The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-02-17

talk of the town" that the Legis-
lature now in session, are here for
all they can get out of it. A lob
by controls every action of the
members of both bodies, and It is
said that no man can get bill
through either House, unless he
has first eseena man OF the lobby.
H a new county is to be formed It
takes money to Influence for
or against the project Il a town
charter needs amending, it takes
cash to get it through Ifyou
want am extension of your compa
ny or corporation franchise, you
are expected to pay well for it, if
you want TO succeed. The ma
chine has il all its own way. and
their pockets must be lined with
doodle, If one expects favorable
legislation. The members are
duped and fooled and do not know
1T. They are bought and sold BY
the machine without knowing it.
The lobby of riingsters and politi
clans are all powerful. They es-
cape the odium of their acts, and
the members who are fooled by
them, get the cursing We believe
the members of the two Houses are
honest and desire to do right, but
this gang of ringsters and lobby
lists deter and frighten them into
subjection. Nothing like this Leg
islature was ever convened in the
State.
Itis now believed that the bill
creating the county of Augusta,
will be killed.
The Legislature should make
every foreign corporation, railroads.
telegraph companies, Pullman and
Wagner Palace Car Companies.
contribute in taxes to thissState.
Treat them the same as or own
people are treated.
Wheeling can now buy the sill
yer service for the gun-boat
.wheeling," the Legislature hay-
ing giving the city council the
power to make the appropriation.
The service will cost about $500.
The Constitutional Convention
Committee has not yet been named
in either House. The protracted
sickness of President Whitaker of
the Senate, has delayed the nam
ing of this Committee.
There is talk now of electing
Senator Hensley of this countys
President pro tenn of the Senate,
that business may be dispatched
during Mr.. Whitaker's illness. Mr..
Hensley is the most popular Sena-
tor in the body.
It looks as if our armed militia
will have to be abandoned, for the
Legislature does not seem to be in
any mood 10 make the proper ap-
preparation for keeping up
standing army in West Virginia.
1t is probably well, for they are used
to crush working men, and protect
the avaricious corporations.
The Insurance Commissioner
bill, is being pushed to passage,
simply to give ex-State Senator
Alex. Campbell of Wheeling, the
position of Insurance Commission
er, alta good fat salary. There is.
no need creating this new Office
and entailing expense upon the
people, iust.to give a broken down
Republican office seeker an Office:
a bill has been introduced in
the House to erect monument or
tablet, on the site of the battle
ground at Point Pleasant, fought
between the whites under Col.
Lewis, and the Indians under Corn
stalk, October 10th, 1774, and slso
one=at Ft. Henry, in Wheeling.
The present Legislature must be
in a pretty bad way when even the
Republican papers have taken to
3criticising it adversely. g.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 11th, 1897.
The constitutional limit of time
for the session of the Legislature.
ends February 9th. The time of
the Legislature has been worse
than wasted, and not over half
dozen bills have passed and be-
come laws. The average member
thinks it is his bounden duty to
fritter away his time, while the
taxpayers are bilked to the tune of
$500 day.