Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-25
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Morning session.

The session was opened with prayer by
Delegate Grantham.
A Bill establishing an independent school
district OF Guyandotte, in the county oil
Cabell was read third time and passed.
Geological survey.
The bill providing for the geological
survey OF the State, came up on its third
reading.
Mr.. Ferguson moved the indefinite post.
ponement OF the bill.
Mr.. MotFett demanded the ayes and nays.
Mr.. Ferguson said he wanted 10 know
whether this House was prepared to launch
this State into an unknown sea Of expen-
diture, lie called attention TO the various
provisions OF the bill, which provided for
renting rooms, travelling expense. and
Roard of Commissioners without limit.
They were also to collect copies OF surveys
of other States, print them, give them away
and heaven only knows where these ex-
penses might run. They were to have
IS 900 for the first year, and then they were
to have an increased sum for succeeding
years.
We have refused 10 make appropriations
for small expenditures, and yet il is pro-
posed to enter into project that, accord.
ing TO the Washington correspondent OF
the Wheeling REGISTER. would cost 500
900. The treasury is now depleted, and it
is no time to launch out upon such eKtrav-
agsnt expenditures.
Mr.. Moffett said he would try to follow
the objections made by Mr.. Ferguson so
far as he could in the limited time allowed
him. He said in preparing this bill the
Committee took as q model the bill which
has been in successful operation for num-
Der of years in the State OF Pennsylvania.
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get only their actual expenses. There
We're no soft places in il They got no
compensation, and the idea that il was TO
make soft places for them existed only in
imagination and not in fact.
The bill fixes \ limit OF expenditure, and
the Commissioners could not go beyond it.
The Legislature would be the judge of
what should be appropriated hereafter.
They would make appropriations upon
the estimates OF the Board, but the amount
was in the hands of the Legislature. The
bill does propose 10 prosecute the WORK.
and il would be folly TO begin II unless II
is to be finished. The bill may not be per.
feet, but if not, il was in the province OF
its opponents to have amended it,
He said that one of the Professors in our
University estimated the expense Of the
survey at from $500 70 $4,000. The
Geoiogist Of New York estimated il from
$50 900 to SIS, 900.
Mr.. Quarter said he regarded il one OF
the most important bills on the calendar.
We cannot better illustrate the value Of
survey of the State, than by the surveys
made in the Kanawha valley. That survey
had induced the National Government 70
expend q million of dollars TO get the coal
out. II had also induced the building OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. You
can only induce people TO come into the
state TO develop our coal fields by these
geological reports. Mr.. Quarter gave some
very interesting data showing the valuable
reofoeical deposits that were entirely un-
known, and said . survey would have .
tendency TO increase the yslueof lands and
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