The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-03

Being an annual saving of..-"...... S2,7Oo
which will exactly pay the salary al
lowed to the Governor.
The annual cost of the salaries OF the
following officers under the new Con-
stitution will be as follows: Governor,
s27OO; Auditor, $4,000; Treasurer,
$l4OO; Secretary of State, $1,000 !;
Attorney General and Reporter of
Court of Appeals, $500; Superin-
tendent Of Free Schools, $500, max
ing a total of $4,000, and no more. See
section 10, Article 7.
The amounts actually paid 70 said
officers from 1864 to 1870, inclusive, for
salaries and house rent, were as follows /:
In 1864, $780, in 1865, $l0,35G in
1856, 1850; in 1867, $l2. 05O in 1868,
$l2,05O in 1869, $l0450; 10 1870,
slI, $50; total, $75,4O0, being an aver.
age annual cost OF $l0,S7l.43, which
exceeds the annual cost under the new
Constitution SS7l 43.
The annual sessions of the Leglsla-
lature have cost the State not less than
SCI 900, being an average OF $269.2 %
to each member. during a session OF
forty-five days. Under the new Constl-
tuition the Legislature will only sit once in
t,co years, for forty-five days, at an aver
age cost of 1914. % for each member
| and for eighty-nine members. for the
whole session, the sum OF $27 ,966.4I,
for two years or the sum Of $l3. 9S3.2 %
for one year, being a further annual
saving OF $70l6.77. Section 80, OF Ar
| ticle 6, also cuts off the postage hereto
fore allowed members of the Legisla-
ture, which was 80 each, amounting
| to the sum of $3.50; and as nothing in
the future cen be allowed them for
newspapers and stationery, there will
be a further annual saving OF at least
$3.50 more. When it is remembered
thcs at Least three-fourths Of all the
laws passed at every session Of the Leg.
islature, have been special and local
laws, all OF which will be prohibited in
the future by section 80, of Article 3;
and that by section "a, Article 6, all
| public printing, copying, binding, die,
tr;buting the laws and journals, will
hereafte be done by. the lowest bidder,
| it will be perceived that there must be
a further annual saving from this source,
of not less than $1,000. -.
One of the greatest continual public
losses suffered under the existing Con-
stitution, is the inevitable loss sustained
by suitors in the Courts, caused by the
continuances rendered necessary by the
overcrowded condition OF the dockets.
1t is impossible to furnish an enact
statement of the loss annually resulting
from this cause. To aid in making
this estimate, let us assume that in at
least one half of the ffty-four Circuit
Courts of this State, there are on the
average, fifty causes continued at each
term for want Of time to try them that
in each Of said causes at least two wits
nesses on each side are summoned by
the Sheriff and attend the Court for
\ two days at each term. The public
Toss thus caused will, in one year,
mount to the following sum, viz:
Issuing 200 summonses FOR wit
Uses, at o cents each. DO
rolSsuing 500 copies, to be used In
seiApg them, at rs cents each......... $40
TOT Hnaing, entering and certifying q"
osW Ntnesses' attendance, al ~ 49,,
p,or ant l'oZ0
9g on order book 1851 con-
unuao at 50 cents each...-.-...... DO
Total ,ss Gle IS cost at one term.....- $3.50
ing $40 witH ss s at q: IS cents each. l.sso
ss siOo per da 1o,soo
mile, 50 cents cad ~. :. .. . 100
Total cost OF conuuance for one, 81
\ term ...................S = ilS6S0
And r Tor three terms. zone year, it -.
win be...-... -......-..--...N - Is 800
This enormous loss ma caused by
the inefhciency OF the lessnt 'C,rcuft
Courts, is far belop the an.l loss as
b will be apparent TO every rvyer and
II litigant. All this will be aGi.5 and
= therefore saved by the cfeatS ~ the
County Court which. as hA bsen
already shown, is Q much chestr -
well a. more efficient inferior trf,nal
than the Board Of Supervisors.