The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-15

enough money to warrant their taNa-
| tion, he said
Replying, senator sale said that tho
| occupation of Tie pilot IL extra
| hazardous at times. The pilot Is sub
! ject to summons under oil conditions
| and In all weathers, and often chances
| his life in the obedience TO duty. The
Pilots Association admitted us innny
men to the vocation as We're qualified
to enter It, lust us in othcr trades
, a certain amount of apprenticeship
and skill is required before man Is
, turned loose to guide safely to Iarbor
vessels burdened with valuable freight
and human lives. In reply to qucs-
| ton from Senator Fletcher as TO the
willing attitude of the Pilots .Associa-
ton in the matter, Senator Sale said
that lie was not consulting them, but
that he was speaking on tile plain
merits OF the case. He voiced his pro-
est against the tax on pilots as tin
fair and unjust"
The Sale amendment reducing the
fee from $50 to $25 was lost.
Shippers Pay Nothing.
Senator Folkes had something to say
about the bill He thought 1t was
apply the arguments used by corpora
telling effect he showed the fallacy
of the situation, for though there
was desire to tax this trade with its
altruistic side. the shipping interests
pay not one cent by way OF Contri-
button to the state Treasury. This is
not a case where the State needs the
mite OF the pilots: 1t Is the big 1.-THE
OF the wealth-overloaded corporation
that is needed and ought 10 be ex-
acted '1'le Democratic party Is conf
ing to pretty pass when 1t proposes
| to tax pilots who serve the state in
| the opening up of harbors for the
white wings of commerce and in the
| preservation of human life. The State
would in this case tax a servant who
receives no pay from her. Just because
the pilot earns his living by hard and
| difficult work.
Ono of the men who last year was
| so anxious to tax the pilots is not
here this year I notice" said Senator
| Folkes. "He seems to have taken to
the tall timber, and. forsooth, it is
well that he did. He was too scared
to come here, for the business he is In
/ ought to come across with about $780,
worth of taxes, but it does not now
| He painted a stirring word picture
| of the pilot and the chances he takes
He paid that vocation high tribute
| and finally appealed to the Senate
not to make Virginia "the only state
+, in civilization that taxes her pilots
| to-day.
| The bin was passed by for later
| consideration.
Segregation of Insane.
The three Lassiter companion bills
providing for the segregation Of per-
sons exempted from penalty for the
i commission of crimes by reason OF
mental responsibility in separate
buildings at the State asylums, were
given the final approval of the sa,.
ate. Under the provisions OF the bill
the whites Will go to williamsburg
and the blacks to Petersburg. The
bin was SO amended as to fix the cos,
OF the separate buildings at not ex.
ceeding $1,000.
!, Secretary Owen brought message
from Governor Mann, stating the ap.
pointment of j. Richard WingtieId Il
succeed Joseph L. Willard on the State
Corporation Commission.
The following bills then were pu
: on their passage and given the hna
- vote OF the Senate. The Strobe and Hal
: sey bill, establishing the epileptic col
u ony at Amherst and the Holt bill, {,
!. Authorize cities to make additions
,e allowance or compensation TO com
is missoners of the revenue.
On motion OF Senator I.assiter. TIL
d. chair was vacated at 2:1d until A.
1t When the chair was resumed. thirty
II seven Senate bills on first readin,
l. We're sent to second reading.
l. At 4:2o, on motion of Senator Wat
y kins, ADJOURNMENT was taken.