The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-26
Asks That Memorial 10 Marshall
Be Placed i'll New Federal
Building.
1T is SENATOR'S BUSY DAY
He Presents More Than Score of
Important Measures for
Action

Washington. April Ex-senator
Thomas S. Martin. OF Virginia. intro
duced more than score OF important
bills in the senate yesterday. among
them being one appropratins the sum
of s15.ooo Tor a monument to Chief
Justice John Marshall, to be placed in
tho new Federal Courthouse at Rich
mond and = further sum of $4,000 for
statue OF General william Campbell
leader OF the Virginia forces at the
battle of Kings Mountain This sec
ord statue is to he located al .ibinS-
don,
Another or senator Martins meas
ures authorized appropriation Of $40
900 for monument In Washington Ia
Matthew Fuu,a inc Maury, pathfinder
OF the eeas" and eminent Virginia sci
enlist
still another appropristes 100000
for prelininary work in matchmaking
as a great military park the famous
bsttiehelds of Frederic>sburS. Chan
cellorsvillc. Spotsylvania Courthouse,
Salem Church and the Wilderness all
OF Virginia soil, and ali of them world
renowned II Is Senator Martins idea
that these bsttleields should be take
over by the government and merged
into one great memorial park
He also offered bill appropriatinE
$4,000 for the Improvement of the
government roadway. from the rail
way station at Frederick sburg To tho
national park near that city.
The Virginia Senator also wants the
government 10 make settlement with
the estate OF General George Washing
ton In tho long ending controversy over
the lands granted in Ohio to the first
President,
Yet another bill provided for the
building OF brcakwater at LNnnhavcn
Bay for tho use of the t.ynnlav Ell
Terminal Company. A corporation or
gained to develop this Virginia port
as deep sea terminal
An appropriation OF s3.Ooo is asked
for by Senator Martin for tho erection
oil Jamestown Island In Virginia. of
monument to the Indian Princess
PocahontaS. \ sum Of $1,000 is wanted
in a separate bill for tho erection OF
an iron fence around the old James
town church ruins.
monument is proposed in an addi-
tional bill TO Peyton Randolph. an early
Virginia statesman. This is TO bc
erected on the campus OF William and
Mary College. Williamsb If the
$1,000 asked for is granted.
He also introduced A bill presenting
the claim OF Maryland and Virginia
against the government Tor money
advanced 10 tho infant republic for the
erection OF capital buildings
This claim, .3:.l0o OF which is hold
by Maryland and $4,000 by Virginia
was the cause OF the most spectacu-
lar deadlock in Congress that the Capt.
'ol has known FOR generation
II resulted a year ago in delaying the
adjournment OF tho House and Senate
for more than a week after the date
set by Joint resolution
NJ the tmc the Maryland and V'r-
Sinia senators were compelled To Yield
TO the opposition OF the House. but
they served notice then and there that
the fight would bc resumed in the
beginning of this Congress- and pressed
until the rights OF the two States were
recognized. This money was loaned Ia
the general government by the States
when the District of Columbia was
created. The opposition has always
contended that it was a eff, and not
loan
While he WAS at t. senator Martin
offered bin providing pensions for
ifc- savers and fixing rate Of pay for
their retirement