Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-04-25
SENATOR MARTIN BUSY.
'Htis' ~ 70
Introduces No Less That Score of
Important Bills.

/ Washington, April 25. = Senator
Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia, in
.roduced more than score of import
ant bills in the Senate yesterday,
among them being that presenting
.he claim of Maryland and Virginia
against the government for money ad-
vanced to the infan; republic for
the erection of capital buildings.
This claim, $4,000 of which is
held by Maryland and S125,000 by
Virginia, was the cause of the most
spectacular deadlock in Congress that
the capitol has know for genera
ticn. It resulted year ago in de-
laying the adjournment OF the House
and Senate for more than a week af-
ter the date set by joint resolution.
At the time the Maryland and Vir-
ginia senator's were compelled to
yield to the opposition of the House,
but they served notice then and there
that the fight would be resumed in
the beginning of this Congress and
pressed until the rights of the two
s. ates were recognized. This money
was loaned to the general government
by the States when the District of
Columbia was created. The opposi-
ton has always contended that it was
a gift and not loan.
Another of Senator Martins meas
urcs authorize an appropriation of
$4,000 for a monument in Washing
ton to Matthew Fontaine Murray,
pathfinder of the seas" and eminent
Virginia scientist.
Sill another apropriates 100000
for preliminary work m Matchmaking
as a great military park the famous
battlefields Of Fredericksburg, Chan
celtorsville, Spd:tsylvania Courthouse,
Salem Church, and the Wilderness,
all on Virginia soil, and all of them
world-renowned 1t is Senator Mar
tins idea that these bat1lefields !
should be taken over by the govern
ment and merged into one great me-
mortal park
He also offered bin appropriating
100000 for the improvement of the
Government roadway, from The rail
way station at Fredericksburg to the
national park, near that city:
The Virginia Senator also wants
the government to make settlement
with the estate of Gen. George Wash
ington, in the long-ending controversy
over the lands granted in Ohio to the
first President.
Yet another bill provided for the
building of a brealwater at Lynn
haven Bay for the use Of the Lynn
haven Terminal Company, corpora
tion organized to develop this Virgil
MIA port as a deep sea terminal.
An appropriation of $4,000 is ask
ed for by Senator Martin for the cree
ton on jamestown Island, in Vir-
ginia, monument to the Indian Prin-
cess Pocahontas A sum Of $4,000 is
wanted in separate bill for the cree
ton of an iron fence around the old
jamestown Church ruins
A monument is proposed in an ad-
ditional bill TO Peyton Randolph, an
elderly Virginia statesman. This is
to be erected on the campus of Will
liam and Mary College, Williamsburg,
if the $4,000 asked for is granted.
The sum of $4,000 is made avail
able in yet another measure for a
monument to Chief Justice John Mar
shall, to be placed in the new Fed
eral courthouse at Richmond and a
further sum of $4,000 For statue Of
Gen. William Campbell, leader of the
Virginia forces at the battle of Kings
Mountain. This second statue is to be
located at Abingdon.