The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

HOUSE HARPOONs
GOVERNORS BILL
Refuses to Engross Agricultural
Board Measure Sponsored by
Judge Mann.
CALM FOLLOWS TEMPEST
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Routine Supplants. State VIDE
Strife-Appropriation Bill to be
Reported Monday.
CALM FOLLOWS TEMPEST

Like q calm following q tempest.
. the Senate was q chamber Of serene
placidity and tranquility Saturday, af-
| ter the storming OF the Statewide
ramparts and antt-State-wtde battle
ments there on the preceding day.
Judge Love led the fight opposing
| the engrossment OF the United Agri-
cultural, Board bill. sponsored by Gov
amor Mann, and introduced by Dele
rate Page and substituted by Delegate
Adams. Judge Love said 1t was theo-
retrical legislation and not practical.
His view was shared oretoricaily by
delegates Deal and Taliaferro. and by
= majority of the delegates who voted.
The House refused to engross the bill.
Kill the Milk Bill.
BY vote OF So to "a the House
modestly declined to get itself all
Btirred up and riled over the Throck-
morton milk bill. notwithstanding the
pleasing invitation OF the patron OF
fhe measure for the delegates to en-
Rage him In strong strife.
The lower house adopted resolu-
Hon early IN the day prohibiting the
baking up OF any Senate bills. All
of the upper houses measures We're
passed by with hearty nonchalance.
The Senate passed Senator King
bnl providing for an appropriation
~ $4,000, with which to purchase a
Replica of the Houdon statue of WASH
ngton In the Capitol and appoint
ment of a commission to go TO Paris
md present the plaster likeness to the
French Republic.
senators Strobe and Gayle locked
horns on the bill providing that Buck
nrham county be taken out or Judge
Eordon's circuit and put in Judge
Hundley's, thus giving the former
pnly three counties and the latter
TX. The bill was passed.
Pass Annexation Bill.
One dissenting vote against the Har-
man Folkes bill providing for the con-
yrr,aidatton of Richmond and Manches-
az IT was cast by Senator Rison,
VINO offered no explanation for his OPP
nosifion. Twenty-nine Senators voted
FOR the bill.
The Senate passed the bill giving
county and city officials authority TO
rnndeu1n old graveyards, and dispose
BIZ the bones of those who have cross
ed the river Styx.
Three mineFEAfeHaa= oi.is- =esttii tatft=
Ing the Senate Finance Comuittee :
brcxram for meeting the deficit which
~ state faces, were passed, and their
hassaga was communicated TO the
House.
The pure lime bill. and measures
brnytdIng for Incorporating the t"wf'
n Stuart, in Patrick county. ana
rrantlng covingten a new charteE'
$50 were passed by the Senate:
Appointments Confirmed.
an motion OF Senator Eeheis. the
karata went Into executive session 10
onf.rm the new boards of directors
isisors and trustees Of the InSefs' J.
4 virginia. Industrial SchooI al
sreaericksburg and the State Peniten,
,.~ys James poherty was confirmed
: Commissioner OF Labor: and George
1anny q ga member Of the Board oil
Corrections and Charities.
o-,sa saturday, as promised by Sen
'tsr Keoxeli, The Senator from Rock
.cham would have been IN positioh
o report the bill had he eeeh a, ~
\ work on 1t all day tIlaas' h'
,sI win be reported Monday.