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

hours last night in an earnest dis
cussion of the work of retrenchment.
The attendance was not very large
but most jealous interest was shown.
Senator III ID. Flood offered reso.
luton to reduce the salaries of all
State officers, at least ten per cent,
aud adAising the Retrenchment
committee to give special attention
20 the educational institutions, with
a view of making reductions.
Several other propositions were 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 Retreuch
ment committee, which has mum
Der bills about ready 10 be brought
in. Sentiment seems to be opposed
to such horizontal cut.
Captain Featherstone, of Camp
bell county, introduced in the House,
bill making n reduction in salaries
aggregating S25,39O year The
heads of all departments, including
Attorney General and Secretary of
tie Commonwealth are cut from ten
TO twenty five per cent; the clerks of
the Senate and House atty per cent,
aud this to be followed by bills
abolishing .the.ofiices Of Commission.
er of Agriculture and the Register
of Land Office. 1t is proposed 60
abolish the Board of Agriculture and
transfer its duties to the Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College. An.
ether 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
so, 600 year; the Governors clerk,
81 200; the Attorney. General, $4,000.
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, $4,000 and all fees of the
office to be paid into the treasury;
for clerks of that office, sum not
exceeding after July 1, 1898, $1,000;
the Second Auditor, $500; for his
clerks, a sum not exceeding $4,000;
the Treasurer, 81, 500; for clerks in
his office,a sum not exceeding $4,000;
the Superintendent of Public Print.
ing, $1,000; a porter for the Office,
$50 per month; the Superintendent
/ of Public Ground and Buildil g and
Chief of Caption Police, $1,000; the
engineer at the Capitol, $3.50; the
Superintendent of the Penitentiary.
$1,000; first assistant keeper, $72O;
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, $1,000; the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, 81, 800
and his necessary travelling expenses
while engaged in the d1ties of his
office, to be al proved by the Board
Of Education, not to exceed in the
aggregate $500 in one year.
Mr.. Featherstone bill to amerd
and 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
81 600 for his entire term of office,
and to the clerk of the House of Del.
egates, the sum of 81, 500 for ,he en-
tire torn. In addition to this, it
allows each officers $50 per week
during the sessions of the General
Assem- mbly 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.
Nearly Starving.