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

SENATE.
The finance committee compromised
on the bill providing increased salaries
for the judges and made its report. In.
stead of 8 81, 900 increase, $500 WEE
agreed upon.
Senator Sale presented bill to amend
the constitution to allow citizens OF the
state to adopt The commission form o.
government.
The matter of the states claim So tc
tie Mount Vernon Avenu. Aesocistion,
when 1t came up on its third reading,
IVES recommitted.
ALI nominations of the governor e1'
cepting those ss to school superintendent
Hers confirmed by the Senate commit
lee on nominations.
Prevention of illegal combinations Ii
sought in a bill offered By Senator
STROLLER, by request. Its otj:ct Ia te
prohibit merchants, groce:s and Others
from combining to raise prices. Parsons
combining to ssuch purposes or aiding
such purpose are guilty OF misds'
meanor. Illegal contacts, trusts, mo-
nopolies, aud consp!racies 10 restraint Of
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 and tele'
phone conpouies; prohibiting discrimi-
nation between back sud hotel COM
psnies by railroads; permitting q single
comfy constituting an entire judicial
circuit to Increase the salary of the
| Judge; allowing persons duly qualified TO
practice dentistry before 1902 to practic;
now; allowing counties to issue bonds
for bridge aud rosd improvements; to
create perpetual fund for road improve
meet; with reference 10 raising liquor
licenses; providing an increase in The
salary of judges; preventing trespass on
railroads; relative to fees for commits
eioners Of revenue; reguarolng the rega'
ation and sale OF poultry food.
! Senator Strobe offered resolution
that the State Corporation Commission
furnish The assembly statement OF the
taxes which would 90 TO each county II
he rolling stock OF the state were taxed
| in PROMOTION to the conoties through
which it went. The resolution was
adopted.
a bill was introduced by Mr.. Thorn.
| ton 10 amend and re enact al acf, ap'
proved March 80, 1876, entitled an sci
10 incorporate the toSu Of Fslla Church.
in the county OF Fsirfsx.
Favorable Committee reports have been
received on Senator Hollands bill il
reference to changes in the issue oil
water bonds, and on Senator OBen's
bill to provide for the regulation and
inspection of sdaterated stock feeda; on
Senator Lincoln's bill in regard TO
minor changes in the act regarding com.
! missioners of revenue.
4 bill has been introduced to amend
80 act to make railroad companies liable
for damage from fire occssioned By
sparks or Goals thrown from their en-.
giaes or trains, whether such fire origi.
| pate oa the railroads right of Hay OF
| not, and regardless of the use or coudt.
ton of spark srresting appliances, az.
proved March Is, 1908.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Page, OF Hanover, called the al.
tension of the House to tbs fact that
Mr. James Z. Oatop, OF Alsxsudrio, for
years q member of the body and the
Roor leader at the last session, was In
the chamber and occupying his old seat.
Mr. Cstoo WAS warmly cbeered.
The House voted to increase by eight
The number oil colonies on the govern
uor's STAFF. The House took the whole
proposition as a huge joke, and, after sat-
isfyipg Itself that there vas TO be no ad-
ditio1sl cost upon any state fund, showed
dispoaItIon to give the goTernor.elect
ss many aides as he wished, If 1t would
make anybody happier. In fact, one
member proposed to give him colonel
Tor every county a7d city in the state.
This would have made solid phalan1
Of 100 colonela.
Two good roads measures were intro.
duced. One covers the plan ofthe Virginia
Good Roads Association 10 setting spsrt
one-helf of the states annual receipts
from the lic.nse taxes on seam rail-.
roads, electric railr Dads aud canals fol-
state cash aid to road building. But 1t
goes further Rrd declares that, inasmuch
as this will not be available until 1911,
the sum of $3.50, GEO shall be aPproprl.
ated az once inI this purpose in 1910. The
other measure leVies epecisl sdditloEal
tex on real e5 a:e, persousl property AID
| chooses In action OF cents on the SlOO
of anss ssed valuation, TO be used as state
money cid fer the construction and I'M
proTement Of public roads and bridges.
] his iund is to be kept separate trom
other state f1ntg.
a bill wa passea providing that all
public buildings more than two stories
10 height above The ground shall be pro-
7ided with suitable FIRE escapes. The
existing lsw says three stories, and some
question has arisen as to whether one
story undergo Il I'd esn be credited.
Bills we're rgssed imposing heavy
penalty on persona using abusive lao
guage. Providing for the care OF chill
drep; for the tn )ervision Of lying In
hospitals; for the consolidation OF cities t;
aad permitting tbs clerks of Gu t. In
ca,tsin coun,ies and cities to COLLECT
transfer fees for commissioners of the
revenue,
Bills wire Introduced to antnoriz, the
Board of SUPERVISORS Of each county In