Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-12

=" 'iSiuiHS 10 inc Scnate'S prOpOSitlCn.
We are told to come back here In
three weeks" he said. "and clean up tho
fragments OF legislation. venture to
say that instead OF remaining here n
week we Will have to sit three weeks.
perhaps thirty days.
III you members from distant parts
or the state are compelled to sit here,
nearing your own expenses all that
time. II will be an unreasonable hard
snip you are imposing upon yourselvs.
But most OF YOU will not stay a long
time. You will hurry through with the
work swallowing all sorts OF legiSla-
ton that has been served to you In a
capsule. We were called here by the
Governor TO perform u duty in thIrty.
days. If II Is impossible to do the work
In that time. then the Governor should
call another extra session. The State
or Virginia can afford IL. dare say, at
the end OF another year we will have
a surplus OF sl.00o,0O0 i'm the treasury.
Virginia does not need our cha ritv. our
services without pay. The matter OF
pay doesn't amount to row OF pins
10 me, but some OF us are not able to
bear the expense"
MILSTI;AD WILLING no COME
BACK AND PERFECT DETAILS
Emmett W. Milstcad, OF Newport
News. argued for accepting the Sem
ates amendment.
stood by the Tax Commission
measures to the iinish." he said. IT
was with the minority. If we had won
we would have expected the opposition
10 stand by us in the present situation
we would expect them to come back
here and help US put the machinery in
motion. They have good reason TO cx-
pect us TO do the same thing for them.
SAID yesterday tia; We would show
patriotism by so doing Some Of tho
gentlemen object TO that term saw.
therefore. IL is our duty. We should do
our duty by willingly coming back at
the end Of three weeks and helping
mem put the machinery into the good
ship Segregation"
Delegate o. l., Stcarnes In an i'm
passioned speech. declared himself un-
alterabiy opposed to returning unless
the Governor shall order special scs-
sion % thirty days. lie said one week
would not be sufficient for the General
Assembly to comprehend and digest the
laws shaped by the joint committee
which will sit in Richmond for ,hres
weeks.
After frequent Interruptions. Mr..
Stearnes declared; This General AS
sembly Is stranded You are "A stalled
Legislature. You are all At sea
want the public TO know It, lust as
you know II yourselves. whether you
admit u or not. We are asked TO
com" back her Ike a flock OF black
birds. ready 10 swallow whatever this
joint committee throws out To US.
Before you are here "A week lots
Of you Will be running home. You
won't stick. You VIII not be- in your
seats 10 vote. II you want to be honest
about II. vote to come back here for
thirty days or nothing"
Delegate Honifant said: II am op-
posed to dissolvinG this General AS
sembly into n body Of fourteen men
b Ili,
shoulder the whole responsibility tor
what 1t does during those three weeks
II Is folly TO say that we can come
back here after the recess. and in one
week dispose OF business that has en-
gagged the attention OF the joint com
mittce three weeks
SENATE CAN HOLD BODY IN
SESSION FOR THIRTY DAYS
Delegate Spessard moved TO amend
by liking the time for adjournment
al Friday. The Spessard amendment
was lost by a vote Of 3. TO 80
Delegate Walter Y. oliver asked 70,
the chairs ruling on question I'm
the event the House declines to CON
cur In the Senate amendment" he said
and the Senate declines to recedc will
not that keep us here until Saturday -
Speaker Cox: Neither House Of the
General Assembly can adjourn with.
out the consent of the other sine die
nor can 1t adjourn by Limitation until,
the General Assembly has been In scs-
sion sixty days. The House may ask
Tor n conference. IL 1t refuses to ac-
cept the Senate amendment. but II tho
Senate refuses conference we mus; sit
here by operation OF the law"
Judge Gregory: Does this mean that
unless We accept the Senate amend
ment the Senate can keep US here
thirty days longer"
ia q L..
~ 1880 o'clock the chair was va
Gated until g.
SPESSARD MOVES no
RECONSIDER VOTE
Immediately after the House con-
vencd for the afternoon session. Dele
gate Spcssard, of Craig, moved TO re-
consider the vote by which the Senate
amendment TO the resolution provid-
ing for the recess was rejected
Mr.. Spcssard explained that he had
been assured that the Senate would
accept proposition to adjourn for the.
recess Friday night instead OF Satur-
day. He would. therefore. offer an
amendment to the Senate amendment.
changing the time for the long recess
20 Friday
Speaker Cox took the floor to urge
he House TO reconsider and to adopt
the Spessard amendment
we can very handily complete the
matters OF Legislation in hand by that
,imc.' said the Speaker.
Delegate Meetze, of Prince william.
objected. He was for another extra
session and full pay.
Delegate Meetze was fortified with n
copy of the State Constitution and he
read section As, which relates that
members Of the General Assembly shall
be paid.
There is nothing in the Constitution
providing that members may sit with
out salary he said.
IF we come back here and enact tax
laws or any other laws. without re-
ceiving salary those new laws will be
invalid.
SPESSARD AMENDMENT
WINS BY VOTE OF IS TO II
The question on reconsideration of
the vote was put and carried The
Spcssard amendment was then adoptcd
oy vote OF % to l. Mr. Spcssard was
designated by the Speaker to communi-
cate the action Of the House to the SEN
ate. Half an hour later n message from
the Senate was received, telling of the