The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-07
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A RESOLUTION was introduced in the
Senate yesterday asking $4,000 to ma
cadamize the turnpike between elarks-
burg and Buckhannon. At the OPEN
ing of. the session resolutions OF this
kind were sshoweredeuponz clerks
desks .sthick as autumnal leaves, &c"
evidently not because the members ex-
pected the sums asked for would or
could be appropriated, but because they
Were expectedto ask forthe appropfiar
tions, and it didn't cost much to offer
the resolutions. 1t was supposed that
the flood was about over, and that the
stream OF legislation having cleared it
self would now flow on calm and linz
ped in its appropriate channels. 1t
would appear therefore that this reso=
luton, asking this large appropria-
ton at so late day in the session,
Is based ON different expectations.
1t seems to be we'll understood and
agreed that the State is not now able to
enter on an indiscriminate system OF
appropriation for internal improve
Inents-badly Us repairs are needed in
nil parts of the State. Money appro-
priated for such purposes must be paid
down. There can be no borrowing in
such cases. of course all the money
which It Is expected viii accrue to the
treasury within the coming year, would
20 but a little ways towards putting our
roads in repair. They are all equally
needy, SO that it would be invidious and
might be unjust to expend the treasury
on a few to the denial of others. 1t fol-
lows that there is no safe and proper
rule of policy in the case but to rely on
other agencies for repairing and keep
ing mp the roads for some time to come.
We apprebend the appropriation here
asked for Is deemed by its friends an
exceptional case. It is expected to be
necessary to enable the public to get
from clarksburg to the new Capital,
ifperchance It should be as they pro-
pose, located at Bnckhannon. II it
should be, the expenditure will be
necessary beyond a doubt Sand 1t would
be, we suppose, a very moderate intro
duction to other expenditures that
would then become necessary aud other
appropriations that would then be asked
for every session tor the rest OF our nat
ural Iifetimes.
Would It not be we'll to hold this ap-
plication for $50, 600 under adyisement
until It is known whether the unfortu-
nate necessity will be imposed on the
State OF building costly road to ena-
BILE it, in,the first place, to remove the
seat OF government to a practically dis
tantanti inaccessible region, and. in the
second place, to get TO ftafterwardsH
Even amer such q road was constructed
the capital would be practically almost
assistant from the nearest accessible
point (CIarksbnrg) as the capital OF the
United States. The latter could be
reached almost as soon and much moro
conveniently. True, If Mr.. Aladdin
would rubup his wonderful lamp and
build n railroad across the country some
fine moonlight night, without fee or re-
ward. the case being altered, it would
alter the case; but we have not had much
faith in Mr.. Aladdin since the very
Youthful days when we first read the
Arabian Nights; and we now think that
while Mr.. A. and his lamp are apt to
delude such as dwell in ..the.whisPering
chambers OF the Imagination, !" they are
not to be relied on in matters oflegisla-
tion.