Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-01
APPROPRIATION
BILL is PASSED
Legislature Establishes Record
In Passing Laws---Compensa-
tion Bill Passes Senate---More
Money For Road Work.

Richmond, Va, February 26.-Sev-
OH hours after it came up under SPEC
inl order mt Il o'clock today the house
appropriation bill had been adopted
and passed to the senate, creating n
new record for speed in this class of
legislation. The only material change
i'll the bill rs it came from the COM
mittec is one whereby $225,OO0 of
tho 1919 appropriation for roads is
shifted to the appropriation for 1918
making the total for this year $685.
600 instead of $33O,00O The shift
was made to provide funds sufficient
to meet the federal appropriation
due July ! of this year.
The change of the road appropria-
tion grew out of Robert o. Norris
request that 5000, 900 he added to the
appropriation for this year. In pre-
sontng this request he made vigor-
Gus speech in the interest of good
roads and contcndcd that with the
sum mentioned in the bill, Virginia
could hope to accomplish little in
constructive why and that the sum
was really not sufficient to meet the
appropriation due the State from the
federal aid fund
In defense of his position he called
on Highway COMMISSIONER Coleman
to address the house. Speaker Hous-
ton vacated the chair for the com
missioner TO speak. Mr.. Coleman
contcndcd TINT the appropriation was
much too small but admitted when
nm in,n.l r.I 4
man of the appropriation committee,
that with the shift of part Of the
1919 appropriation to that of 1918.
his department could avail itself of
that part of tho federal fund now
due and that considerable work could
be done pending larger approprin-
tions by the 1920 General Assembly
When Mr.. Coleman concluded, Col
oncl Brewer offered ns II substitute
for Mr.. Norrs' proposal That the
appropriation he shifted Thomns I.o-
max Hunter characterized the shift
ms IL makeshift and Mr.. Norris fought
valiantly against il, az did Albert
Boschen and w. w. Sproul. r. A.
Anderson, minority lcnder, sided with
Colonel Brewer. When the vote came
the appropriation chairman was ov-
whclmingly the victor.
by nm overwhelming vote the re-
vised code of Virginia hns been np-
proved by the house of delegates ms
amended and passed by the senate.
On II roll call. the result Of which
railway crossing section were defeat
ed, and all other rcvisions were then
accepted without contest. Tho code
now goes to the printer and binder
and will be ready for distribution as
soon as possible.
The workmens compensation bill
hns pnssed the Senate after hard
fight in which Governor Davis sue
ccedcd in having his views cngrafted
into the bill over the protest of the
patron by having the second auditor,
the insurance commissioner and the
labor commissioner substituted for
the three men who were to be named
to have supervision Of tho opera
tions of the Inv, and in opposition
TO the expressed wish of the work.
ingmen and the employers, who sup
ported and favored the bill reported
by the commission.
II was stated on the floor that the
governor was standing by his decla-
ration to oppose the creation of any
new offices and the intimation wns
that he would veto the bill unless his
wishes were followed, and the bill
amended in dealing with the commits
sioncrs.