Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-18
puTIEs OF MEMBERS.

q standstil because Of the absence or members.
This Is simply an outrage upon the people Of
the State. Men go to work and industriously
seek to be sent to the Legislature to represet
the people in that body, and afec they are elect
ed sworn in take their seats and begin 70 draw
pay. they deliberately deGert their posts, 70 the
great injury and neglect Of the public business
and return home 70 look sfter their private AZ
fairs These fellows are simply 'desertefs, and
ought to be punished by the Legislature for
leaving their posts OF H,Iitingiga 4 .rsr-
hScr.
Oar contemporary is right. At least
one-thitd Of the members sre now absent.
The members Of the Legislature are elected
to give their attention to the peoples
business during the session. When they
come to the conclusion that the peoples
affairs have received sufficient attention
and that their duties ss legislators should
end they should fight to adjourn. By
simply going home they are DESERVING
their posts and Sinking their duty to their
constituents. So long as the Legislature
is in session they should take their part in
its work. If every member who wanted
to adjourn were to simply 20 home and
leave those who did not want TO adjourn
to carry on the business 1t would be very
long indeed bsfors the Legislature fnally
adjourned.
1.-THE thirty or more members who are
now absent, some With pay and some
without, were present they could adjourn
the Legislature in short order. By going
home ard leaving it to the other members
who want to continue the session they put
upon their own shoulders the responsible
bility for the proloogatiOn Of the session.
THE SCHOOL BOOK QUESTION.
The Indianapolis Sentinel takes to task
the REeIsTBR, the Cleveland Plaindealer
and the Louisville Courier Journal for oP-
posing the attemp, to INTRODUCES the Indi-
ana school book system in their several
States.
The REGISTER has great respect for the
Indianapolis Sentinel, which is 8 good,
solid Democratic journal, bu, it's outbreak
on the school book question would seem to
show that it is not altogether exempt from
that weakness known as flying OF the
handle. So far has it tl)En OF the handle
in this instance that it intimates that ths
REGISTER, Plaindealsr and C0UriaJoWraal
have been "boOdlerizsd" by the school
book trust for opposing the plan which
proposes TO initiate the State into the
school book publishing business.
Aside from the fac, tha. we are opposed,
on general Democratic principles, to the
government, State or National, going into
private business, which verges too closely
on the socialistic plan, we have not yet
SEEN it demonstrated that the Iadisns
school book system is a success.
This is as far as the REGIsTEE has gone
in esiticising the plan. Ia order that the
next regular session Of the Legislature
may take mp the subject and examine il
with the attention it needs snd which the
the present extra session cannot give 1t,
the REGIsER has advised that the school
book contract instead Of being made for
i've years as usual be limited this time
to one year. That would bring the sub
iect before the next regular session Of the
Legislature, when it would receive the
thorough attention i. certainly requires.
The Seutinel should be more cautious in
the future in throwing around its aecu
sations when somebody differs with it on
questions Of public policy. Il is liable to
make itself appear ridiculous.
In another column will be found the
Courier Journals opinion on the school
book question, which is worth reading.