The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-05
The Expenditure Of the Pablo Money in
West Virginia.

West virginia.
At the commencement Of the present
session Of the Legislature the Auditor Of
the State submitted carefully made out
estimate OF the amount Of money that
would be required TO run the State in all
lts departments for the fiscal years ending
September 80, 1881, and SEPTEMBER 80,
1882. For the former year his estimate
ioots up $3.50, 800. In 1t he allows $40, 900
Tor advertising the Constitutional amend
ments, an allowance that has since been
cut down to $500 by the Legislature. This
item Is one OF the very few that have been
cut down by the Legislature. Most Of the
items have been increased, and items not
provided for by the Auditor, as for in.
stance $4,000 for the Capitol building at
Charleston, have been added. The az.
gregate as II stands to-day in the
Legislature Is about $436,0OO instead
Of the Auditors SS55,OOO. His es.
innate left the treasury short by about
$4,000 Of having enough money to meet
the charges on 1t for this fiscal year. The
present lIst Of legislative appropriations as
reported to the House leaves the treasury
short over $4,000. To meet this shortage,
and provide for the increased expenses,
tho taxes are to be raised rs per cent, and
this increase OF tax Is to come on the top
OF the increased valuations made q few
years ago.
And yet notwithstanding all this im'
inense expenditure Of public money, and
the proposed increase Of 25 per cent in
our taxes, the State will remain over head
and ears in debt to the school fund. 1t is
not proposed TO pay of that debt-not q
dollar OF 1t. Nor is 1t proposed TO provide
for the interest that falls due this year and
next. The schools Of the State are to be
deprived Of tina! money this year and
next, in order that the way in which the
Democratic party have managed our State
finances may not be fully apparent 10 the
people.
We want the taxpayers Of West Wiz.
ginia 10 see just how this party Of econo-
my has managed their affairs. The IN
TElLloEScER is not going TO oppose the In.
crease in taxation. We are In favor OF the
State paying lie debts, however extrava-
CANT we may consider some Of the items
In the appropriation bill. But we want
the people 10 remember that II 10 the
party OF "retrenchment and reform" that
has run them In debt, THAT proposes to add
twenty-five per cent to their taxes, that
increased their valuations, and that is to.
day responsible for our increased expen.
ditures. Let them remember that this is
the same party that was before them on
every stump last year, claiming their con.
adenCe and their votes by reason Of its
wonderful management Of theAnancial al.
fairs Of the State.
We want the friends Of the public
schools In West Virginia 10 make note Of
the fact that this lie the party that has
withheld from the schools Of the State
thousands Of dollars every year that were
rightly theft due, and that proposes to
hold from them this year and next q por.
ton Of the interest TINT is also their due.
We want the people to understand that
had IL not been for the exposure that has
been given to the public Of the way In
which the school fund has been dealt with
for years past, not one dollar Of the
overdue interest would have psen provid.
ed for, but instead thereof II is not at all
unlikely that another $4,000 or 500, 900
oil school money would have been taken
out Of the fund and invested ID the INTER.
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