Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-22
SENATE FINALLY ADOPTS
COMPROMISE REPORT
Members XIII 500 Expense" Bill
After Heated Debate Over
Measure.
SPENDS DAY IN LONG DEBATE
Ffiibustering Prevents Consideration
OF Antitrust pleasure and Bill
Providing for Abolition OF Local
Boards OF Review.

BY vote OF 26 to IL. the Senate last
night at 1l:lO o'clock finally adopted
the compromise recommendation OF the
Governor and the subcommittee OF the
two chambers as an amendment TO the
appropriation bill, which the General
Assembly. In answer to messages from
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and the
Speaker Of the House. returned to cor
rect and complete before the construc-
tive session OF tho General Assembly
was adjourned sine die. The 500 Eek
pense" bill was lost, with little hope
OF It's being reconsidered and passed
this morning.
AS u result Of flibustering. the bills
proposing to abolish the local boards
Of review and the antitrust bin were
precluded from consideration. though
there is a bare possibility of their pass
Ing In the Senate this morning, IL
quorum is present. The entire day
was given over to debate and parlia-
mentary tactics aiming to defeat or
save the compromise report, which APP
peared to he the easiest way out Of the
dilemma. Among those who made the
day lively with debate were Senators
Strobe. Mapp, Goolrick Walker. Con-
rad. Andrews, West Cannon, Wcnden-
was In regular session and while sit
ting as a committee of the whole.
SENATE ACCEPTS COMMITTEES
COMPROMISE REPORT
The Senate. sitting as committee
OF tho whole. by vote OF II to II.
adopted the Allen resolution accepting
the subcommittee compromise recon-
mendation. but later, in parliamentary
contest, by vote of 10 to IS, at
time when the vote tested thoroughly
tho sentiment OF the Senate rather
than the sentiment of the committee
OF the whole, the chair was vacated
to prevent n vote in the Senate proper
being forced by the opponents TO the
resolution. Otherwise no definite ac-
ton has yet been taken in the Senate.
The Senate at l0..o o'clock went into
committee Of the whole 10 report
back to the Senate not later than
1880. This action was taken on a
resolution offered by Senator Downing
and amended by Senator Holt.
Tho FIRST action OF the committee
was 10 reject. by - to II. the Conrad
amendment TO add TO the compromise
report OF the subcommittee 5000 to
the Harrisonburs Normal School and
to increase the salaries OF the Assist
ant Attorney-Gcnera and the proposed
rate expert of the State Corporation
Commission back TO the amounts set
forth in the bill sent the Governor
SENATE AS a COMMITTEE
ADOPTS sUBCOMMIrTEE REPORT
The second action was to adopt, II
to IL. the Allen resolution proposing
to accept the subcommittee report.
which IS 10 come before the Senate as
the substitute recommendation from
the Governor. the only manner OF get
ting the conference report before the
Senate.
The committee .osc and laid the re-
port on the table TO permit as pre-
liminary matter vote, to determine
the sense OF the Senate. on the Strobe
resolution to have n joint committee
apply the Scent tax bill 20 The general
appropriation bill to determine pre-
cisely how much Of the special tax was
to be ,scd for meeting demands set
out In the appropriation. ana to make
this application In view of tn. sew
eral hundred thousand dollars known
to be available, but not recoG nized
when the appropriation bill was passed.
Senator Addison warned the Senate
that the adoption of the Strobe reso-
luton would negative the passage OF
the Allen resolution by the committee
OF the whole.
TAKE THIRTY MINUTES RECESS
TO NOTIFY GOVERNOR
The chair. then. on motion Of Senator
Addison, by recorded vote of 90 to
IL. was vacated for thirty minutes. in
which time the Governor was Informed
of the action OF the Senate committee
of the whole. The action prevented
Senator Strobe from having called up
the resolutions proposing to reconsider
the bills TO abolish the local tax boards
OF review and the antitrust bill, both
OF which the Governor has expressed
the desire to have passed. When the
matter came up later. Senator Mathews
opposed opening the gates of the flood
of bills that died on the calendar,
while Senators Mapp, West, and others,
to more or less degree, opposed the
resolution to open up the calendar
Senator West expressed the desire to
join with others to get up the ". r l.
bill, or the purchasing agent bill. but
opposed acting on these two bills alone.
which, he said, were less important
than the two he favored.
Thinking enough votes could be poll
ed to kill the Allen resolution to adopt
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS compro-
mise report vigorous attempt was
made to get Senator West to yield for
vote of the Senate itself, but Senators
West. Addison. Strobe. Goolrick. Holt.
and others engaged in an informal de-
bate over the righteousness Of the i'm
preston conveyed TO the Governor with
reference to the vote of the commit
tee OF the whole, some OF them con-
tending that IL was the expression OF
the Senate, obtained by going into a
committee. while others maintained
thof he
timent of the Senate. Senator Cool
rick and others stated that to preclude
vote by the Senatc-whilc acting as
the Senate, and not as n committee
on the Allen resolution would leave a
false impression on the Governor and
provoke his compromise recommends
ton under q misa nnre hensinn falsn.