The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-08
Gpeui,,g State Su,trmal.
CAPITOL NOTES.

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play. 1t was pleasant yesterday to be
hold the cheerful alacrity with which tn
members went for the copies Of Munford'
Code which they obligingy voted them
selves. It seemed an awful waste of calf
skin and printing paper, some OF the re
cipients not being able to decipher thu
Code, and others being in the equal
ly unfortunate position, after they
did read it, of not being
able to understand the most common
proposition contained therein. Apropo'
of committee clerks, it is not a bad
thing to be one of those in the Senate
You get s42 per week by law, and 0
practice has come into vogue Of present
| ing each clerk at the end of the session
with one dollar per diem extra. Last
session the clerks drew 1920 regular pay
and 1920 extra pay for four months ser.
vice. .-.,
1t is rumored that Governor kemper
will urge on his fellow Conservatives the
adoption of more progressive policy than
they have hitherto pursued. The Cover
nor is very democratic in his tendencies !;
he is accessible to all who visit the Capt.
toll. The latch-string of his office door
hangs on the outside, and all who visit
him are cordially received. The nature Of
the new departure he proposes to recon-
mend is yet in allegiance.
Itdon't become school boards and school
trustees to NEEDLE in canvasses going on for
superintendent of public instruction, and
yet some did do it.
An attempt will be made at this session
of the Legislature to impeach circuit Judge
for drunkenness upon the bench--his second
round for the same thing.
tt is understood that Governor Kemper
and family will regularly attend divine SER
vices at st. James church.
Joe Lewis, colored, is jauitor of the
House Of Delegates at Sc per diem, and
has colored boy to do the work. This
appointment was made by the superintend-
ent Of public buildings on the recommen-
dation of Clerk Bigger. The janitor of
the Senate chamber, white person app
pointed in the same way, upon the recon-
mendation of the clerk. Of that body, gets
S. per day, and has no one to assist him.
However, the Senate chamber is some
eight feet less in length and six inches mar
rover than the hall of the House, and this
fact may account for the difference in sala-
ries.
Our worthy Gloucester friend, George
Wythe Munford. gets $4,000 for his six
months labor in copying the Code, and a
House committee clerkship and dozen rail-
road passes ''good for year." Thereupon
comes memory of Paul's impressive
words to Jeremiah the prophet: "To him
that hath shall be added unto, aud those
that have none shall be jerked without
benefit of clergy"
The new directors of the state peniten-
tiarY, Messrs. George Bargamin, Samuel
Maccubbiu and w. Dallas Chesterman,
were sworn in office by the secretary of the
commonwealth this morning and immediate
~ entered on the discharge ofther duties.
The removal of two of the "old directors"
about three months old viz: Powhatan
Weisiger and Joseph Hall, has been the
subject ofcomment, not alone by them and
their friends, but by those conyersant with
the fact that Governor Walker not
long ago displaced two worthy gentle
men to give them place. The reason
why is best explained by the fol-
lowing narratives Both Weisiger and
Hall, the first named notably 80,
we're opposed, for some reason or within
not stated. to the election of Mr.. James
R. Fisher as clerk of the board. Pos
'ibly "Jim' did not "bend the pregnant,
ETC., that thrift might follow fawning, etc. -
Anyhow they were opposed to him, with
Or without reason, and they manifested
heir opposition, that is Weisiger in an
especial manner. 1t is well understood
and susceptible Of proof the most incon-
testible, that one or both, as members
Of the board, repeatedly offered Fishers |
place, excepting their enmity secret
10 William Dallas Chesterman, then
and now of The Enquirer, and to
Moses Perdue Handy, esq.,, Cuban cores
pondent of the New York Tribune. Both |
refused, alleging as reason that they had
good places, and were friends of Fisher.
After time. Fisher, who is an old citizen
and Conservative guyamscutis of no small
magnitude, got wind of his intended taking
off. He would have been more than human
not to have followed the Scriptural injunc.
ton in doing unto others as they would
have done unto him. 1t is related that Mr.. I
Fisher in accomplishing this called to his aid
Colonel William Starke Gilman, who
justly enjoyed the utmost confidence of
Governor Kemper and was not unaware
If the fact that Weisiger and all his ward
delegates POSSIBLY Hall included violently
opposed the Coloneps nomination as q
member of the House of Delegates from
his city. The sequel is told: Weisiger is
to selling his fashionable head
,ear and Hall to making water pipe and
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