Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-22
DETAILS MUST Be
GIVEN IN AFFIDAVIT
Responsible Person Must Swear
to Description of Place
and Article Sought.
PUNISH COURT AND OFFICERS
Action Without Required Par
ticulars Is Felony for
Searching Official.
PUNISH COURT AND OFFICERS

Until there has been hlcJ with tn.
proper authorities An affidavit of some
responsible person describing the place
or thing to be searched the article
which is sought and alleging substan.
tally the offensc in relation to which
the search Is to be made, no search
warrant shall be issued in Virginia.
This is the outstanding feature OF n
Dill which has been introduced in tho
Senate by Senators Deal and Leedv.
and was considered by teh Committe.
on Courts OF Justice yesterday after
The bill was among the first which
ane committee took up when it ner
Capitol. The committee was also tho
first from the upper house OF the Leg
.siature TO conyenc, and for this rea-
the senate will probably be among the
irst to be considered on the floor 81
the chamber.
Deal Explains aIcnsure.
Senator Deal appeared before the
committee TO explain the bill. II pro-
vides that no search warrant omittinE
,rf descr,ptior n OF the place and tho
the issuance of general warrants for
searching purposes.
place n second time without . % snestai
warrant shall be deemed guilty Of !.
Ielony and be puniShed by conIne-
ment in tho ponitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than five years,
or q jail sentence with n fine. accord
ing to the terms OF the bill
Another clause in the bill advocated
that any Justice, Judge or court Issuing
warrant minus the afhdavit deseribins:
the place. they. article to be searched
ior and the offensc, shall be deemed
by a nno OF not less than 800 nor.
more than $500. ;-HS#F :, 4.
Would Make Detection Impossible.
On motion OF Senator Mapp. who
drastic ever presented" it was re-
ssrred to subcommittee composed of
SMSnafSrs Mnmhers ~ Mapp. Oliver and Booker.
themselves informally in the Commit
tee se,,,S room, said that the bill, if passed..
GaeS aks Il not the smose ef LIQUOR
Both the senate and the House con-
vened at noon and were in session only
House adjourned, and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Char, .nro Gait president OF the Ma
by pelagste
Gordon, of Louisa Many members O:
the Senate came into the House cham
sion to denouncc literature which the
An Ant:iSuJrage League had distributed
on the desks OF the members OF the
n.
Mrs. Gait declared that the sufrraye
rsm.ins ngn. nad FOB been won and that little
haye hay, not ratifled to do but to express
amendment. The galleries we We're crowd. ro
ed during the address. The speaker,
been the guest in the home OF a negro
woman connected with the suffrage
eaVSs, WSen as Sn charged 1;e 1,hsy BY the ants
appearcd at their desks at noon thew
i,2a,1d found pink roses. Whether these were sa
League or the opponents pe ua of thn hu'saTe siifn
rraSe measure could not bo learned.
put this did not hinder tho Legislators
No such attention was paid TO the
members OF the Senate.
await Governors Action.
No bill providing for the ratifica-
ton OF the Federal suffrage amend
Senate or House Proponents OF the
measure will await the transmission
OF the national amendment by Cover
1t is understood. The Governor is now
IN H. New York attending a meeting OF
IS not expected back until the end OF
the week, Eleven Senator's are CO.
na.THns liaafinn or or the bin rejecting the rati
was introduced on Tuesday.
saturday. January ~. has been set
a s6e 'qG hi,, date neof,d, for PUBLIC hearing
of the state Prohibition Department.
IIhis was done yesterday by DelegatA
MaSo ma G. Il, nrown' whe is chairman OF
been referred. The abolition bill has
ai as ,.s patrons sixteen members OF the
made tho race for Speaker OF thc
House on the platform OF the abolition
OF the prohibition department..
Proposes Memorial Highway.
Establishmen, OF the Maury Me-
'ngtun TO an intersecting road at Bath
Alnnl Springs. Is proposed in a bill
ns5s,nn lm,rodueed IN the Senate yesterday by
Vista The road viii BASS ot tbLonns 5uans
Goshen Pass. The dying wish Of Maury
was, that his body he carried through
IVY are in bloom The rhe nssIie rnad whies ans
the bill OF Senator Robertson maps out
would pass some OF the most famous
health resorts and springs of the
Delesa;es Thomas W. ozlin and VIII
bur Z. Hall are patrons OF hill pro-
vihins for the appointment, of ). com
state This IS in line with a recon-.
mcndation of Governor Davis to merge
~ dhe vIrsi; medical sch school of the gniyersiiy,
OF Virginia. as outlined in his mes-
saSc to the General Assembly. THE
commission will Investigate and ~
f IL Us appointed.
Would Repeal Primary Law.
Delogate Thomas Lomax Hunter in
pms1s ss Wfh the hs s0laHE sH,sn
.aw ssa.,d repsalted' narty nomfnees Of the Demo.
.nanner which may be decided upon.
prete.ably by eopvention. but. as an
Bureau nut r. .'cyon by the roiiin ~ l.r Z.