Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-09
PROHIBITION BILL
IS SET FOR TO-DAY
other Bills RELOCATED to Background
to Consider All-Importnnt
Measure.
PASS MANY LOCAL BILLS
House Puts Coeducation and Notion
Picture Censorship Bills Aside
temporarily Adopts Report on
WOrkmcn's Bill.

Showing cocducation, motion picture
important measures aside. the all
important prohibition bill. as amended
by tho Senate. comes up for special
and continuing order In tho House Of
Delegates to-day at noon. Motion to
move up the measure was carried. with
Senator Mapp. Prohibition Commits
s!oncr Peters and the assistant super
intend'%it of the Anti-Saloon League
of Virginia looking on as Interested
and active spectators. This motion
aroused loud discussion. but feeble OPP
position. Scarcely u dozen noes were
heard when It came to vote.
Delegate Jones. OF Richmond. who is
engineering the bill in the House. pre-
scented the motion TO make IT special
order. pleading that II was perhaps
the most important bill considered by
the body in this session, and that It
therefore deserved a better fate than
unnatural death on tho calendar. Ills
motion came at the close of the morn
ing session. after thirty-nine uncon-
tested and local bills had been put
through the final reading en- bloc His
motion came few minutes after the
time set for recess, and was not acted
upon until the beginning OF the after
noon session at o'clock.
OPPOSITION ARISES FOR FEAR
BILL Will. DE "RAILROADED-
The main opposition to the motion
came from Delegate Williams. OF Fair
fax, and Delegate Davis. Of Norfolk.
Neither spoke against prohibition. nor
against the bill as whole. Each.
however, seemed TO fear that debate
would be limited, and that the measure
would DO "railroadcd" through before
those who object 10 its large appropria-
ton and the Increased salary for the
Prohibition Commissioner could be
heard. Howard Giincr and Mr.. Jones
reasoned that friends OF the measure
had no desire TO shut OF discussion OF
tho bill
Mr.. Williams held that the question
OF providing ample funds for schools.
roads and health was just as impor-
tant az the prohibition matter. and
asked that the Senate compromise tax
bill be also moved UP for special order,
II any preference was TO be given the
Mapp bill. lie offered this as an
amendment 20 the Jones resolution.
OTHER HILLS ARE
MADE SPECIAL ORDER
Mr., wniiams's action prompted
others to oncr amendments. Delegate
Shackleford asked that the Strobe CO.
educational blu be included. Lindsay
Gordon wanted the poropothy bill
added. @. c. Davis put forward the
Senate bill designed TO exempt citi-
zcns whose lands had been seized for
Federal purposes from taxation on
those lands since the seizure.
The chair ruled that these motions
We're separate and distinct from that
of Mr.. Jones. and they were voted on
separately. All carried except Mr..
Shackleford's, which was lost by a
narrow margin, making hopes for CO.
education in the university very dim
indeed. !, is hardly probable that
the bill can be reached through the
regular procedure.
ROTH BRANCHES ADOPT
REPORT on WORkAIEN'S BILL.
The Senate refused TO concur In tho
amendments made by the House in the
compensation bill. A conference re-
port. through which the House receded
from its demand that the clause ex-
cmpting employers of less than eleven
operatives from provisions Of the bill
be made TO read fifteen" but held out
for the whole time commission OF
three, was adopted by both houses
On recommendation OF Governor
Davis. the House passed the four reve-
nue. measures suggested by the State
Tax Board. These were: to add in
hcritance tax to the omitted tax law
TO cause bank accounts whose owners
are not known to eschcat to the State,
10 make the situs for intangibles
owned by corporations the place OF
their physical existence, and to define
the status OF persons who reside in
Virginia the larger part of their time.
but claim other States as their legal
residence. These measures, it is con-
tended. will bring in much revenue
which the State does not now enjoy.