Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-22
in the light of the presiding officer

in the light OF the presiding Officer
explanation.
senator Gravatt, taking the sSS.00O
reduced from the state hospitals, said
that the subcommittee report was IN
wiling deficits for the next two years
and Shouldcrins the burdens Of this
Assembly In that respect on to the
shoulders OF tho one OF 1920.
SENATOR STROBE OPPOSES
COMPROMISE REPORT
Senator Strobe. opposing the compro-
mise. in one OF the ablest speeches
delivered in the Senate during the
present session. stated that the sub
committees report did not do what X
started out TO do, and stated that the
senate was ueluding Itself in doing the
easy thing. lie stated that 1t was
indorsinE dangerous vicious principle
to be encouraging the State institu-
lions 10 i've on credit, with the
assurance that the next General As
scmbly would pay their debts; which
would at least reach 100000, and
nothing would have been caved to the
taxpayer; the result being that the
state had spent the s22,000,oOO of the
people ana unloaded on the next AS
sembly the duty Of meeting the in
evitablc deficits.
He then stated that such transac-
ton or business was not sound i'm
principle. had never been done before
with the Assembly's eyes wide open;
but would be done by the Assembly
thinking ike an ostrich with its head
in the sand, in its haste to get away
from here. and then tell the people of
the great things done for schools and
roads ana tuberculosis. il the report
was accepted By the Senate He then
urged the Senate to meet it's rcspon-
sibiiity like men ny applying, the SCI
100000 appropriated to the s22,o0OOO0
Of revenue. having written the appro-
priations in the bill
lie said that ii was necessary to
get away from the notion that the
Governor had called them back; that
they had come back here. as they
should have done, before the session
was over, to apply properly the Scent
special levy to the appropriation bill,
as was at least by many understood,
by which the Senate would be acting
on the sound principle that a State
must live within its income, az properly
advocated by Governor Davis.
CITES MONEY TO III. RAISED
by SPECIAL TAXES
Senator Conrad stated that two items
were contained In the appropriation
aggregate that should have come out
namely. the s215,0oO for roads for the
SNNNHo yeSI, anu the SZbS,UUU to the
Department of Diaries and Food to-
falling $4,000. He then called atten-
lion TO the 100000 franchise tax. and
the 100000 as Il minimum to come
from the Armour decision, and ask ell
why this 100000 had not been added
TO the credit side. He said that it was
reckless economy" that contended Il
Sl,opO,Ooo should have been cut from
the bill. and when opposed in this by
- ~ mr. ],
so bill and the bank stock bill. both
OF which proposed to reduce the States
funds. He then said that many
thousand dollars were cut from the
appropriations that could have been
left there. He especially defended the
needs of the State institutions. and
said that they could not lay the blame
at the door OF the Senate. which tried
70 find a WY to protect them, without
encouraging them TO produce deficits
Senator West concluded the debate
on the amendment of subcommittee
conference report. He defended the re-
port. at the same time taking issue
with many statements made by the op-
position.
Senator Goolrick opposed the salary
grab" bill as being, not only uncon-
stitutional. but absolutely unjust. In
Hiew of the salary increases denied the
state employees. amounting TO viz
tually the same amount for both years
Senator Cannon, likcning the poll
tics in the measure to peanut, also
opposed the bill, which had been re-
ported by the Senate committee with
recommendation that it do not pass.
as being openly in the teeth of the
Constitution He made the specific
point that no one had come back cx-
cept willingly and with full know
ledge of the Constitution. He said
that If they accepted the 500 they
would be the "holdcst band Of bucca-
neers that ever cut a throat or scut-
tied a ship"
Senator'S Holt, Rison. wendenburg
and Andrews favored the bill, which
was lost, ii TO IS; motion TO recon
slider was made and then TO pass by.
Motion was made TO adjourn, and was
carried.