Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-03
ANTITRUST BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Aimed at Prohteers Who Take
Advantage of War
Conditions.
RECOMMENDED BY GOVERNOR
House Declines to Advance Pro-
hibition Bill Out of It's
Regular Order.
RECOMMENDED BY GOVERNOR

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trust bill refusing to take up the new
prohibition bill from it's regular order.
advancing seventy-sx Senate bills to
the third reading and setting Tuesday
morning as the time for discussing the
( Gordon resolution 10 have judges of the
Supreme Court OF Appeals elected by
popular vote. the House Of Delegates
yesterday SO shaped it's affairs that
members believe all business can be
Saturday night.
The antitrust measure is one OF the
most important considered during this
term. 1t embodics the essentials
pointed out by Governor Davis in his
inaugural address to the Assembly.
when he stated that Virginia needed a
law to curb profiteers. His recon-
mendation that the law authorize only
prison sentences for those who seek
TO prey upon the public through comb;-
nations that control prices and output
is carried out in the BILL
40 ENTHUSIASM OVER
BIG APPROPRIATE
An effort was made TO have action
postponed when the measure was en-
countered on the calendar, but when
roll call was demanded few had the
tcmerity 20 oppose its imm ediate pas
sage. Vote on its passage stood co
to .. Messrs. Cato. Conway Deans.
Murray and Price voted against it,
The House prohibition bill, embody-
ing amendments offered to practically
the same measure in the Senate Com
mittec. through which the much dis
cusscd 100000 appropriation is cut to
$4,000 and the proposed increase to the
Prohibition Commissioners salary is
decreased by $500, is fifth from the last
on the calendar. 1t had precedence OF
fifteen bills until yesterdays session,
but ten Of the measures behind it were
passed to cnErossmcnt.
Delegate Jones asked that the pro-
hibition bill be taken up. but was given
scanty support. Members generally
seemed far from enthusiastic over the
contemplated further restriction on the
liquor traffic. aud appeared not to want
TO make the big appropriation at all.
HOUSE CALENDAR IS
IN GOOD SHAPE
At the close OF the session the House
calendar. except for Senate measures
all of which had been moved to the final
reading, was very lean indeed. Nine
teen House bills were on their third
reading and ciEhty-ninc on the second.
Many OF these will remain just where
they are. it is thought. bat the old
members say the calendar was never in
better shape at this period OF any
former session.
So far as the House is concerned tho
tax matter is practically settled, Senate
compromise measures 10 the contrary
Notwithstanding. When the House
voted n scent levy for schools. it con-
sidercd its duty done. Thercfoyck it is
predicted that the Senate bill, calling
for additional levies totaling 10 cents,
will not be kindly treated by the Dele
gates. Coeducation, moral and social
welfare bills, game laws and the pro-
hibition bill will be the principal time
consumers from now out They, it is
expected. will keep the members busy
for the remaining few days of the
session.
SENATE PASSES BILL
LEGALIXING POROPATHT
The exercise OF temporizing tactics.
according to Capitol rumorS. to keep
congested specia! orders, among which
is the Mapp prohibition bill on the SEN
ate calendar; the passage of the
much discussed "poropathy" bill and
the bill to encourage the produce
tion of food fs!, in the Eastern Shore
waters; the engrossment Of the STROBE
bill TO admit women to the profess
sional and graduate courses OF the uni-
vcrsity OF Virginia. of the Mapp bill
amending section 37?9 Of the Code. re-
lating to violations Of the Sabbath.
mi l.. 4 orl-; l.,u-
of the bill to provide for State insur-
ancc Of public property against fire
and lightning and to appropriate
money for carrying the bill into effect,
besides adopting resolution that the
Senate should beginning next Wodnes-
day, consider only House bills and the
House only Senate bills were the days
work in the Senate yesterday.
Senator Conrad consumed the greater
portion of the day in opposing the
Strobe bill. which. however, was lin
ally ordered to it's third reading. Soma
tor Strobe did, though, to meet the
views of Senator Trnklc. who said lie
would vote for the bill accept an
amendment to the effect that women
should be admitted to the graduate
work only of the professional school
Of education. This was done 10 pre-
vent duplicating the underE raduatc
work of the State normal schools. IT
seems assured that this bill will pass,
but probably by a narrow margin. The
Early coordinate college bill was made
special order for Tuesday at
o'clock.
TALK AIMED TO BLOCK BIG
rROTIBITION APPROPRIATION
What time Senate Conrad spent dis
cussing the bill. of which he is patron,
to provide for State insurance OF pub
lie property. especially. 1t would seem,
brick and concrete schoolhouscs. he
devoted to answering numerous qucs-
tions shot at him by those. so it is
whispered. who were fighting the pro-
hibition bill, blocked on the calender
behind special orders, rather than by
those Interested In the fate of the
Conrad measure. The result was that
the Conrad bill was not disposed of