The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-27

vote was taken between the Old
Constitution and the present one,
| the old one would be adopted
I've to one. I speak knowingly. have
yet the first one to find in Charleston, ex.
cepting, OF course, ring politicians, who
speaks iavorably Of our present organic
law. Many Of them say that they were
blindly led to support It, but they shall
always regret that they did It. The facts
are, the masses OF the Democratic party
not only are anxious to get rid oil the new
Constitution, but they are more anxious
TO throw aside the Bourbon Democratic
party: They are tired OF the new regime.
They are praying to DO back TO where
they were'ina 1871, when the Republican
party turned the State .over To them with
over . halt million dollars in tho Treas
ury. They want 70 get rid. OF the per.
petual County Courts. h They want to feel
that the public schools afein sale hands.
They want to feel free -again, and they
want to cut loose IRON the flint lock
fogies that are now controlling things In
our promising young State, and let the
people who are marching forward rule. r
THE LEGISLATURE nExoRAL1zeD.
That the Legislature was Pretty thor.
oughly demoralized during liz last hours
no one will deny. At best the House Of
Delegates, ise hard body yto7icontrol.
When it getslon The ratnpage &c Il useless
for anyimAnI 10 under take 10 manage 1t.
It very often got itself in this shape. II
was wonderfully tangled up just before
adjournment
NJ will not undertake to give you pen
picture Of the last hours OF the Friars, as
! started out to do in the beginning Of this
letter. Were to tell you what was said
and done, very few would believe me,
hence I will only give you few OF the
leading acts.
On Saturday the House passed the Sen.
ate bill repeating the annual appropria-
ton OF 5000 to Bethany College by q
vote oil thirty 10 sixteen, and Mr.. Camp
bell afterwards changed his vote In order
to move reconsideration, which made
thIrty.one 10 fifteen. The House, how
ever. refused to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was passed, and Its passage
was communicated TO the Senate.
Av1oIATroN OF THE contribution. :
BY the passage Of the bill making this
appropriation, the Legislature entered into
q contract with Bethany College that in
consideration Of 5000 paid annually 81
State students were 10 be entitled to free
tuition in the College. By repeal Of the
bill the same session, and BY the same
body, Il impaired the obligations Of the
contract It had made, and hence violated
the Constitution. Well, what OF that .
II has done the samel thingfnine several
times during It's session. That Is nothing.
Who cares for the constitutional f. u
~ The unkindest cut Of oil was adjourning
without making any appropriations. The
Normal Schools will have to close for
want Of money. The work on the Uni
versity andthe Insane Asylum will have
to stop. In fact, ID Is asevere blow upon
all Of our publiczinstitutions To- have a
Legislature refuse to appropriate single
dollar to their support.
The secret of,the refusal to make these
appropriations was because they had mol
money to appropriate. The only alternate.
was 10 saddle d debt OF about 500, 900
on the State, increase taxes or make no
appropriations. They chose the latter,
as It was considered the least Of the three
evils; and In order to cover up the rea!
reason for making no appropriations, they
charged the failure upon the Normal
Schools. IT Is true that there was live |
~ and earnest opposition to these schools,
but as j said before, the true reason for
refusing to.pass the appropriation bill was
because they had used up all the money
for legislative purposes and had none TO
appropriate. A good reason, indeed, was |
1t not? re.
coMPLIMENTARIEs.
As usual, at the close oil sessions Of this |
kind,s number Of complimentary 'resolu.
tions were passed, and also several resolu.
tions allowing extra pay tor clerks and
other officers who would be required to |
remain after the session closed. Mr.. Dav.
export objected 10 the Auditors paying |
extra pay as allowed by these resolutions,
and upon his objection eJscene Of confu-
sion and fillibustering arose, such as Is
rarely seen in Legislative halls, which
decline to describe, though have full
notes before me. During this scene Of
confusion the Senate adjourned, which
left the House 'dguacto cDieio, and after
wfangling about a half hour tho House
was declared adjourned sine die by the
Speaker. ,..,.,e7,.. as,5g,,8 q,
Before l close, pardon me for saying that
I have not written ought in maliceagainst
any one ! have. only stated facts, and in
many instances have suppressed facts to
avoid the disgrace Of parties interested.
Ny style IA :terse, and lpncouth. ! can't
help that. u parties have been aggrieYed,
they should have stood from under. They
alone are to blame, not ToMAHAwK.
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