The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-07
GOVERNOR KEEPS
UP WITH THEM
Determined Not to Let Lcgis-
lators Get Far Ahead in Con-
sideration of Bills.

L Il am well up with my work OF
reading and signing bills passed by
the - legislature" said Governor Swan
son when seen in his office yesterday,
and though this requires great deal
of additional time at my desk. want 10
press the matter, so that when the law
makers get through next week / Will
not be far behind them
Thus far the Governor has not
vetoed single bill, nor has he allow
ed one to become law without his sig
sage OF coincidence and sympathy.
| through Governor A. L. Harris of Ohio,
| to the stricken parents whose chill
dren were burned to death in the h~r-
rible school fire In suburb of C1eve-
| land.
Annex to Library.
| Immediately after the adjournment
of the Legislature next week the Gov
ernor will name a Joint commission 10
/ take charge of the construction of the
new annex to the State Library. An eff
i fort will be made, he says, to complete
the work in one year.
The wing is to be on the southern
side of the building, and will be the
1 exact size and shape of that on the
north side. The sum appropriated Tor
tile addition is $4,000, and bids on
| plans and specifications will be asked
| for within a short time.
1t is purposed to install the Virginia
mineral and timber exhibit on the first
floor of the new portion of the build
| ing. This exhibit was presented to tho
| State by the company through Cover
| nor Swanson, and was accepted by the
| Legislature. 1t is now housed intact on
the jamestown Exposition grounds.
Contractor r. Lee Peters has exhibited
/ in the rotunda of the Capitol pictures
| showing designs for decorating ana
| furnishing the interior of the building.
and especially the rotunda and the two
/ Legislative halls. Up to this time no
appropriation has been made for this
purpose. but such an item may yet be
inserted in the general revenue act.
Convention Debates.
I To the qualification of all who are
entitled to copies, the second volume OF
the debates of the recent Constitutional
i Convention have been received by Sec
!. rotary of the Commonwealth ID. 9. Eg-
4 cleston, and will be distributed by him
! at once. The debates We're edited and
i'compiled by Hon. j. II. Lindsay, OF.
\ Charlottesville, member of the con-
vention. and the second volume has
been under preparation for nearly five
4 years.
4 Judge William Il, Rhea, the new State
i Corporation Commissioner, did not re-
turn from his home in Bristol yester-
day, and will probably not come pe-
i fore Monday
!. No cases are set for hearing by the
body until March 18th, but there IS
always plenty of routine work for the
commissioners
OLD Rock Comes Back. a9
A volume of "Crabbes Posthumons
5 Poems" taken from the State Library
Il in April 1865, has been returned. ~
$ came in BY mail to Librarian MellWaine
t yesterday.
], On the fly leaf of the book appear.
Q these words. written In pencil #
0 "Elphonso Youngs TO Owen r. WiSam
$ stolen (tal5en is marked out and the
Il wo-d stolen substitutedl from the Rebel
t Capitol Library after the fall of Rich.
mond. Aprtl 8, 1865"
On a card In the book was this:
"Returned to the Virginia State IL.
brary by DR. l., ID. Carmen, iasl @
!. Street, Washington, ID G., March, 1908