SENATE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1893. The Senate met at 12 M., and was called to order by LieutenantGovernor J. HOGE TYLER. Prayer by Rev. Dr. George Cooper. The following communication was received from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, transmitting list of Senators elect: To the Honorable, the Clerk of the Senate: SIR: RICHMOND, December 6, 1893. The accompanying paper gives a list of members elect of the Senate, whose term of service begins to-day. It is submitted in obedience to law. Respectfully, H. W. FLOURNOY, Secretary of the Commonwealth. First District-Washington and Smyth-B. F. Buchanan. Third District-Russell, Buchanan, Dickenson, and Tazewell-Alexander St. Clair. Fifth District-Pulaski, Wythe, Bland, and Giles-Joel C. Green. Seventh District-Rockbridge, Botetourt, Alleghany, Bath, and HighlandCharles P. Jones. Ninth District-Augusta and city of Staunton-Edward Echols. Thirteenth District-Spotsylvania, Stafford, Louisa, and city of Fredericksburg— William A. Little, Jr. Fifteenth District-Culpeper, Rappahannock, Madison, and Orange-James Hay. Seventeenth District-Albemarle, city of Charlottesville, and Greene-George W. Morris. Nineteenth District-Amherst and Nelson-Taylor Berry. Twenty-third District-Pittsylvania, Danville, and Henry-James L. Treadway. Twenty-fifth District-Charlotte and Mecklenburg-Thomas N. Williams. Twenty-seventh District-Greenesville, Sussex, Surry, and Prince George—George W. Jackson. Twenty-ninth District-Petersburg and Dinwiddie-William B. McIlwaine. Thirty-first District-Norfolk city and Princess Anne-Arthur E. Herbert. Thirty-third District-Portsmouth and Norfolk county-H. L. Maynard. Thirty-fifth District-Richmond city and Henrico-William Lovenstein and Conway R. Sands. Thirty-seventh District-Accomac and Northampton-George W. LeCato. Thirty-ninth District-King and Queen, Middlesex, Gloucester, Essex, and Mathews J. N. Stubbs. The following members were elected to fill unexpired terms: Fourth District-Montgomery, Roanoke and Craig, and Roanoke city-J. Allen Watts. Sixth District-Carroll, Grayson, and Floyd-Lewis T. Jennings. Twentieth District-Campbell and city of Lynchburg-Richard L. Miller. Thirty-eighth District-Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, Charles City, New Kent, and King William-Manly H. Barnes. The roll was then called, and the following Senators responded to their names: Messrs. Manly H. Barnes, Thomas H. Barnes, Taylor Berry, B. F. Buchanan, Edward Echols, H. D. Flood, Joel C. Green, Thomas K. Harnsberger, Thomas W. Harrison, James Hay, Arthur E. Herbert, John L. Hurt, George W. Jackson, Lewis T. Jennings, Charles P. Jones, W. I. Jordan, George W. LeCato, William A. Little, Jr., William Lovenstein, H. L. Maynard, W. B. McIlwaine, Richard L. Miller, George W. Morris, George A. Mushbach, F. M. Parrish, Conway R. Sands, Joseph W. Southall, Alexander St. Clair, James N. Stubbs, James L. Tredway, M. L. Walton, Robert J. Washington, J. Allen Watts, Walter A. Watson, T. G. Wells, Henry T. Wickham, and T. N. Williams-37. A quorum being present, the following Senators having previously filed in the office of the clerk of the Senate certificates of their election, came forward, and the clerk administered to each of them the oath prescribed by law, and they took their seats: Messrs. Manly H. Barnes, Taylor Berry, B. F. Buchanan, Edward Echols, Henry Fairfax, Joel C. Green, James Hay, Arthur E. Herbert, George W. Jackson, Lewis T. Jennings, Charles P. Jones, W. I. Jordan, George W. LeCato, William A. Little, Jr., William Lovenstein, H. L. Maynard, W. B. McIlwaine, Richard L. Miller, George W. Morris, Conway R. Sands, Alexander St. Clair, James N. Stubbs, James L. Tredway, J. Allen Watts, and T. N. Williams-25. On motion of Mr. LOVENSTEIN, Resolved, That the rules for the government of the Senate shall be the rules adopted by the session of 1891-'92. They are as follows: I. ATTENDANCE AND ADJOURNMENT. 1. No member shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave, , unless he is sick or unable to attend. 2. A majority of senators shall be necessary to proceed to business; five may adjourn, and nine may order a call of the Senate, send for absentees, and make any order for their censure or discharge. On a call of the Senate, the doors shall not be closed against any senator until his name shall have been once enrolled. 3. When the Senate adjourns each day, every senator shall keep his seat until the President leaves his seat. II. THE PRESIDENT. 4. If any question be put upon a bill or resolution, the President shall state the same without argument. 5. The President may call any senator to the chair, who shall exercise its func JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. tions for the time; but no senator, by virtue of such appointment, shall preside for a longer period than three days. 6. At the commencement of each session the Senate shall elect four pages, who shall receive for their services two dollars per day each. III. THE CLERK. 7. The Clerk of the Senate shall not suffer any records or papers to be taken from the table or out of his custody by any person except a chairman of a committee; but he may deliver any bills or papers, directed to be printed, to the superintendent of public printing, or to any senator, on taking his receipt for the same. 8. The Journal of the Senate shall be daily drawn up by the clerk, and shall be read the succeeding day; it shall be printed under the supervision of the clerk, and delivered to the senators without delay. 9. The clerk of the Senate shall appoint a first assistant and a second assistant clerk, and five committee clerks, not more than one of whom shall be appointed from the same congressional district. One of the committee clerks shall be clerk of the committee on roads and internal navigation, and of agriculture, mining, and manufacturing; one of the committee on general laws, and of privileges and elections; one of the committee for courts of justice, and on public institutions and education; one of the committee on finance and banks; one of the committee on county, city, and town organizations, and on fish and game. The clerks so appointed shall remain in the capitol during the sessions of the Senate, and shall perform any duties that the other standing committees may require, when not employed by their respective committees, and the clerk of the Senate may also require said clerks, when not employed by the standing committees, to assist in engrossing bills or aid him in the Senate chamber when necessary. The said clerks shall be remov able by the clerk of the Senate, or by the committees of which they are clerks. The second assistant clerk, who shall act as clerk of the committee on education, shall receive the same compensation as a clerk of a committee. 10. Before reading each bill the clerk shall announce whether it is the first, second, or third time of reading the bill. 11. The clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates may interchange messages at such times between the hour of adjournment and that of meeting on the following day as that the said messages may be read immediately after the orders of the day. 12. The clerk of the Senate shall, at each session, have printed and bound with the manual of rules, &c., the Constitution of Virginia, for the use of the senators. IV. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS AND DOORKEEPER. 13. No senator shall be taken into custody by the sergeant-at-arms on any complaint of breach of privilege until the matter is examined by the committee of privileges and elections and reported to the Senate, unless by order of the Senate. 14. It shall be the duty of the doorkeeper of the Senate to preserve, in chronological or numerical order, a copy of every printed document distributed in the Senate, and to deliver the same at the close of the session to the clerk of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to have them bound and preserved in his office for the use of this body. 15. In order to prevent interruption of the business of the Senate, the doorkeeper shall be constantly at his post during the sessions of the Senate, and shall admit within the chamber no person except officers of the government of this and any other State, and of the United States; members and ex-members of Congress and House of Delegates; their officers; ex-members of the Senate of Virginia; ministers of the gospel and reporters of the proceedings of the Senate; but ladies and their escorts may be assigned privileged seats. It shall be the duty of the doorkeeper to show all persons not entitled to privileged seats to the gallery. It shall be his duty, when any person desires an interview with a senator or the President, or the clerk of the Senate, to send a messenger to him, and such person may be admitted to one of the privileged seats, if so invited by either of them. 1 And the President of the Senate shall, moreover, be permitted to invite to a seat near the chair any person he may deem worthy of such distinction. V. COMMITTEES. 16. At the commencement of each session the following committees shall be elected: I. A committee of privileges and elections, to consist of not less than seven nor more than ten senators. II. A committee for courts of justice, to consist of not less than seven nor more than eleven senators. III. A committee on general laws, to consist of not less than seven nor more than eleven senators. IV. A committee on roads and internal navigation, to consist of not less than seven nor more than thirteen senators. V. A committee on finance and banks, to consist of not less than seven nor more than thirteen senators. VI. A committee on public institutions and education, to consist of not less than seven nor more than thirteen senators. VII. A committee on county, city, and town organizations, to consist of not less than seven nor more than ten senators. VIII. A committee on agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, to consist of not less than seven nor more than ten senators. IX. A committee on fish and game, to consist of not less than seven nor more than ten senators. X. A committee on enrolled bills, to consist of not less than seven nor more than nine senators. The following committees shall consist of three senators, viz: To examine the office of Clerk of the Senate. On Rules. On the Library. On Executive Expenditures. To examine the office of Auditor of Public Accounts. To examine the Second Auditor's office. To examine the Treasurer's office. To examine the office of Register of the Land Office. To examine the Bonds of Public Officers. On the Public Printing. 17. The standing committees shall be elected by the Senate, unless the Senate direct otherwise, and the senator first named by the President shall be the chairman, unless the committee direct otherwise. 18. The several committees shall, in all cases, report whether other cases comprised within the principal of the matter referred may arise; and if a bill be ordered, it shall provide for all such cases; and upon any matter referred, the committee shall have power to report by bill. 19. Select committees shall consist of not less than three nor more than nine senators, unless the Senate direct otherwise. 20. The committee of privileges and elections shall examine the oaths taken by each senator and the certificate of election furnished by the proper officer, and report thereon to the Senate. 21. The committee of privileges and elections shall report in all cases of privileges or contested elections the principles and reasons on which their resolutions are founded. 22. The committee on finance and banks shall, at each session, examine into the indebtedness of the Commonwealth, the revenues and expenditures of the preceding year, and prepare an estimate of the expense of the succeeding year, and make such report thereon as they may deem proper. 23. The committee on general laws shall, at each session, examine into the state and manner of administration of the literary fund, and make such report thereon as they may deem proper. 24. To the committee on general laws shall be referred all resolutions and bills h D JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 7 concerning the militia, private claims, propositions and grievances, and other mat- 26. To the committee on agriculture, mining, and manufacturing shall be referred all bills, resolutions, and petitions concerning agriculture, mining, manufacturing, commerce, and mechanic arts. 27. The committee to examine the clerk's office shall see that all papers belonging thereto are properly filed, labeled, and put away in the presses, and that the books belonging to the office are chronologically arranged, and shall make an annual report thereof to the Senate. 28. When a bill seeking relief or for an act of incorporation is referred to a standing committee of the Senate, the committee shall examine whether the object can be obtained by application to the courts under the general laws; and if so, it shall be the duty of the committee to report that it shall not pass, unless there be special reasons for its consideration by the General Assembly. And no variation of inaximum capital or quantity of land which the courts are authorized to empower corporations to hold, not shown to be indispensably necessary to the object of the corporations, shall be deemed by the committee as exempting the bill from the operation of laws conferring on the courts the power of granting charters or affording relief. 29. The President of the Senate, the President pro tempore, and the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections shall constitute a standing committee on rules, to whom all resolutions amending or altering the rules of the Senate shall be referred; and said committee shall report such amendments to said rules as in their judgment are necessary and proper. 30. A majority of any committee shall constitute a quorum. VI. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 31. After reading the journal, one hour, to be called the "morning hour," shall be devoted as follows: I. To dispose of communications from the House of Delegates and the execu tive. II. To receive reports from standing committees (for which purpose they shall be called by the clerk.) III. To receive reports from select committees. IV. To receive resolutions, petitions, and bills, on leave. 32. At the expiration of the morning hour the Senate shall proceed to the consideration of the calendar as follows: I. The unfinished business of the preceding day. II. Bills and resolutions in the order in which they stand on the calendar. 33. When a bill or resolution of the House of Delegates is passed or rejected by the Senate, it shall remain under the control of the Senate for the space of two days, and the fact of the passage or rejection, with the bill or resolution, shall then be communicated to the House of Delegates, unless otherwise ordered. 34. All bills or other business originating in the Senate shall be dispached in the order in which they are introduced, and all bills and resolutions sent from the House of Delegates shall be dispatched in the order in which they are sent, unless in either case the Senate direct otherwise. 35. All bills originating in the Senate shall be read on three separate days, and in case they be of a general nature they shall be printed after their first reading. 36. Bills and resolutions originating in the House of Delegates, and not requiring immediate action, shall be read the first and second times when received, and referred to the appropriate committees, unless the Senate direct otherwise. 37. A bill presented by a senator, by leave of the Senate, may be committed before its first reading; but no bill reported from a committee of the Senate shall |