The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-11
IMPORTANT WORK
AND HARD SESSION
FACES LEGISLATURE
convenes Wednesday to Take
up Difficult Program Of Legis-
lation Mapped Outby Course
of Events.
Enabling Act viii be Intro
duced Early in Session. Talk
Of Postponing Tax Reform
to Extra Session to be Next
Summer or Fall.

when the Virginia general assembly
eonvenes In biennial session Wednes-
lay IT will face the hardest work In
The memory of some OF the oid-timers
and will begin on program. which
will make the newcomers wonder II
they were really the fortunate ones in
he elections held last November. or
whether their defeated opponents were
hot after all the favorites of the 1T
Tie god some call chance.
several mAttera Of Importance will
rome before the two branches and
already there Is talk OF an extra SEES
sion to dispose of some of the work.
The enabling act. giving the people
pf Virginia the right TO vote on state
wide prohibition, win be introduced
early in the session. Ii has not been
decided who will be the patron OF the
measure. but it is understood that IL
will be the same or practically the
same bill that Was introduced by Dele
gate Jordan two years ago,
The Appropriation Bill.
The finance committee will fully
complete its work at 7nai session
Monaay, when the draft of the bill will
be ready for presentation to the leGis-
lature. The committee has wrestied
yaiiantIy with the measure ard has
heard patiently the many who. attract
cd by the knowledge that there Will
be little more 10 spend have been hot
on the trail of increased appropria-
tons for their favorite Institutions
and departments. The preliminary
work has been done by the committee,
but in the house and senate theEe
will be attempts to change Items here
and there. 10 add or to suhstract from
appropriations recommended and even
to introduce a few new Items into the
bill
Amendments to tho constitution will
not he lacking. at least two being as
sured One az these viii provide for
comforting the right to vote upon all
who have paid poll taxes for the year
JUS. preceding instead of for the three
years prior 10 registration, and the
ether looks to a change In the form
of municipal government in the State.
The biggest question, however, from,
the standpoint OF work necessary for
Its settlement 10 the tax question This
question has been to the front for some
years. but little or nothing has been
done save to and new objects OF taxa
ton. a determined effort will be made
at this session. however. to revise the
laws of the State. There are almost
AZ many points of view as there are
legislators and It Is the importance OF
the measure, the difficulties in the way
and the variety of opinions on this
auhjAct that has caused a suggestion
for a special committee or commission
10 study II. frame n bill and present II
Mt an extra session later III the year.
Governor Mann gives considerable
space in his annual message to the
~.
merciaI organizations throughput the
Etate are strongly urging that some
thing be donA
Preceding the session of the general
assembly will be the Democratic eau
Gus Tuesday night when officers will
be elected. The contest for the
epsakership will furnish the creates,
3nterest.I
The advance guard Of the assem- bly,
members II In Richmond now and a
dozen or more are Registered at
Murphys hotel and few at the
others. Today and tomorrow will see
them coming by every train, but It will
be Tuesday night before all are in the
city.
Drafting BiIl.
The actual drafting of the appro-
priAtion bill for the Legislature was
begun last night when Clerk Jeter. OF
the senate. began to assemble the
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