Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-27
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matter Of iatefest long in advance Of
the election. all that can DO known
about IL now IS that il will be more
numerous body than the. present Lsgis-
laIure. Under the State constitution
the number Of representatives the dis
triets and counties are entitled tovaries
with the wears. In the next House no
county will lose q member. The eoun-
ties Of Belmont, Clark, Mahoning and
Smith gain one each will have two rep
I ressntatives each. Cuyahoga county
will gain one member also and will have
nine instead Of eight members.
In the Senate. the TeRth District
cemsased OF Franklin and PickaWay
eounties, will have two, instead OF one
Senator. This will De q Democratic
gain sure. The third, composed OF
Hancock, Wood, Fulton, Henry, Lucas
and Putnam, will have three instead oil
two Senators as now. This WAl 90
Republican gain probably. The FIRST
Characterization couDty-gets an al
ditional Senator, and so will nave iour
instead Of three, as now. Inc Joint
Ninth and Fourteenth Districts, now
represented by John Q. ABBOTT, ana
composed Of Athens, Hooking, FAIR
Geld, Washington, Morgan and Noble,
will have two instead Of oae Senator.
The Joint Twenty-fourth aud Twenty
sixth Districts, com posed Of Ashtaoula,
Lake, Gesuga, Portage and Sum nit,
now represented BY Senator Whittle-
sew. will also have TWO Senators instead
Of one. as now. This will probably be
Republican gain.
There will be a gain Of Six Senators
and five representatives. In all. The
House will consist OF liz members and
tina Senate Of 81. The man who gets
the Senatorial plum will have to have q
pole that will reach IS votes on Joint
ballot.
eressional District that the Congress
I ional boom Of
coxEY, THE COMMONWEALTH,
IA sadly on the wane. The Democrats
generally refuse TO come to his support,
and there is no hope OF his election
without the support Of the Democrats.
Coxey himself promises to make a Pc
culiar campaign. When he was here
At the Populist State Convention be said
he would take the road about the hrss
of September 10 q covered wagon and
= drive all over the district, making
spseches from 10, aud did not propose to
see his home from the time he left 1t,
; until he returnnd at the close OF the
2 campaign.
Al the convention here Co1ey won q
marked victory over his opponents that
was not generally noticed. lie made
\Aot fight q the, cOmmittee on platform
- have bis good roads bill made part
OF The platform. The proposition was
strongly opposed, and among those who
fought it was John Mcbride, the leader
of the labor element in the convention.
II was defeated in the committee, but
Coxev Was not to be so easily beaten.
he went into the convention and was
there successful. On motion the propo-
sition was almost unanimously carried.
The result is that COxey'S good road idea
will be the most prominent feature OF
the Populist State ticket this year.
TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION.
Governor Mckinley easily won his
fight in the Legislature for biennial ses-
sions last winter, but he is going TO
have a harder fight now 90 keep the
LEGISLATURE away from Columbus this
winter. There is strong movement
now TO have an extra session called. II
comes from the labor unions and the
Popuists They claim that there Is
going to be more suffering among the
moor worklngmen the coming winter
than there was last The project Is TO
have the Legislature authorize the
counties and municipalities 10 issue
bonds aud make all needed public Ina
proyements now when there is no work
30 be had. Not only will this enable the
moor labOring men TO get through the
hard winter, but IL will enable the public
10 get its WORK done as cheap as posi-
bic. Such means Of relief, which Is en-
dOrsed by all the leading philanthroplc
people I'm the State, can not be employed
without Legislative enactment
A leading Republican Senator from
the Northern part of the State said last
week that he thought there was ample
reason for calling an extra session OF
the Legislature, "but," he added, II
do not believe you could get force
enough to induce Governor Mckinley TO
issue q call for it," IL would look too
much like back down for him 10 do
such thing.
The same Senator said he did not see
how the State could get along without
session OF the Leg stature this win
ter since the State officials we're piling
ND the deficiencies at great rate.
Nearly all the funds are getting low
now, said be, and the State finances
will begin to pinch pretty sOreiy before
1896 comes around.
The cost Of the militia in the strike
alone amounts 10 more than Sl5O,OOO.
This has been temporarily provided for
by ARRANGEMENTS with the banks, but,
of course, the State will have big in
terest debt 10 pay IL il is left long IN
paid to the hanks. The Populists, who
are getting pretty strong in the State
now, and whose cry is death to interest
on bonds, will soon make strong fight
against this.
Governor Mckinley has Just made q
bad break in regard TO the issuing OF
the
LABOR DAY PROCLAMATION.
Evidently he forgot it in the midst OF
so much worry about Presidential
booms, and the local committee on ar
engagements sent committee TO see
what was the matter. They found that
-tne Governor was ia Pennsylvania and
did not purpose 10 return until Septem-
Der 1. Private Secretary Boyle, how
ever, came TO the rescue and wrote q
proclamation that is said 10 be every DIT