Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10
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sale OF chattcls under execution. The
proceeds of the sale of the personal
property. II is provided shall be ap-
piled 10 the payment of the costs aris-
ing from the bringing of the suit. in
Guiding reasonable attorney fec to be
decrccd TO the attorney appearing for
the complainants. Delegate Willis Of
fercd an amendment striking out the
provision for the attorney fee. but the
amendment was rejected.
The debate on the bill and the
amendments led the members who took
part In the discussion into the usual
mazcs OF the big social problem with
which the world has wrestlcd more or
less Intellectually since the beginning
OF human history.
Delegate Gordon. OF Louisa offered
an amendment making II a felony pun
ishablc by a fine OF 81 900 for mar
ricd man TO enter a house OF i'll fame
for immoral purposes. and declaring
It a misdemcanor punishable by a fine
OF from 500 to $500 when the same
ofrepsc Is committed by an unmarried
man.
Speaking TO his amendment. MIR.
Gordon declared that the man was i'm
mediately the cause OF the evil against
measure. instead OF striking at the
cause, struck at Its victims His
anne ndment. he said. placed the burden
where 1t belonged With the oTenses
at which II was aimed eliminated, he
argued. there will be no need for the
anttvice law.
BROWNING AND GORDON
ENGAGE IN SHARP DEBATE
Delegate Browning attacked the
amendment an attempt to load down
the bill for the purpose of killing it.
Delegate Gordon warmly resented the
charge declaring that he offered the
amendment in good faith. and chalieng-
ing tho sincerity OF those friends Of the
browning bill who were not willing
also 10 make the men along with the
women responsible for tho social evil
The amendment was voted down,
81 TO 40.
Holding that the social evil is stimu-
lated by the decadence shown in
women's styles. Delegate Myers, of
Richmond, offered an amendment pro-
vidinE that no female shall appear in
public in skirts which do not reach
within Mt least four inches of tho
ground, or in waist or bodice which
exposes moro than three inches OF the
chest or back, and that no transparent
skirts shall DO worn.
SEES NO RELATION BETWEEN
DRESS AND IMMORTALITY
Tho resolution was discussed with
some effort at seriousness. Delegate
Browning pointing out In the course of
his general reply to the attacks on the
bill that tho relation between dress
or absence of dress and immortality has
m liSI Ttn
aborigines, he pointed out, wear no
body covering OF moment. and arc said
to he the most continent people on
earth The Myers amendment when it
reached a vote. shortly before adjourn
ment, was overwhelmingly defeated
Delegate Leedy said that he addressed
himself to this oldest question in tho
history of the world in "all seriousness
and with considerable sadness" He in
dorscd unreservedly the Gordon amend
mcnt striking at the men woo visit
immoral resorts. IF the advocates of
tho bill mean what they say when they
profess desire to rid tho world OF the
social evil, he said. 1t is their duty to
lay this penalty against the culpable
man. Not 10 do so. he thought, would
prove that they were merely Pharisees
responding to popular clamor.
LEEDY REFERS TO PAID
"ADvOCATES OF DIVINE RIGHTS,
Colonel Leedy was by no means inn
prcsscd with the past history OF this
bill t.: tho Virginia Legislature. Far
from being an outgrowth OF grad
uaIly crystallizing and genuine senti-
ment. no said, the bill was thrust upon
tho session OF 1914 for the first time,
sponsored BY n gentleman OF tho
CLOTH" Here tho speaker INDUCED In