The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-08
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: e CAPITOL. NOTES.
II Members of the General Assembly an
committee clerks get sc per diem, work :
play. It was pleasant yesterday to b.
hold the cheerful alacrity with which tn
members went for the copies Of Munford'
Code which they obligingly voted them
selves. 1tseemed an awful waste Of call
skin and printing paper. some Of the re
cipients not being able to decipher tn
/ Code, and others being in the equal
| ~ unfortunate position, after thel
did read it. Of not beinl
able to understand the most common
| proposition contained therein. Apropo,
Of committee clerks, It is not a bat
thing to be one of those in the Senate
You get s42 per week by law, and !
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 sl2o extra pay for four months ser.
vice.
1t is rumored that Governor Kemper
will urge on his fellow Conservatives the
adoption of a 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.
tcl. 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. s s4tssa Il
Itdon't become school boards and school
trustees to NEEDLE in canvasses going on for
superintendent Of public instruction, and
yet some did do IL.
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. ny
It is understood that Governor Kemper
and family will regularly attend divine SER
vices at st. James church.
Joe Lewis, colored, is janitor of the
House Of Delegates at SO 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 recom-
mendation of the clerk of that body, gets
IS 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 $500 for his six
months labor in copying the Code, and
House committeeclerkship and dozen rail-
road passes good for ayear.v Thereupon
comes a memory of Paul's impressive
words to Jeremiah the prophet: ssTo him
that hath shall be added unto, and those
that have none shall be jerked without |
beneft OF clergy es y se
The new directors Of the state peniten-
tiary, Messrs. George Bargamin, Samuel
and w. Dallas Chesternan,
we're sworn in office By the secretary Of the
commonwealth this morning and immediate
y entered on the discharge ofther duties.
The removal Of two of the .'old directors'
shout three months old viz: Powhatan
Neisiger and Joseph Hall, has been the
ubiect ofcomment, not alone by them and
heir friends, but by those conyersant with
he fact that Governor Walker not
ong ago displaced two worthy gentle-
nen to give them place. The reason
Vhy is best explained by the fol-
owing narrative; Both Weisiger and
TALL, the frst named notably so,
Tere opposed. for some reason or within
lot stated. to the election Of Mr.. James
!. Fisher as clerk of the board. Pos
IDLY 'Jim'' did not "bend the pregnant,
to-, that thrift might follow fawning, etc. ~
anyhow they were opposed to him, with
r without reason, and they manifested
heir opposition, that is Weisiger in an
special manner. II Is well understood
nd susceptible Of proof the most incon-
sstible, that one OF both, as members
f the board, repeatedly offered Fishers
lace. (keeping their enmity secretly
!, William Dallas Chestsrman, then
nd now Of The Enquirer, and to
loses Perdue Handy. esq. Cuban cores.
ondent ofthe New York Tribune. Both
sfused, alleging as reason that they had
God places, and were friends of Fisher. i
After time. Fisher, who is an old citizen
nd q Conservative guyamscutiso Of no small
got wind of his intended taking
6. He would have been more than human
OF to have followed the Scriptural injunc.
on in doing unto others as they would j
ave done unto him. 1t is related that Mr.. Ii
Usher in accomplishing this called to his aid {
olonel William Starke Gilman, who {
Justly enjoyed the utmost confidence of
overnor Kemper and was not unaware !
the fact that Weisiger and all his ward t
slegates possibly Hall included violently 7
opposed the Ooloneps nomination as q :
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