The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-19
After Much Debate and Pleading the
Upper Branch Withdraws Opposition
to the Willis Resolution Limiting
Procedure to Roads and Measures
Proposed by the Governor.
SENATE
KILLED
By. VOTE OF 20 TO II


BY a vote of twenty to twelve, the
senate ieceded from its amendment
to the house resolution barring any
hut certain bills from consideration
Yet held and debate was warm be-
tween Senators Addison and Strobe.
for the amendment and Senator
Goolrick. against it.
Discussion of the resolution did not
begin until one o'clock as the chair
was vacated twice for intervals of
twenty minutes on motion of Sena-
tor Strobe Senator Addison then
asked that the resolution be called up
and moved that the senate insist on
its amendment. Senator Goolrick's
substitute motion that the senate re-
cede from its amendment was then
offered AS a resolution was adopted.
all bills other than those dealing
with roads and those referred by the
governor are barred from introduc-
ten. except by JOINT resolution OF both
ouses.
Supporters OF the amendment con-
centrated their energies on a fight
for adequate appropriations for
schools, describing the conditions as
alarming and holding that the
school emergency was fully as vital
as any affecting the highways of the
state. Senator Addison stated fatty
that, unless something was done at
this session of the general assembly,.
r1any schools throughout the state
would Have to close. He mentioned
the superintendent Of public instruc-
ticn as authority for his statement
that a 100000 deficit existed.
In an eloquent appeal to the sem
ate to public schools higher than any
ether consideration. Senator STROBE
who was recently discharged from
the army after serving in France as q
colonel OF infantry. blamed
ignorance for the present unrest OF
the world and named education as the
only, means by which this country or
the nations of Europe could be saved
from confusion and chaos.
The senator reviewed briefly several
strikes and contemplated strikes.
What can they do but strike" he
said, when the constituted govern
ment allows to so unredressed their
wrongs"
ADVANTAGE OF EDUCATION .
In illustrating the advantages Of
education over ignorance, he COM
pared the way Frances ship of state
still preserves an ever keel while
staggering. Russia reels on to brutal
self-destruction. The senator's ex-
PLANTATION was that seven out of ten
CT Russia's adult population can
rot read or write. There may be
i,litera,e people In France" he said.
but diligently inquired for one
ithout success. OF all the people OF
one man, woman or child over the age
o. ten years could not read and
write.
France has been bled white:
whker than any nation on earth. but.
because of the intelligence of her
people. she is still the most stable
country In Europe. Conditions are
much more stable than even in this
( country.
The old age OF ruthless competi-
ton and the SURVIVAL of the fittest by
brute strength is gone forever. Those
who fought the cause OF right
against might will never return to It.
You think troublous conditions are
en- us here" said the senator, they
are. but they are as a whispering
summer breeze compared with over
yander."
He then told Of two remarkable
observed during his
stay in London, when two meetings
were held in old Trafalgar square,
under the shadow OF Nelson's monu-
rent. at which the only flags un-
furled were red.
THE whole tenor OF their talk"
said the former of1icer. ''was-We
fought this war. we gave our sons.
and we win never. neser go back TO
the old conditions"
In concluding his night for wider
scope at the special session. Sena-
tor Strobe touched on the engrossinE
national problem Of lowering the
prices on necessities
Frankly" he said I'm not very
sanguine that the general assembly
can do much with the high cost of
living. but am certainly willing to
do all can. But we couldn't even
consider that except by consent Of
the governor"
HEART is TOUCHED
Senator Goolrick, in answering the
appeal. preferred his remarks with a
slowing compliment to Senator
StIodes eioquence, My heart has
been touched he said, but my
Judgment remains unipnuenced. am
Unable to see the connection between
strikes and the proposition Of Sena-
tor Addison to increase the tax rate
IL hte extent of six cents for schools.
" hich comes from him alone
MIR. Addison remarked at this juno
ture that the PROPOSAL did not come
from him alone. but that he offered
no apology IL II did.
Senator Goolrlck. patron Of tho
roads bill. protested against any ef-
forts to place members of the house
or senate In position antagonistic
10 schools. He pointed out that the
house. which has refused to place
schools by the side OF roads at the
special session, was even more arr