The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-21
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'i' lpal','aII'p u ISps forgotten provision of tn
',,.a Ih,,s ,D'i Of ws.' Virginia which read
C'a,l,a,t.@ i,,,5.s See See, 3, Art. X
Ouths'S' .bgll he drawn from tn
40 SIa,' lo, in pursuance Of an aPprc
Tea,ciy , Ou. Il is law, and on warran
Fi1lien il.aau v * the Auditor; nor hal
49, is0S' sGg q hnd \ A[% 1eS }G' I lS' a"y i..S QUE e
pipe haa haa.,n,ogd g'r or prorided. A com
rayh 5Egtt,i statement Of the receipt
pesa1d 09imr i,,nn. d ,br public money
!S.,ia 1nd t.Pf9SIs!S, PfS9gSoIlssSel onDpo.y"
'aI' u s,i.oa i.S Of be Constitution wal
III, hsT,,',', !. ,ss va, a. ~, in the city .
rsi.,..,o, iaaas. ~ VIA, By "a lot Of Democratic
,4..,a" tsli,,,,YD, ,.Ii.ps themselves Strict Con
i,.',inri,,. sa.,iu,s after having in the previous
@a',' n. I,s,lalure, made an investi
!.n ot,be finances oi the State with ref
s.aD,, s,,' 70 a,c,r;anios whether any portion
:, s,'SS ,ss MONEYS belonging to the School
y,,5 r. n, ol W,. Virginia had been diverted
=, ' @.sI byi ibe Republicans for any Other
So,pse than the support Of the schools oI
,Ss s Suite No less a person than
,bs Il,r. II. c. Davis, nos u $. Senator,
,Isr ~ State Senator, assisted by james NJ.
j.,EUp. drewupa report on the subject,
i,ybrb they u.cdth ioIIowinglanguage
.Tbe school fund which is maintained
4, t,,a,iea w ail the income from invest
S.Bis ! Should always a, the end Of each
s,sSl I ,cer be st apart for its own pur-
no,ss ~, Ind should never he estimated with
ibe irnds Of tie general treasury which
,,s n, mbirrt 10 legislative appropriations.
ESti hnd dopli Ls applied 10 iis o,rn ltgitt-
ncg md pgrpcR, and doGd nosr be us,d tJSp-
IN a d'f,irry il uDy other department,
vEidlG hanSjorr ben hc case"
Thbrpor was drawn uP, and signed
and submitted on the l6lh day OF Febru.
y. ISL about one year prior to the con-
yeu,ion that met in Charleston to give us
per Constitution, which convention was
overwhelmingly composed of Democratic
statesmen Of the strict construction school.
TOlhte gentlemen the Constitution Of a
State, or even the United States, is rs a
Bible. Nothing is to be added thereto or
as.n tbereton. Their motto is ''anathe-
ma uaranatha' to all who tampcr with
Constitutions.
So these Democratic statesmen made a
constitution, and for fear the Republicans
might possibly come into power some day,
and might, as they had charged, use some
ot the school money, even ii only for a
month, to meet general appropriations,
they wrote in the new constitution, and
sealed It with their seals that no money
"or tHi 'ha'i c' taken Jot any other purposC
hla &a' Jor riich il has Itn or may be Gp'
2'Opdn'ci Of por'ed,'
This was donet to express their great SEN
itiyeness as to the slncity and inviolability
d the school fund. They felt that they
were a lRle under suspicion on the
subject d schools, and therefore il
TSEoig on their part, after having re-
ae'ei oa&e republicans the year preyi'
Gus, 'oPnta 9'd 4 divine tablet in the
AK Of IAe Co'eaant guaranteeing its
affei0e@ '1d lnviolability forever And
~a nty tied up tue school funds in tie
SUBSTITUTION
Dul aIas lot the weakness OF Demo
9, aa''r human nature! The record show
~" "e'aF next year alter the const'1u'
wa Wis adopted these strict constructor
,4snea' VINO were so very Indignant II
~. ~, i'd ~'to were SO retts'onsty 0eh' u
i.'.,i. "'oa masking the school Iuhu sacred ant
.u'%ASF' IeI' TO mmper'hs WIN Iha1 sam
:. .'u4, .! turning 10 inc ""ui!oFs . rePo'
avn Oesecn Illa' llley mouesIly got away
, 'AH m''a" OF S'o,"'o III 800 NoDo"'
ua,'as S Ns}'yeFeu 'n"' performance OUT
.@s I W we AUTHORS osnce, or ~ le's'
.,'DY1! 4S''0s "'"'e " 'uss "oou' IL '''cS'
.s ,.14ss'',''On''F"cton se"ae.nen sN!hefeC
.,s,rsr s.a,rsr ''' d nc" FAln on inc ,unu' ""1
tn",'la''S S'. "''' 'ney might us wen DC nu"s
tand TO the extent of $4,000 in 1876
N'a, not hearing any outcry from the
PaOIc on this subject, and seeing that it
vas d pleasant process for getting cheaI
money, as it avoided the otherwise uu'
peasant necessity Of ratsing tho taxes, the!
went IN on the fund again in 1877 to TIN
extent e. OF Sl5,5il.iS, making up to thai
HneS'S,0I II'4Swhich they had raidcd out o
%e u, 'and' And still they were undiscover
Cd, OFm least auexPosed. They said t
yala other We have struck II gold mine
y ,4s o' moneyand nothing to pay for it
N%e''n .Yy, cent OF interest. Let us go ii
1aln, 50 they scooped down on it again
'.a, saa this time got away with $4,000 more
~ making Of SI275Il.4s, not counting
interest mt. Of which they had not paid
"at ,S Snre they began raidins the fund il