The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-13
Here and There
in the Legislature

Many new faces sat around thc board
when the House Finance Committee
met for the first time this session IN
the courtroom or tho State Corporation
Commission yesterday morning at 10
o'clock. Men who have heretofore
taken leading parts were missing.
The Buchanan county land cuse waR
taken UP. Mr.. Stephenson. of Bath.
said he doubted the necessity of an In
quiry, which would DO costly in money
and time. He believed he could prepare
n bill which would cure tho whole mat
ter. The Williams resoluHpn was laid
OH tho table to await his action.
The committee reported u bill appro-
priating money for the expenses or
the Legislature.
The deficiency pension bills were set
as u special ordor for Monday morning
nj 10 o'clock.
Many were tho explanations yoster-
day of how the results or Thursday
nights caucus happened. y vote here
or there which wont the way It was
not expected to go was frequent
topic. But q better feeling prevailed,
and It was realized, as 1t always 10
the morning after an election, that af-
ter all the world Is not entirely ruined
and undone.
i'ul t'SiS "oiO iiol' u ASM WHO ro-
GREETED that they did not support SEN
ator Folkes's resolution TO cut out de-
bate on nominations OF officers. Some
things which gre now regretted wero
said.
Joy reigned supreme In what Senator
Folkes calls tho "Janitorium-thc Land
Ohice-which is also the head OF the
grounds and buildings organization.
Tho Capitol police. 1anitors and other
employees had hardly slept for fort
night
Two mon are given large part of
the credit for the successful lights
made for their candidates. Gran Grad
dock. clerk OF tho Circuit Court Of Hal
ifnx county. managed the campaign OF
c. Lee Moore, and did 1t effectively.
S. L. Ferguson. of AppomattoX, did the
honors for Roosevelt Page, and was the
happie5t man in Richmond yesterday.
Clerk John W. Williams yesterday
announced tho appointment of tho fol-
lowing as the House pages for the SEES
sion: G. +. Davis. Jr. James C. Subiett
r. 7. Sizer. ID. J, Sheehan. Richmond
]. 7. White, Culpeper; II. c. Land, Not
toway; Arnold H. Barnes, Halifax;
Thomas II. Snead. Fluvanna: John H.
Gose. Jr., Bristol: w. b. Clark, Buck
ingham: w. W. Smith. Spotsylvania;
Leo a. Denit. Roanoke county; d. l..
Ourps. frederick.
Chickens are sternly forbidden to
roam at large over the grounds OF
nc:ghbors in Henrico county In a bill
introduced yesterday by c. W. Throck-
morton. II a man catch a noishbor's
chicken in the act of trcspass, he may
seize the animal and incarceratc IL.
The owner can redeem il only upon
payment OF 20 cents. and In default OF
redemption It becomes the property OF
tho man who catches 1t.
The other night l.. w. Milstnd. MEM
Der OF the House from Newport News.
was awakened by member of hls
family, who said: There are burglars
in the house." Mr., AIilstcad milf
awake. replied. NO: there are several
In the Senate. but none In the House.
II Chesterfield county goes into the
Fourth District It Will not lose its ay-
ricultural high school. II Bills offered
yesterday by Senator Watkins anr
Captain Baker become law. Such a
change would throw two such schools
in one district. while the law only
contempIates one. Tho bill cures this
by allowing them TO remain In the
boundaries of congressional districts
as they were on January 1, 1919.
II seems that tho State Anatomical
Board has been claiming the bodies OF