The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-03
WILL INVESTIGATE
WHOLE MANAGEMENT
Committee Far From Satisfied
With Condition AS Revealed
BY Testirnony-Inquiry
in Vacation to Fol
low Report
Adopted.

By unanimous vote In an executive ses-
sion held late yesterday afternoon the
Senate rejected the nomination OF tne
appointment of Il. II. Cloves as men,
bcr of the Board OF Directors of the
Eastern State Hospital and adopted the
report of the special Investigating conn
mittee recommending u general inquiry
into the affairs of the asylum with more
particular reference to the deficiency
of It's superintendent, DIR. l.. S. Foster.
and the management OF the Institution
bT the special board.
Implacable nntoganiam between dtrec-
tor and superintendent resulting in the
serious impairment OF the public SER
vice Is assigned by the committee aE
the chief ground for the rejection OF Mr..
Cloves, In which opinion the Senate COLI
Cured. Testimony reflecting also upon
both the superintendent and the special
board is called to the attention of the
body as OF sufficient gravity to demand
u further investigation. and in this also
the Judgment of the committee was ac-
cepted by the Senate. The new inquiry
Will not be made at this session of the
Legislature. Joint action will be taken
BY the two houses looking to the appoint-
ment of board Of inquiry that will
report to the next General Assembly.
The Report.
1t was about $50 r. NJ, after long
days work that had left many members
yearning for n quiet supper-table, when
Mr.. Thomas, chairman OF the special
committee, moved that the Senate 20 into
executive session There was no oppo-
sition. The report was submitted at once,
together with a bound copy of tho
stenographic record nearly q foot thick.
The report itself Is as follows:
% the Honorable President of the
Senate of Virginia:
Your committee appointed under
resolution Of January 81, 1906, to in
veatigate the fitness OF e. n. Cloves
as member OF the Board of Direct.
ors OF the Eastern State Hospital,
heg leave to report that 1t has fin
fshed It's work. The record is now
delivered into your hands. The COM
mittee respectfully submits that, in
Its Judgment, the nomination of e.
II. Cloves as director of the East
ern State Hospital, should not be con-
firmed for the following reasons:
There seems to have existed for
some time between the said Cloves
and DR.. L. S. Foster, the supern-
tendent OF the Eastern State HospI-
tai. an lmplacable antasonism, with
the result that the public service has
been serlousy impaired.
Your committee is of the opinion
that the public service would be serl-
ously affected by the retention Of
these men In their present official
relations.
The foregoing ground of unfltness
Is, In the Judgment of your commit
tee, so we'll established by the record
that It deems II unnecessary to pre-
sent findings on any other allegation
of unfitness,' the whole record being
returned with this report for such
action thereon as the Senate may
deem best.
While not strictly Within Its duty
as outlined In the resolution under
which It acted, the committee feels
lmpelIed by a sense of duty to call
the attention of the Senate to tho
fact that In this hearing much evil
dence was produced which reflects
upon the special boards management
Of the Eastern State Hospital and
upon the capacity and efficiency Of
Or. l.. S. Foster, as superintendent
Of said hospital. and II respectfully
recommends an investigation af .hese
Respectfully submitted,
tsisned) a. E. THOMAS,
(sfgned) r. S. TAVENNER,
(Slaned) EDWARD EcHOLs,
Committee.
Consideration of the matter consumed
something over n half holir. The two
propositions were taken up separately.