The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-27

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courts, is far beloW the actual loss as
will be apparent to every lawyer and
litigant. All this will be avoided, ana
therefore saved BY the creation OF me
county court, which, as has already
been shown, IS 4 much cheaper as wen
as more efficient inferior tribunal than
the board Of supervisors.
In addition to the foregoing, II the
action Of the convention in repeating
section s Of article s Of the existing
constitution in regard TO the public
debt of Virginia be accepted Us q
imIity on the subject, as IN all
probability it will ind must be,
then there will be q further saving OF
the whole Of that alleged liability which
the most sanguine friend OF West Viz
giuia never placed lower than one mil
lion, and which Virginia claims IS
seventeen millions OF dollars. The an
nual interest on the smaller sum IS
sixty thousand dollars, and on the
larger one million and twenty thousand
dollars, all OF which viii be saved to the
tax payers. When the action OF the
convention on this subject shall have
been ratified BY the adoption OF the
new constitution, that will indeed be q
bold and reckless legislature that will
dare to increase the burden OF taxes
now bore by the tax payers OF West
Virginia by saddling their backs even
with one million of the public debt OF
Virginia, for which they have received
no equivalent in the past, and can re-
ceive none in the future.
During the period from 1868 to 1870
the legislature appropriated and para
out of the public treasury the enormous
sum OF $4,000 for the expenses incurred
in the registration OF voters. This sum,
so expended and used only 10 disfrau-
chise Democrats, would be sufficient to
pay the salary OF the governor under
the new constitution, for more than
| nineteen and two-thirds years: . The
new constitution, by preventing the Gre
alton of boards OF registration. will rem
der all such expenditures in the future
impossible.
As elections hereafter will occur only
once in two years, instead every year,
| there will be a further yearly saving
equal TO one half the cost OF an election,
which we estimate at the sum OF Sl0,-
600, although Governor Stevenson III
his message OF 1871 estimated 1t at S20,-
900, being an annual saving from this
source OF 5000. 1t is not pretended
that the foregoing items OF public ex-
penditure which will be saved TO the
taxpayers are perfectly accurate o rthat
no other saving will accrue under the
new constitution; but it is intended to
assert and prove that in every n OF
| the particulars h~ereinbetore enumer-
ated the annual saving will be fully as
much as is here stated. No other
source OF expenditure exist in the new,
that are not found in the existing con-
stitutfon.
So that the annual savings will stand
thus:
Cost OF continuing l2j0 causes one YEARS. $3.50
Difference between the cost OF county
court and board Of supervisors one year E,ge
Difference in judges' salary and mtleAge- 2,N1
Difference Of executive offices" .....-.. 81
Difference Of legislature each Ye0r-"-...... 1,OlS
Postage 10 members OF cgiSlatnrS."""r.. $50
Amount saved by biennial Instead OF an.
null e.eciions, which Is one hall OF
Sl0,0l0 ....-.,.a -. o,UlO
Stationery. newspapers. etc."-"...-.".-... lO
In the diminished amount Of priuung".- 2,OO
public debt Of yiPSinlS..... .......".....". 6O.OOO
T0ta! annual saving will be....."..."". Sii7'a6s
By the provisions OF tho 18th article
OF the new constitution all land titles
OF this state will be forever settled in
favor Of the actual occupant who has
been III possession and paid the taxes,
and against the land Spectator who has
never had actual possession aud who
has never paid the taxes due on his
land.
In this imperfect review OF the prin-
| cipal features Of the new constitution,
it is clear to every unprejudiced mind,
that it secures to all the citizens OF the
! state equal rights and privileges; that
prescrines no man or class; that it re-
t~aliates no wrong upon any party that
the separate existence OF West Virginia
is secured; that the independence OF
the judiciary is beyond partisan con-
troll; that the system OF free schools is
| sacredly preserved; the irreducible
school fluid increased; the Just and
proper accountability for school moneys
secured and enforced; a cheap and
I efficient county court established;
an intricate and expensive town
ship and county organization
abolished; the expenses of the
government diminished in all its de-
partments; the land titles OF the coun-
try settled aud secured to the bona tide
settler; the legislature restrained from
useless and miscellaneous legislation the
people secured from state and county
indebtedness; while at the same time
every useful and healthful function Of
good government has been preserved.
Every reasonable expectation of the
people has been fully realized by the
Iabors OF the convention. Let US. by a
hearty endorsement and adoption Of
the new constitution, labor with equal
honesty and zeal to secure what we
have gained. and to conductive govern
ment under its provisions in such a
manner as will command public APP
proval. SAMUEL WooDs.
PhiHippi. Barbour County, West Virginia,
June 20, 1872.
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