Evening star., 1924-02-02
VIRGINIA HISTORIC
PROPOSED
State Senate Resolution
Would Establish 4OO-MiIe
Tourist Route.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Specla! DlSnatch TO 4 he star.
|. RICHMOND. Va, February .
What is perhaps the most stupen-
dous undertaking ever mapped for
the state highway department is that
which has just been proposed in the
senate which would provide a great
tourist route for the most historic
points in the state and make a con-
to 400 miles.
Part of the route already is pro-
vided in the system of the depart
ment, but the proposition would con-
meet all of the several routes and ex-
tend the road from Washington, at
the Virginia end of the Key bridge,
through Arlington county. thence on
the valley. Strasburg, New Market,
Harrisonburg. Staunton, Lexington,
Roanoke, Bedford. iynchburg. APP
pomattox. Farmville, Burkeville,
Blackstone. Petersburg, Richmond,
Williamsburg, Yorktown, Fredericks-
burg, Mount Vernon, Alexandria and
to point of beginning.
The route would be known as Vir-
ginia Historic Highway. The resolu-
ton to provide this road is sponsored
by Senator Barksdale of Lynchburg
and thirteen other members. 1t is be-
lieved that the measure will be
passed.
New Bridge Planned.
There will be named a commission
of five persons by the State of Vir-
ginia to confere with a like number
from Maryland relative to the propo-
sition to build a bridge across the
Potomac river at or near Persimmon
Point, in King George county, across
and to the Maryland shore. The SEN
ate has passed that resolution. and
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concur. The bridge is to be paid for
Jointly by the two states. The COM
mission is to make a report on the
matter at the next session OF the
legislature.
ton. for the naming of the commission.
he being also the patron of the resolu-
ton looking to having to state OF Vir-
ginia direct. the highway department TO
build a stone, steel and concrete bridge
ern neck section to Richmond, the bridge
to charge tolls until the cost is re-
turned and then to be free to the pub
lie. If this last bridge is built IT, will
mean that access to the northern neck
will be shortened from twenty-four
hours to Just three hours.
Senator Hot's bill aiming to place a
tax of s25 a year on physicians and
surgeons, in addition to the. large
amount of free work they are doing tor
the health department Oh inc Stdtc, WdS
defeated in the senate after a short de-
bate, the bill polling total of just four
votes, with twenty-seven registered
against it.
Against Gambling mt Fairs.
The senate committe for courts Of
Justice has reported favorably the
bill Of Senator Willis Of Roanoke.
which prohibits gambling, games of
chance, devices involving chance or
any Of the many schemes, which have
been in vogue for years at the fairs
in Virginia. The bill was hard
fought in committee. that body
wrestling with 1t for several hours
before reporting it by a majority of
one vote.
The pay Of the judges of the cir
cult courts of the state has been
raised by legislative enactment. The
bill passed the house Thursday and
yesterday 1t came to the senate. The
committee was discharged from it's
consideration and the rules suspend
ed and the bill put on it's passage.
The new terms of some of the Judges
began yesterday and the bill became
q law yesterday. The constitution
provides that the salary of a Judge
shall not be changed during his term
The question now Is which of the
laws is effeCtive-that regulating the
pay or that on which the term be-
gan? Could both of them become
effective and operative at one and
the same time? The lawyers are not
agreed on the point and it may 60
to the courts.