Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-03-09
Here and There
in the
Legislature
Richmond

Richmond
In the discussion of the workman's
compensation bill, which provided
originally for a new commission, to be
an expense Of $4,000 or more, the po-
sition Of Governor Davis was referred
to in connection with his platform and
a probable veto of the bill. Senator
Early, of A.bemarle and Greene. spoke
In part, as follows:
Never before in the history of this
Commonwealth has any man been ele-
waited to that high office with so many
obstacles as those which confronted
Westmoreland Davis, when he made
the battle for the Office which he now
holds Ranged against him were the
organization and the anti-0rganization,
| as well as the Anti-Sa!oon League.
With the great men Of our party in
the Congress of the United States
solidly against him. as well as thirty
eight members of the Virginia Senate,
yet he went oct among the people in
the highways and hedges and upon
the hustings and proclaimed his plat
form to the sovereign voters of this
Commonwealth.
1.-THE people from Cumberland Gap
to Accomac responded in thunder
tones in no uncertain terms. His po-
| sition was expressed clearly and dis.
tinctly upon the issues that were up
| permost in the minds of the people.
The people responded to that platform
| which struck responsive chord that
crowned his efforts with victory. In
that platform he proclaimed from the
mountains to the sea he was opposed
to the creation of any new or unnec-
essary Offices and that he would veto
any if created by the General Assem-
bly,. The Governor voiced the senti-
ment of the people from whom he has
so freshly come. I shall, therefore,
vote for the amendment as offered by
the Senator from Henry. l believe 1t
expresses the sentiment of the people
of Virginia, who are against the crea-
| ton of a new commission at the ex.
pense of $4,000 or more. Vox populi,
vex del; that shall be my guide in
casting my vote on this measure"
Unanimous consent of the General
| Assembly was obtained to permit Sen
ator Walker, as result OF the recent
visitation of the Virginia Assembly's
| delegation to the food conservation
conference in Washington, to intro
duce a bill in the Senate to promote
the production and conservation of
seafoods along the Virginia shore.
Laws has reported out the child labor
bill, with something fewer than 10,OO1
amendments. 1t has also reported out
the ''miller BILL" with an amendment
exempting so-called merchant millers.
The Corporation Commission is
among the State departments profiting
materially from increased appropria-
tons as set forth in the House general
appropriation bill. The Assembly OF
1916 gave the commission $43,420, an
nually for two years. This Assembly
gives it $4,000 for 1918, and just ST.
800 less for the succeeding year. The
appropriation provides for $4,000
worth of filing cabinets, etc.. for the
first year. Six hundred dollars of this
amount is taken up in travelling ex-
penses for the next. however, when
$1,000 is given for that purpose as
compared with the $500 allowed 70,
1918. The commission is also allowed
q number of extra employees, rated as
engineers, inspectors, experts and
stenographers. Griffith Dodson want
ed $4,000 more added to the appro-
pr1ation, but was not successful in
the effort.
Kelvin, the six-year-old son of Mrs.
G. C. Pulliam, of Six-Mile Bridge. was
badly lacerated about the head ant!
face Saturday afternoon when stove
in his home, was blown up by three
dynamite caps. The boy found the
caps near his home and put them in
the stove without knowing what they
were.
At last the arm of the law reaches
out to strangle the Virginia buzzarde,
which have been protected so long.
The life of the law is the reason of
the law, it has been said. and when
the reason ceaseth the law ceaseth.
No doubt since dogs have stopped
killing sheep and white mules live
forever, the fact that buzzards are
charged with carrying germs, it has
been suggested, is the reason for the
withdrawal of protection from the
fowl in question. 1t might be stated
that the House has not yet passed
Mr.. Winston's bill permitting the kill
ing of the turkey and black buzzards
When the Hening bill providing fol-
clearing trees and underbrush from
the sides of public roads was being
advanced from the second to the third