The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-01


mains in the Treasury $210 90, subject 4
drgF for any and all purposes" ! have
italicised a part Of this quotation 80 q!
not 10 be miSconstrued.
About the Goth oil October last, q
draft duly drawn by Auditor Ben
nett on the Treasury Of the State o.
West Virginia, was presented tc
Treasurer Burdett by member Of the
Legislature for payment, and upon which
the Treasurer refused payment and as
signed as his reason therefor that ate SIdtt
fund Jor; general purposes suGS exhausted
II you had shot said legislator with o
squirt gun loaded with blood, heswould
probably have been ess frightened. my
God said lie, "is that true Ibis eyesexpand.
ling untilthey looked like two saucers turn.
cd upside down. lie wasa Democrat, Of
confse) Well, what is.to be done about
II? Where will we get the money to pay
1.-THE, members ! of the Legislature that Is
nowin session, and for other current ex.
penses ofthe State also The Executive
officers oil the State held o meeting and
after canvassing the entire monetary field,
which was blue on every hand, they
determined to borrow the irreducible
school fund, supposed to be about $l7,-
1000. They borrowed 81 500 cash from
Hon. G. N. Bishop, Republican State
Senator from Preston county, and some
sixteen thousand dollars from the ire.
ducable school fund, In all about SIS, GOO,
which has been used for State purposes
since the Goth Of October last, and 10 now
being used for that purpose. And have
the melancholy pleasure to state that this
borrowed sum Is now about exhausted, In
the language OF distinguished Congress
man, "well nigh gone" No one will deny
that the sums Of money above stated
were borrowed in the manner set forth,
for the fact was given to the Legislature
blythe Governor, in answer 10 resolution
introduced by Senator Scott This being
true, and In view Of the further fact that
these sums have not been paid by the
State, we are led to conclude that .4Scout"
lied, either from malice o.. willful ignor-
ance ,Iwhenjhe said that there was $210s
900 in the Treasury on the 18th day
OF the present month, "subject to
draft "ior any and all purposes" The
truth Is, there Is not that much money. In
the treasury, counting the school fund,
and every other fund that Is known TO the
State GOVERNMENT and everybody knows
that school money cannot be used except
for school purposes.
Il This ends our controversy with Scout
We have tondkapked him gently, and
trust that we will not be called upon to
scalp him outright In the future scouts
should be made gilmore reliable material,
when they are sent out against the mobile
|red mani to drive him from his home,
and take from him that which belongs to
him by possession, by right and by heriT7
tage-in this Instance acharacter and 9
name. ~
WALKER TO JACOB.
As stated in my. letter Of yesterday,
Mr.Speaker Miller introduced Mr.. Walk
er's reply to the Governors recent mes
sage Oh Public Printing in the House OF
Delegates yesterday afternoon. The OBJ
jectin getting It before the House was e
giyelit caste, and, aboveal,s tosget u IN
House Journal, which would pay him
sufficiently To enable him 10 send out
rs 900 or 90, 900 copies TO different parts
OF the State. The House received the
paper, but refused to let 1t appear in the
Journal. ~.
naItisnotas strong Q: ocninent rs lex
pected from Walker and Ferguson. In
fact; it Is o weak efusion, and Ia so re-
garded by, every one competent to judge.
: Hesdenies the Governors estimates and
measurements 81 his work, and pretends
70 refute them by referring to the testi'
mony that he introduced before the
House Committee on Printing last win
ter, of (which Bridgesiwas chairman, and
FOR his conduct Ia Walker 3, behalf he re.
pceived the appointment of 1nperintend.
emit Of the Penitentisry, These witnesses
were printers from Mr.. Walker's own
office, and who did exactly as directed by
him. merely mention this fact to show
you the kind Of evidence he relies uponto
sustain him. il s:isz. 5.sgT ~.
Il He undertakes TO prove that the GoysI
|ernor Is himself q thiei, by. showing that
he reports an expense Of $l33 20 last year
for postage for, his office, which would
make an average of fifteen letters day,
which Is surely too much, as the Execu-
tive Of no State In the Union writes that
many letters in year. he forgets that
1.-The Governor has to furnish the State
Librarian, Aujutant Generals office Tor
duties ratherG &C., with postage, as they
have mo- fund az their disposal. Y y
Healso throws inI tie Governoss face
/ the $1,000 paid by him to the attorneys in
the schallcross- Bridges penitentiary case,
tauuts him about his refusing 10 certify
1.-THE Congressional electionof last fall, and
dubs him b dad man generally. he makes
/ no elsborate- defense Of himself, but aims
principally TO prove the Governors guilt.
To use very common expression, " It's
too thin" to whiiewash 90 bad case e,
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