The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-08-15
SENATOR WILEY AND THE SAL.
ARIES OF OFFICERS OF STATE.

SENATOR WILEY AND THE SAL.
ARIES OF OFFICERS OF STATE.
The lntelligeneer ct yesterday morning
publishes 10 full wha. it styles "a crush.
Jog expose Of the Charlie Constitution, u
which has been secretly circulated in
phamphlet form, under, Senator Boremau's
frank, oil over the State. 10 some editor.
iel comments upon the document, it is
understood to be from the pen Of Senator
Wiley"
Without at this time entering into an
analysis Of the numerous falsehools tho
expose" contains and pointing out its er.
'ors Of fact and itssuppressons Of the truth
We desire to say that we csnuot believe
'hst Senator Wiley wrote it and wo sub
init the following facts in proof that Mr.
Wiley could not have been the author Of
I" vile an issue Of Interpretations AID so
shameful o Justification Of the new Consti.
tuition.
The greater portion Of the document is
devoted to pretended exhibit to show
that the expenses Of State Government will
be greater under tho new Constitution than
atpresent. Among these increased e1pen.
ses is enumerated tue higher salaries that
arc to be paid to certain ofthe State Off.
sers and the following is rected as one Of
The reasons why the new Constitution should
DO rejected.
4. "At present the annual salary Of tho
Auditor Of public Accounts is fifteen hun.
dred dollars, under the new Constitution
is to be two thousand dollars-an increase
OF i've hundred dollars.
In the Constitutional Convention Sena.
tor Wiley was the constant and persistent
advocate Of the payment Of higher salaries
to the officers Of State than ore allowed by
the present Constitution. lie said that in
the Convention that framed the present or
ganic law he bad opposed the fixing Of sal.
aries at their present figure; he had con.
tended for better salaries then and he con.
tended for them now. The writer Of this
article distinctly remembers that when the
salary Of the Auditor Of State, referred to
in tho above paragraph, was under cousid-
GRAFTON, Senator Wiley made q most
cloquen! aud earnest speech 10 favor Of
paying that officer Twenty five Hundred
Dollars per year. Ho spoke with more
vigor and animation upon this subject than
upon almost any other that came before
the Convention, and in earnest and EN-.
phatic words protested against condning
the State officers to the miserable pittance
6xed 10 the present law. He was listened
to with profound attention and it was pat
eutto any observer that his arguments had
controlling influence upon The members
ofthe Convention. Senator Wiley uo!ed
for The section fring the sa'ary y'the Al.
ditor at Tro Thousand Dollars and, We
believe, he voted for every increase that
was proposed in the salaries Of State off.
GERS. He further stated that hc would
pledge the Republican party not to find
fault with the payment Of higher salaries
to the State officers, and that il when the
Constitution was completed no more seri.
Gus objection than this could be urged
against it, it would meet with no opposition
from him.
Certainly Senator Wiley could not have
written the lutelliyencer's crushing ex-
pose" Register, Aug 6.