Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28
FAVORABLE ACTION
IN COMMITTEE ON
HIGHWAY MEASURE
Acts Provisions Are
Changed in No Essential
Features.
PRINCIPAL DIFFERENCE ON
SALARY OF COMMISSIONER
Senators Insist Minimum Shall
Be $4,000, With $500
Maximum.
MORE PAY FOR LEGISLATORS
Senate Adopts Resolution to Increase
Extra Session Salaries 500 and
Regular Sessions 500.

AFTER several hours of discussion the
Senate Committee on Roads and In
ternal Navigation yesterday evening
voted to report favorably the State
Highway Commission bill essentially as
1t passed the House the preceding day.
Several amendments were added to
clarity minor features Of the measure,
but these did not change the main pro-
visions.
The big fight In the committee was
on an amendment designed to allow
route matters already passed on by
commission senator Aubrey f. strode,
allow an appeal in ali all umatt such matters 80
to restrict it to. routes on which no
Senator'S c. oConor Goolrick and x.
Willis Robertson, opposed changing the
iba' Hopse Bill a,,1 In tn this respect declaring
matters which had been adjudicated
under the law. The amendments
were defeated when the matter sim
mered down to vote. & O. o.
Disagree on salary Minimum.
The committee voted to refuse to
the State Highway Commissioners
salary at not less than $4,000 and not
more than $1,000, and insisted on IT'S
and a maSimum Of $500. e0
Owing to the addresses made by
Secretary OF the Treasury Garter Glass
and Congressman Edward T. Taylor
little business was transacted at the
session Of the Senate with the eXcep.
a local nature. Wien the isa, Senate ee,SSe eo3
vened there were but eight members
present but later sufficient number
On motion of Senator Cannon the
House resolution giving State en-
n hn nf -nYyt naF,f
bonus of 10 per cent on their salaries
was concurred in.
Conference Repor. Presented.
Senator George n. Conrad presented
mittee. recommending the opening OF
the doors OF legislation to the con
an increase in the salaries of public
school-teachers. About this time
report was received from the House to
the effect that that body had refused
to agree to the report of the conference
committee.
Senator Cannon moved that the
for the consideration of the bill which
proposes TO increase the salaries Of
s Of So er each to
sion and slOO for each regular session.
The motion was adopted. 4s
May store Food Ten Months.
cemm,ae eeGo9R o the seaate es Tesd
to recommend favorably the cold
storage bill. which has been amended,
to allow the storage of food for as
long as ten months. The bill origi-
nally fixed six months as the limit.
Before leaving the committee the bill
was amended so to reduce the
license tax on private cold-storage
plants to IS. where the business does
not exceed $1,000. and $40 where 1t does
not exceed $4,000 Where the business
Is greater or the plant a public one
the tax Is s25.
y delegation OF North Carolina citi-
zens appeared before the Senate Roads
and Internal Navigation Committee
yesterday afternoon and urged the In
cl"sion in the State highway system
of road in Norfolk County, which
connects with proposed highway con-
struction in North Carolina.
Postp0nes Coal Tax Confederation.
Last night the Senate Committee on
Finance voted to postpone until 10
o'cloak this morning consideration o,
the tax or coal and other matters re-
ported by the subcommittee. and which
have not yet been finally acted on by
the committed The committee acted
favorably bill to appropriate
$4,000 for the Legislative Research
Bureau and also. on a measure appro-
priatinE $4,000 for contingent and in
c.dental expenses of this session of
the General Assembly. Other financial
matters were considered.