The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-28
PRIMARY BILL

patron of a redistricting bill. moved
the discharge Of the committee on
privileges and elections from further
consideration Of the Brewer redistrict-
Ing bill. Mr.. Chalkley spoke briefly
on the motion showing the great in
Justice to the southwestern part of
the State in their representation. Mr..
Love, Of Lunenburg, answered the
gentleman from. Wise. and in his char
acteristic humorous vein kept the
house In an uproar of laughter for
ffteen minutes.
Judge Martin williams, chairman
OF the committee on privileges and
elections, talked against the discharge
Of the committee, going into the his
tory of former attempts to redistrict the
State. He said that should the bill be
taken from the committee in this way.
Il would precipitate tight on the floor
Of the house to which the fight on
bank tax would be mere patchwork.
The chairman declared that after they
had fought for four years for this
measure. that some one should call 1t
up In the last two weeks Of the ses-
sion was absurd. He said IL this was
done he would refuse to take the re-
sponsibihty and washed his hands Of
the affair.
Mr.. Oliver followed Judge williams.
saying 1t was impossible in this short
time to perfect any arrangement
toward redistricting.
Debate was cut short when Mr.. VII
lis OF Roanoke, moved the pending
question. This was carried and the
question as to whether the committee
should be discharged Or rot was put.
Mr.. Chalkleys motion was defeated
by vote of 81 to IS.
To Select Principal Bills.
Major Stubs. Of Gloucester. intro
duced a resolution providing that the
committee on rules be instructed to
go over the calendar and seiec. the
principal bills and give them pre-
cedence over those on the calendar
THIS was to take effect Tuesday. March
2nd. Major Stubs spoke briefly 10 his
resolution. saying that the newspapers
had criticised the house when 1t first
met, saying it was composed mostly
Of new members,
He said he had never seen a more
Industrious body OF men and he
thought this should be done. to give
the people the laws they need.
Speaker Cox surrendered the chair
to Mr.. Browning. and taking the floor
with the unanimous consent OF the
house, attacked the resolution in a
Cox declared that if the house would
keep order and answer the roll calls
promptly the calendar could easily be
disposed of without the aid of the
resolution Mr.. Toney, of the city Of
Richmond. also attacked the resolu-
ton. The measure was sent to the
committee on rules.
message was received from the
senate. with a joint resolution prog
viding that the names of the patrons
OF each house be kept ON the bills.
when they went from one house 10 the
other Mr.. White. OF Rockhridge,
moved the house take action on this
resolution at once as IL would help to
save time. 1t was referred to the
committee on rules.
Mr.. Brewer. chairman of the ap-
preparation committee, moved the gen
crai appropriation bill be set as special
order for Tuesday next at 1I.15
o'clock This motion was adopted al
most unanimously.
Bank Bureau Bill Defeated.
Al 1915 o'clock the special order
bureau bill was again before the
house. About twenty amendments
were tackled on TO the measure. with
little or no discussiop. vote on the
bill was taken at 1e:s5 o'clock and
was defeated by a vote OF So to 81.
Yeas--Baker. Chalkley. Clement.
Crockett. Daniel. John Orr. Hartley,
Hobson, Horner. Houston. Huff. john
son. Kent, Land. Lincoln. Love, Low
ry Massie. Miller Mslstcad. Monta-
que. Norris. Oliver. Owen. Penning-
ton. Fits. Powell. Rev. Spatig,
Stubs Toney. Weaver A. G., Win
ston. Woodward, Mr.. Speaker. Yeas
---34.
Says--Ahams. Bonifant. Brewer.
Brown, Buck. Cawthorn. Chapman
Commins. Dalton. Daniel, J. William,
Dodson. Duke. Earman. Easley., Fer
bee. Flanagan. Franklin, Grant. Cras-
~. Green. Orsgory. Gordon. Gum,
Harrison. Harvey. Hughes. Jordan,
Ksnsess Leedy. Lewis, rMalhon. alfetze.
Myers. Nelson. holland, Page. Phil
pott. Price. Radford. Reed, Robertson.
Rolston. Smith. Francis W, Smith.
Harry g., Stearnes. Stephenson. Tay-
ior, Terrell Walton, Weaver. ii. c.,
White, Williams. Willis. Nays.
Mr. Adams. OF Charlotte. claimed
the floor on point of personal priv
ilege to answer Mr.. Weaver's state
ment of Tuesday TN regard to
the expenditures OF the various
departments. Mr.. Adams declared
that Mr. Weaver had done the
department of agriculture a
great injustice. when he quoted fiG-
urcs Of its expenditures. over which
he declared the general assembly had