Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-07

/ ing schools, with so-called departments
/ of art, and by adding new tangled sys-
| tenn of nonresident correspondence edu-
l cation, they have run the list up to seven
| or eight hundred students. Let US glance
/ for moment at the expenditures and see
| with whom abides the care of the peoples
money Who has been economical and
| who extravagant? For the period / have
| taken, under Democratic management the
| salaries of the President and instructors
| amounted to $4,000. The whole expense,
including building. expenses of Board of
| Regents, and the current expenses
| amounted to $4,000 For 1899 and 1900, I'M
| der Republican administration, the sal
| aries of the President and instructors had
| grown to the enormous sum of $4,000,
| while the whole appropriation for the
4 University by the Legislature of 1899
| amounted to the vast sum of $1S5,900.
| During this latter time the current and
! contingent expenses of the University has
jumped from the sum of $1,000 to 500
| in 1899, and every other appropriation has
| Increased in Like Proportion.
! Now in our search for economy and de-
| creased expenditure and economical man
| agement let us look at the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institution. For the Democratic
! period I have heretofore mentioned, tho
| appropriation was ss1 COO. For 1899 and 1850
under Republican management the ex-
penses of this institution was s94, 800, an
| increase of 800 1t may be noted in
| this connection that the current expenses
| under Republican management suddenly
| jumped from the sum of $4,000 under
| Democratic management to $4,000 under
| Republican management The increase in
| the number of pupils VIII not in anywise
! account for the vast increase in expen-
| diture.
| I wish to state that with the single ex-
| ception of the penitentiary which even
under the stringent times of the last two
| years of the Democratic administration,
was practically brought up to a self-sup-
| porting basis, that every institution and
| every department has been increased
| vastly in expense of management, and
| fail to see anywhere increase in benefit
| to the people. l will not further take
| your time with a detailed account of the
institutions of the State, which show in
| every case an increasing expense without
| corresponding benefit. Why has this in
! crease so suddenly been created. l have
| taken the period of 1895, Notwithstanding
| Republican Legislature. because the ex-
| penditure of the State institutions was
under the control of Democrats and the
| appropriation necessarily had to be made
| in consequence thereof, whatever may be
| the complexion of the Legislature. II the
| expenses are created they must be paid
I have taken the last two years of the
| last Democratic administration and the
! last two years of what I hope will be
the last Republican administration ever
known in the State of West Virginia.
1 am necessarily familiar with the adj
rninistration of the affairs Of the State
and with all of that familiarity am UNI
| able to understand the statement Of His
Excellency, THAT vast sums of money
| have been saved to taxpayers by the eco
| monte management of the different State
| offices at the capitol" l appeal to the
| acts of the Legislature during his admin
istration to show that the expenses of
every department of the State govern
ment from Governor to janitor have been
increased. There is no possible excep-
ton to this statement. / make it openly
and sweepingly. I assert that there is not
a department which has not
Increased Its Expenses
vastly over that of the Democratic admin
| istration.
| Let us inspect the expenses of the de-
partments at the Capitol in order to show
| and prove this universal tendency on the
part of the Republican administration.
| For the legislative year of 1895, we find
under Democratic management the con-
I tingent expenses of the office of Bureau of
| Labor amounted to $500. Under Republi-
can control for the legislative year of
1899, the contingent expenses for the same
| department amounted to 5000. A differ
ence in favor of the Democratic manage
ment of 81 200.
For the legislative year of 1895 the ex
penses of the Board of Agriculture were
$1,000 In 1899 the expenses for this Board
amounted to $4,000, a difference in favor
| of the Democratic party of $1,000.
| The salaries of the Inspectors of Mines
| and travelling expenses for the same
amounted TO 500 in 1885, whilst in 1899.
under Republican management. it had in
creased to $16950, or double the expendi-
ture under Democratic management.
| The State Board of Health under Re-
publican administration increased its ex-
| penses two hundred dollars.
! The Commissioners of Pharmacy were
| given, under Democratic management for
! 1895, six hundred dollars, whilst under
Republican management in 1899 they ex
pended 81 1000, an increase of $500.
| The civil contingent fund of the Cover
nor for 1895, under Democratic manage
ment. was $4,000 In 1899, under Repub-
| lican management it was $4,000, an in
| crease of 5000.
| In the departments of the Treasurer,
| Auditor, Attorney General, Secretary of
| State, Adjutant General and State Lii
brarian, in 1895, the contingent expenses
| of the office under Democratic control
amounted in the aggregate to $500, while
in 1899, under the Republican administra-
ton, the contingent expenses of the above
| offices had increased to $15,S00, a Repub-
| ican increase of $500.
| For hire of clerks in the office of the
Governor. Secretary of State, Treasurer,
! Auditor, Attorney General, State Super
| intendent of Schools, under Democratic
| administration, in the Legislature Of 1895
| there was appropriated $50. $40; whilst in
| 1889, under Republican administration,
there was appropriated for this purpose
$45,i00, an increase under Republican ad-
| ministration of nearly $4,000, thus show
| ing an increased expenditure of public
| money in eyary dana rtrnenf under the Pc