The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-04

wnGELrNo, ". VA, FEBRUARY :, 1850


The Wall street syndicate ID hIlllih TIT
field. Tbs time il is moving once more
on the Virginia Legislature, where al the
lat sessiou it met with some discontinue
Ex.Congressmau Eppa Hunton, OF Vir-
GINA, representing holders OF Sb,OOO,OCO
of HE West Virginia certificates" 30
called. asks the Legislature to take
measures to secure settlement with
West Virginia. seeirg that Virginia has
In her sinking fund, school fund aud
literary fund more than SS.OOOpOOO Of the
,ertflcatss, the States own interest IN
settlement is urged upon the Legislature
Tho petition nal g. an exhibi! Of certain
items which are held to count against the
new Stale aud in favor Of the old, viz;
stock in turnpike companies, E0Od 1906
State roadain West Virginia, Sl,il5,Gl9;
bridge companies, s1G6l"j navigation
companies, S2O7 .4SOi 80 much Of the
chesapeake X OHIO Railroad ss lies in
West vlrgiulp, I,llOOO); bank Stock
asylum, law library, &C., SOSl,O sundfy
Items / cash from 1851 TO 1863, S2tO. 0O0i
mixing a grand total Of S4,O49,S57 for
ngib!e effects in the new State.
We shall hsye to lock into these esti'
mates before admitting them, and there
will Be plenty OF tilue before settling day.
Virginia has been 10 liberal in appoTtion'
ing our share Of her debt, that We fear she
may have wrorged herself again. Unless
the petitioners can satisfy Virginia tAat
she will loss nothing by what she may
gain in u eetllement--unIess they can give
her such bond OF indemnity as will re-
move tho dagger OF having to pay out to
certificate holders fifteen or twenty dcllSrs
for each dollar that she may receive from
West Virglnia-the Old dominion will
hardly he more eager for settlement than
she has been In the past.
And here tho Baltimore Sun falls into
the common error industriously propa'
gatad in Virginia, that the efforts made
by Virginia to bring about settlement
were made unsuccessful by the attitude Of
West Virginia. The fact Is that the old
State has never been willing TO come to a
settlement, for the Obvious reason that
settlement brings pay day on the cGrtih-
Gates, and shc hiss never been so wild as
to think she would get from US any great
par. Of her indebtedness to the holders OF
her certificates. When West Virginia
commissioners went to Richmond to meet
the commissioners Of Virginia, they saw
some thlug Of the city, but nothing Of the
commissioners. There the matter has
rested 60 far as the States are concerned.
Such agitation as there has been since
hes appeared in the Legislature Of each
State, agents Of the Wall street syndicate
endeavoring TO realize something on their
dslusive "West Virginia tertiacates." We
do not know how 1t may be in Virginia,
but in West Virginia tho syndicate has set
up political machine with money to aid
1t, and in every county it has one or more
men of supposed influence to help along
tue work. Ithaschosen, naturally, for its
instruments members OF the dominant
party, who in turn arc trying to rule their
party. For their own purposes they make
use Of the syndiCate's resources, and II
they gain control the syndicate will DO
able to administer OH the estate.