Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-04
RETREN CHI M ENT!
LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOR
THAT PURPOSE.
General Reduction of Salaries
Abohshng of Offices.

hours last night in au earnest dis.
cussion of the work of retrenchment.
The attendance was not very large
but most Jealous interest was shown.
Senator FL d. Flood offered rcso
luton to reduce the salaries of ali
State officers, at least ten per cent,
and adAising the Retrenchment
committee to give special attention
20 the educational institutions, with
n view of making reductions.
Several other propo sitions we're sub
mitted, but none of them were acted
upon The subject was adjourned
over to next Friday night. II order
that fnrthur reports may he made
in the meantime by the Rptrcuch
ment committee, which has n mum
Der bills about ready to be brought
in. Sentiment seems to be opposed
tn such II horizontal cut.
Captain Featherstone, of Camp.
bell county, introduced in the House,
bill making n reduction in salaries
aggrceating S25,390 year The
heads of all departments, including
Attorney General and Secretary of
tics Commonwealth are cut from ten
TO twenty five per cent, the clerks of
|the Senate and House ifty,per cent,
sud this TO be followed By bills
abolishing :theaoffices Of Comnpission,
er of Agriculture and the Register
of Land Office 1t is proposed to
abolish the Board of Agriculture and
transfer it's duties to the Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College. An.
ther bill offered abolishes the Office
of Assessors of Lands and adding
his duties to the Commissioners of
Revenue, who is to receive $50
therefor.
Under Captain Featherstone's bill
the salary of the Governor to be
$5, 600 yeah; the Governors clerk,
81 200; tho Attorney. General, 50, 800,
and 10 cents per mile for every mile
OF necessary travel; one clerk, $500.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth,
$4,000; the Auditor of Public Ac
counts, S2,700 and all fees of the
Office to be paid into the treasury;
for clerks of that Office, sum not
exceeding after July 1, 1893, $1,000;
the Second Auditor, S1,5O0; for his
clerks, sum not exceeding $4,000;
the Treasurer, $l,500; for clerks in
his office,a sum not exceeding $4,000;
the Superintendent of Public Print.
ing, $1,000; porter for the Office,
$50 per month; the Superintendent
of Public Ground and Buildil g and
Chief of Capitol Police, $1,000; the
engineer ut the Capitol, $3.50; the
Superintendent of the Penitentiary.
1,6OO; first assistant keeper, S72O;
the other six assistant keepers, 5000
each; the clerk 5000; the directors of
the penitentiary, So each for every
day Of attendance on the board, pro.
yided that no director shall receive
more than $3.50 per year. The
railroad COMMISSIONER, $4,000 a
year; his clerk, 1,20O; the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, 81 800
and his necessary travelling expenses
while engaged in the duties of his
office, to be al proved by the Board
Of Education, not to exceed in the
aggregate $500 in one year.
Mr.. Featherstone's bill to amerd
aud re inact sub section 3 of section
1S4 of the Code relating to the sala
ries of clerks of the Senate and
House. provides that the clerk of
the Senate shall receive the sum of
81, GOO for his entire term of office,
and to the clerk of the House of Del.
egates, the sum of $1,000 for the en-
tire torn. In addition to this, it
allows each officers $50 per week
during the sessions of the General
Assembly for the employment of an
assistant, and in event of an extra
session, that. respectively. they shall
receive in addition the sums of 5000
and $500.