The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-04-06


upon the condition of country roads.
This article, as we'll as two others
which we wrote suggesting a few
remedies for the conditions describ-
ed. has been widely copied through
out the State and has elected much
attention and comment. When pub
lie attention is properly directed in
a given channel we can then hope
that something will be done, but new
err until the people are thus aroused
and thinking. IL is with pleasure,
therefore thst we notice this effect.
But TO secure a good road system
the scheme of legislation by which
we are to build the roads is even
more difficult to get than the proper
method of their construction. The
legislatures in this country have
generally done very little in this re-
spect, and what they have done has
been crude and lily considered. The
article in the Sun was suggested by
the message of Gov. Beaver to the
Pennsylvania Legislature, in which
he urged upon that body the neces-
sity for some such laws. According
ly we have watched with interest the
effort our neighbor is making; and
give below for the benefit of our read
ere, without either favorable or I'M.
favorable comment, the first measure.
which the Legislature of the Key
stone State has ground forth.
The bill provides for a County
Superintendent of Roads to be ap-
pointed by the County Commission
ers subject to the approval of the
Court of Quarter Sessions 70, a term
Of four years at salary of nine hun
dred dollars year and one dollar a
day for expenses when travelling
through the county attending to his
duties.
The Superintendent with the ap-
proval Of the Commissioners shall
appoint a Road Master in each town
ship, whose term shall be three
years and who shall have personal
of the roads with au-
thority to employ laborers, to make,
repair and maintain the roads. The
salary of the Road Master shall be
two dollars dav for the time actual
ly on duty.
Provision is made for the levying
of tax on real estate, personal prop
erty, offices, trades and occupations,
not to exceed one cent on the dollar
to maintain roads and township
bridges, one tenth of which is to be
paid in money to the Road Master
and by him turned in to the County
Treasury as road fund, for the pay
ment of the salaries of County Su-
perintendents and Road Masters, and
for other expenses under the act.
Taxpayers are to be given the privi-
lege of working ont nine tenths of
their taxes or paying the whole in
money.
The United States Senate adjourns
this week and there is no likelihood
of its Resembling until December
Grover Cleveland never removed
a Republican from office that he was
not assaulted by the Republican
press as if he had been guilty of high
treason. Now these same newspa-
pers desire that Harrison shall sit
up nights to facilitate the removal
of the few Democrats who did break
into the public service when the
Democratic party was in power.
One of the first results of Re
publican majority in both branches
of Congress is the springing of a
looking to an increase of
salaries to $4,000 per annum. The
reason for the proposed in
crease is that $4,000 is not sufficient
to maintain our law makers in the
manner in which they would like to
live. But there is no need to fear
that nobody can be induced to ac-
cept seats in Congress at the present
salary.
The biggest fight now going on in
this State is for one of the least Of
fees, the indulgents being A. B.
Clark, editor of the Delta, J. w.
Heayener, another good radical and
Col. Latham, who was Census Com
in 1880, all Of whom are
trying to get the Buckhannon post
office. The papers have been filed
with the battle, which is made ri
from The fact that the office
only pays about $500 or 500 a year.
On the first page of this paper ap-
pears a squib saying that Murat
Halstead had been appointed by the
President as Minister to Germany.
bnt on Saturday the Senate rejected
the appointment, and so Mr.. Hal
stead will have to content himself
with the products of Cincinnati
breweries instead of the German ar
ticle- Evarts and Quay were strong
in rejecting Halstead's name for the
Germsn ministry, the action of Quay
causing much surprise to all. There
were rs Senators for rejection to 10
for confirmation, those against the
all being Democrats ex-
cept Messrs. Quay, Teller. Ingalls,,
Plumb, Evarts and Dawes. OF all
mad people in the world Murat is
the maddest, and he grows wrothy
in last Sundays issue of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, of which
be is the editor, and ponrs out the
Walls of his wrath something after
this fashion: