The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-06
st'hcsliaa Ge9ister.
SrNATOR WILEY AND THE SAL
ARIES OF OFFICERS OF STATE.

The Intslkgeneer Of yesterday morn
ing publishes in full what it styles a
crushing expose OF the Charleston Con-
st;tution," which has been secretly cir
culsted in pamphlet form, under Sena-
tor BoREMAN's frank, all over the State.
In some editorial comments upon the
document, it is stated that "lt Is un-
derstood 10 be from the pen Of Senator
WILLEY
Without at this time entering into
an analysis of the numerous falsehoods
the "expose" contains and pointing out
its errors of fact and its supprtsslons OF
the truth, we desire to say that we can
not believe that Senator WILEY wrote
il. and we submit the following facts In
proof that Mr.. WILEY could not have
been the author OF 80 vile tissue Of
misrepresentation and SO shameful
Justification of the new Constitution.
The greater portion OF the document
;s devoted to pretended exhibit to
show that the expenses Of the State
Goverument will be greater under the
new Constitution than at present.
Among these increased expenses is
enumerated the higher salaries that
are to be paid to certain of the State
officers and the following is re-
cited as one of the reasons why the
new Constitution should be rejected.
1. AT present the annual salary OF
the Auditor OF Public Accounts ls nj
teen hundred dollars; under the new
fCopsti,ution is to be two thousand doll
llars-an increase of FIVE hundred dol
lars
In the Constitutional Convention
Senator WILEY was the constant and
spersistent advocate of the payment OF
higher salaries to the officers of State
than are allowed by the present Consti-
tuition. lie said that in the Convention
that framed the present organic law he
had opposed the fixing of salaries at
their present figure; he had contended
for better salaries then and he contended
for them now. The writer Of this aru-
4 kcle distinctly remembers that when the
salary of the Auditor OF State, referred to
( in the above paragraph, was under
consideration, Senator WILEY made
most eloquent and earnest speech IN
sfayo or OF paying that officer Twenty
five Hundred Dollars per year. he
spoke with more vigor and animation
upon this subject than upon almost
any other that came before the Conven-
ton, and in earnest and emphatic
words protested against confining the
salary OF State officers to the miserable
4 pittsnce fixed in the present law. He
WAS listened to with profound attention
and it was patent to any observer that
his arguments had controlling in-
fuence upon the members of the Con-
s vention. Senator WILEY vSted for the
section firing the salary of tie Auditor
& al Too Thousand Dollars and, we believe,
he voted for every increase that
was proposed in the salaries Of State
officers. He further stated that be
would pledge the Republican party not to
I find fault with the payment Of higher
Z salaries to the State officers, and that
4 il when the Constitution was completed
no more serious objection than this
could be urged against it itwould meet
with no opposition from him.
4 Certainly Senator WILEY could not
have written. the LtslhgeneerS crush-
ing expose