The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-01-18

some controversy year ago oe-
tween the Governor and Auditor,
herecommends an appropriation of
separate fund for this purpose.
He recommends Chaplain to the
Penitentiary, and some action by
the State in regard to finding
homes for INDECENT children, by
arrangement with some Children's
Home Society or otherwise. The
Governor recommends alaw to pro-
hibit and punish criminal SANDER
and libel He recommends mater
ial changes in the election law,
making them in the main conform
to those of Ohio and New York,
and recommending the burning of
the ballots Immediately after they
are first counted to prevent re-
counts. He recommends the sub
mission to the people of an amend
ment to the Constitution providing
for the distribution of the irreduc.
ible school fund, which, under the
present constitution must be kept
at interest, only the interest to be
used.
He wants salary for the State
immigration agent, and a law pro,
viding for State Commissioners of
Revenue to prevent the State be-
ing defrauded by improper returns
to the Assessor. He recommends
change of tho law regarding the
Berkely Springs property, trans
ferring it's control to the State
Board of Public Works. He re-
commends an appropriation of
money for life sized oil portraits of
all the Governors of tho State, and
for general repairs about the Capt.
toll He recommends the purchase
of an electric light plant to light
the Capitol building, grounds and
Executive Mansion. The purchase
of additional property for the Ex-
ecutive Mansion, new boilers for
the Capitol, and fountain for the
Capitol yard. He recommends Leg
islation to provide for the represen
tation of this State at the Paris
Exposition in 1900, and the Ohio
Centennial, mt Toledo, in 1903. An
appropriation for making the State
line between West Virginia, Pom
sylvanin and Maryland is asked
He refers to the constitutional com
mission of tho last Legislature,
whose report will be submitted
this ear, and says "this matter is
of grave importance TO all of our
people, and deserves tho most seri.
ons consideration ut your hands "
He commends the activity of the
Attorney General and says "the
State is better off by many thous-
and dollars as the result of his abil-
ity and energy" He asserts that
the State is carrying much more
insurance upon the State property
than should be carried, and that it
has been improperly distributed SO
hat there will be in cuse of fire,
more than half OF the insurance
amounting 10 S05G,24l 900 which
the companies will refuse to pay
by reason of technilculities. He
recommends the consideration of
the question whether in view of
small loss by fire in the past the
State cannot afford to carry it's own
insurance. He recommends large
appropriations for the usage of the
State Geological Survey.
"Saw a strange thing in Toledo
the other day." said citizen who
was being shaved in Griswold-
street barber shop. L was walk
ing from the hotel to the Office of a
lumber firm, and met man one
side of whose face was black as
your hat"
Every razor along the line was
suspended in the air and the white
of every eye became more promi-
nent.
"Wouldn't dat kill your gasped
the artist in charge of the narrator.
"Dat takes dc rag, su'. And de
odder side wa white?"
mo, that was black, too"
James Bradley, patient at the
Gallipolis Epileptio Asylum, was
killed Wednesday on the trestle OF
the Hooking Valley Railroad, near
Vinton.