Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
BIGLEGISLATIVEDAY
FOR NEARBY AREA
Two Bills Passed and Favor.
able Action Given to Four
by Committees.
BY LESTER n. INSKEEP,
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

EN40F1AOND. va, FEBRUARY Zb.--WiLfl
the passage Of two measures and IA
Vorable committee reports on four
others, legislators from the section of
Virginia adjacent to the National Cap
1tal feel that yesterday was one of
the most successful days experienced
by them in the present session of the
General Assembly.
Passage in the Senate of the bill
that will enable Alexandria to hold
an election on the sale of the gas plant
of that city practically completes the
legislative program of the Northern
Virginia city, the bin. sponsored by Del
egate j. Fred BrreH, already having
been passed by the House.
The Senate also passed the bill of
Senator Frank l.. Ball of Arlington to
permit counties and cities to furnish
extra compensation to policemen who
are totally disabled, either permanently
or temporarily. in the line Of duty.
This measure has not yet reached the
House.
Planning Bill Reported.
Despite the efforts of the city coun-
Gil of Alexandra to the contrary. the
Ball park and planning bill was re-
ported favorably from committee and
will reach the Senate calendar within
the next few days. The measure pro-
Vides for a joint park and planning
commission for Alexandria and Airing
ton and Fairfax Counties.
The Arlington County incorporation
bill of Delegate Hugh Reid was reported
from Senate committee after having
been passed by the House. This meas
ure, too. will reach the Senate calendar
this week for final action.
The bill provides for a referendum
vote on the question of incorporating
the county into the City of Arlington, .
and sets forth the type of government
TO be adopted in event of favorable
vote
BY vote of 9 to 4, the Senate COM
mittee reported favorably on the reso-
luton of Delegate Wilbur G. Hall OF
Loudoun County to request the COVER
nor for inclusion in the 1882 budget OF
a sufficient appropriation to place free
elementary text books in the public
schools of the State.
Appropriation Increased.
Going the House one better, the Sem
ate committee on insurance and bank
ing added an appropriation OF 1880
and two members to the personnel pro-
vided in the workmens compensation
resolution of Delegate Hugh Reid before
reporting it out. The original resolution
carried no appropriation and but fve
members, two to be appointed from the
Senate committee amendment would
add two members, to be selected by the
governor. The commission is TO inves-
tigate the practicability of the idea OF
q State insurance fund for employers.
Referring to the committee hearing
that was scheduled today on the bill
providing for a county court Tor
Arlington County, Reid stated, IN reply
to the criticism of Attorney Lawrence
Douglas, that the measure was intro
duced without having been submitted
to the Arlington County Bar Association
for approval, that the necessity for the
introduction of the bill in its original
form was due to the deadline for intro
ducing new bills and that he had always
intended submitting the revised measure
to the association before seeking maj
legislative action. The president OF the
bar association already had been as
Sured Of this, he said. A favorable re-
port on the bill is expected.
public hearing on the Hall chain
store tax BILL which was yesterday re-
ferred to the Senate finance committee,
has been set for next Tuesday night at
8 o'clock
Delegate Wilbur C. Hall Of Loudoun
County led one of the bitterest fights of
the present session of the General As
sembly when the Senate bill to continue
the Halsey commission on the Liberal
Arts College for Women came up IN the
House for final passage. He lost, the
vote being Sc to 81.
Hall offered a substitute bill striking
out the declaration that such a college
shall be established" and continuing
the commission, with instructions to re-
consider the necessity of such college
and report in detail. His bill would
have included the clause in the Layman
bill prohibiting consideration of site
within 30 miles of the University OF
Virginia and would have required the
commission to submit detailed esti-
mate as to the cost of establishing and
maintaining such a college should ne
cessity for it be found.
Delegates E. B. Jones of Highland and
John w. McCauley of Roanoke, both
members of the Halsey commission,
supported the bill.
Delegate John S. Battle of Char
1ottesville attempted to have passed two
amendments, one striking out the sec
ton saying the college shall be estab-
1ished and the other removing the
clause prohibiting the consideration of
q site closer than 80 miles to Char
lottesville.
Mrs. G. C.. White of Gloucester and
Mathews, the only woman member of
the Assembly, was unsuccessful in an
effort to amend the bill so as to increase
the membership of the Halsey commits
sion by 6 members, giving it a total
membership of Is.
Following the passage Of the bill by
the House, Senator Frank L. Ball of
Arlington and Delegate j. Fred Birrell
of Alexandria stated that the way is
now left clear for the consideration of
Alexandra or some other point near
the National Capital and that prepara-
tons are now under way to have the
advantages of the Northern Virginia
section placed before the commission.
Condemnation Bill Passed.
The House yesterday passed the Sen
ate bill Of Senators Frank L. Ball OF
Arlington and A. P. Staples of Roanoke
providing for the condemnation OF
property in cities and towns.
The bill provides the means whereby
cities and towns may acquire property
for public uses without the present re-
sultlng damage TO owners. Under the
old law only the amount of ground
actually needed could be condemned
frequently resulting Senator Ball ex-
planned, in the original owner being left
with a strip of land that was too small
to be of any use TO him or TO be salable
Under the provisions of the measure
passed today the entire amount may be-
acquired and the unused portion reSOld
Delegate Wilbur G. Hall of Loudour
County, chairman of the finance com.
mittee, succeeded in having recommittec
the Buchanan bill allowing cities
towns and counties TO exempt from tax
alton for five years certain manufac,
turing plants and works of public i'm
provement.
The House passed the Holiday
Layman bad-check bill.
BY an overwhelming viva voce vot'
the House defeated a resolution by Del
egate E. G. Folkes of Richmond requir
ing the appropriations committees o
both houses to meet 80 days in advance