Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-19
COMMENDS WORK
OF LEGISLATORS
Governor Stuart Pronounces
Benediction on Great Moral
Session of 1916.
REACH FINAL ADJOURNMENT
Speaker Houston Names Men,
bers of Several Ad Interim
Boards and Commissions.

You have done we'll. gentlemen.
The session has been busy ono and its
duties have been many and arduous.
casion. and discharged their public
trust with credit am sorry TO sec
you leave"
So spoke Governor Stuart yesterday
afternoon to join, committee which
waited on him with the information
that both houses OF tho General As
sembiy had completed all tho business
before them. and were ready to ad-
tourn If there were no further instruc-
tions from the executive office.
few minutes before. President
Ellyson. OF the Senate. and Speaker
Houston. of the House, had completed
the task OF signing a batch OF more
than 200 bills that had been sent up
from the enrolling room. It was the
final consignment from the enrollcrs.
and the work OF the constructive ses-
sion was at an end.
NOTIFY GOVERNOR OF
READINESS TO ADJOURN
The Speaker appointed on the COM
mittee to notify the Governor that
the house was ready 10 adjourn Dele
gates Beattie, Myers. Jones. Fuller and
j. II. Price. President Ellyson ap-
pointed Senator'S Cannon and Hening
They waited on the Governor In a
body. IT was the last ceremony OF
the dying session, and they performed
their duty with proper solemnity.
Having received from the Governor
his final benediction, the committee
men marched downstairs. Speaker
Houston had been forced to leave the
chair in order TO make the express to
Hampton. and Delegate Myers. OF Rich
mond, was In command Of the gavel
The Governors benediction was com
municated to Acting Speaker Myers by
Delegate Beattie and to President Ely
son by Senator Cannon.
Thereupon the House unanimously
voted to adjourn sine die. The Senate.
being elected for four years, adjourned
until the second Wednesday in January.
1918. The great moral session" of
1915 had passed into history.
MEMBERSHIP Oh,
COMMISSIONS NAMED
Speaker Houston earlier In the day
announced his appointments to joint
commissions created by acts OF the
Legislature that has just come to a
close. With the appointments already
made by President Ellyson, OF the SEN
ate. the commissions are constituted as
follows:
To arrange for a proper observance
of the three hundredth anniversary OF
the General Assemhly-Senator Gum
and Delegates Henley and w. w. Baker
The act makes the Governor a member
OF the commission.
To investigate and report 10 the
next General Assembly the feasibility
OF establishing Il State printing plant
Senators Addison and Walker, and
Delegates Pitts. Fuller and Walton
TO report to the next General AS
sembly a revision of the States road
laws--Senators Byrd. Robertson and
Goolrick. and Delegates Brown. Henley.
e. p. Adams and Gllpin.
To report TO the next General AS
sembly plan for co-ordinatlng the
several reformatories--Sena Gum
and Holt. and Delegates Rolston
Beattie and James II. Price.
To make study of State and local
governments and report to the next
General Assembly changes looking to
economy and increased efficiency
Senator Drewry and Delegates Brown
ing, Moss and Williams. The Governor
is required to appoint two members
from the citizenship at large.
TO make study Of rural credits and
report to the next General Assembly a
plan of agricultural banking suitable
to the needs of Virginia-Senator JEFF
freys and Delegates Willis. Hudgins
and Cox.
Auditing Committec-Senators Cam
non and Drewry and Delegates Hobson,
Buck and Davis.
The members OF the commission
charged with the duty of reporting to
the next General Assembly an euui-
table worklngmen's compensation bill
Will be appointed by the Governor.
The act requires him TO appoint on this
commission not less than three nor
more than seven members 1t is un-
dcrstood that the Governor will in
cludc one member each from the House
and Scnale.