Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-06

TO co BACK TO SENATE
After Minpr Corrections Shall Have
Been Made. Measure Will &c
Signed by Governor.


Richmond, March 6-Following an
unbroken debate of more than seven
hours. the House of Delegates on
Saturday night, by vote of 81 to D.
concurred in the passage of the Mapp
prohibition bill, approving it sub
stantially in the form in which II
was reported from the committee.
Every amendment attached by the
House Committee on Moral and Soclai
Welfare was approved. Every amend
ment offered from the floor that 0o
not come before the body with the
imprimatur of the prohibition leaders
was rejected. Except for minor con-
ressions granted upon the nslstence
of prohibition men and last-mlnute
corrections and enlargements, the
measure carries every provision de-
manded by the Anti-Saloon League.
and it's passage represents victory
for this organization, complete ana
absolute.
The bill goes now to the Senate for
concurrence in the amendments that
have been attached since it was passed
by that body by a vote of 50 TO p,
The amendments will be concurred IN
as a matter of course, and the Dill
will go to the Governor early TINS
week. Governor Stuart has already
said that he will sign it.
For a solid hour the House voted or
amendments. With machinclike pre-
cision, it rejected, in the order named,
the Willis amendment, striking out
the commissionership provision, by a
vote of 81 to "a; the Love amendment
making the Acknowledgement COM
missioner of prohibition, by vote ~
to 2l; the Reed amendment, making
the prohibition commissioner elective
by the people. beginning an 1920, by
a vote of As to Al and the Noland
amendment, designed to prohibit any
officer of the new department from
engaging actively in politics.: by a
vote of ~ to 81.
Other amendments, providing more
or less drastic changes, were: reject
ed without the ceremony of record
cd vote. The process of elimination
was completed at 7:15 O'Clock, and
the bill itself placed on its passage.
The hour of prohibition had struck,
Members bitterly opposed TO major
features of the bill buried their dis
content and boarded the band wagon
Wet and dry, organization and anti
organization, rural and urban mem
hers, joined in throwing Virginia's
newborn prohibition banner to the
breeze.
Nh. BSrrell, of Alexandria voted
fors the amendment striking out ythf
commissiSership provision, but vot'
cd for the bill on its final passage
Fee officers are receiving S4OO,Oo'
wear for disbursing the school fund.-
in Virginia, according to state
ment made on the floor of the Hous
of Delegates Saturday by DELEGATE
Norris, of Lancaster.
BY unanimous vote the Hous
passed resolution, then offered b.
Mr.. Norris, calling upon the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, an
the Second Auditor for an immediat
report upon the matter.
The State pays out annually TO
educational purposes about $1,000,
600, Mr.. Norris showed. From TIN
amount, before final distribution
made. the fee officers deducte S4o0
600.
The Senate passed the Goolrick bl
which strips judges of the circuI
courts of the State from the appoint
ment Of examiners Of records for eac
of the circuit, of the state. The bl
removes each and every one of thes
officers as of June 80, 1916. and I.
ouires that the State Advisory Boar
of Taxation shall name their succe
sors for term of four years.