The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-07
SHOULD HOLD ON
TO ITS DIRECTOR
r., r. T.. BILLS SHOULD HE
AMENDED so STATE MAY DE
REPRESENTED.
CONFER ON PRIMARY
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. TACKLES
HARD TASK on BYRD MEASURE.
TAX COMMISSION BILL Is
LoRN LOST ORPHAN NOW.
CONFER ON PRIMARY

The redIstricting fight will again
consume a large part Of the legisla-
tive day In the House today, being
reached at noon.
However. before that time the
House hopes 10 bring up, discuss and
dispose Of the very important Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
{ Railroad compromise and merger
bills
one Of the features Of the situation,
however. is that when under tho
measures proposed an adjustment is
reached and a. new charter Is taken
out by the railway company the
states member of the board of direc-
Tors OF the company will be cut off.
It Is the best judgment of the state
Corporation Commission Of Virginia
that such amendments as may be nee
essary should he added to the bills
retaining the States member OF the
board.
The Commonwealth Of Virginia is
, the largest owner of the stock of the
Richmond Fredericksburg and roto-
mac Railroad outside of the combined
railroads which own the controlling
stock. The State owns 2,152 out Of
I the total of 1918 shares, or about
! one sixth. 1t is po1~~ad out that this
! interest should clearly entitle the
! state 10 one member of the board
1 as a business proposition.
Conference on Primary Bill.
THE ff6uSe on Yesterday declined
| to concur in the Senate amendment
| to the Byrd primary bill. and Messrs.
! Byrd, Jordan and Weaver were
named as the House eeHferees. and
! Senator's Echols. Holt and Rison were
! a b..
there will be an agreement on the
measure is improbable, and the meas
ure will probably be left to die by
failure agree rather be inflicted
upon the State in the form in which
! Il comes from the Senate.
Tax Commission Bill Will Die.
There will be no effort to get the
| Byrd TAX commission bill through the
Senate in its present form. 1t is of
| no earthly use to anyone in its pres
ent form, and IL would be worse than
useless to turn il loose upon the peo-
pie Of Virginia in any such shape
| as ii finally was In when II left the
hands of its enemies in the House.
It has been suggested, however. that
tho corpse should be given decent in
terment. with Messrs. Williams. Hugh
A. White, Lunsford and John w.
stephenson as paliot5Eers.
Talk of bengthenang Session.
! There may be a paper circulated
| I'm the House today calling for the en-
tending OF the session one week. \
| number of the members feel that
there are SO many measures of i'm
portance deep under the calendar
that there should he some way de-
vised by which they may be gotter
to n vote. Yesterday there was con-
siderable talk that the Assembly
should remain on the job long enough
to get votes on the matters of supe-
rior merit
Ford Hotel Purchase May BE Lost
Unless the bill introduced u few
DAYS ago authorizing the purchase by
the State of a half of the Ford Hotel
property from the city of Richmond
is taken up out of its order promptly
and passed this very important pro-
ject will fall to the ground A &c"
years ago the State could have bough'
this whole property Tor what II /!
now willing to pay for one-haf oi
it, II will be unable to renew present
negotiat ions two years from this time
There is no special objection to Tho
measure from any side. No hare
and fast parliamentary rules, II is held
BY friends of the measure. shoule
block the wheels of progress alons
this line us the State needs fire
proof library building and more of
flee room.
The House on yesterday PASSED the
vital statistics bill, which creates in
expensive machinery for the purpose
| of procuring ii general and complete
registration of all births and deaths
in Virginia. This measure Is not only
\ desirable from the viewpoint of thu
State Board of Health. keeping thai
body In touch with the causes Of
deaths in the various counties of the
State. hut the registration of births
Will he found to be of value to the
State Department Of Labor in wears
Ia come in the enforcement of the
law against the employment of chill
dren under law age The department
has been handicapped to some ex
tent bNss1hiSa lack et. Information
r Showing TIE time of the births of the
children at work in various enter
prises.
ATTACK Lime Bill.
In the Senate two men held the
floor at the morning session and by
talking for an hour and "A half KEEP
the Governors lime grinding bill
from coming To vote. They were X
S. Blackburn Smith and +. S. Taven-
liner. Mr.. Tavenner will have the floor
Mhen the bill Ia taken up again to:
/ day
To have the state first make ar
effort to secure contracts with lims
| manufacturers before starting plant
Of its own Is the purpose OF an amend.
ment offered by Mr.. Tavenner. i
would have the lime grinding board
try first to get a. contract for double
the amount OF lime the State plant IL
expected to produce, this TO be sold
to farmers.
Mr.. Creaner's bill to extend to mer-
chantile establishments and laundries
the present ten hour labor law passed
the Senate In an amended form
Laundries Will not be affected and the
| law will not apply Oh Saturday
! nights.
The Senate passed many local House
| and Senate bills.