The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-02-05
RET RENCHMEKT AND REFORM
Report of Senator BarksdaIe'S
Committee in Full.

Following is the full text of the report
submitted TO the senate Thursday, in the
matter of reducing State expenses The
document was favorably received, and
many of its recommendations will be ell
acted into laws:
We recon- mend that the boards of Wis.
itors of the Western, Eastern. Central
and Southwestern Hospitals be limited
to FIVE in number. with an executive COR
mittee from each board consisting of not
more than two members of such boards,
to meet every two months, the full board
of visitors not to meet oftener than twice
II year.
The above recommendation is to he car
ried into effect by amendments to the
prop + sections of the Code, legislating
the present boards out of office.
We further recommend that the pres
ent capitol and library police force be
abolished, and that instead thereof there
shall be five policemen to be appointed as
at present, with salaries not exceeding
forty dollars per month, with two uni
forms per year not to cost over twenty
dollars each, said policemen To he selected
from veterans or the late civil war as
long as such can be found who are com.
petent and able to fill such positions.
That superintendent of the respective
State hospitals, to. wit: The Eastern Hos
pital, the Central Hospital, the Western
Hospital and the Southwestern Hos pital,
receive salary each Of twenty-five hun
dred and fifty dollars with no peiuuisites,
and that where they occupy buildings on
the grounu they shall pay therefor such
amount ms may be fixed bv the boards of
visitors of the several hospitals banned.
That the first and second assistant
physicians at the several insane hospitals
m 40 IN cf,
ceeding twelve hundred dollars per wear
and no per1uisites except board and lodg-
ing That the third assistant physician
shall not receive Il salary exceeding nine
hundred dollars per year with board and
lodging but no other perquisites The
Stewards at each State hospital for the
insane shall not receive IA salary to exceed
eigh' hundred dollars per annum with no
peiuui>ites. That the clerks be allowed
IA salary not to exceed six hundred dollars
per nnnunl ard board at the respective
hosI tale. Said clerk shall perform the
duties OF secretary to the board of visit
ors AT the respective hospitals. That no
engineer shall receive salary to exceed
fifty dollars per month o. six hundred
dollars per year with board at the hos
pital
Inc committee recommends that the
appropriation to the Western State Hos
pltal he educed from one hundred thou
sand dollars to eighty-five Thousand dol
lars per annum; that tie appropriation
TO the Eastern State Hospital be reduced
from seventy thousand dollars to sixty
thousand dollars per annum: that the
appropriation to the Southwestern State
Hospital be reduced from fifty thousand
dollars to forty-fve thousand dollars
per annum.
Your committee respectively recon-.
mends TO the board of visitors and super
intendents of each asylum that no spir.
i-uous liquors of any kind be permitted
to be used ut any meeting OF the board or
of the executive committee
That 10 person while in office of any
State hospital shall hold any other posi-.
lion Of honor, trust or profits.
We recommend that the appropriation
to the Virginia Military Institute be re-
duced from thirty five thousand dollars
TO twenty-five thousand dollars.
The committee recommend the follow.
ing reductions in the salaries of the en-
ployes and officers of the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Institnte:
w. A. Bowles, from $1,000 to 81 900
per annum.
G. ID. Enrich. from S75 to sG5 per
mouth.
Fl. NJ. Chamberlain, from 1915 to Sis
per month.
5. C. Jones, from S,5 to 800 per IL opth
Miss Christder. from $50 to $50 per
month
Fl. A. Bear, from $75 to $50 per mouth.