The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-07
THE LEGIsLATUnE.
The Conference Committees Report Does
Not Materially Alter the Appropriation
Blll-Cost of the Special Session.
Srrci1I I)isp1Jrh IN tbs T,lsvjosn.sy

INC SOnTcrenCe NOHulltIC6b HepOrb bOes
Not Materially Alter the Appropriation
Bll-CoSt of the Special Session.
Special Dspatch TO the hteQi0sRcsr
CHARLESTON, w. Va, March 6.-The
conference committee this morning dis
covered that it had made mistake in
making amendments OF Its own in the
body OF the appropriation bill and at
once proceeded in setting itself right.
All the morning was occupied in revls-
ing the bill and taking out the amend.
ments made on Saturday and Saturday
night. Tho committee reported toboth
houses about 8 o'clock this afternoon.
No very striking changes were made by
the committee. The state historical
society gets its appropriation Of $3.50
per year. Tho normal school appropri-
alton remain about as amended by the
senate. The appropriation for adli.
tional cells at the penitontiary is to be
paid in 1893 instead OF 1894, and the
senate amendments giving 81, 900 for the
now mechanical building at the uni.
versity was agreed to by the committee,
The Weston asylum was allowed $1,000
instead OF 5000 for repairing roof, to
be paid the present year. The pro-
posed appropriations OF $1,000 for a
kitchen and $1,000 for an electric plant
at that institution were stricken out.
Scarcely any change was made in the
appropriations for the Spencer asylum.
Tho appropriations for the reform
school remain as passed by tho house.
No change was made in the militia ap-
preparation. The committee on Satur.
day had made reduction OF $4,000,
but as this item had not been amended
by either house this morning the
change was changed back again. The
allowance for furniture for the gov
ernor's mansion was cut to 1900, and
the senate amendment cutting out the
appropriation for monuments at Get.
tysburg was agreed to by the commit
tee. Tho allowances for the fish COM
mission and state board OF agriculture
which had been cut out by tine house
were reinstatod. The senate amend.
ment giving the proceeds OF the sale OF
the states property at the Worlds
Fair as an additional appropriation for
the exhibition was knocked out by the
committee; also the provision allowing
the auditor to borrow 100000 from the
school fund for the Spencer asylum.
Tho bill as 1t stands after the adop.
tion oil the committee'a report shows q
reduction OF about $4,000 from tho
amount appropriated by it rs 1t went to
their hands. As the appropriations
were considerably increased by the
different amendments made in the two
houses 1t is now but little different rs
far us the total amount is concerned
from the bill originally reported by the
committee.
The report OF the committee was sign.
ed by every member OF 1t except Col.
st. Clair. who is ont OF tho city, and Mr..
Hansford, who "kicked" because the
committee corrected its error OF Satur-
day i'll amending tho body OF the bill.
He said the reductions nude were not
sweeping enough aud he was against
both report and bill. An hour or more
was wasted in discussion before the
house sottled down to the reading OF tho
cummittee's report In connection with
tho bill as amended. This was not COM
plotted when q recess was taken TO 1850
o'clock.
The cost Of the special session has
bccn about sll,0OO
The reading OF tho committees report
and tho comparison Of ii with the bill
was concluded shortly before 0 o'clock,
and Mr.. Brockunier moved that tho
report be adopted. MIR, Edwards op.
posed the report and announced him
self as opposed to the bill on tho ground
that its appropriation ior many OF our
most worthy institutions were unnec.
essarily curtailcd, while unnecessary
increases were mado for state officers
for clork hire, etc. The fact that tho
appropriation for monuments at GoLtys.
burg was struck out was another objec.
ton. Several members expressed them.
selves very much to the sumo effect but
when vote was reached tho commit
teo report was adopted by vote Of ~
TO IL.
Many oi the most prominent mem.
bcrs on both sides Of tho house are open
in expressions that tho bill as originally
reported by tho finance committee was
In much better shape than IL Ia Mt
present. With scarcely M exception,
tho reductions have been made from
the necessary appropriations for tho in
Sane asyums and other important In.
siitutions Of tho state, while almost
every increase mado has been an un-
necessary allowances for additional
clerks, contingent EXPENSES, otc.
LATTER
Alter fillbuslorihs until 1l.b0 to.
night the appropriation bill was passed.
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Vicar General iirady Dead