The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-12

and. frequently. innumerable questions
hurled at speakers without tho for
mality of permission added TO the
trouble.
Several times the opponents OF seq
regRtion were accused indirectly of
attempting to emasculate the segre-
cation bills with the intent to make
the whole system n failure.
Chiefly was this noticeable when the
Pitts amendment to the bill fixing
the tax on rolling stock was under
discussion. That amendment post
poned tho date that the bill should
take effect until January. 1916. It
was declared that the effect Of the
anne ndment would be TO deprive the
State OF this revenue for n year and
seriously TO affect the State revenues.
Warm Discussion.
Mr.. Brewer went so far as to say
that he could not understand why the
gentleman from Albemarle should in
troduce the amendment except for the
purpose of running the segregation
system" Mr. white declared that the
amendment was "a direct stab at the
heart of segregation" while Mr.. VIII
liams said It knocks down the main
props Of segregation" The amend
ment was voted down, ~ to St, with
most of the opponents of segrega ton
voting for 1t. The bill fixing the tax
rate on rolling stock of steam rail
roads at $50 was then put upon its
passage and passed. Go to 81.
/ When the House convened in the
morning a resolution adopted by the
I Legislature of North Carolina. reply
! Ing to the Horner resolution of greet
/ ing and felicitation, was read by the
clerk and received.
/ On motion of Julien Gum. a reso-
luton was adopted, providing for a
committee to report on the erection
( of state ONCE building either in the
Capitol Square or otherwise was
adopted. and sent to the Senate The
Speaker appointed Messrs. Gum. Kent
and Gordon members of the commit
tee.
Radford Rin Passed.
Several local bills were then taken
up and passed, and the Radford Nor
NAL School bill. reimbursing the board
for the expenditure OF $4,000 for
buildings, was passed.
The Senate having passed the SEN
ate bill fixing the tax rate on intan-
gibie personal property at sixty cents.
, the House committee was discharged
from further consideration of the
House bill containing the same pro-
vision. Further reading of the mea =
sure was dispensed with and the con-
sideration of the measure was then
passed by temporarily 1t will come
up for passage today.
| The House then took up and re-
jected the Senate amendment to the
House joint resolution fixing Thurs -
day night as the date for three weeks
Adjournment OF the General Assembly,
The Senate amendment fixed Satur
day as the date of adjournment. AT
the afternoon session, however the
vote by which the Senate amendmen mt
was rejected. was reconsidered. Mr..
Spessard's amendment to the Senate
amendment fixing Friday as the date
OF adjournment was then adopted and
sent to the Senate. A few minutes
later came message from the SEN
ate to the effect that the Senate had
agreed to the compromise.
The conferees' report on that sec
tion of the general insurance bill, pIac-
ling tax on all insurance agents rep
resenting more than one company. was
then accepted after debate.
The Adams bill, providing for the
optional installation of the Torrens'
system of land title registration, was
then taken up and debated. In the
midst of the debate the House adj
/ journed shortly after o'clock until
10 o'clock this morning.