Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-27
OUT OF PLACE..
Many Men Drawing Public Money,
at Charleston Logging for Scott.
Delegate Stevens's Timely Rebuke.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, January 90
Delegate Stevens, of Wetzel county, yes
terday very forcibly presented to the
House the part which has been taken in
the Senatorial contest by both Federal
and State officials, when the introduced
the following resolutions:
Resolved, AS the sense of the House,
that it is highly improper and manifestly
subversive of the due consideration and
speedy dispatch of the public business,
for persons who are appointees of the
Federal government, or of the State gov
rnment or judicial officers under the
State government, and not entitled to the
privileges of the floor to invite and in
duce members of this House, while en-
gagged in the consideration of the public
business to leave the floor of the House
for private conferences with such ap-
p~ointees and judicial officers, concerning
matters which do not appertain to the
public veal. And, in order to remedy this
growing evil, the Sergeant at Arms is
ordered to clear the floor of the House of
Delegates of all persons not entitled to
the privileges thereof.
After introducing the resolution he rose
~ d 4utSIlOI VI PCI clio pIANAlCS0 anu
submitted the following list of officers and
their salaries, which he asked to be print
ed in the journal as a part of his re-
marks:
Commissioner of Internal Revenue n. B.
Scott, salary $4,000; Collector of Internal
Revenue A. B.. White, salary, 1850; Dis
trict Attorney ]. H. Gaines, salary, 1850;
Marshhal John X. Thompson, salary, $4,-
$50; Gu. S. Court sitting at Parkersburg
and no marshaD; special niger" mes
senger of SCOTS, $500; Postmaster George
Wise, Wheeling, $500; Postmaster
Hughes, Huntington, $500; Postmaster
Petty, Charleston, $3.50; Major Charles
Elliott, army, salary 81, eco; Captain Avis,
army, salary, $3.50; Lieutenant Hughes,
army, salary, $1,40O; Postoffice Inspector
Hooten, salry. $500; Postoffice Inspector
Allen, salary, $1,S00: S. V. Matthews. Sc
cret service, $1,000; Assistant District At
torney Northcott, $1,E01; Assistant District
Attorney Showalter, 81, 100; Alex. R. Camp
bell, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector,
salary, 1890; Fish Commissioner George
NJ, Bowers, salary, s6,00O; B. b. Dovener,
Congressman, salary. 5000; A. G. Dayton,
Congressman, salary, 5000; E. P .Rucker,
Attorney General; c. p. Dorr, salary, So
COO; DR.. Stalnaker, Board of Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Asylum; j. VIM. Gilkeson, Pen
itentiary Board: Arnold Scherr, Peniten-
tiary Board: J. w. Hawkes., Warden Pen
itentiary; DR.. Stathers, Superintendent
Weston insane Asylum; Lively, Game
Warden; Judge J. A. Campbell, State Uni
versity Board of Regents; Morris Hork-
heimer, Colonel on Staff of Governor; Geo.
w. Curtin, Brigadier General w. Va.
National Guard; Ed. Pinkney, Fayette
county. Mine Inspector; Thos. E. Davis,
Grafton. Commissary General W.. Va.
National Guard; Col. Jos. L. Beury, Fay
cite, aide de camp Governors staff; Col.
w. E. Crooks, Keysehwaide camp Cover
nor's staff; NJ. r. Wolf, Wheeling, di-
rector of Penitentiary; Alex. Mcveigh
Miller, Monroe, Director w. Va. Hospital
for Insane.
The reading of this paper by the clerk
called forth vigorous opposition on the
Republican side of the House, both to the
printing of the speech and to the adoption
of the resolution. Mr.. Mcintosh, of Fay
cite county. sent to the clerks desk an
amendment to the ,~gentleman's remarks
embracing q list Of . few men in the