Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-23
INTELLIGENCER'S LOOSE
TONGUE.
One of It's FalsehOOd's Exposed
and DiSprOved.


both the REGISTEE and LteuigencT the
following emphatic refutation OF one OF
the latter's falsehoods:
UNION, W. Va, August Ii, 1880.
10 M. Editors aad Proprieiors Of Wheeling
Lteiiigencor:
GEyTLEMES:-In the issue OF you
paper OF August 18th, 1880, you make
use of the following language:
Also let Mr.. Jackson the next time
he denounces the salary grab before an
audience i'm this State inform his hearers
that Henry q. Davis and Frank Here
ford, United States Senators from West
Virginia Democratic u. :. Senator'S
not only took the grab" but have 1t in
their pockets to this day"
Also ON the day following, August
18th, YOU make use OF the following
language:
Notwithstanding his name is Jackson
he has not the stuff in him to tell the
people that Henry q. Davis aud Frank
Hereford the two democratic United
States Senators from West Virginia have
the salary grab 'swag' as he calls 1t IN
their pockets
presume YOU 10 not intend TO do me
Injustice, and iurtheS.that you are will.
ing 10 do any man public or private
simple justice.
therefore ask you TO publish this let
ter 10 YOU giving the facts oi the case so
lar as am concerned.
In the first place | voted against the
bill generally known as the back pay. |
voted at the next session To repeal it !
also voted to return the money to the
Treasury OF the United States.
Ii YOU will turn to the Congressional
GiDJc, 3rd session And Congress. Feb.
18th, 1875, page ,0O2, you Will see,
among other things, in the presence OF
the whole House OF Representatives,
when that bill was up, that / used the
following language: IL have persist
emily voted against the increase OF sal
aries.
There were many test votes, but the
most important were those oil March
3rd, 1873, which was vote upon the
adoption Of tho Conference Report.
This was, OF all others, he test rote. All
those opposed ;.tp what You call the
salary grab voted NO.
There were two votes on that day; on
both occasions voted no. II You will
turn Ia the Congressional GlObe, 3rd ses-
sion And Congress, March 3rd,, 1873 on
pages ., 100 ami 2,l05 you will find those
votes.
Those of us who voted against this in
crease Of our salary and the
back pay there determined that
at the next session OF Congress
two bills should be introduced, one to
repeal the law increasing our salaries
and another one to compel those who
received the back pay to return 1t to the
United States Treasury. At the subse-
uuent session both Of said bills were in
troduced, and voted for both: the one
increasing our salaries was repealed; the
one compelling those who had received
the back pay to return it was defeated.
4 few days after the defeat OF the lat
ter sent to Hon. Il. w. Byrne, then
State Superintendent OF Free Schools, a
check for Si,61l 10, The amount re-
rrived rs back pay, with directions to
him To place il in the Treasury Of the
State Of West Virginia to the credit of
the 'Irrelucible School Fund" Of our
State for the education OF the children
thereof forever.
On July 18th, 1850, wrote to Mr..
West, State Treasurer, to send me a Ger.
titicate as to what disposition had been
made Of the Sl,67iS0 thus donated by
me.
Enclosed and rs a part OF this letter
i his reply: