The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-23
Letter from wheeling.
WHEELING, January II, 1877


ElltOr Weston Democrat:
My internal improvement scheme, pro.
viding u fund to be called 1.-THE State
Internal Improvement Fund.-" has been
iavorably reported by the Committee on
Roads and Internal Navigation. The
bill is az follows:
A Bill providing q Fund TO be called the
State Internal Improvement Fund.
BE u enacted BY hs Legislature Of Wcst
Virginia, That q tax OF = cent? shall be-
assessed and collected on each hundred
dollars Of taxable property, for providing
a fund to be called aThe State Internal Inn.
grovement Fund," to be kept in the State
Treasury and drawn out in pursuance OF
appropriations made by the Legislature.
You will perceive il Is a measure Of
great Importance 10 the people off the
railroads in the interior counties of the
State. i hope 10 be able 10, show, that
BY economy and skillful management,
fifteen cents aSse8Sed on each hundred
dollars Of taxable property will run the
State Government, and that five cents
will realize sixty thousand dollars per
annum 10 be set apart and 10 be appro.
priated by the Legislature to works OF
internal Improvement and il may be,
now that the schoOl.Il6uses are all built,
that the whole expense OF the schools
can be carried on by thirty cent tax,
80 in that way, the internal improvement
tax may be made ten cents on the 500
OF taxable property without any increase
oil taxes, and Increase the annual i'm.
provement fund to one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. This sum fair.
ly and judiCiously expended, would start
our young State on u new career OF pros.
perity, and he the foundation Of her
future greatness, wealth and power. II
is decidedly the mostIimportanl measure
that will come before the Legislature at
the present session.
The Capital removal is now in blaze,
The bill as prepared by the patrons Of
removal will be reported 10 this body 10.
morrow or next day. | will offer at the
proper time the following amendment /:
Strike out the third section and insert the
following in lieu thereOt "Each voter,
at an election held under the provisions
Of this act, shall deposit his ballot with
the names Of frc Of the places named in
the preceding section, written or printed
thereon, and II more than frs Of said
places be written or printed thereon, the
tive first named so written or printed
shall alone be counted; but in countiny the
role and dGSccrtdining The result of said election
all The rotes cast for each place named in sec.
lion 2 cfhis act ercept as herein prorided,
shall be counted"
l have no doubt this amendment will
be resisted, but will carry it il possible,
and believe l can, when | explain it to
the members.
The US. Senatorial contest is waxing
shot" Who are to be elected Senator's no
one here knows at this time. From pres.
ent indications the struggle will be fierce
and long.
You will perceive by the legislative
proceedings, that have offered bill i'm
posing \ tax for hospital construction.
What will be its fate cannot now form
an opinion. The large sums asked for
support-the ''agitatiOn Of expenses" and
the large sums already expended in build.
ing, will be great obstacles in the passage
Of the bill.
| will keep tho people OF Lewis al.
vised from time TO time of my doings
here, and ask you 10 see that my let.
ters are accurately printed in the
Democrat. -
Your obedicnt servant,
WM. L. ARNOLD.