The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-29
NEWS Of A DAN
Al The CAPITOL
Governor nontagu. Keeping Up.
Well With His Duties.
RETIREMENT OF GENERAL HILL !.
After Many Year. Of Faithful Service
the Railroad Commissioner Retires
from Public Life-state Not to
Pay for Medicine.
RETIREMENT OF GENERAL HILL :; !.

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Pay for Medicine.
Governor Montague has spent few
caictcr days since he has been in Office
Imam yesterday.
,3e had n great stream OF callers, but
s most o. them came simply to pay their
respects. and beyond receiving them and
disposing OF his mail. HIS E&celiency did
but little.
The Governor has his work well UP.
and there is but little of public interest
pending before him. Being himself
man OF method, and having clerical
stan composed Of active and industrious
young men, the work OF the ONCE is
not allowed to accumulate. but is DIS
poseo Of almost as rapidly as 1t comes
in Secretary r. A. Richie is making
a fine record and is becoming very popu-
lar, yfile Executive Clerk Sam w. big
ger Is likewise demonstrating the Wis
dom o. his selection.
Governor Montague IL manifesttnG the
deepest interest In the new Constitution,
and expresses the belief that it is the
best product OF our race and time he
believes 1t viii and ought to be sustained
by the people and that when finally Ell
fective it win put the old State on
tide OF prosperity which will be perma-
nent and beneficial to all the people
y r.
General James c. Hill. State Railroad
Commissioner, Will retire from Office on
April /, 1903. he having declined re-
election, and MIR. e. G. Akers, Of Lynch
burg, ha nnE bacn chosen to succeed
him.
General Hill has behind him a long and
faithful record as soldier In war and
buslsc servant Ia peace Ho served four
years in III, ermy OF Northern Virginia
with distinguished ga1leptry, most of the
time M Offices. A. tA~ end Of the strug-
Sls ha vetired to his hoc,e in Albemarle,
pnl WIS ia 1869 slaG:eG 60 the House Of
Delegates, 10 which h>dy b. served con-
.inuousY until ssk:een year: ago. when
ne vnS chosen RaslcosS Commissioners,
p"ita th., a<ceptien 81 the four years the
Rea:l1usters we're e: o1n.er. General Hill
has made a gr,e. many trends among
2he public men o the State will be
pafsssd about the .lallntp of the politicians
here at the end OF his term.
Mr.. E. L. c. Scott Of the State Audi
tors Office will begin paying
pensions under the act Of 1855 on Thurs
day next and he requests those who
eonne under its provisions to make their
applications at once to the clerks Of the
various County and Hastings Courts of
the State. that they may be sent in
promptly. Those in Richmond city will
apply to Clerk Walter Christian on the
second floor OF the City Hall and those
in Henrico to Clerk S. P. Waddill at the
county court house. The task is heavy
one, and the clerks in the Offices of the
auditor and treasurer will be greatly
rushed On September list the payment
of the pensions to be allowed under the
act Of 1902 will be begun and this will re-
uuire great deal of time The Legisla-
ture. it will be recalled, ct its recent ses-
sion passed a bill appropriatinG $4,000
for all pension purposes
Captain E. Newman Eubank, OF New
port News. was caller on Secretary
Brent at the Department of Education
yesterday. Captain Eubank is n years of
age and has had many varied experiences
in his life He was born in Amherst,
and knows nearly every citizen in that
! county and Nelson. He was one of the
pioneers to California in 1S48, and after
ward returned to Lynchburg and was for
years a merchant and commissioner of
revenue in that city. Captain Eubank is
now living with his two sons IN Newport
News. He has recently resumed the play
Ing Of his fiddle abandoned twenty-five
years ago. and is said to be an artist in
that line.
Acknowledgement Anderson, in a letter
to Auditor Marye. has given as his opinion
that the State OF Virginia is not required
oners In city and county jails
In the opinion given. st is stated that the
care and nursing and medical attendance
OF the sick In prison seems to be covered
by sections 93S and S532. The only allow
ances are those allowed the jailer and
physicians by those two sections. In ais,
letter to the Auditor. Attorney-General
Anderson says: st find no statute which
makes the accounts referred to payable
out OF the State treasury, except as to
items Of clothing
left for Norfol. yesterday afternoon TO
attend the marriage of his brother, Mr..
w. e. Doherty. Of that city, which will
take place at $50 o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Doherty will act as best man and
:his will be his twenty-hfth experience
In this line He will return to-day in
time to preside at the City Democratic
Committee meeting tonight.
The commission appointed by the re-
cent session of the Legislature to have
the Capitol building repaired will meet
in Governor Montague's Office on Tues
day May 9th, to receive plans and sug-
sessions from the various competing
architects. The commission is composed
of Governor A. J. Montague (chairman),
Senators Glass and Wickham, and Dele
gates Folkes. Jennings. and Bowman.
The Final Revision Committee OF the
Constitutional Convention is making fine
4 progress with its work. All the articles
save those on the judiciary, corporations,
cities and towns and the executive do-
partment have now been disposed of.
Corporations is now being worked on, and
1t looks as If tho committee will COM
pietc its work in two weeks, If not
sooner.
The Colored Y. M. c. A..
The meeting for men only under the
auspices of the Colored y. NJ. c. A.
at the True Reformers' Hall was q sue
Z cess. Seven hundred men attended. DIR.
!. IL Howard. of Petersburg, by the