The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-04
NOW
on ITS LAST WEEK
Busy TIMES AHEAD OF BOTH
BRANCHES ron THE NExT
SIX DAYS.
MANY BILLS ARE LOST
LIMITED TIME WILL PREVENT
NUMBER OF MEASURES FROM
EVER BEING REACHED
ON CALENDAR.


Of the Capitol building.
This morning the General Assembly
with enter upon the last week of the
session OF 1912, With the calendars of
both branches in An overlooking CON
dition and many OF the most inpor-
tant measures tied up in ono branch
or the other.
The lime bin. the redistricting meas
ures, both congressional and for mem
hers Of tho Assembly, the tax COM
mission bill, the registration bills. the
child labor bill, the primary elections
bill. the game bill. the anti-ga milling
bin, and many other measures have
either Yet 90 pass ono or the other of
the brances of the Assembly or TO
have certain radical amendments dis
cussed and voted upon
That II is physically possible to pass
through both Houses the great batch
of bills on their calendars is not be-
lieved "a many of them are contested
and viii be fought in both bodies.
Kedistrictiug Is Uppcrmost.
one of the uppermost tonics now is
the reinforcing OF the Fifth Congress
sierrni district by adopting the Senate
committees report which will take
Halifax and Charlotte counties out Of
tina Sixth -t4i-trit-t-nrrri -pt1rU tfIem IN
Democratic vote In the Sixth very con-
siderably 1t will not have serious re
suit thereup. since no Republican ter
ritory is added to the Skin.
It Ia held by man that Halifax
naturally belongs to the Fifth district
and that. unless it's forces are thrown
to the Fifth. Virginia viii soon have
two Republican congressman instead
OF one That some agreement may be
reached between the House. which
! passed a stand-pat congressional re.
| dfstrictiug measure, and the Senate in
! order that Judge Saunders district
may have some Democratic reinforce
/ ment is not unlikely. especially in
| view OF the fact that such a step could
! he taken without In any way being
I suggestive of a gerrymander.
Assembly RedIstrictiRg Tuesday.
| However, the congressional dies
ton viii not raise a small sized zephyr
as compared with the senatorial and
+ House redistricting measure. While
there is little objection to the measure
as It effects the House 1t is generally
/ believed that when the senatorial end
/ OF the situation is reached there will
| be n searching analysis Of the effect
the redistricting Of the State viii have
! upon future Temperance legislation
and the question Will be put more
than once whether or not th<e were
interior objects in any part of the re-
districting program.
/ Mr.. W. T. Oliver OF Fairfax, a
member of the House Committee on
Privileges and Elections, and chair
man of the subcommittee which ar
ranged the redistricting bill, Is the
real author OF the measure. Mr.,
Oliver worked hard over the meas
; ure, and. when last week he gave
. out the contents of the report of
his committee, he stated that he had
been controlled by no motive or Idea
, save that of just redistricting OF
the State. and the making Of com
pact districts SO far as ii was pos
siblc. 1t ia not probaDI that Mr.
divers motives will re questioned
by anyone, but the effect of the
changes recommended by his com
mittee Is certain to he brought
3 strongly into question, ana If 1t car
he shown that such result Is very
, much In favor of the wet" political
, interests. there Is likely to be vers
considerable ventilation Of the sub
tect when the matter comes up a
noon on Tuesday as tho special am
continuing order having been adj
, journed on Saturday to that time it
order to permit a number of tbs
J. !
day with their families.
Who VIII the Farmer Members BE:
who viii we elect tax commits
sioners if this thing passes the Sen
ate?' asked one member OF the
House Saturday of a feIIow member
after the Byrd Tax Commission bill
having won II RECONSIDERATION. pass
cd the House by a vote of So to 81
j That the BIN In It's present form il
. sufficiently objectionable 10 some oI
tho senators to meet with opposition
will probably mean that IT will even
tually die, but should II pass the Sen
ate II will he necessary FOR the As
sembly before IL shall have adjourn
ed To proceed to the election of the
two farmer members provided for b,
the measure Thai .4iae body r. wit J
the stress of other matters upon II
Is in position to give proper con
sidpratipu to the election of these
commissioners IL hardly belieyable
and a commission not carefully
chosen might prove great dea
worse than no commission at all
Republicans Against Bill.
Tho Republican members of thu
House on Saturday. after the vote
had shown that the tax commission
| bill had succeedcd; declared that 4
would mean advantage for them, one
of them shouting that there was nt
use in having the amended bill print
! ed, az the people would hear or Il
soon enough. while another declared
that IL would mean that the 1ninortt,
party now would cross the middle
aisle next session, evidently not hav-
ing been impressed with the manly
strafghtforw ard talk on the subject
made by Air. Houston, OF Elizabeth
Lefty, directly before the vote was
taken, in which he declared that al
the measure sought Was an honest
and equal Ftssessment as contein-
plated by the law.
The Vote on the Measure.
The vote by which the tax commits
| sion bin passed the House was as fol-
lows;
Ayes-Baker. w. w. Banks. Bell
| Bowman, Brewer, Brown, w. N, Burt
| Chalkley, Christian, Coleman, G. r..
| Coleman, D., Cox, Dreamer. Curtis,
(, Danieh Evans. Ewing. Fitzhugh. Gill
liam, HARDWOOD, Houston Howerton
| Jennings Jordan, Kent. Land, Love
| Malbsn, Meetze Milsiead. Moncure
/ Montague, Moseley. old. oliver Page
! Peek. Richardson. Row, Rutherford
Smith. Stebbins, Stephenson. II. u.
Terrell, Throckmorton. Tiffany. Ut2
| Watts, White. John S.. Williams, Wise
the Speaker--52.
Noes--Anderson, Borden. Browning
Buck. Clarke. Earrnan. Flanagan. Full
ton, Grant. Ke,nper, Lunsford. Mar
| tin. Massie. Mustard. Parker. Peyton
Radford. Rakes. Roberts. r. H., Rob-
4 erta John Robertson ROlston Sues =