Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-01
KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL
BILL PASSES SENATE
Allows State Superintendent to Use
Certain Funds on Petition
Of Patrons.
GAME BILL FULLY DEBATED
Measure to Provide for Money Aid
to Destitute Dependents lis re-
jected by Vote of ID to IS, but Is
Still Held on Motion to RecOnSidcr.

passed the Senate yesterday morning
by vote of 20 to l6. and the motion
TO reconsider was rejected. Tho Sen
ate occupied the remainder of the day
in discussing the general game bill. on
which no action was taken. and In dis
cussing a bill to provide for the aid
Of destitute dependents OF .convicis anu
OF convcts when discharged; which
bill was rejected by vote OF 10 to H.
Motion was made to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was lost; motion
to pass by the reconsideration was
lost by the came vote. The Chair then
recognized Senator Mapp, who held the
floor until the hour to vaca,c the chair
arrived, the result being that the hill
has mot been reconsidered, and still
has n chance for it's life.
VOTE ON.-CONRAD
KINDERGARTEN BILL
The Conrad kindergarten bill passed.
after considerable torrd argument.
The vote was:
Aycs-Addison. Allen, Andrews,
Buchanan Byrd. Conrad, Corbitt. Davis.
Drewry, Goolr;ck,, Gravatt. Gum. Jor-
dan, Lacy. Mapp. Mathews. Robertson,
Royal. Trinklc and Walker--20.
Nays-Barham. Bowers, Cannon.
Downing. Early. Garrett. Gayle. Hen
ing. Holt. Keith. Mitchell, Rinchart.
Ttison. Strobe. Thornton and West-l6.
Not voting-Goodloc. JcmrcyS. webb
and WcndenburE-i.
The bill provides for the diversion Of
$4,000 of the State school funds for
tho establishment OF kindergarten
schools on the application of the parents
Of at least twenty children of the ages
of five and six years living within two
miles of the schoolhousc. IT lies with
In the discretion of the Superintendent
or Public Instruction to designate from
what funds the money shall be divert
cd and the manner OF its disposition.
The kindergarten bill was brought
UP for discussion by Senator Conrad.
the patron. who argued that the bill
was not at all unconstitutional. as it
did not specify that the $4,000 appro-
priation sought had to come gu; Of
the mill levy
Senator STROBE said that he was con-
strained to vote against the bll--not
because II was unconstitutional. for in
that contention Senator Cannon was
wrong. but because he could not as
teacher OF seven years experience
and parent and patron. regard kim
deTgar;en schools as n benefit He sa id
that children of the tender ages OF five
and six were neither mentally nor
physically sufficiently maturcd To henc-
1T by such mental stimulus as the bill
inrokcs.
In reply Senator Conrad argued that
kindergarten work. and quoted Or. I'D
win \. Alderman and DIR. j. A. g.
Chandler M indorsinE the method Of
education. He prophcsied that the day
VIII come when there will be no town
or village in the State withou, a kin
dergarten school.
HEJECT nILL For PER DIEM
ALLOWANCE; FOR CONNECTS
BY vote OF u to 10. the Senate re-
tectcd bill to allow after July ]. 1918.
1-e cents day for expense money
and . cents for a EonE-away fund
to accumulate til. the convicts go away:
and to allow % cents day 10 destitute
dependents OF convicts.
Senator'S STROBE. Mapp. Cannon
Trinklc and Gum ably defended the
bill Oh economic, ethical and humane
reasons, while Senator's Wendcnhurg
Keith assailed the bill az unethical
putting premium on crime and pen
sioning convicts. The bill provok ed
for the first time during the session a
splash OF scriptural quotations.
On the bill relating TO the aid OF con-
victs and their dependents the vote was
as follows:
Ayes-Addison. Andrews. Cannon.
Conrad Corbtt. Gayle. Gravatt. Gum.
Jeffreys. Jordan. Mapp. Mathews. Rison.
robertson. STROBE, Thornton and
Tr!nkle-lT.
Nays-Allen. Bowers. Buchanan,
Davis. Drcwry. Early. Garrett. Cool
rick Hening. Holt. Keith, Lacy,
Mitchell. Rinehart. Royal, Walker,
Webb. Wendcnburg and Wcst-1o.
GAME HILL Is TOPIC
OF PROLONGED DISCUSSION
Senator Robertson. referring TO the
game bill. said that the bill did not
and chief object of this bill was to
put all the authority and responsibility
on the chief clerk OF the Department OF
Fisheries. under which the Department
of Game and Fish is subsidiary. He
showed that even If the chief clerk
should receive the maximum Of $4,000,
the state would yet be saved 500.
He referred 10 the utterly absurd
diversity OF open and closed seasons
adopted without effect by local Boards
OF Supervisors. and said tho bill pro-
vides for general season. Tho bill
provides that the chief clerk may,
with consent from tho Governor and
tho Board Of Supervisors, close the sea
son in any c6unty.
The bill provides that the dog laws"
shall be enforced by local game war
dens. and sets premium on hawk
scalps. 1t also provides that clerks
shall receive 10 cents for county
license, 20 cents for state license and
90 cents for foreign license. 1t also
exempt fox hunters who use no gun,
but merely run with the hounds for
the sport of the chase.
The patrons of the game bill ac-
copied an amendment to Strike out the
right Of the chief clerk TO mandamus
the Board Of Supervisors OF county
to pay bountics for hawks and crows.
The bill allows the department TO pay
out $4,000 for this purpose. An
amendment was adopted eliminating
the right of the Game Department to
employ itincrant lecturers on the sub
ject of game. The bounty on hawks is
|, so cents and on crows 10 cents.
Al The Senate passed the following
Mills:
y To amend section 350S OF the Code in
I relation to fees of certain officers.
To put wives and husbands on terms
OF equality as to contracts with or
conYeyances to each other touching
property rights vested or contingent
arising from the covcrturc
To provide for clearing trees and
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