Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-23


ont In support Of iunatIcs without scss OF
Assembly In either case. ...
And 80 continued 10 Furnish the IAnauo
Asylum and the Deaf and Dump Insu,sy
until the legislature met In DECENT eL ~
STnE and IND how Ss much ~ Sanger and sss win
show when the first appropriation W., w.
made. Some days after the begiMs.gGsro
met i saw somo Of the mempen Oh uc
nance Committee and urged them 10 pS
q special appropriation TO relieve me u W., va
trouble. They urged me 10 30 on e. naa
been doing: that IL would be troubles . ao
10 get up special act, and they w0uld pte-
fer letting e lie over for the general "pp'''
There were many able virginia gent nsc
men In that legislature, VINO were VIM
Understood this whole subject, ana "no
fully comprehended that mere mnxas,o,
circumstances under which 2 governor
might support iunatic asylum Ior SIX y.
eight mosihs out OF bis contingent tunu
without an act OF the Legislature, any par.
OF that time while the Legislature was ~
session. hut John ]. Moran, Special Agent
OF Virginia" will never comprehend u.
What il he going 10 do about III When
John ]. Moran, Special Agent OF virginia.
found that j. W. Paxton had drawn the
ton due the State OF Virginia without being
authorized by act Of Assembly, he SHOULD
have gone to his lawyer and stated MS case
and his lawyer would have advised MN
that. II the Secretary OF the United states
Treasury had paid claim to an unautnor.
lied party such payment was no bar 10 an
action 10 recover the money. Any ner-
chant or banker In Richmond woulo naso
told him that payment OF q deot 10 an M ~.
authorized party was no payment; ni n
lawyer would also have told him that az
the acts OF Assembly OF state are printed
and bound up I'm q book called Acts y as
sc,nbiy. But instead ofthat. John j. moran.
.is.tA n
special Agent OF H irg,md,s; P Gnsese a D.
pealing pathetically to the Richmond Ds.
patch 10 fui nish him with Acts OF Assembly
which authorized Governor Peirpolnt 10 uo
certain acts therein named without Az
thority OF acts OF Assembly. Verify, ~ ~
not time Governor Lee was looking aites :
John ]. Moran, Special Agent OF virgins?
be will never find THAT money.
want to add the following, lest may
never do H. A committee was sppo, n,e 1 y,
by Congress some years ago 10 ascertain
the amount Of debt created by the pr0vl'
sio nal governments OF the SOuth. Inc
comBittee classed Virginia among Tue
| States Of the South which had provision,
al government. This classification shO~eu
| the ignorance OF the committee. But ",
nora nee was not the only quality possesseu
by the committee which misled the pubic !,
they also reported that virginia, uurIne
thai period, had created oeot Oh Iou, =, o a
1--WE million dollars; | don't remember the
exact amount. / was acting Governor OF
the state. under what was called the Re-
stored Government Of Virginia." rom tne
goth of June, 1851. to list April. 1865 ana
during that period there never was one a Ta .
| not paid and when left there was more
| than sal 600 In the State Treasury. There
was none created afterwards until the new
| Constitution was adopted. as am inform =
"a +. III. PEIRP0iNT.
Tafrnont, March 20, 1856.
Governor PEIRPOINT' S answer fully
corroborates all that we had said in re-
gard to the money in question. 1t
would be discreditable-nay, an act OF
folly, and we might say Of bad faith
in the State of Virginia to undertake to
collect again money which was years
ago paid to the man then as now re-
cognized as the real Governor of Vir-
ginia by all the departments OF the
Federal Government, and who resided
in the Governors mansion in this city
for nearly three Of the years immedi-
ately succeeding the war between the
States, and whilst such Governor ex-
pended the money to which in 1886 a
preposterous claim is now set up by a
Especial agent" Of this State. vi
course the claim has no merit and will
be treated with contempt by the &C
counting officers in Washington.