The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-22

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day as having been vetoed by the gov
,ernor under misunderstanding a. to |
the special and peculiar conditions
surrounding Hopeweil and other war
activity centers in that county.
Anti-Trut Biu Held Up.
Under the leadahip Of Senator West !
those members of the. senate opposed /
governor to abolish local boards OF
review. and the Hudg ms billiard anti
trust bill, had succeeded IN preventing
consideration of those two measures
by the senate. outstanding that /
the governor had cent still another I.
special message to the senate urging
the necessity for passing the anti
trust bill as war measure essential /
to protecting the people from war /,
profteers
After bitter debate jhe senate In /
committee Of the whole RAD voted to !
accept the governor new recommen !
dst lions as agreed upon by the sub /
committee. and when the senate re /
turned to regular session there was
an acrimonious discussion with charges
of unfairness. Goolrick, strobe Holt
and others maintaining that no one
had been authorized 10 notify the gov
ernor that the senate he'd SO acted, (
II was their contention that the &C
ton OF the senate q committee NJ
Inc VNOlS ola not plHu Lbe SENATE IN
regular session, and they claimed II !
was an injustice to deny them the
privilege of a recorded vote on the
question of accepting the compromise.
Governors Message 80 the House.
The governors message was pre-
scented to the house at the close Of
Judge Hughes speech. His recon
mendations were accepted. - to l6
Added to the compromise agreed upon
BY the subcommittee of the finance
committees Of both houses was fur
Their recommendation that the $500
for the governors office and manson
as recommended by former Governor
stuart be stricken out. Cherry, ofl
Norfolk city. moved that this item he
rsinststed in the bill hut was de
cIared out of order
Davis. of Norfolk county. brought
out the point that the com ornis~
bill appropriated s3fe.4o4 in excess Of
the original house bill before amend
ed In conference. He hoped that in
formation would be disseminated
throughout the state.
Reed OF Portsmouth. also opposed
the compromise and claimed IT would
create a deficit,
Floor Leader Willis made brief
speech in which he expressed the hope
that the house would adopt the gov
ernor's recommendation. but explained
that he was personally unable TO do
SO because he did not want to deceive
tho people nor did he want the house
to be placed in that position. He pre-
dicted that the assembly would be
obliged to come back in two years
and pass bills To make IN for the
deacIts created by reason of the re-
auctions suggested by the governor
The items reduced would OF necessity
have 20 be made up two wears hence
~~Au tfnnG had
been such as to restore the original
house bill he would have been pleased
30 vote for them. He regretted that
this house. in making the patriotic
sacrifice of agreeing IN the last min
utes OF the life Of ths assembly To
these suggestions In order to obtain
some kind of an appropriation bill
was apparently being placed in this
false light It was not the fault Of
the house, declared Mr.. Willis.
One the roll call there eighteen vot-
ed against accepting the governors
plan. They were
Cook Crockett. Davis. Deans. Fuller
Gillian. Gilmer. Goodwin Charming W
Hall. Mann, Price Ragiand, Reed
Harry B. Smith, sproul. Stuart and
Willis
Chairman Brewer. of the appropria-
lions committee. called up the bill
levying q special franchise tax OF 1/l6
of per cent on public service cor
porations. which was passed "a TO 10,
It was opposed BY Willis Reed and
Gilmer, and advocated by Gordon and
w. A. Anderson.
West Mav~~s Long speech.
prolonged speech by Senator West
of suffolk. who persistently refused
to yield the floor. except for the con-
stderation OF privileged matters and
a motion to adjourn. prevented the
the recommendation of the commit
tee of the whole that the conference
report be accepted, West gained the
Goor ct the morning session and held
n until the senate recessed for lunch.
On raassembltnx the SnTolk senator
went into p discussion of resolution
offered by senator Mathews of Nor
folk which provided that no bills
other than the Appropriation bill and
buls relating thereto be taken up in
the extended session. Mathews offered
the resolution as substitute for one
offered by Senator Strobe, OF Amherst,
to take UP the antitrust bill and the
house bill providing for the abolish
ment of local boards of review.
Senator West. however. had a double
purpose In refusing to yield the floor,
One was to prevent action on the two
bills embraced in the STROBE resolu-
tion and tire other was to hold the
floor until Governor Davis had sent 10
the senate his second series of recon
m.ndstions embracing the agreement
reached Monday night between the ex
ecutive and the subcommittees from
the house appropriations and finance
committees.
Sitting as a COMMITTEES OF the whole
the senate had earlier in the day voted
IL 10 II to accept the conference re-
port. while an effort was being made
to force n vote Immediately on the
recommendations Of the committee of
the whole a motion that the chair be
vacated for twenty minutes was car
ried.
When the chair was resumed, SEN
ator West informed the senate that
! he had advised the governor OF the
action of the committee on the whole
and that his second message would
shortly be presented to the assembly.
Alexander Has Signed.
Pasadena. Cat. March 2i.--crover
Cleveland Alexander the Phtfadeinhia