The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-25


THr Governor says that no increase In
any county has been fixed upon definitely
@yet lie mentions Lewis county, and
s4ys It was notified that the Board Of
Equalization intended to add so per cent
TO The nassessment, and wanted to know
what Lewis had to say about it. The
Governor would not make this positive
statement II he did not believe It to be
tue 1t appears, therefore, that that
handsome but wicked man, the Auditor,
has been playing tricks on Ills EIcellency
and other members Of the Board, or that
there was conspiracy in the Board to
keep the good Governor in ignorance Of
what was going on. Let US see what was
done, in the name Of the Board, in the
matter oi the Lewis county reassessment F:
CHATTER I-HArPY THOUGHT.
yot. Miller, auditor. MA
wnEruso, April 80, 1888,
"Chrt County Court Leris Co., We,,0n, ". 70:
"DLR SiR:-The Board OF Public Works
hAvseIamtned the returns OF the reassess.
meni ot this State made in pursuance Of
ehaptet 81, Acls OF 1882, and after such eI.
animation hAVe ordered that Gfty 1907 per
eent be added TO the valuation OF the real
a'Ate OF Lewis county as ascertAined BY the
commissioners who were appointed 10 70.
GAsss the value Of the lands iu said county.
Add hereby certify that fact TO you as 70.
CURED by seClien 10, chapter 81, acts 1882.
VERY respectively,
"Jos. MILLER, Auditor"
This Is tue Auditors formal and official
statement Of what was done. He doesn't
ay, The Board proposes this thing, and
bow does 1t strike you r.. he tells what the
haA'd has done and what 1t further orders
s0Oe done, and he certities that fact as re-
q'iFed by law. lie doesn't ask what any.
body has to say aboutit.
The Governor, or other members Of the
Bard, got wind Of what the Auditor had
done, II the Auditor had been playing q
'nck; or Secretary Stalnaker acted on his
oEu accOunt-or something. At all events
this went out fortnight later, after the
gentle voice oi Lewis had echoed through
the corridors Of the Capitol: =
CHATTER lI.-ATrER THOUGHT. ~
oFTlct or BOARD or PUBLIC WoRKs, l't
WHEELING, W. Va, May 10, 1888. -
To he COmmitriOnntcf Levi, County
Notice Is hereby given that the Board OF
faolic Works OF the State OF West Virginia,
WI oe IN session as Board OF Equalization
~ wheeling, West Virginia, from day to day,
80 aod alter this date until June lst, 1883, for
zoe purpose Of hearing all such evidence ~
NAY oe presented to them by nuy county
GS!AlhllnE y to be aggrieved by the action OF said
no1td 10 regard 10 the ieASseSment Of the
tsa 1si es!A'e in said county, under chapter 80,
BY order Of the Board.
RANDOLPH SrALSAKEs, in,
IN, Secretary Board OF Public Works,
lne Governor is, therefore, wrong on the
! history ot this case, and Of course he would
be wrong on the history OF other similar
cases 1t may be that there are two or
more factions in the Board, each pulling
seven ways for Sunday" The Auditor
wanR to be Governor, and other gentlemen
want 10 DO other things. But the Auditor
ought not to play tricks on the Governor,
VINO IS himself without guile and Is too
brave to resort to artifce. Here is the
record and it shows that the case which
DAD been closed has been pried open again
"a violent concession to public opinion
which does not seem to find It's warrant in
law The other cases are like unto 1t.