The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-30

changes the other day to the effect that
two-thirds of the members of the House
of Delegates are in favor OF Clarksburg,
while only one.third are in favor of
Charleston for the Capital. The reyerse
comes nesrer beng the truth, in fact.
Among the members classed in favor OF
Clsrksburg were the four from this coun :
ty; while not one of the four will vote
for that place, If we are correctly inform
I'd. Two of the Ohio county Delegates,
Hon. w. L. HEARN and Hon. JOSEPH
w. MORGAN, are both outspoken and
earnest in their advocacy of Charleston,
while the other two, Messrs. BARR and
SIMPSON, are quite as emphatic against
Clsrksburg, and will support either
Martinsburg or Charleston.
These gentlemen are fully cognizsnt
of all the means used by the Clsrksburg
members and lobby to take the capital
from Wheeling, and they propose to
rebuke those means as they justly deserve.
Besides, our delegates are Taxpayers and
they represent q heavy tax paying con-
stituency. They are bound to favor that
course which will prove most economical
to the taxpayers of the State. Charles
ton has State house already built and
fully paid for which she donates unre-
servedly to the State. This house can be
made, with the small appropriation con-
tanned in the bill, to serve the State for
the next halt century, without additional
cost to the people. Place the capital at
Clarksburg and an expenditure of
halt million of dollars will pro-
badly not see the new State house
finished. This is one of Mr..
HEARH's reasons for supporting Charles
ton, rs we understand. Besides, the plsc-
ing of the capital in section of the State
which mas such vast natural treasures still
uLdeveloped will add greatly to the de-
veloping and placing upon our general
tax duplicate large amount of addition
al capital which will, in that proportion,
tighten taxation on the remainder. Then,
as matter OF justice to the people of
that section, some one of the State lnsti-
tutions should be located there-all OF
the institutions now being in the First
and Second districts.
1t is we'll enough, while considering
this question of expense, for the reader
to bear ip mind that The State Is now in
debt, for general current expenses, the
handsome sum of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, and that
inevitably the rate of taxation must be
largely increased if we are to launch out
upon the scheme of building new State
House at Clarksburg, as we will be COM
PEELED 10 do ii we vote to put the Capitsl
at that place.
We have referred in this article to the
position of the Delegates representing
Ohio county only; but We have informa
ton as to the position of almost every
member of the House of Delegates, and
scarcely more than one.third OF the
whole number are favorable to the locs-
ton of the Capital at Clsrksburg. We
further haye reliable report OF the con-
dition of public sentiment upon this ques-
tioH. throughout the various counties OF
the First and Second Districts, and there
reports show that in almost every county,
with scarcely an exception, Charleston
will get strong vote, and in several OF
them she will receive a majority OF the
votes csst-while the Third District will
vote almost as q unit.