Evening star., 1944-03-03
Speedy Enactment
Of Surplus Bill Due
In Virginia House
Approval Today Will
Shift Most Of Major
Legislation to Senate
By the Associated Press.

- tAAS 0ooOSAatSS SASe1s
RICHMOND, Mar. 3.-The HOUSE
OF Delegates Is expected to pass
quickly today the Coburn House bill
to split $3.50 with the counties and
cities any surplus In the State treas.
ury at the end Of the le45-l94e bien.
Mum, distribution to be on . per
capita basis.
Passage Of the bill, forecast yes
terday when It was advanced to
third reading after stormy debate,
will throw practically all Of the
major legislation still pending g-and
most Of 1t Is pending-into the Sen
ate for action during the final seven
days Of the 1914 session.
The Senate advanced to third
reading q compulsory work bin pro.
vidtng that every sane and able.
bodied man In Virginia between the
ages Of Is and SO, with some few
exceptions, who refuses to work
would be liable to fine and I'm
prisonment. There would be sorne
exempt categories.
Senate Log Jam" Feared.
The Senate, working industriously
on its calendar while committees
have wrestled with such measures
as the $235 600 900 appropriation bill
and the soldier voting bill, also has
the final say on such time-consum-
Ing and controversial legislation as
the House bill providing for the
licensing Of chiropractors and na-
turopaths. The prospect Is that
this legislation will cause q log jam
IN the Senate during the final days
with many House bills piling up
behind it.
Adding to Senate woes is a large
sum OF money carried in House bills
passed since the Delegates passed
the budget. Chairman G. c. Louder.
back Of the House Appropriations
Committee yesterday estimated In
speech that these bills, plus new
and pressing requests to the Senate
for q child welfare program and q
hospital for inebriates, might throw
the budget as much as 5000, 900
out Of balance.
Mr.. Louderbacks remarks vere
made In opposing Delegate John
Spiers' effort to amend the Co.
burn bill to provide for distribution
OF half Of the 1914 and 1916 surplus
to counties and cities on the school
distribution formula instead of a
per capita basis. Mr.. Spiers con.
tended this would not be ear-mark-
ing the funds. His amendment was
rejected, ~ to IS, before the bin
was advanced.
McCandlish Bill Killed,
Two highly controversial bills were
killed In committee yesterday. The
Senate Privileges and Elections
COMMITTEES unanimously killed the
McCandiish bill tosxequire a new
conner into Virginie&after January
l, 1945, to fle . declaration of in
tention to become 4 citizen a year
ne1ofe becoming eligible to vote,
Tie House Appropriation Commit
ttee kiAed. 8 to 4, the bill by Delegate
Whitehead, Nelson, for an appro-
priation of $1,764,0 to provide a
bonus" to school teachers of $50
per teacher unit.
| AAS 4AouSS passed. Llle McCa0Qt1S0
measure, 56 to 81, last Friday.
Robert ]. McCandlish, Fairfax. its
sponsor, yesterday said he had pre-
pared amendments to meet most Of
the objections raised in the House.
and said the bill in no way changes
the constitutional voting reouire-
ments, other than to cause q person
TO fle his declaration of intention.
Mr.. McCandlish informed the
committee that the bill as intro
duced had been drafted by Attorney
General A. P. Staples, whom he
quoted as saying that a similar
Maryland law had stood the test in
the Supreme Court.
Opposition was high lighted bv
the appearance Of Senator William
D. Medley, Arlington. who said his
constituents were much concerned
about the suffrage restriction meas
ure. He asked neither approval nor
rejection Of the bill. Opponents At
the hearing described the bill AZ
'undemocratic" and 4 threat to
UNITY among the States