The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-18

all labor done, and material and ma.
chinery therefor, prior to such rec
ording, although the Same may cx-
coed in the aggregate the price stip-
ulatcd in the contract between the
owner and the contractor"
Senator Gilkeson opposed the
amendment; and Senator Watts IA
lvored the amendment on the ground
that laborers, skilled or not, should
be protected, and that their earn
ings, the very existence of them
selves and families should be guar
anteed to them, so that dishonest or
defaulting contractors, or sub-con-
tractors, could not defraud them out
of their money. The bill and am
endment was recommitted to the
Judiciary Committee.
We find the following IN the
Lincoln Citizen, about making an
appropriation for display at the
Worlds Fair, of the resources of
this State. 1t suits your people
exactly, and we reproduce it in this
letter as much better than anything
we could write? Hero it is:
"There is considerable opposition
from the people throughout the en-
tire State TO the Legislature making
any large or extravagant appropri-
ton to aid in exhibiting the States
(wealthy syndicate's) resources
weat the worlds Fair. Itisargued,
and not without good reason, that
nearly all the resources wortheany-
thing being owned by wealthy COR
porations, whatever of good result
ed from an exhibit, they and not
the people, would be the direct bene-
ficiaries. Still it cannot be denied
that immigration and development
would do the State credit in a gen.
eral way and the people unques.
tionable good in some sections.
We ought to We a creditablc
exhibit, but we are in favor of di-
viding the expenses between the
capitalists and the people. We
somewhat agree with our saturnine
friend, McEldowncy, of the IYet-el
Democrat, that tho same amount
asked for an exhibit If expended In
building some good wagon roads,
where there are none-and it is
said there is not one in the State
would be worth infinitely more to
the people. We are not opposing
an appropriation; but we advise our
representatives to seriously consider
the matter and consult their con-
stituents before playing too lavishly
with the peoples money"
The joint committee to visit tho
penitentiary reported that they
found that institution we'll kept
and in good condition and well and
humanely managed it stated that
the general expression of the con-
victs many of whom they had ques-
toned was to the effect that the
present officers wsrp the most hui
name and sympathetic of any they
had served under. The committee
in the recommendation
of the board of directors for an APP
of $4,000 for a dining
room and hospital, an appropriation
of $4,000 for Sc new cells in the
rooms now occupied as kitchen
and dining-room; $500 to furnish
superintendent apartments; $500
for placing an elevator in the build
ing, $1,000 for tho purchase Of five
acres of land. The committee also
that the law establish
ing a reform school be so amended
as to permit the Governor to trans.
fer any male under 16 from the
penitentiary to the reform school
on parole; that the hours of labor
be reduced to nine hours per day
for summer and 8 hours in winter
and that pardons be granted to
John E. Freeland, a life prisoner
from Wetzel and Thompson Morris,
a Is year prisoner from WetzeI,
the former having having served
IA and the latter 8 years and both
being in a precautions state of
health.
A reporter for the Wheeling
Register took the trouble to inter
view the members of the Legislature
on ex-President Clevcland's famous
silver letter. That it will effect his
candidacy seriously, if it does not
put him entirely out of the race, is
a question that time will solve.
The following are the answers to
the question, elbow do you think it
will affect his chances for the Presi-
dency?"
Governor Fleming" West Vir.
ginia is free coinage State, and it
is hard to tell what effect II NAV