Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-30
COUNTY ROADS GET
100000 IN BILL.
P:ASSEDLAST NIGHT
Senators Indulge in Battle
OF Words Before Meas
ure Passes.
-
BLAMEs HOUSE FOR DELAY
IN ENACTING LEGISLATION
President Buchanan Asserts All
Business Could Have Been
Finished.
CHARITY BILL FOR $1,000
Act Provides Financial Relief for
Insane Hospitals and Similar
State Institutions.
BLAMES HOUSE FOR DELAY
IN ENACTING LEGISLATION
CHARITY BILL FOR 100000
Act Provides Financial Relief for
Insane Hospitals and Similar
State Institutions.

inFec senate sessions yesterday re-
Sut'cd In the passage of the bill an.
ProprlatinE S625,000 for the State high
way system. the bill giving s40o. to
county roads and number of minor
measures of local nature Tho main
night came on the matter OF tho an
preparation for county roads. hut r.
was mainly a battle of words for IN,
bill passed by vote of 33 to 4 many
or the city members voting for It. The
appropriation for the State highway
system carried unanimously.
AT the session last night Senator r.
f. T. BuGhanan took the House to task
ior delaying legislation. and Also had
am, nihG at newspapers who had declared
,nat rnat inc House was making more prog
that had the House not adjourned over
until tuesday the work OF the special
session session could have been ended BY to-
House had put the sbu rden ofSfnn nsia1
IeElsiatlon on the Senate and that the
Senate ncee;1ommittec had worked
when met every need OF the State.s-,i''
Give 100000 to Hospitals.
., Ihe Senate also yesterday passed
for fore t%c stae sstnPeopnatlns about sisoooo
simila institutions. p'A'S ana
me senate Committee on Insurance
ahn ,h naihkinE Yesterday reported favor-
rn,a ran INC bill which requires banks to
accounts of unknown persons who
~, navc had deposits in the bank for
hitsen nsn, years The present law says
Senator !. F.. Cannon of Richmond.
MADE made a; strong fight against the bill
=, re declared that it was Injustice
To the cities and was dishonest nolicy.
:, senator 81 ,s 2. Lee Trinkle. of wythe.
terests Of the entire State. Hc declared
that those who favored the bill we're
being called looters because they were
He said:
Here we members OF the General
Assembly II this session are spending
city will be taxed for these county
roads. and vet we read in your news
napsrS nap, p pn,hgs in big headlines. You Looters..
be welcomed by the city"
Governor Sends MessaEe.
At this time message was received
from the Governor announcing the ap-
a member of the board OF the Univer-
sity OF Virginia in place OF Robert
The House sending in a message.
stating that it had rejected the amend
ment for a Republican to be on the
highway commission. Senator Addison
moved that the Senate insist on. it's
amendment and ask for a conference.
This motion carried.
Senator w. l.. Andrews. OF Roanoke,
opposed the county roads appropria-
tion and joined issue with the remarks
of Senator Trinkle. In doing so he
however. launched a boom for Trinkle
for Governor calling him: THE gifted
son of glorious Wythe whom we ex-
pect at no distant date to present IFS
the proper man TO preside over the des-
TIMES of the commemorative" This
caused great applause in the Senate
Petersburg Favors Program.
Senator p. Fl. Drewry. of Petersburg.
declared that he did not agree with
city Senators who opposed the county
roads bill. He said that Petersburg
favored it. Senator Rison deciayed
that Danville also favored it.
Senator Cannon said that the news
the cities was simply reporting his re-
marks and that he stood by his state
mcntS.
When the measure came to final
vote only Andrews, Cannon, Gum and
Mathews voted against it.
Increase Assiatant. SnInry.
Last night the Senate concurred In
the House bill increasing the salary
of Assistant AttorueyGeneral j. u.
Hank from S2.500 TO s3500. 1t also
passed the bill, sent over from the
House. making an appropriation for
the incidental and contingent expenses
of the special session.
The bill increasing salaries OF mem
bers of the next General Assembly
failed. temporarily. in the Senate yes
terday, not receiving the necessary
votes to dispense with the constitu-
tionai readings. The vote was Is to
Is in favor OF dispensing with tho
readings