Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-26
HOUSE MAKING STRENUOUS
EFFORT TO CLEAR CALENDAR
Ten Senate Bills and Nine Other Meas
urrs Passed I'm Bioc-Amend
Mzpp Law.

With the budget bill and all prohibit
i s,on ana su hr i Legislation TO be
little else of relative importance faces
the lower branch durln. the little more
than two weeks remaining OF the 1920
session.
The House. =; It's afternoon session
Yesterday. got down to work in earnest
on its calendar. which. as a result OF
consideration OF the more important
pieces OF legislation. had assumed VOL
luminous proportions.
APPRECIATE hcldw way was made when
ten Senate bills and nine House bills
were passed Oh bloc and a batch o.
House measures were advanced to their
Among the Si hh t pa SsSsTmS wa, one
which came over from the Senate,
amending the prohibition oct, and
known as the "navoring extract bill"
ing naroring extracts TO use alcohol!
in their products. The Others wcre
loca! and uncontcstcd bills.
Several Bills Onered.
Among bills introduced in the House
yesterday were the fol!owinE:
BY Delegates Cherry and Dodson, OF
Norfolk city: providing for the crea-
ton of the Office OF public defender
IN cities having population OF $1,000
or more.
BY Delegate Horace L. Smith. Of
Surry: Prohibiting agricultural fairs
from operating more than six days in
any one week.
BY Delegate Prince. OF Sussex: Pro-
viding for commission on mental
By Delegate BOSNIAN. OF Portsmouth:
Providing for the appointment OF a
State inspector OF boilers.
BY twelve patrons: Granting women
dent and Nice-Prcsidcnt OF the United
States in the coming November cleo
lions, and assessing State capitation
tax on certain women residents Of
Virginia"
Correction is Made.
Delegate Bowlcs, OF Gooch,and, on
Tuesday introduced resolution app.o-
missioner OF Prohibition. 10 the dry"
department. and not Delegate Moffet..
OF Augusta, as has been printed
ro Delegate IJa,t Wilbur {; Hall. OF Loudoun.
two to be named by the Speaker Of
the House. one by the President OF tho
Senate and two by the Governor. TO
estimates of the cost of such building
The plans shall be subject TO the appro-
val of the State Art Commissioned.
Report is to be made to the 1922 ses-
sion of tho General Assembly. The
committee is to recommend whether or
not the building should be within the
the committee arc to receive no COM
pensatiou except mileage and hotel
bills.
Peters Submits Report.
Prohibition Commissioner Peters yes
terday submitted TO the House the re-
port called for relative TO the quantity
and value of ardent spirits and auto
mobiles seized by his department. The
report adds little. if any. information
to that already given in tho depart
mcnt's annual report. Commissioner
Peters states that it is impossible for
him TO render the itemized account
asked for.
\ resolution was offered by Delegate
Bosnian. of Portsmouth. charging that
tho Richmond rirginian had, on Tues
day, maligned, the delegate from Pat
rick County, w. l.. joyce. and asking
that the House go on record as object
ing to copies OF the paper being placed
on the desks OF members.
Adoption of the resolution was OPP
posed by Delegate Thomas w. Ozlin,
of Luncnburg. whereupon its patron
struck out that portion of the resolu-
ton excluding the paper from the
House.
Delegates Warren. OF Pittsylvania:
Bosnian, Boschen, of Richmond city. aud
Joyce spoke for the resolution. which
was referred to the Committee on
Rules.