Bills were offered in the General Assembly yesterday looking to the erection in the Capitol Square of a monument to Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas. The plan proposed is to use for this purpose the $10,000 that would have been contributed by the State to the Stuart statue had it been located on the site designated by the Legislature. The movement is explained in the following bill, which was offered by request in the Senate by Mr. Campbell, of Bedford:

“Whereas, the General Assembly of Virginia by acts approved March 28th and December 29, 1906, appropriated the sum of $10,000 to be used in the erection of a statue to General J.E.B. Stuart, the great commander of the Cavalry Corps, A. N. V., upon the condition that the said monument should he erected upon a designated site in the Capitol Square, and,

“Whereas, a site in the city of Richmond outside of the said Capitol Square has been selected for the said Stuart monument upon which it is now being erected, and the said appropriation will not be needed or used for that purpose, therefore,

“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia that the sum of $19,000 not accepted by the Veterans’ Cavalry Association, be and is appropriated and hereby ordered to be turned over to a commission composed of the Governor, the Attorney- General, the Auditor of Public Accounts, the Adjutant-General, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and that they are hereby authorized to erect at a cost not exceeding the sum of $10,000, upon a site to be selected by the said commission, a monument to the memory of Matthew Fontaine  Maury, the Pathfinder of the seas, the “Creator of a  New Science.”