Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-01
The Legislature.
SENATE

SENATE
The j)int resolution proposing an
amendment to tie constitution which
will 10 future Yeas allow cit es to Rdop:
q commission form OF government wa
sgreed to by the Senate yesterday. The
House had previously adopted the res
olutlop.
The following bills were a'so pissed:
Tne bill SIN 81 ding the act providing q
license on moving picture shows; tbs
bill, providing that certain federal ofic;
holders may hod municipal Offices also;
the bill. e9uirirg the providing OF seats
for femsle employees; the bill, relative to
the re.eutering CT assessed lands.
HOUSE.
The Byrd liquor bill passed the House
yesterday by vote OF 81 10 1S. This
bill Is q local option measure, purs and
simple. 1t 10 designed to strengthen the
existing Byrd liquor law, and Its princi-
pal feature IL the elimination from the
stat, OF the sale of linear beer" Licenses
of all kinds are greatly increased, being
doubled Ia most instances. The aver
age Is more than doubled.
Efforts we're made In behalf of towns
In which liquor may be sold but they
we're unsvsiling. In the present bill 70
town which has fewer than 500 people
can grant license. There we're amend
meut, to reduce this to 800, but without
result. One amendment sought to ir-
crease 1t to l, 900, but this received very
few votes. An important amendment,
however, was that 6ning minors who
buy liquor. Hereafter these youngsters
who testify In the grand jury room
against saloon keepers may be convicted
and fined.
The earnest 6ght wsged BY the cider
ibt rests was thoroughly effectual, and
no legislation aimed a. the fIuit industry
will be 10 the Byrd bill. DR.. Dunn, o
member from AIbemarle, also won 10
his effort to take care Of the wine in
terests of bis county. Things looked
very shsky for him and for them for a
time, but he stood by bis guns, and what
be wanted was incorporated In the bill IS
6ralIy passed. None Of the drastic
fealures Of the bill az 1t ives frat intro
daced Is II tanned. There was no effort
to change the existing closing hours.
OF perhaps as much or mora interes
than the consideration Of the Byrd bill,
vas the action OF the House committee
on finance on the Myers state vide pro-
hibition biz, known as the enabling act.
After & short executive session 10 the
at rnoop, TIE C mm.tee decided to re-
port the bill, with q recommendation
that 1t do not pass.
Highly satisfactory was the report oil
he special lint comm ee which was
delegated to examine into the merger
and incorporation OF the Richmond,
fredericksburg and P, tOmso and COT
reht ID railroads. The report, slgued by
The governor and the other members Of
the committee, wss presented to both
houses. 1t said that to all appearances
the road was ready to surrender Its char
ter aud lis special privileges AID be rid
Of IT. special burdens.
With the report came two bills--one
prepared by the subcommittee, allowing
the merger and reincorporst'on Of the
road, aud the other delaying the opera.
ton OF The Cooke amendment to the Sun.
day railroad bill for six months, 10 z re
time for a settlement Of the question. 10
The Htuie the report Was unanimously
agreed TO. The Senate referred the
whole matter, together With the bills, to
The committee on roads and |. t,rnsl
aavigsliou,
The II uIe passed bill r'qnirlng
denlisls 10 be graduates 10 medicine
and surgery. Ii does no! become operf-
tive for four years,
The following House bills we're psssfd
To prohibit the granting of cbsrters
10 banks of less than $4,000 capital
stock.
To require common carriers to accept
interchangeable milesge coupons on
trains instead OF exchanging them for
tickets at stations. The emergency
clause wss frat stricken out.
To amend the Law 10 relation to
liens on crops for sdVauces to farmers.
Nelt came thu bill rfquiriug railroads
to post nj tees OF delayed trains, which
after debate was passed BY for amend
ment.