The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-31

assembling was TO begin o quarrel about
the spOils. There were not enough offices
10 90 round. That quarrel has grown
worse each succeeding day Of the session
until, like alligators, they came near de-
vouring each other. Their bowls have
been heard all over the State, and arc still
heard In and around the State House.
Tho first thing the House did was to
elect Speaker whose unwise conductiu
the selection of his committees effectually
destroyed all hopes OF Wheeling getting
the Capital on the ten years, temporary
proposition, which, under proper manage.
ment might have been accomplished.
They reopened the investigation into the
printing frauds for the sole purpose OlcoV.
ering up q $4,000 fraud, which they
knew had been perpetrated upon tho State
Treasury by q member Of the Democratic
party. They passed an act reducing the
fees Of all the county officers in the
State under the guise Of retrenchment,
which they knew TO be false; and after al.
lowing said act to exist for two months,
turned about and repealed It; all Of which
cost the State not less than $4,000, which
was money thrown away; or rather, 1t
went into the pockets Of the members Of
the Legislature. They took from the
State Treasury ten thousand dollars, be.
ing $50 piece Tor each member for 20
days time that they were at their homes,
and did not give one moments time 10
the business Of the State. They passed q
road law that will prove one Of the great
est curses that ever befel the poor people
Of the State. In this law they have ig-
nored the long established principle 10 a
Republican government, that property
should be required to pay the expense Of
the government, and have required all
roads to be kept in repair by labor alone.
They have passed an act reopening prob
ably thousands OF law suits that were le-
gHlly and fairly settled when the State
was engaged IN civil war, thus reopen
ing the wounds occasioned by the war,
and reviving the passions Of the people,
that were well nigh forgotten.
They have passed Printing Bill In the
interests Of their pei newspaper man, the
present Public Printer, who has made
fortune of the State In two years doing
the public printing. So We presume that
no one will bid for the work but Mr..
Walker, and the State will have the BEN
eft Of his public services for the next two
years at special job rates They have pre-
pared and will no doubt pass Mr. Ben
nett's License and Tax Bit, which taxes
everything that is produced in the State,
and then strikes il in all Of It's various
forms afterwards, which
will produce sad havoc In business
circles throughout the. State. They
have allowed themselves 10 be 80
influenced by partisan motives as
to trample upon the organic lawo Of the
State and take the appointing power from
the Governor, because he refused TO ap-
point demagogues to office, and would
not do their bidding. They have under
taken to do what no legislative body ever
was guilty Of in this or any other State,
viz: after the Governor had certified, as
required by the Constitution Of the
United States, the result Of the recent
Congress electioSs,the Legislature not sat.
isfed with what he did in thepremiBes pass
an act making the President OF tho Sen
ate Governor pro tempore to issue certifl-
oates Of election to their pets, who have
been fairly defeated before the people.
They have spent over one hundred
dollars during five months
session OF tho Legislature in trying to
conform the laws Of the State to the new
Constitution, and they are not yet more
than half done the job. By the time the
necessary legislation to this end is COM
plcted, and Q new code Is printed, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars more
will be consumed; and we will be worse
off than when the present Legislature
convened, and will be about two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars out of pocket
besides.
If we are to Judge future legislation by
he present assembly, we can't but. ex-
)laim, God save the State. Far better
would it have been for the State had the
Legislature of 1879 and 1878 never met,
Dr.. Camden, Superintendent Of the In.
zane Asylum at Weston reached the city
Today. HENRY.