land. and even IL
no interest at all is considered.
Something In II.
Those who know the Governor do
not believe for q. moment that he
would send such % messase. which
will mean exhaustive reseascl1 on the
part of the Legislature, unless he felt
1t to be worth while. Although he
has not, perhaps. spent the time on
the subject that an attorney in charge
of the case would do, he has undoubt-
raise the highest hopes of final tri-
umph in the matter in the breasts of
the States lawmakers.
In the Senate the message was re-
ferred to the Committee on Public
institutions and Education, while in
the House It went to the Commit
on Courts of Justice.
Many Bills Pass.
The. House cleaned up Its calendar
yesterday within little more than
two hours. Seven bills were passed
on their third and final reading. while
twenty-nine were passed on their sec
ond reading and went to their en-
| grossn Only two bills ready for
their third reading were passed by.
and only nine ready for second read
/ ing went over to another day These
| were at the request, or in the absence.
i of the patrons.
Four bills passed on their third and
three on their second reading in the
Senate. While one was taken up out
of It's order and finally passed. The
latter was the measure allowing the
Washington and Leesburg Turnpike
i Company to occupy an abandoned road.
4 This bill was reported favorably to
the House from the Committee on
l Roads and Internal Navigation. pass-
ing its first reading.
i For the most part the bills passed
were local, and, there being no ob1ec-
\ tion, little debate developed One
measure which went through the
House was that providing sanitary
conditions in factories and work shons
Another made the usual approximation
for the care of cemeteries where sleen
the remains of the dead of the con.
] federacy. Others. while general In
their application, were Of minor I'm.
Il portance.
Elect Senator To-Day.
To-day the two houses, in senar.t
I sessions. will. in accordance with the -
provisions OF the Constitution OF the
United States, proceed to the election
of United States Senator. This work
will be begun at O'clock, and viii
continue until the oratory of the mcm.
bers is exhausted Senator Daniel. the
Democratic nominee. and Coneressma
Campbell Bascom Slemp. the choice of
4 1.-The Republican caucus, will he the
only nominees. Senator Daniel viii
be put in nomination In tho senate
by his old comrades harms, Senator
Edmondson, and ia the House by Tip
Z ton u. Jennings another Confederate
veteran and fellow townsman of vir.
. ginia's senior Senator. A number of
seconding speeches will follow.
i Further complying with the Fedora,
/ Constttution. the two houses viii meet
lin Joint session Tomorrow at noon and
{ proceed to the formal election. Speech-
4 making will be eschewed on this oc.
caslon.
Mr.. Oliver. Of Fairfax, in the House
Il vest erday, had something to saw on
the liquor question. Tho bill to di.
rect the state Board OF Charities to
make Inquiries ana secure statistics
about feeble-minded persons was un-
lder consideration, when " Mr.. II Owe
offered an amendment, extending tbs
res earch to inebrtates. Explainine. !, IL
a amendment the member from Fair.
fax said he lived In a supposedlv drv
community. and, as was always the the
s. case in such localities, there we're q
number Of confirmed drunkards Re.
gardlng these ne desired facts. He
] did not say that ne Intended to have
. vet communities. but the 9mern hers n.rs
. perhaps took It that way, &. Ills ainand.
ment was defeated. ~ y
Among the bills reported to the
! lcontluued on Thlrd PaSe,l n
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