Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-24
WOULD FORCE HAND
OF GOVERNOR DAVIS
Good Roads Executive Commit
tee in Conference Here
Thursday.
SEEKING SPECIAL. SESSION
Advocates Declare Funds Must
Be Appropriated Before Rcgu-
lar Legislative Term.
SEEKING SPECIAL. SESSION

w hon the executive committee OF the
virginia Good Roads Association meets
Thursdaj' morning at Murphy's Hotel
- IS expected that greater pressure
than eyer Will be Droush, TO bear upon
Governor Davis and members Of the
General Assembly in an effort TO force
the calling pf :: special session OF the
legislature 10 enact laws necessary
TO ncc: the Federal road aid proposal
Int'l now the good roads cnthusi-
aSts have confined thcir activities al
most entirely 10 ,aik aud ccneraIiza
ton A. ye' they have convinced few
that special session is necessary. In
their effort to induce the asscmblymcn
20 call spccia! session they were
unable 10 cct anything like the nee
eSs"r% t"o-thirds majority TO petition
ia. Governor.
The Governor himself was no, con
Nihcen. ana when he MAS told that tho
members showed, little disposition to
conven" themselves. he was dispos cd
cal ,hcm anyway, since they appeared
OUT oil sympathy with the movement
S5,O0O.noO Is Needed.
IN thc meeting today, however. it is
expected that President s. L.. Lupton
and his associates on the committee q
VIII have something concrete TO otter
IN the way or convincing facts. AS
they sec The matter the state will have
70 raise between now and 1879 some
thing like s5,00p,00o to meet Federal
aid requirements. The language Of the
this money must not only be raised be-
fore July. 1922. but that by that time
u must lave actually been spent unon
the highways for. which it is intended
The Federal government oncrs ST.
5s.23i, TO he spent before July !. 1920;
fiIsSSiSisep, as. to ,d be spent before July J.,
July !. le22. Available and in sight
10 10 match the 1920 appropriation the
auen; TAX ,axes siofe i o hSL,"o"%oo; Su6se-
cesstully take care or that. But after
Wards the STATE must raise in direct
match the additional appropriations
and TO do the preliminary work neces
ssary ID make The State eligible for
Hany Appropriation Bills.
The next regular session of the Leg
lsiaturc is going 10 have so many tax
and appropriation matters brought be-
iSrs iSr 81 IL fstr that the road men fear for
are going TO require a larger appro
priation than ever before, they say,
and institutions forced to retrench
during the ware are going 10 want
larger appropriations With all of
these matters before them. i, is not
willing to saddle SO lnrgc an incrcas Sc
in taxes upon. the State at one time
to since bs mai all bY of ihs arc
igured that no appropriation made by
tho regular session could become avail
able for several months. Hence their
desire for haste
Another phase probably 10 be brought
out today is that if no special session
Is called the proposed increase in au.
tomopiie :aNcs Will not be available
untH 1871! for the reason that these
taxes are due January |. Mos, of them
VIII have been paid before the I-cg,is!a-
ture could enact amcndatory lcGisla-
tion concerning them
Would Observe Custom.
IT the Legislature is induced to call
itself in special session it will he OBJ
serving custom. The last spccial ses-
sion. convened during Governor Stuart's
aom lniStration, was called By the
members. 1t was recalled yesterday
Members of the committee expected
AZ the meeting today are: :. L. Lup-
ton, Winchester; Il. II. Angel, Roa-
noke: Eorer y. James, Danviile: George
r. Adams, Old Point; g. B. Scott. Rich
mond; &. OConor Goolrick Ereder-
icksburg: Ashton Fletcher Jenkins
Bridge; w. c. Saunders. Glen Allen;
f. w. Davic, t,awrenccvi!le: DIR. S. s
Guerrant Galloway: John T.. Walker
salem; Wade H. Massic, Washingtcn;
Roberts Bristol; Prof. p; c., Humph-
Hampton; A. S. Johnson, Isle of wight;
George p. Coleman, Villa msbTrg:
J: a; Hardy. Blackstone r. II. Self
Martinsyille: Q: l.. McCraw, Lynch
George F. Harrison nerndon d. s
Finncy, Lebanon; j. +. Harper, Wayncs-
boro.