Evening star., 1940-03-10
Balanced Budget
Voted by Assembly;
Pensions Killed
Teacher Retirement
Proposal EIiminoted
From Measure
n q stan Correspondent Of The star,

RICHMOND, va, March 10 (Sun-
day. The 1910 session of the Vir-
ginia General Assembly adjourned
at am. today and will not re-
convene again until 1912.
Although the legislators worked
into the Sabbath day, the clocks in
the House and Senate were stopped
one hour before midnight. The last
hours were spent sweeping up"
last-minute miscellaneous bills.
The $178,00000O general appropri-
ations bill. amended to balance the
States budget, passed both Houses
OF the General Assembly last night in
almost the Identical form that it
came from the Senate Finance Com
mittee yesterday morning.
The budget, as passed, is minus
the $1,276O00 teacher retirement
plan and balanced against antici-
pated revenue. Chairman Aubrey
G, Weaver of the Finance Com
mittee said the amendments would
leave the budget with a prospective
surplus of $275,000.
The House of Delegates accepted
almost 10 Senate amendments with
out having them read on motion of
Appropriations Chairman Frank
Moore, and with Endorsement of
Delegates Tom Stanley and G. G..
Quesenbery, who sat in the Senate
when the amendments were adopted
In the late afternoon.
Only one Senate amendment was
rejected, and the Senate quickly
receded from this, passing the bill
The vote in the House was II to S,
with Delegates Pruner, Rosenberg,
V. G. Smith, Spangler and Wolfe
voting in the negative.
River Bill Passed.
The Senate amendment which the
House rejected would have cut out
an appropriation of $500 a year
for the College of William and
Mary for research, collection and
. compilation of source material for
q complete history of the college,
including expense of travel abroad,
in connection with its approaching
300th anniversary.
The House bill authorizing the
Governor to execute a compact with
adjoining States and the District of
Columbia for the creation of a Po-
tomac Valley conservatory district
passed the Senate last night and was
sent to the Governor for his sig
nature.
The measure, providing for execu-
ton of the pact with the District,
Maryland, West Virginia and Penn
sylvania, carries an appropriation of
e2,400 year toward the expenses
for the proposed interstate commits
sion on the Potomac River Basin,
composed Of three members from
each signatory body.
The purpose of the compact is to
provide for joint action toward the
abatement and elimination of pol
luton.
The Senate last night also passed
the House bill providing for a ref
erendum on the creation of a new
Hampton Roads sanitation district,
carrying conditional appropriation
OF $4,000 q year.
Poll Tax Measure Voted.
The House gave approval at its
first session yesterday to a much
amended bill designed to prohibit
block payment of poll taxes and to
the Senate's $12,000,000 bridge bill
authorizing the Highway Depart
ment to acquire and construct nine
bridge and ferry projects in the
Tidewater section.
Senate amendments OF the poll tax
bill, accepted by the House, 1875,
substituted, in effect, the original
House BILL AS amended and passed.
the bill makes it a misdemeanor for
any one to pay or offer to pay poll
taxes of another under circum-
stances indicating intent to have the
name of the person assessed placed
on the list of qualified voters. Pay
ment appearing to be improperly
made must be reported by the treas
urer to the commonwealth S attorney.
Governors Request Fails.
During the afternoon Gov. Price.
IN a special message to the General
Assembly, urged that the general
appropriation bill be amended to
provide sufficient revenues for a
system of parole and probation in
the State.
The Senate, however, passed the
budget bill without providing for
such revenues.
The House killed the Daughton
Joint Senate resolution calling for
a constitutional amendment to
freeze" the State literary fund at
100000 and permitting excess &C
cruals, other than interest, to be
used for school purposes, including
teacher retirement.
The House then adopted a joint
resolution requesting the Cover nor
and budget director to include in
the next biennial budget a sum
sufficient to provide for an actu-
ariarily sound teacher retirement
program.
The resolution was similar to one
adopted by the Assembly two years
ago.
Senate Bill Defeated.
The House defeated, 1896. the
Moffett-Apperson Senate bill for
the regulation of outdoor advertising
OF alcoholic beverages.
After failing by one to muster suf1i-
cient votes to pass it, the House
reconsidered and passed the Senate
bill authorizing motor vehicle in
spection stations to charge fees for
the semi-annual inspections, but
adopted an amendment by Dele
gate M. M. Long of Wise, reducing
the permissive fee from so to Is
cents.
An amendment was adopted pro-
viding that the fee may be charged
only If the motor vehicle owner
agreed before the inspection was
made to pay it.
1t was estimated that the original