Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-07
NO COMPROMISE.
SAYS UPPER HOUSE
Conferees Reach Agreement on
Other Amounts in Dispute
Between Two Bodies.
SPLIT is ON PROHIBITION
Delegates Seek to Make Sums
$4,000 and $4,000 Respec-
lively for Two Years.
SPLIT is ON PROHIBITION

OF Senator G.. Walter Mapp TO grant
ing less than $4,000 a year to the
Department. Of Prohibition presents
proba bility OF third conference COM
1nittcc to harmonic differences In the
appropriations bill as adopted by the
Senate and House.
Tho situation last night was that
the lower body had during the day
adopted two reports submitted by the
conferecs, while the Senate had re-
jected the first by vote of Is TO IL,
chiefly because Of that portion. Sena-
tor Mapp declared. allowing the Pro-
hibition Department $4,000 for the
i!rst. and $4,000 for the second half
OF the ensuing biennial period. When
the second committee. suggesting tho
same amounts for this purpose. made
KS report through j. Sinclair Brown
me Senate had adjourned and. there
1orc, was not advised of this action
Colleges Granted Incrcpse
Besides the appropriations for tho
Prohibition Department, objections ad-
Eanced In the Senate to the report OF
Ments offered in that body and
adopted, increasing the appropriation
Tor virginia Military Institute for the
the University Of Virginia by sil 900
5or both years. had been cut out.
There wac restored also the provision,
strenuously objected to by Senators
iunn and Oliver. which would deny
to those cities and counties whose tax
levy lrny Is not % cents on the 500 FOR
distribution OF funds set aside for
public free schools.
restored the $4,000 for the VirEinin
Military Institute and took out again
LhG 2tendinE provision relative to the
other respects |, was precisely the
same AZ the first
Mapp for Full Amount.
I Senator Mapp last night reafirmed
= ms position on the matter OF larger
ssetSent s'1h !sr sss VOLTA sf
lieved he would win II was this item.
he declared. that made the Senate re-
bet P ,he r5t re poon The fac, that
nomination az commissioner does not
Sfn any way. he said serve to lessen
the EFFORTS he will put forth on behalf
Harry e. Smith" he declared will
be Just az much my commissioner now
AZ he Is anyhody's and he can't oper-
atc the department effectively on the
limitcd appropriation provided in the
conference report
The senate rejected the first report
w!th!n short while after 1t had been
presented. senator MapD character
ICED IL n an excellent one. except for
the, cut it suggested in the appropria-
ton FOR the Prohibition Department..
This view WAS reflected by Senator \.
Willis Robertson.
GRANTED an allowance of s25 900 "A year.
The Senate increased this to $4,000.
so ~ 70 make II conform TO the recon-
Committee. Dry leaders at the time
declared this to he the minimum
amount upon which the, department
may be operated effectively.
Responsibility with Governor:
In rnfa tn, no hat
Governor would veto an amount
greater than that allowed by the con-
ierees, Senator Mapp dec AIRED that is
the responsibility OF the chief execu-
tive. and is not 10 be considered in the
action Tie General Assembly is 10 take.
The Governor recommended exactly the
amounts brought in by the conferees.
in the event the department. should be
retained IT All.
Entertain different Views.
The two houses entertained different
Views on the first conference report.
Viii e the senate rejected it by vote
OF 10 10 r. The House approved. after
q brief, spirited debate. by vote OF
SO TO .. The new conference COM
the old, with the exception of Dele
gate Gordon. who takes the place OF
Delegate Deans. Senate members are
Garrett Garrett Holt and Cannon Those
Henley and Gordon. The new commit
tee went to work Immediately in an
a.
quickly as possible.
Cut Appropriations 800 600,
The first confcrces cut down the ag-
Eregate amount of the appropriations
a adn for by by the Senate by about 500;
period. 1t stu exceeded the House nj
lowances by nearly $4,000, and went
beyond tho Governors estimates by
more than sS5o,o0o The second con-
ferees agreed upon, the following
changes in Senate allowances, all OF
which arc amendments to the House
bill:
allowed ono additiona. clerk, instead
OF two: the Department of Prohibition
is granted $4,000 and 100000 for the
first and second years. respectively. in
stead Of $4,000 year: the raise OF
$3.50 a year given w, Warren Wall.
assistant counsel to the, State Tax
board raised from $1,000 to $1,000, is
reduced again to $1,000: five state po-
given raise OF s. month Instead
of $40: SIS 200 is inserted for drive
way through Capitol grounds: $3.50 Is
added to the approximation for for
raise to the forester. and $4,000 to the
Virginia Military Institute.
Senate Amendments Allowed.
Senate amendments to the House bill
allowed by tho conferces to remain as
For the Office OF State Treasurer, an
increase OF $1.100 n year, to take caro-
of salaries; Superintendent Of Public
Printing. $500 year: slight salary
Corporation Commission; for the relief
Of c. r. Lockhart. wounded in the mill
tafy service OF the State. $4,000; for
the Virginia School for tho Deaf and
Bind, an aggregate additional appro-
priation OF $4,000 for the two years;
Laurel Industrial Institute, $13,4s1.60
Cor the first year.