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NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.
I Bills That D
More than five hundred measure:;,
some of them Important and others
of a local nature, were left In the
committee rooms of the ihouse. and
as far as the delegates introducing
them are concerned, incv might as
well have spared themselves the
trouble of drafting them, says the
Itichmond News-tender.
Tills fact more than any other is
being set forward as a reason why
the people of Virginia should vote
to allow the general assembly to hold
ninety instead of sixty day sessions.
There is now pending in the legis?
lature a resolution which has the ex?
tension of the session for its mum
purport, ivnd which has the sanction
of the Sonnte und House.
Under the terms of the Joint reso?
lution, the proposition to lengthen
the sessions of the general assembly
will be put. up to the qualified voters
of the state at a general election, ami
tit" next general assembly will prob?
ably act on the resolution as directed
by the people. In any event, the leg?
islature cannot pass the resolution
until lain, and come what may, the
solona will have to labor under the
tam? disadvantage?a short session?
next time, as they did this. The res?
olution can not possiblv be enacted
before 1912.
To say thai, many of the delegate*'
wcnl home dissatisfied and imbued,
with the fact that t.hey had accom-l
plished little or noting for their con?
stituency, is a fact due not so much
to their inadaptability ns to the vorvj
Hille time in which they had to push'
their bills through the protracted i
routine neccssnry.
Each member was placed on exact?
ly the .same footing, and the leglsla!
lure adopted the old "first come, first
servo'1 rule. Those who came early
with their bills already drawn started
at once to secure the passage of their
measures, and whether or not they
won or lost made llltle difference u.;
far as making good with the pcoplo
at home was concerned, Just so they
hail done their best.
Many of the delegates lost their
measures through sickness, us It
seemed lo be an unwritten principle
of the assembly that it was Injustice
to man and measure to consider a bill
when the patron was not present to
ilefeud It
lie this iiK It may, there was per?
haps not a single senator or delegate
wiho did not secure the passage of
some bill, bul it Is also true that not
;i few accomplished nothing more
than the passage of a bill to amen.)
tin existing road law, or else a mea?
sure to grant the board of -supcrvl ?
sors of his district sonio privilege
-i
tending toward tUe improvement of
county conditions.
T-he result of short term sessions
is that the constituents at home, not
knowing cireunistances, are misled in
thinking that their representative has
not done them justice, and in this
manner the personnel of the general
assembly is continually changing, and
d<>lny is occasioned, as each legisla?
ture must start in practically as B
new body, which must perhaps spend
the first ten days or two weeks of
i lie session in becoming acquainted
witli conditions.
Eloven millions of dollars were ap?
propriated by the legislature for the
conduct of the affairs of the ship of
state for the next two years, and i
while this sum seems enormous, it is
ns nothing when the mnny measures"
carrying appropriations, and which
were killed in the short session, are
considered.
One hundred and fifty measures
were left in the house finance com?
mittee room alone, and Of these -i
great number carried appropriations,
which to the minds of the patrons,
must have seemed as important as
any that, passed. A great number of
thes-e measures were never considered
and a gnat number of others were
gone over simply to bo rejected.
Following is a list of those Wils
introduced and never considered by
the house (inane- committee:
To provide for the appointment of
an official court slenograpber and to
provide for their compensation. B.
D. Ad;cms.
To provide for tlie sale of stock
held by the state in Internal Improve?
ment companies, when- no dividends
have been paid for fifteen years. B.
B. Bowerman.
To amend the act entitled ''An act
to provide- for official receipt for
fines." n. n. Bowerman.
To reduce the general rate of tax?
ation Id eighteen cents on the $100.
Alden Boll.
To amend the code in relation to
the extension of levies by the com?
missioner and the compensation
therefor. O. C. Brewer.
To require foreign corporation:- do?
ing, business in Virginia to pay a priv?
ilege tax. It. H. Byrd.
To appropriate $2:1,000 for Im?
provements at the Virginia school for
the deaf, dumb and blind. J. W.
Churchman.
To appropriate $250,000 for the pur?
chase of state bonds by the sinking
fund commissioners. M. T. Cooke.
To provide for an appropriation of
$24,000 for tho maintenance and treat?
ment of state residents afflicted with
pulmonary or laryngcai tuberculosis.
John Curled.
To sopeal the act authorizing aalo
' / ? \uri. i. ..-\.. ??. .'.jv.'<j-va''..
of lots purchased by pommonwcaltih'
for delinquent taxes. Messrs. Ed?
wards and Cox.
To relievo the estate of James E.
Phillips. H. C. Glenn.
To appropriate $70,000 Tor the Im?
provements at William and Mary Col
Iorc and to Increase the anility from
$35,000 to $50,000. William E. Grofll
gan.
To provide for establishment of u
national negro museum In this slits.
Appropriation $14,002.37. H. C. Glenn.
To appropriate $15,000 for estab?
lishing a Ihome for destitute Infants.
H. C. Glenn.
To Inaugurate a system of travel?
ing auditors. Tlpton D. Jennings,
To establish an agricultural experi?
ment station at the state penitentiary
farm. Appropriation $5,000. J. Q.
Luce.
To appropriate $95,000 to improve
state normal school at Farmvllle and
to Increaso the anulty to $50,000. John
J. Oewn.
To appropriate $175,000 to the sink?
ing fund commissioners for extin?
guishing the state debt. D. II. Pills,
To appropriate $20,000 to hoard -if
agriculture and immigration to he
used in the enforcement of the pure
food law. W. C. I'ulllam.
To create a tax coinmiss'on to de?
fine its duties and to appropriate
u'oney to pay its expenses. A;) iroprt
; ation $20,0ft0. B. I). Adams
To assess a license tax upon each
person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of mining coy- iron
ore or other minerals. 'Javld P..
Powers.
A bill rotating to official receipts
for fines. I. W. Surratt.
To appropriate money t -> discharge
the present iudebitedness of the Prls
I on Association of Virginia for build?
ing lately erected and to provide for
heating, furnishing anil equipment of
same. Appropriation $12,t)00. C. W.
I Throckmorton.
j To authorize the state highway
J commissioner to purchase tools and
machinery for the state, convict road
force. Appropriation $50,000. It. W.
Withers.
To provide, for the state of Vlrtcinl:,
j participating in the Alaska-Yukon
Pacific exposition, and applying all
. funds unexpended from the approprl?
1 ation to the Jamestown exposition
thereto. It. W. Withers.
To appropriate money to build an
engineering hall at the Virginia Agri?
cultural and Mecltanlcl College and
Polytechnic Institute. Appropriation
$30.000. Martin Williams.
The following bills wore considered
by the house finance committee and
passed by or indefinitely postponed:
To create the Virginia truck ex?
periment station, and to appropriate
$17.500 therefor,
j To repeal the tax on Income.,. In
Idefinitely passed by.
To authorize boards of supervisors
of counties and the cottncil or cities
,?nu towns, with the approval of the
circuit court, or 'he Judge thereof in
vncutlon. to designate certain banks
ns depositories Xor all inonloH collect?
ed by treasurers. Indefinitely post?
poned.
To provide for the purchase und
distribution of 5,000 copies of Pol?
lard's code of Virginia of 1904, and
to appropriate money therefor. Ap?
propriation $18,250. Defeated.
To amend section 119 of the code
in relation to pay of. Judges und clerks
of elections. Substitute bill passed.
To provide for the employment of
a state parade officer, prescribing his
duties and providing for nn appropri?
ation to pay salary and expense
therefor. Appropriation $1,200. inde?
finitely passed by.
To appropriate $5,000 for putting
another elevator In the capltol and
appointing a committee for carrying
the same into effect.
To appropriate the sum of (3,761.77,
with Interest, to .lames K. Bradley -fc
Co. for improving the capltol grounds.
Passed by.
SONG OF A SEA-CHANGE.
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high.
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the -sky;
But Teddy It. lias changed all that?
The lings no longer flout.
For from the masthead Dr. Squills
:Has hung Iiis shingle out.
The navy, once so all-prepared
And ready for the fray,
In any kind of weather and
At any lime of day,
Can now be seen from nine to twelve,
Take notice. 0 ye powers.
Of Squills. M. 1).. ami U. S. N.,
Theso aro the office hours.
He's iron pills, has Dr. Squills,
And capsuled dynamite,
Thai landed in your vermiform
Will cut it out on sight.
Have you a torpid liver
'.Mongst the number of your woes?
Try Squills' Dead-sure Romedlca,
The famous lorpld-oos.
And if your baby 11113 a pain
'Neuth his umbilicus
That causes him to rouse the laud
With roars vociferous,
Just telephone tho navy yard
And ask old (Victor Pipp.
The lirst assistant commandant,
To send a battleship.
No more we'll hear contention twixt
Conflicting rival schools?
Tho Homeopath and Allopath?
Beneath our Naval Rules.
In one grand band they'll all com?
bine,
And cut their future swaths.
A noble corps of tried anq\ true
Away-from-homcopaths!
?New York Times.
What. Some of the Great
Powers ou the Other Side
Ato Doing
Since the Japanese was I here has
been u marked change In the theory
of warslilp dcHlgn, and It Is especial?
ly noticeable that nil the loading na?
tions are busily engnged In enlarging
their navies and adopting many new
ideas in construction. The advocates
in every country of the establishment
of a larger navy honestly believe thut
tihe Biiroat way to preserve pcaco
among the nut ions Is to contlnuo to
Increase the size and strength of war?
ships. At any rate, this Is the chief
reason advanced for the present ro-|
murkable activity In she building of|
additional ships of war.
England, Germany, Russia, Prance.
Italy, china, Japan, und, In fact, each
powcq of Importance seems convinc?
ed that unless It Constructs more but -
Unships it Is In Imminent danger of
Unding itself in armed conflict with
some nation. The United Stales Is
not lagging behind and tihe construc?
tion of new and Improved warships
Is authorized by euch new Congress.
Great Britain still lends the pro?
cession with the largest and strong?
est navy, and like other nations. Is
adopting new types of vessels. The
Scientific American, which devotes
considerable space to describing the
present condition of the British navy,
probably voices the opinion of naval
experts generally when it says that
"Ptio Ideal navy of today concentrates
the greatest part of its numbers and
displacement, in battleships; and to
those, all other types of vessels are
considered as auxiliary."
In order to uphold Us policy of
maintaining a navy which wili be
fully equal to that of any ofhor two
naval powers, England has been con?
structing war vessels faster than any
other country.
In a summary of her vessels, fol?
lowing Ute method of classification
adopted in Brassoy's Annual, and In?
cluding under the Ihead of first-class
battleships all those which aro less
than 20 years old and of 10.000 tons
displacement, the Journal quoted finds
that tihe British navy possesses In
battleships built or nenrlnf- comple?
tion. 55 first-class battleships of an
aggregate displacement of 809,450
tons. Of second-elass battleships and
coast-defenco ships she has 11, of an
aggregate displacement of 113,780
tons.
Of first-class cruisers, ranging from
9,800 tons to 17,250 tons displacement,
and from 20 1-2 to 25 knols apecd,
ulir has 48, of an aggregate displace
mont of 584,750 tons. Thirty-eight of
tliCHO vessels aro of tho armored
.cruiser type, and 10 of tliem are pro?
tected cruisers.
Sho Iuib 27 Becond-clasa cruisers of
ifrom n.f.00 tons to 7.700 ton? displace?
ment, and from 10 to 20 knots speed,
Of thlrd clnsH cruisers she poKSOB?oa
40 ships aggregating 148,735 tons,
whoso displacement varies from 2,133
tons to 4,300 tons, and the speed from
19 to 22 knots.
Her torpedo boat destroyer fleet
Includes 100 vessels of from 250 to
800 tons dlBplncement, and from 25
lo 37 knots speed. Her submarino
fleet consists of 01 boats built or
building, varying In displacement from
120 to r.oo tons, and .with a speed on
the surface of from eight to 1G knotB.
Of all the principal British vessels
uhc battleship Dreadnought continues
to bo Accepted by the navies of tho
world as the type of ship of tho fu?
ture. With an over all length of 520
feet and a normal displacement of
117.900 tons, sflio mounts 10 12-lnch
Iguns of the new 45-oullbor pattern,
With a velocity of 2,900 feet a second.
The forward ruiib are carried on a
, forecastle deck whose freeboard Is 28
feet. On either broadside, aft of
' those, is a two-gun turret. The otlher
two turrets are mounted on tho axis
of tho ship. The bolt is- It inches
(tlhick, with n 2 3-4-inch protective
i deck. Tho barbettes have 11 Inches
I of armor, and the turrets 8 Inches.
Sho is driven by four turbines at a
speed of about 21 knots an hour.
Three similar ships to tho Dread?
nought, with about 700 tons greater
displacement, and mounting a more
powerful 12-Inch gun of 50 calibers
length, are nearlng completion, and
three others, of between 19,000 and
20,000 tons displacement, have re?
cently been laid down.?Boston Ulobe.
"Which Is tho cow that gives the
buttermilk?" innocently asked the
young lady from Ihe city, who was
inspecting the ihcrd with a critical
eye.
"Don't make yourself ridiculous."
said the young lady who bad been in
tho country beforo and knew a thing
jor two. "floats give buttermilk."?
i Springfield Journal.
Passed College "Exams" at Seven.
Few people in Connecticut realize
that there once lived a boy in Wa
terbury who possessed the romarka
blc prccoclousncss which enabled him
to pass tbo Yale examination at tho
age of seven years. He didn't enter
Yale until his thirteenth year, yet the
record remains, and ought not to be
lost sight or.
Tho boy's name was John TruinN
hull. born in 1750, and died full of
honor, scholastic and political, at the
ripe egc of olghty-ono years. In 1851.
He was frail and tender as a young
Buttermilk.
Blor. and hla romarkable Intellect
overbalanced bis physical mako-up.
Nobody thought ho would "grow up."
and Silo mental achievement at an
ago when most boys nowadays aro
ontering tho district school attracted
the ntlontlon of scholars and dis?
tinguished mon in his dny.?Bristol
Olspattih to tho Hartford Courant.
WHEN BABY WAKES.
At (!, when baby goes to bed.
Ills carnal cravings satisfied,
Ho Is so plump and rosy rod,
So dlmplod, swoot and droway-oyad
That to his crib J often croop
And watch my woo qno sleep.
'Tis then 1 vow this babo, somohow,
Is rooro than all the world to me,
I cannot, aay I fool that way
When baby wakes at 3!
Wien baby rouses mo at 6
O'clock I really do not care.
I put him through his infaut tricks
And toss ihlm gayly in tho elr.
Most thoioucjhly I then enjoy
Tho darling llttlo boy,
And gladly cry: "No gold could buy
This roly-poly winsome woe!"
I must, confess I prize lilm less
When ho wnk03 at 3!
One night in pain our woo one slept,
Tho fever on his restless brow;
And then, as to his crib I crept.
In grief that makes mo tremblo
now,
I wondered If our little ono
Would wako to greet tho sun.
The long night through I watched
?with you,
Dear wife?and, oh. what joy to 609
Our darling! smile, at last?the wktlo
'He woke?at. 3!
?Chicago News.
?PLEA8ANTRY.
'Tis pleasant to sit down for oonver?
eatlon
About tho various quostlons of tU3
day;
The economic meeds of this great na?
tion
'And taxes that consumers ought to
pay.
It's soothing?positively soporifla
To figure out Just what our trotw
bles urn
In a frame of mind entirely scion?fl?
With a man who smokes a flfty?
cent cigar.
?Washington Star.
A Criticism.
"Tho Hon. Thoman Rott dropped lit
on u9 at (he sit and Argue club laat
night," grimly vouchsafed the Old.
Codger; "but ho wan not Jn good
voice'he cut short JUe remaxkn after
apoakln^ only; about two fitoura and
a half."
"H'ml" returned 81 Spry. *Wh*B
was he talking about?"
"?o didn't BayVVSniart B?t J