The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-27

often they get into o terrible middle, and
when there Is no hole to creep out at,
thew call out G. o. D. and the Old Sand
Stone, who give them the spirit" after
which they crack the party whip, and
the "ayes" are always found In the ma.
iority. We like spiritual things, but the
Legislature Is run altogether by spirits.
we prefer It In lesser quantities, and AT
the same time would like TO have little
Of the letter in 1t, and not so much sugar.
Please understand mo. / am talking
about the Constitution; l don't want to
be misconstrucd; am tired Of personal
explanations" Questions Of privilege"
&c. They are getting too common, par
ticularly In the House. The Capital can
DO removed with proper management,
not otherwise.
TIE ADJOURNMENT.
There Is now no doubt about an ad-
journment taking place about the Isl Of
April Farmers are like fish out Of wa.
ter, they cannot afford to stay much
longer; few Of them have already i'd
journed and gone home, and it will be q
close rub TO find quorum in either
House by the 1st Of April. The intention
Is TO adjourn tn meet again probably in
November, tcittont per diem.
APPROPRIATIONS.
The question Of appropriations for the
support Of the various public institutions
&C., Is being generally discussed. II
would DO q very simple and easy job 10
find out tho amounts necessary to meet
the demands Of all Of our public institu.
tons and then pass the appropriation
bill, if they had the money TO appropriate,
"Ah, there's the rub"
They haven't got it to give. The Treas.
ury is dry. No money but the lrreduci-
bic School Fund, and that they dare not
usc; no money, and no power to issue
bonds; no money, and the penltentiary
not provided for; no money, and tho in
sane asylum in need no money, and the
University ut MorgantOwn without the
"wherewith" to feed tho students; no
money, and our Normal Schools in want;
no money, and the State in debt $4,000
to the Public Printer; no money, and the
deaf and dumb and blind at Romney will
have to go to their homes, though hunger.
ing and thirsling after knowledge; no
money, and the Legislature unprovided
for. Money is tho main spring and West
Virginia has none OF it. This is passing
strGngel Twoy years ago when the dirty
Radicals turned tho State over to the pure
Democracy, there were little less than
half million dollars. In tho Treasury,
ooJ vo1, yT,n m fn1d fhai - Ia oil fVOOn
And what have VIC got in return? Has it
been spent in building public institutions!
Has any Of 1t gone into railroads, canals,
bridges, turupikGs, or any public improve.
menl? Let the Democratic party answer
this question. If / were 10 say that
scarcely dollar Of 1t had been so ex-
pended, 1t would be termed "Radical
lie." II ! were to say that every visible
return that we have received, Us State,
Tor the halt million dollars left In the
Treasury by the Republican party, and
now gone Is the new Lawyers Constitu-
tim, It would be branded Us q "RsdiCal
lalsehood." l will leave the people TO
Judge for themselves where this money
has gone. II they prefer TO believe that
1t was expended in improving the State,
well and good; and II they desire TO be-
lieve, as l do, that 1t has gone into the
pockets OF constitution trainers, law
makers, Gnd Office seekers, 1t is well.
But then the statement made thai there
is no money in the Treasury may be
questioned by some. Permit me TO in.
lroduce 10 them the Hon. r. Hume
Butcher, one of the Democratic leaders In
the House Of Delegates. viii any one
question his fidelity 10 the Democratic
party? He has been prominent in the
gang OF Bourbons who have spent thou.
sands OF dollars Of the peoples money the
present session of the Legislature In try
ing. to cruelty Gov. Jacob, becausehe was
elected as an Independent Democrat
against the will OF the 'ringmasters of the
Democratic party: Will any one have tho
cheek to say that Hume Is not simon
pure Bourbon? In speech made in the
House OF Delegates last Friday, on the
proposition t, appropriate 81 900 for the
d the uppeE portion OF tho
Guyandotte river, he (Butcher) opposed
tho bill for the solo. reason that there EoGS
no money in tho Treasury to appropriate.
He claimed that he knew what he was
talking about when he said that 10 kneto
there t0aS no money in the Treasury !; that
it had all been expended, &C. KNEW the
fact, or ut least had good reasons to be-
lieve, that 1t had all boon consumed by
the present Legislature. And now am
sure oft. thought that $3.50 per day
for five months would "lick up" bigpile
OF money, and have reason to believe
tho people all over the State thought the
same way. And now that Mr.. Butcher,
the leading Democrat in the House OF
Delegates, tells mo that the Treasury Is
exhausted, am quito willing to believe
him. And so arc the people. IA. ,,
WORKING IN EARNEST.
Both branches OF the Legislature are
now, and have, been Tor some time, work
ing earnestly to carry through the nee
essary legislation to enable them 10 adj
journ carly in April. The Senate works
rapidly and easy, but the House labors
severely. There arc go many "gassy"
fellows in the latter body that am sur
prised at them, accomplishing rs much
as they do. They, must do much moro
work before they can adjourn, and they
cannot sit much longer.
THE APPOINTING POWER
is fixed under the control OF the Board Of
public works. Tho Constitution has been
entirely ovcrruled, and Governor Jacob
completely sacrificed. All of the rights
IN this direction given him by the COnsti.