Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-23
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HENisEns SERVED NOTICE
OF MATERIAL CHANGES
Senator Mitchell argued that the re-
Viscrs served notice on the Legislature
! OF material changes. and that he was
! opposed TO the adoption of the report
without an investigation of the
| changes, and that il was more hazard .
Gus To adopt the Code without infor
nation than 10 risk losing IL by the
! delay till the next session Like Scna-
I tor buchanan. he argued that II was
not in the contemplation of the Cen
eral Assembly TO authorize the rcviscrs
F.. TO make material changes in the pres
cnt statute laws. but merely to revise,
arrange and codify.
senator Cannon said that he favored
Inc principle of the Royal resolution
ana said that the immediate adoption
/ OIL the Code was nothing more than
teiins the people that it were better
10 nave Joint high commission Of
'nrec IMAM II senate OF forty. He or
: po'co the idea OF dclcgating the legis-
7 iatTe authority and rcspopsib;litv
! vested III the Senate to the Code 70
/ visers He cited few changes in tho
/ better to pursue the safe course of in
Testigation and discussion than ia
. swallow the rcport on faith alone. bu,
/ SAID that he, like every other Senator
/ mad the greatest admiration for the
! ability and integrity OF the revisers.
ALLEN REPLIES TO
! srRoDIs'S ARGUMENT
/ Scnato- Allen. opening the argument
after TIE recess. replied to Senator
strobe b. saying that the POSTPONE.
tnent of tho date OF effectiveness was
n concession for the sake Of getting
/ tho Code adopted rather than an ad-
( mission OF hazard on the part of the
I advocates. He said the 'fri-htful"
changes constantly referred TO and
( disappearing on Investigation were
/ thrown out to scare voters away from
I the Code. and that the only objection
TO the report was the Governor could
not appoint angels to do the work of
men.
/ senator Conrad said that he was
amazed at tho attitude of those favor
B ing the resolution. He contcndad that
/ the physical condition Of the subject
demanded that somebody swallow ~
whole and IL had az well be this Cen
I "Tal Assembly as the next, which
/ would doubtless have at least one
thiFd new members, and there could he
no assurance that the members of Tho
proposed committee would be returned
lie then asked why those who rallied
az the evil changes did not attcmpt 10
remedy them. and stated that he who
voted against the Code would have as
much TO answer for to his constitu-
! ehcy as the man who voted for 1T. as
therc We're more gross wrongs in the
present Code that they wanted changed
I than would be in the new one he voted
I i'F' lie further argued that the in
EesIiEai!on by all the State following
! us aoophon and publication would be
Better ihhn that of any committee Iie
said that the method suggested would
result IN an endless chain OF commit
tees If everybody refused TO swallow
tho book on faith
AMENDMENTS CAN DE
MADE NEXT .ESsION
+ senator Rison, speaking briefly. said
mat the committee would have no
other business or power than &c, hunt
down amendablc sections. and that tho
next General Assembly could do that
/ work better after the Code were adopt
/ Cd and placed in the hands OF the bar
and the people.
! senator Trinklc. concluding the ar
E"mcht against the resolution. said
! 'hat inc Vastness of the -cpcrt the
variety of the subjects considered and
/ 'he diversity of opinions made il a
practical impossibility TO secure a Code
e"'Fc'E satisfactory to everybody; and
'hat therefore the Senate must con-
siaer 1t from a broad view, for the
general good. and not he prcjudiced by
single section that appears to he
undesirable on frst blush to some per-
I. sonal interest.
RE thcn reminded the Senate that the
choicc OF reviscrs. free from politics
| was hedgcd in by the discretion of tho
! supreme Court and the thoughtfulnoss
! or the Governor. and was the fairest
and wisest course that could have benn
, followed Giving convincing details
nc told or the study and scrutiny given
! the changes by the able reviscrs and
said that he was willing to adopt tho
! Code with the Inevitable mistakes in
H. because IL spelt more progress more
| prosperity and more laws based on
| equity and reason than were written
IN any volume ever offered the State
| He said that if the Senate could trust
me peoplc to live for two years under
the batch of bills il had passed II couId
! WITHIN reason trust them to 1.-Two for
len days under the new Code which
| VIII take effect the day before the next
Assembly convencs. In reply to SEN
ator Cannon as to law of distribution
III which there is a change to the effect
mat a widow when tho husband dies
intestate and without children gets all
his personal effects. he said that It was
an evidence OF tho emancipation Of
women tending to place them rightly
| on an equality with men,
BUCHANAN AGAINST
HHLIND AD0HTInNn