Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-08

have brought little more money into
the State blood money! Show the
average Republican oficeholder q
cha. to get money and he will rare
ly shy at the means. But, really, we
did not expect SO frank confession
from Treasurer Kendall.
AS to Mr.. Kendalls statement that
| the bills taxing corporations were kill
ed in the House, II is calculated to very
| grossly deceive the public. 1t was the
| sole desire of the House to pass these
measures. The House did not pass the
omnibus bill taxing these concerns, be-
cause similar bill was held up in COM
mittee in the Senate by Mr.. Kendall's
party bosses, and apparently had no
! chance of passing that body. But,
hoping to save something from the
wreck, the House introduced individual
bills taxing each corporation sepa-
rately.
The express tax bill and the tele-
6ldpn COulpdAy ldA Dlll WClC PdooOQ Wy
the House at once. The express bill
got through the Senate but was vetoed
by the Governor, while the telegraph
company tax bill never saw the light of
day in the upper house.
To make some paltry political CAPT.
tai, which Mr.. Kendall has evidently
thus early begun to exploit, the Senate
at the last moment, when action by
the House was VIGOROUSLY impossible,
passed the omnibus bill, which it
had previously held up. This,
of course, was simply dishonest trick
of the corporation servants of the Sen
ate TO put the Democratic House on
record as opposed to taxing these cor
poratiOns, when the fact is that every
effort Of the House to tax these con-
Germs was steadily defeated either by
the Republican Senate or the Republic
can executive.
Mr.. Kendall places a very low esti-
mate on the intelligence of the people
if he believes they can be deceived by
such hocus pokus as this. 1t is even
more transparent than that wonderful
treasury report Mr.. Kendall turned out
during the last campaign to bolster up
the failing fortunes of this discredited
State administration.
Not only are Mr.. Kendall's party rep
resentatives in the Legislature and in
the Governors chair solely responsible
for the failure of all revenue legisla-
ton and the escape of the corpora
tions from paying their just share of
the government burden, but the same
forces are solely responsible for the
vast increase of the appropriations for
the ensuing two years which Will bring
the State up against bankruptcy early
in the next fiscal year.
Us the Register has repe itedly shown,
while the Republican Senate steadily
increased appropriations the Demo-
cratic House steadily cut them down.
Democrats fought the unnecessary and
unwarranted increases in committee
and on the floor and in conference COM
mittee of the two houses. In fact, on
the final passage of the bill in the
House the vote was at first adverse to
the passage of the measure, and it was
only gotten through at the last moment
by appeals against mourning the addl-
tional expense of an extension of the
session, which would have been inev-
liable had the bill failed.
In short, the entire situation, the
failure of revenue measures as well as
the extravaganza in appropriations, can
only be laid at the door of Mr.. Ken
dall's party leaders, and it would seem
to be rather early for these gentlemen
to begin their campaign of misrepre-
sentation or the facts in this connec-
tion-facts so fresh in the minds of the
taxpayers.