West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-10-24
ACTS AND RELAX


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The Richie Gazette is very mad
because we are not pleased with the
Acts of the Legislature, and wants
to know "What has the Legislature
done to The ARGUS, anyhow ?"
That's just the trouble, 1T didn't do
anything for us, or for anyone else
for the matter of that, to amount
to much. The main reason was,
the body tried to do too much, and
as result failed to accom- plish but
little. One omission, which we be
lieve was on purpose, however, was
the failure to appropriate money to
pay the newspapers Of the State for
publishing the financial condition of
the State Banks, Papers in CIV.
cry county in the State, where there
was bank, had done this work for
two years at the request of the
Auditor, and in good faith, that the
Legislature would make provisions
for paying it according to law, but
no attention was paid to these bills
whatever, presumably, because the
money was due the Democratic ia .
pers Of the State. Some of the
members tried to crawl out of it by
laying it on 10 the Auditor and
claiming that he failed to ask for
the appropriation, but when we
called their attention to the Audi
tors report, printed and placed in
the hands of every mem Der, soon as
they assembled at Charleston, Civ
ing the exact amount of these bills
for the two years past and already
due, and estimating the amount for
the two years to follow, before an
other Legislature, they had nothing
further to say. Now the papers can
60 on two years longer, doing this
work, making four years in all they
will have to lay out of their money.
OF course no paper is bound to do
this, but the law requires the pub
lication to be made, and as the next
Legislature will be Democratic and
make provisions for paying all hon
est debts, before Dragging around
about reducing appropriations, we
shall continue to do this work at
the special request of the Auditor.
This is only one item in the bill
OF indictment. The appropriation
for criminal charges, was sadly
inefficient, instead of being largely
increased, as the condition of the
State demanded, for having gone
Republican by such large MAORI
ty, the appropriations for the two
years following and to ensue before
the State could be redeemed by the
Democrats, should naturally have
been largely increased. The Sheriff
of this county, when he got turned
down by the Auditor on lot of
claims, began to charge around
about what he was going to do and
how he was going to bring the
Auditor to time and make him pay
these claims and it was his fault
about not asking for the necessary
appropriation etc. But when the
Auditor sent him a copy of his re-
port showing that he bad discharged
his duty and the fault was entirely
with the Legislature and the politi-
cal friends of the Sheriff, he chang
ed his tune entirely.
So far as Senator Morris is con-
cerned, he is probably satisfied
with the Legislature, as he got lots
OF advertising out of it and great
credit for being the author of a
School Book Bill that was gotten
up by two other gentlemen. Nor
ris's Bill was so impracticable that
nothing could be done with it, and
he wouldn't listen to any Vt his
friends about revising or modifying
it, and they simply had to sit down
on him and get mp another bill,
which they allowed Morris to daddy
and he has been posing since as
the Great School Book Reformer,
and expecting to be made Governor
on the strength Of it, and have his
name handed down in history as
the FHero Of the Books"
In this issue we publish card