The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-09
WEST ANT|-FEE
BILL IS DEAD
MINORITY OF THE HOUSE con-
Trolls QUESTION OF GREAT
PUBLIC INTEREST.
OFFICEHOLDERS WIN
NO WAY NOW TO COMPEL FEE SYs-
TEN BENEFICIARIEs TO KEEP
PUBLIC RECORD OF
RECEIPTS.

There win be no anti-fee system
legislation in Virginia this year.
The West bill which required the
benefciaries Of the fee system to keep
an accurate record OF receipts from
this source was, on yesterday. stran-
gled In the House. the minority re-
fusing TO permit a vote upon the bill.
thirty eight voting not 10 take II UP
out of order.
Moved to Take Up West Bill.
The question came up in the House
yesterday when MIR. Brewer delegate
from Nansemond, moved the taking
up of the West fee system bin out
OF It's order. that being the only pos
. sible way 10 get 1t to vote before
I the adjournment OF the General AS
/ sembly.
! MIR. Brewer explained that the meas
I ure required that officials who re-
4 ceived fees should keep proper record
| thereof in order that information
| could be gotten that would enable the
! next General Assembly to ascertain
| how much money was paid in in fees.
/ the gathering of the information look
| ing to the ultimate abolition of the fee
! system. He declared that even the
! Senator from Norfolk had voted tor
/ the bill.
I Mr. Coleman. OF Norfolk. attacked
I the bill declaring that the city OF Sut-
, folk had been eliminated from the
! operation of the act by the language
/ used. He imputed certain desree of
I bad faith to the patron of the meas
| ure. and its supporter on the floor of
| the House. Mr.. Brewer resented the
! imputaton. and denied that it was
! the intent of the measure to eliminate
I CIT frnV igG
| House Rescinds Rule,
| The House was then working under
rule that enabled ten objections to
pass q measure by. Mr.. Daniel moved
| to pass by and the House by large
majority defeated the motion. Then
! the point OF order was made that the
| bill should he passed by on the ten
| objection ruled. and the chair sus-
| tained the point
| At the suggestion OF friends Mr..
/ Brewer moved that the rule under
! which the House was working be re-
I sclnded as to this bill. and the mo-
/ ton carried by vote OF 46 to 81.
Mr. Brewer then moved that the
| bill be taken up out of It's order.
! MIR. White, of Rockbridge. support
ed the motion in a brief speech,
commencing the tenor and purpose
OF the bill. which he declared had for
/
to which the public was entitled.
r ~ Cox Makes Obiecti0n.
| MIR. Cox interposed an objection to
! the procedure. He declared that the
House would get into inextricab BILE
| confusion by continuiAg to take mat
| ters up out of their order. Mr.. Cox
/ did not say so in so many words,
but II could be seen that he was
not anxious for the West bill to get
| through.
| vote was then taken on Mr..
| Brewers motion to take the bill up
| out OF Its order. and a showing of
hands Indicated vote OF II to SO,
being five majority for the measure,
However. the rule required a two
thirds vote in order to take the bill
| up out Of Its order. defeating the
motion. The ayes and noes were call
ed for and the vote stood II to IS.
Placed on Record.
Those voting In the Affirmative
! w. W. Baker, Bargamin, Bell. Bor-
den, Bowman. Brewer, w. n. Brown,
Browning. Earman. Evans, Fitzhugh.
Gillian. Harvey. Ivey. Jordan. Kent,
Love. Martin, Meetxe, Moore. Mose-
! ley. Mustard. Page. Peyton. Radford.
Rakes. Robertson, Rolston, Row,
! Smith. Stebbins. Fl. u. Stephenson.
John w. Stephenson, Tahb. Temples
! ton. Terrell. Throckmorton. Utx. Wal
| ton. Watts. Weaver. Hugh A. White.
Willeroy. Wissler. the Speaker-47.
Those voting in the negative were
Ranks, Chalkley. Christian, Clarke.
-. Coleman. Cox. Dreamer. Curtis.
Daniel. Flanagan. Fulton, Grant,
Houston. Howerton, Kemper, Kin
sey. Lunsford. Malbon. Massie. MIL
stead. Moncure, Montague, Norris.
CAd. Oliver. Parker. Peek. Rev. r.
! b. Roberts. John Roberts. Spessard.
stratton. sutphin. Taylor. Webb.
John s. White. Williams and Wise
IS.
Thanks the House.
When the result Of thaf vote was
announced Mr.. Brewer thanked the
House for giving him m opportunity
to get vote on the question Of TAX
Ing the hill up, and said that he had
made the best light he could for the
measure. While there il q possibiI-.
ity that further effort will be made
to get the measure up today again,
It In not likely that the effort will
be made. -. there seems TO BE no
chance 70 ret : two-thtrds vote = IT.
favor.
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