The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-11

bill introduced yesterday in the House
of Delegates by Delegate r. Lindsay
Gordon, Jr The bill would make
violation of the law. If II becomes
law. a misdemeanor punishable by fine
of not less than $50 nor more than
$1,000. or Imprisonment in Jail for
six months, or both. in the discretion
of the court.
Among bills reported favorabiy by
House committees yesterday are the
Willis game bill from the Commit
tee on General Laws and the Myers
Leedy-Price bills for an aeroplane for
the aviation department of the Signal
Corps at Richmond, and to prevent
discrimination by proprietors or en-
ployes of places of entertainment or
amusement against lawful wearers of
the uniforms fthe tSate militia or
the United Sta.es military.
To study conditions and to formu-
late a plan of State roads 10 DO re-
ported to the next session of the Leg
islature a joint resolution was intro
duced In tho House yesterday for the
appointment of a committee OF three
from the House and two from the
Senate. Patrons of the resolution are
Messrs. Brown, Henley, Smith, B. ID.
Adams, Reed, Tiffany and steck.
Delegate Hugh White. OF Rock
bridge introduced a joint resolution
in the House authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth to turn
over to Legislative Reference Bureau.
so far as possible without depicting
the files of his Office of reports of va
rious State departments, boards. COM
missions. acts of Assembly, Journals
of the House and OF the Senate, re-
ports of decisions OF the Supreme
Court OF Appeals ana other public
documents.
Mr.. Gordon of Louisa, introduced a
bill to permit counsel for any party
Interested in any cause, to be tried
at an approaching term of the court,
for which the jury Is drawn, to he
present at the time OF the drawing
The clerk OF the court will be required
to notify such counsel of the day and
hour that the jury will be drawn, II
the attorney notifies the clerk prior
to the drawing.
Peculiar coinci dence brought form
er Delegate John Y. Lewis, OF Neck
lenburg, into the hall of the House
at the very minute that the debate on
amendments TO the dog bill, patroned
by Delegate Hundley of Essex This
In the same bill that Mr.. Lewis pre-
scented at the last session and which
failed of passage. The bill will not
become a law at this session, being
dismissed from the calendar at the
request OF its patron yesterday, after
an amendment by Mr.. Hudgins had
been added, multiplying its effect. The
bill was designed to prevent dogs
from running at large. The amend
ment was that the law would not ap-
ply to any magisterial district In any
county in the State until after a ma
jortty OF the electors of the district
signed petition for its application
Mr.. Lewis, OF Meckienhurg, was
here TO attend the final meeting OF
the State Panama Pacific International
Exposition Commission, of which he
was member. which was began yes
terday afternoon In the Office of Gov
ernor Stuart. The affairs of the com.
mission. OF which Captain w. w
Baker. of Chesterfield and Senator
Holt. OF Newport News. are the other
members. are being wound up and the
commissions report. to be made to
the General Assembly at this session.
is being formulated. The report will
be filed with both branches of the
Legislature. 1t Is expected. within the
next few days. The commission meets
again this afternoon.
The House yesterday received the
report of Major Joseph v. Bidgood.
secretary of the Bureau of Military
Records The report shows the
records so far compiled I'LL eighteen
500 page iedgers. The record OF each
individual is detailed and is In reality
a brief biography of each. Major Bid
good reports he is at work on records
of the commissary, ordnance. quarter
master and medical departments of
the Confederacy.
Delegates Jones. of Richmond, and
Cousins and Cox, OF Norfolk. yester-
day introduced an amendment to ono
of the segregation acts, which, IL pass
ed, will take from treasurers of cities
commissions a portion of the taxes
collected. The amendment provides
that commissions on taxes heretofore
collected for the State. but hereafter
to be collected for the localities. shall
no longer be paid TO treasurers in cities
of fifty thousand having the ONCE OF
collector of taxes. Under one OF the
segregation acts the commissions on
the twenty-five cent State taxes on real
estate and tangible personal property
segregated to the localities were to he
PHtiu 10 lIit CITY anu touhNS
The Jones amendment provides that
these commissio ns hereafter shall not
he paid treasurers OF cities OF the
class described In any city that has a
city collector.
There was a reunion in the House
wedn esday by two Confederate veter-
ans who had not seen each other be-
fore In more than Atty years. The
veterans are Delegate II. c. Lowry,
of Bedford. who was member or the
Forty-sixth Virginia Regiment, and A.
&C. walker, Of walkerton, who was in
the Twenty sixth Virginia Regiment.
They were prisoners OF war together
AT Johnson's Island, Ohio, after hav-
ing been captured at Hatcher's Run at
the time General A. p. Hill fell. They
ala not get back to Virginia until June
a. 1865. at which time their paths sep
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