Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-24
The Legislature.
SENATE.

| SENATE
The finance committee compromised
on the bill providing increased s,lsries
for the judges and made its report. ln'
stead of 8 81, 900 increase, $500 ws'
sgresd upon.
Senator Sale presented bill to amend
the constitution to allow citizens OF the
state to adopt the commission form o.
government.
TIE matter of the states claim ss tc
the Mount Vernon Ayeuu. Associstion,
when 1t came up on its third reading,
Wss recommitted.
All nominations OF the governor ex'
cepting those IS to school superintendent
we're confirmed by the Senate commit
Tee on nominations.
Prevention of Illegal combinations II
,ht 10 O bill offered By Senator
STROLLER, by request. Its object Is tc
prohibit merchants, groce:s and Others
from combining to raise prices. Parsons
combining to ,such purposes or aiding
such q purpose are guilty OF misds'
meanor. Illegal contracts, trosts, mo-
nopolIes, aud conspIrscIes 10 restraint oil
trade axe all punished. The common
wealth has no statute covering such
cases.
The various committees reported fs'
vorsbly on the following bills: To pro-
vide bureau OF vital statistics; relative
to the taxation of telegraph sDd tele'
phone componies; prohibiting discrimi-
nation between back sud hotel CON-
psnies by railroads; permitting single
comfy constituting an entire judicial
circuit to iuc,ease the salary of the
Judge; allowing persons duy qualified TO
practice dentistry before 1902 to practices
now; allowing counties to issue bonds
for bridge and road Improvements; to
/ create a perpetual fund for road improve
meet; with reference 10 raising liquor
licenses; providing an increase IL The
salary of judges; preventing trespass on
railroads; relative to fees for commits
siouers Of revenue; regusrdiug the regu'
latlou aod sale Of poultry food.
Senator Strobe offered resolution
that the State Corporation Commission
furnish The assembly statement OF the
tsxes which would 90 10 each county II
he rolling stock OF the state we're taxed
in proportion to the couoties through
which it went. The resolution was
adopted,
a bill was introduced by Mr.. Thorn
| ton 10 amend and re enact an act, ap-
proved March 80, 1875, entitled an act
10 incorporate the toSn OF Falls Church,
10 the county OF Fairfax.
Favorable Committee reports have been
received on Senator Hollands bill In
reference to changes in the issue OF
water bonds, aud on Senator Ovens
bill to provide for the regulation and
inspection of sdnltersted stock feeds; on
Senator Lincoln's bill iE regard 10
minor changes In the act regarding COM
missioners of revenue.
A bill has been introduced TO amend
40 act to make railroad companies liable
for damsge from FIRE occasioned By
sparks or Goals thrown from their en-.
gines or trains, whether such fire origi.
pate on the railroads right of way or
not, and regardless Of the use or condI.
lion of spark srresting appliances, az.
proved March 19, 1908.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Page, OF HsnoVSr, called the a.
tentiou OF the House to the fact that
Mr.. james 4. OstoD, OF AlexandriS, for
years q member OF the body and the
hoor leader at the last session, was In
the chamber and occupying his old seat
Mr.. OAton wss warmly cheered.
The House voted to increase by eight
the number oil colonies on the govern
nor's staff. The House took the whole
proposition as a huge joke, and, after sat-
isfyipg Itself that there vas 10 be DO ad-
diiioDal cost upon any state fund, showed
disposition to give the governor elect
ss many aides as he wished, II 1t would
make anybody hsppler 10 fact, one
member proposed to give him colonel
for every county AID city In the state.
This would have made solid phalanx
Of 100 colonels.
Two good roads mea,ures we're intro.
duced One covers The plan ofthe Virginia
Good Roads Association 10 setting apart
one-hslf OF the states annual receipts
from the llc:nSe taxes on seam rail.
roads, electric railr Dads aud canals for
state cash aid to road building. But 1t
goes further ard declares that, inasmucb
as this will not be available until 1911,
the sum of $3.50 600 shall be sppioprl'
ated az once ioT this purpose 10 1910. The
other measure levies tpscisl additional
tex on real estate, persoDsl property AID
chooses In action OF cents on the $l0O
Of Ass std valuation, to be used as slate
money sid for the construction and I'M
provement OF public roads and bridges.
n!s fund Is to be kept separate from
olher state fnnds.
A bill wss psssed providing that all
public buildings more than two stories
10 height above the ground shall be pro-
vided with suitable fire escapes. The
existing Law says three stories, and some
question has arisen as to whether one
story undergo u I'd csn be credited.
Bills we're fsssed imposing 8 heavy
penalty on persons using abusive lao
gusge. Providing for the care OF chill
drenJ for the III }ervlsion Of lying In
hospitals; for the consolidation OF cities;
aud permitting ths clerks OF ctu IS In
certsln counties and cities to COLLECT
transfer fees for commissioners Of the
revenue,
Bills we're Introduced to suthoriE' the
Board Of Supervisors Of each county in
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