Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-19
SENATORS RECEDE
|. ON AMENDMENT TO
JOINT RESOLUTION
Two Branches of Assembly
in Accord on Work
Program.
SPIRITED DEBATE PRECEDES
SENATE'S VOTE TO CONCUR
Roads Laws and Matters Gov
ernor Recommends Given
Right of Way.
ADDISON SPEAKS FOR SCHOOLS
Supported by Strobe, He Urges Inn.
mediate Help for State Edu-
cational System.
SPIRITED DEBATE PRECEDES
SENATE'S VOTE TO CONCUR
ADDISON SPEAKS FOR SCHOOLS
Supported by Strobe, He Urges Inn
mediate Help for State Edu-
cational System.

Only good roads, and such other
matters as Governor Davis may sub
NIT, will be considered by the General
Assembly of Virginia at the present
extraordinary session.
After warm debate, in which Sena-
tors Addison and Strobe advocated let
ting down the bars for other matters
and Senator Goolrick protested against
such a policy, the Senate, by a vote OF
20 to -, voted to recede from it's former
action and to concur in the House ac-
ton limiting the scope of legislation.
When the Senate convened At noon
there was bare quorum present. and
1t was not until two recesses of twenty
minutes each had been taken that
enough Senator'S had arrived to make
the hall was reasonably full the ques-
ton OF the day was precipitated by
Senator Addison. who moved that the
refusal of the House to concur in SEN
ate amendments, widening the scope
OF legislation, be taken up, and that
the Senate insist on Its amendments
and call for a conference. Senator
Goolrick Immediately moved. as a sub
stitute, that the Senate recede from Its
amendments. p
Senator Addison Opens Debate. ~
The issue, being Joined. Senator Adj
olson launched the debate on the sub
heard or the school situation In the
state the more the question grew in
cavity and Importance in his mind.
In this connection he said
The present emergency is more
acute and pressing than that having
TO DO with roads. Just now, on this
day we are facing an alarming situa-
ton that, according to the estimate
of the State School Board. means that
for the school session beginning in
september we can only meet the de-
Sphn
this state by creating 4 deficiency OF
1000, 900.
1t has been intimated in the public
press that we would betray public
trust II we go outside of good roads
legislation. l deny that the people
expect us to limit ourselves. There
are Senators on this floor who signed
the call for this session with reserva-
tions that we would take care Of "a
dying. disinteGrating school system
and save it from falling
Says Many Schools Will Close
The Senator from Lynchburg further
said unless the General Assembly did
something at this session. many
schools throughout Virginia would
nave to close their doors. He also said
the average salary Of the teachers or
Virginia was 1884 year. and that he
hoped to offer bill which would pro-
salary to S424. In answer to a oues-
ton he said that the bill which he was
preparing called for an increase in the
school tax rate from IA cents to 20
cents.
senator, Strobe endorsed the state
men, ments OF Senator Addison. and declared
jects OF legislation at extraordinary
sessions TO snch matters as the Gov
Virginia placed this responsibility in
the General Assembly. and he did not
S iSel fhaf the legislature was justihed
favored good roads as well as public
Shaddca,1on had to be- he sS bSieHed that if choice
preference to education.
Hut Breezcs ms Compared With Europe
Further the Amherst Senator. who
mas Just returned from service abroad.
These are troublous times here.
indeed but they are but as a whisper.
inS summer breeze to conditions over
cause of the lack of cducasi % zion i'asS q momg ne
Inc Inc ma masses. ! found no illiteracy in
bien hr"neS %hitn and sbs Ii.hGush She has been
country in Europe and even mofs
stable than the United States Tbev 'oY
bay hn nv nave vioia revolution. but it will not
ise 80! competition and survival o.
me me titest. through brute power and
nized from this Is time closed se
masses who gave all to om m,Es tnat me
world better place to live in are
LIS oaCh TO conditions which
SAID let the strongest SURVIVE and ,ha
deViI catch the hindmost They ars
SAYING the day of kings is gone but
wat wnat doth, 1t profit us if we do not nor
haye bread to feed our children no not
am not sanguine that we can do
much IN reference to the high cost ~,
.iElnS' but ] am in favor OF doing
Wnat we can, and the House resoIus
spect.' '' 'hls re-
Heart Touched, hut Head Cool.
senator Goolrick declared thar hi.
nehrt was touched. but his judgment
uIhaHected by Senator Strode's address
re sad the fact was that the speciai
session would not have been convened
nut Tor the general desire to provide
road FUNDS. tie asserted that so FAR 40
he knew the State Board of Education,
during the agitation for the extra.
ordinary session never had a meeting
or conference for or made request
for legislation in favor Of schools In
TINS connection he said:
II never read In newspaper that
the state Superintendent wanted ley
islation until read It In Tho Times.
Dispatch this morning"
The Fredericksburg Senator further
declared that school legislation al this
time would Jeopardize both roads and