Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-28
WaErLiss, Jan. -, 1862.
EAierJ Latsuig0eer .


prossedluz1 u The Convention, hEd that
The Convention, now il Is5iioa IN the city
Of Wheeling, which assembled Ihsrs Tot
The pgrP0Ss Of framing 4 Consultation tot
the nsE State Of West Yirgisia, il com
posed of eighteen lawyers. sixteen fATmeF1r
ssTsn ministers, four merchants, one hotel
keeper, one salt manufacturer, add one me-
chauie. So yOu will see that the lawyers
bold The controlling Influence IN that body,
which end 70 be = high-mindsd, hOnorA.
bic aud intelligent set Of gea.lemen, and
are very inda5triouIly epEuEed 10 trying
10 prepare = Constitution for the new State
which will be acceptable TO the gFsai masi
OF the people. Aud 80 far as they have
gone am inelintd 10 believe that they
have made a good start, for ] see that they
have 6Ged the salaries Of the members Of
the Legislature Of the nsW State at three
dollars per day, which is certainly very
low, particularly rs the Law makers will
have 10 leaTs their homes aud 60 10 the
seat OF govern msnt, where they will have
10 pay the highest prices for everything
they get while attending TO public business
and they will have 70 work hard TO accom-.
pllih ali their labor 10 fOrtY-6ys days ai
thai Is all the time allotted TO them BY tie
Consultation. But that Is all right. They
ought 70 work bard and work low. That
10 exactly what the people want just now
They want 70 see The same Low prices car
ried clear through this whole new Consti'
tuition. We do not want TO see the Offices
SLED, or that they may DO alled, BY mix
ed class Of meal that Is to say, BY law
yeFu, farmers, merchants, &c, with low sale
aries, or the Offices which is to be filed By
4 particular class OF men with high salA.
Fier all We wish is 10 sec all men treated
alike. DO unto others As you would that
Others should do unto you. But ] have
seen In ZONE OF the proceedings OF the Con-
yeuiion q report on the subject Of the Of
ganlzing the Judiciary for the new State,
In which report see that the salaries o.
the Judges for the said new State are 10 be
fSsd at two thousand dollars per year for
Circuit Judges, aud two thousand, FIVE
hundred dollars per year for the higher
Judges, which amounts 10 Eve dollars and
about forty.6Ve cents per day for the Cir
cult Judges, aud within fraction Of IeVsn
dollars per day for the Supreme Courts,
and thst for every day In the year, Sundays
included, and that class Of Offices 10 eEPee-
ted to be flled by the lawyers Of the coun-
try, and those Judges can DO At homo with
their families At least half Of their time,
free from expense aS compared to what
they would have to pay II they had to 80
| =. Al . so,t ~ s,nvernmebk In transact all
their business.
Now why make such distinction be-
tween the law maker, and the one who ad'
ministers the law. II does seem to me that
there Is not 50 much difference in the
value OF the time Of The men who make
ths laws and the men who administer
them. While the law maker has to under
20 the trouble aud expense Of an election
every year, the judges are TO DO elected for
eight years at time. The above named
salaries have not yet been determined on
by the Convention; they have only been
reported BY the Committee on the Judici-
ary and have not yet been acted on. ]
have no doubt but when the Convention
acts on those salaries that they will do by
the Judges as they have done BY the mem
berS Of tho legislature put their pay
down lower than Il has been 10 Virginia for
the last iiily years. Do not make 30 effort
to skin one class Of the people for the pur-
pose Fmaking lat Ialaries for another class.
A Just, Cheap, economical goVernmenttor
The new State is what the people want,
and It is the only kind Of Government they
will be satisfied with.
oSH or THE PEOPLE,
[our correspondent is Slightly in error
In regard to the salaries of the judges
They have been acted on and that OF the
Supreme Court of Appeals izeda at $4,000,
and Of the Circuit Court at $1,000 per
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