Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-10
SIDNEY PETERS
wins IN CAUCUS
Receives sixty-four Out of
Ninety-seven Votes 7
Last Night
ARRAIGNS RAILROADS
Senator Wendenburg Declares Com
panies Paid Mems Capitatioa Taxes
in Order to Defeat Him

Richmond, March 10..-On one bal
lot and with vote Almost double the
combined vote. of the =wo other candl-
dates, Rev. J. Sidney Peters. field
secretary of the Anti-Saloon League
of Virginia and for a number Of years
a leading worker for the cause OF
prohibition. was nominated last night
for the office of commissioner Of pro-
hibition by the Democratic caucus OF
the General Assembly. The nomina-
zion of the caucus will be reported TO
the General Assembly either today or
tomorrow and on a joint order the
Senate and House will elect Mr.. Pet
ers commissioner.
| The vote stood: Rev. J. Sidney Pet
crs. Ga; Judge J. II. Stuart, Roa-
nokc, IS; Richard B. Davis, Peters
! burg, Is.
Richmond, March l0--Senator Wen
denburg's declaration in the Senate
! Wednesday that the railroads had paid
the poll taxes of its employees to the
amount of $1,000 in efforts to deicHt
his election. continued to be the live
tonic in the Senate yesterday
/! IN written communication. "hIch
! Senator Wendenburg caused to be
read from the clerks desk in the SEN
/! ale Yesterday morning, IL. D. Zim-
norman asserts that he WAS present
1T ,bc conversation and heard the aa-
missions made by Fritz Sitterding,
y;ce president Of the Virginia ka'l-
/ way and Power Company, as to his
! payment OF the poll taxes OF Il num-
bcr of the employees Of the street rail-
way company to induce them to vo9e
,~ainst the election of Wendenburg TO
the Senate.
The Zimmerman letter vas pro-
duccd by Senator Wendenburg lmme-
diatelv following the reading OF an
explicit denial by Sittcrding Of the
Werdcnburg charge. in letter ad-
dressed to the president of the Sen
ate.
Railroad men make denial Of knowi-
nloe If the statement made by Sen
ator Wendenburg to the effect that
railroads in Richmond spent Sl''oo IN
a, effort to defeat him by paying the
poll taxes of their employees,
Senator Wendenbur@ made tic
statement on the floor of the Senate
on Tuesday. The Senator did not
mention the name of the railroads
! ,ra;nst whom he made the allegation,
and it is because o fthis that the rep
resentatives of the railroads IN TINS
citv have prepared and issued the de-
NAL.
The Senate and House contereeS
on the disagreeing votes on the
"ouster" bill have agreed on recon-
mendations. which were submitted to
the Senate and House yesterday
The "ouster" bill as originally pas
sed bv the Senate, embraced all the
officers in the State, and failure te
discharge every public duty, was to
work removal from Office, but the
House made the law applicable onl!
10 nrohibiticn. anti vice, and gambling
. laws.
The Senate refused to concur, {
!. corf florence was asked and the repor
favors the position Of the Senate
making the law applicable to ever!
officer in the State--poilce, mayors
magistrates. constables. sherifs ant
others.
, There will be no State tax on ut
news according 10 the vote OF th'
Senate Wednesday Afternoon alter
t fight of several hours, during which
there had been much oratory on tn
o part fmembers of the Senate "ho
with a single exception, have no oc
casion to fear the jitneys, being resi-
: dents of the country districts, wher
such pests as jitneys do not intrud
: themselves and seek to wrest the eiu
sive nickel from the pockets OF tn
d tightwads.
/ The bill was killed by vote o
10 against and IA for 1t.