Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-06
RERCULEAN EFFORTS MADE.
sBY HOUSE TO PASS BILLS
Beginning Wednesday Each Branch
VIII Consider Only Others Meas.
ures-CaleuticrS Arc CongcStcd.

Appreciable Roadway was made by
the House yesterday in clearing u
tcongested calendar. Thlrty-siN local
and uncontested House bills wore
z passed en- bloc, as were n number OF
Senate bins, and others were advanced
10 their third reading and engross-
ment. SIN others were passed by,
and Likelihood Of these again being
considered is remote.
In order to approach anything like
passage of bills still on the calendars
yesterday adopted joint resolution
providing that on and after Wednes
day. March 10, the House will consider
only Senate bills and House measures
with Senate amendments and vice
versa. The upper branch. as is GUS
tomary toward the close of each Sos
sion of the General Assembly, is eX-
psctcd to concur in tho resolution.
Kill Salary Increase BnI.
Senate bill LAG. providing for an in
crease of salary TO $4,000 a Year for
members OF the state Industrial Com
poses Killed when the House voted to
pass II by indefinitely.
Conditions under which Industrial
insurance companies may be organized
or licensed to do business in Virginia
are prescribed in Senate bill rs. which
passed the House yesterday.
health nursing. health examinations
and physical education OF school chill
dren and making an appropriation for
%as ! put 10 Sleeps By By the
lower branch.
Pass Rebate Coupon Tax Bill.
House bill 3i4, imposing an annual
license tax of $500 on corporations or
bate system. was passed. 81 10 10.
House bill 32e. providing for the re-
fund OF money alleged 20 have been
improperly collected from tho Virginia
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the Homestead hotel, was defeated, Ia
to A.; r. Lindsay Gordon. member OF
train in order Ia help kill the measure.
similar fate is expected to be
Reted out to House bills S22 and 323.
providing for the refund OF money al
legged TO have been enormously assess
ed against hotels ia and adjacent to
Norfolk; as follows: Monticello Ho-
cello Hotel, c. II. Consolvo. manager;
Fairfax Hotel. J. +. Bell. manager:
Fairfax Hotel, NJ. L. Hamburger. man
ager; Lynnhaven Hotel, II. \. Dodson.
manager: Lynnhavcn Hotel. Lynnhavcn
Hotel Corporation. owner: Lynnhavon
Hotel II. Bothman. manager; Lorraine
rainc Hotel f.. a. Dodson. manager;
Victoria Hotel. y. y. Dubois, manager:
Victoria Hotel r. N: Sparrow. man
aGer; Victoria Hotel, Sparrow and
orebauEh. managers. and Richmond
hotels as follows: Hotel Richmond
Corporation. Jefferson Realty Corpora
" y,
Mnrphy's Hotel. Inc. and Hotel
stump. Il. y. Stumpf, proprietor.
Richmond Member. Patrons.
Among patrons OF the bills are Price.
soschen. Haddon Wilcox and Fuller.
of Richmond city.
Other bills passed were tho follow
ing:
To require treasurcrs OF cities of
over 125,000 inhabitants to mail bills
for State taxes TO taxpayers
TO provide for q portrait OF the late
Senator Thomas S. Martin to be hung
in the hall of the House. and appro-
Drta'!nE 51,3O0 for the purpose
TO authorize boards OF supervisnrs
circuit to supplement the foes OF any
constable therein by payment OF a
salary.
TO appropriate money In aid of duly
organized Confederate memorial asso-
Citations, OF the State having I'm charge
and that eNpenu such money on. Gem
eterics containing the graves or Con-
federate soldiers or sailors.
TO make mn appropriation for the
the Confederate Memorial Institute,
otherwise known as Battle Abbey
Richmond. for housing tho paintings
presented to Virginia by John Harton
Payne.
House bill a15. to require every per.
son subject to cupitation tax and
ever! person. firm or corporation sub
!cct 10 taxation on personal property
money or income, 20 file answers UNI
der oath to heterogeneous issued by
commissioners or revenue In respect
thereto. and providing penalties for
violation, was advanced to its third
readtng and enSrossmenr