Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-13
RESOLUTION TO BAR
CONSIDE RATION IS
ADOPTED BY BODY
Skaters Hopes of Good
Roads Association for
This Session.
SMITHEY PAPER WINS
BY TREMENDOUS VOTE
Gives Peoples Opposition to
Added Taxation as Rea.
SON for Action.
VOTE DOWN RECoNsIDERATIoN
VOTE DOWN nEcoNsIDEnArIoN
Henley Urges Fairly InvestIgntion or
htrhwny "mrnissI"ncr and
Department..

hE decisiv vote. 7s to IL, the
House Of Delegates yesterday closed
the door against consideration Of :,
"ohd issue for roads at this session.
u adopted by this vote a resolution
oi"red hy.DelcEate Marvin Smithey.
OF brunswick. picdgng itself against
support or any road hond issue at
this time.
The resolution skaters the homes Of
members aud supporters of the vir-
S'nia Good Roads Association who
nave been campaigning for many
months past to secure favorable ,c-
ton on "a bond issue during tho nrcs
ent session nf the legislature.
The Smithcy resolution ms adontcd
10y the House follows:
Teat of Smithcy's Resolutions.
Whereas. the people OF Virginia
are opposed To added taxation AT this
time and during the present pcriod
"t depression favor the most rigid
economy In the administration OF thu
'AhairS SI tho Stute= consistent with
good government, now therefore he
it
Hesoived, by the House OF Dele.
gates OF Virginia. that we pledrs
10 the people of Virginia that we
VIII not issue bonds for public ro.d
Improvement at this time"
The recorded vote follows:
Neas-.,dams. Anderson. Reat,i.
'""' wright Bolton. Bondurant,
s"wits' Brown. Israel; Brown. i. sin
ciair' Brown. Mayo G.; CampbelI.
'arter. Commins. Craft. Deans. De-
rrier". JiGes. Dotson. Erer. Eweu
rarrier. Ford. Fuller. Gibson. Graham
uray' ). Walter; Gray. u. T.: Haddon
'1ai'' Henderson, Hicks. T.. A.; Hicks
W. r.; Hoover Claude ": Hoover. w
" h"rner. HERSHEY, Hurt, Hyl,on
'eH Jones, Edwin II. Keen. Eeo-
eh' koe"r. Long, McCaleh. McCo,t.-
Mci.eanT-AicNutt. Monctt. Nottinrbar
o"Iin, owen, Patterson. ritts pr,,,
rage. i'ricc. Frincc. Ramsey Ricb,rd.
''o"Eers. shepherd. Sinclair. Smith
'haries Henry; Smith. +. Hurb
Smithey. Smell. ST. clair. s,usr,
."rn"r. Taylor Trolinger. Tyler va.
''"' ~ - warren. c. H.: Younr.-7s
H'!S-baEby. Bright, Fletcher
"ro"me. Henley, Massey. Rev. Smitb
Aired G.: Stinson. Story. wi,I,,rs
wilkins, Willis. Woodville woods
wright. Speaker Brewer.-l7
Not voting-Carpentcr cora,
Jones. James. H.; Norris p.,,,
'"''h' charles F.; Smith. Lemuel +.
vote Down NcconsI,IcratIo,
fh'e Smithey moved reconsider-
'"e V"tr and reconsideration
""S "Nerwheimingly voted down
In IL
| H"I'heN said the people OF Rruns,vic,.
ana MS section of the State wero ~
posed I" bond issue for roads a,
ms Time, ana he believed the same
opinion prevailed throughout n larger
portion OF the state. Mass meetings
hcid through his section of the STATE
h" said. had adopted resolutions
against bond issues for roads. and he
feared that unless the Legislature
went on record at this time that a
large portion OF the time OF tho
House would he consumed in discus
sion Of road hills.
Floor Leader r. Holman Willis. OF
Roanoke. moved that the resolution
he referred to the Committee on
Roads.
Delegate J. NJ Hurt, OF Nottoway.
said lie was in accord with the dele
gate from Brunswick. and related the
tax N-burdened Condition Of the farm
crs. He said he.was speaking because
he wanted his message TO "get back
home
Delegate George r. Keezeli, Of
Rockingham. said that practically
every agricultural organization in the
state had gone on record against
bond issue for road improvement, and
that the state horticultural Society
now in session in Richmond. had
adopted a rcsolutio8 asking that there
he no bond issue or added taxation at
this time. He urged that tho ques-
ton he disposed OF at once.
Wants Rond Funds Ia do Most Good.
Delegate r. u. Bolton. OF Bote-
tc.~t. said, I'VE want to handle tho
road funds so they will do the most
good for the people of Virginia"
Delegate n. \. Woods, OF Norfolk,
sa id ne had canvassed during the eleu-
tion on tho. platform for bond issue
to mcet Federal aid. He said the
sections OF the state which feel they
are overburdeneh with taxation
should consider the cittes OF the
State. for they pay the greater pof-
tion of taxes In the state. Mr.. Woods
emphasized the point that the reason
tho people OF Norfolk and the Fast,
ern SECTION OF the state had meney
TO pay their taxes was because thsy
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