Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-11

| by the same Boston man, but it stood
| no show in Democratic House. Ten
years ago a recommendation was made
| to reduce the State tax, but it was not
done, and the Republicans could not
run the government without an In
crease Of revenues. The Democratic
party had built and paid for q State
university and for other institutions
that called for millions OF dollars The
Republicans refused to tell why, after
these institutions were all built, it cost
them $500, 900 a year more to run the
government than it did the Democrats.
| They had turned down ell the Demo
cratic resolutions for an investigation.
AAey could not account for spending
| 100000 more annually than any DEM
ocratic administration. When the Re-
publicans for the first time in twenty
five years got cortEol OF the Legisla
ture, they appointed Republican COM
mittees to investigate the State institu-
tons and had complimented their man.
agement by the Democrats. The Re-
publicans proceeded upon the principle
that the king could do no wrong, and
| refused to let the people know or see
would the majority allow the journal
to show the motions made by Demo-
Gratis. The clerks had sought to justify
themselves by saying they had looked
through the journal Of 1889 and it was
not customary to keep a record OF OBJ
jections made, but Mr.. Kenney quickly
turned to three or four places in the
journal Of 1899 and showed that state
ment to be untrue.
This bill meant that the Republic
cans had carried the State by corrup-
ton fund procured from eastern capt.
talists, and this was paying back to
their benefactors the laws they asked
/ for. Since the days of Lincoln the Re-
publican party has been dominated by
the money power. He regarded it, he
said. as an invitation to trusts to come
among US, that it was eminently proper
that such bill should be proposed and
passed by Republicans, as they had
always been controlled by the money
power, and that trusts and gigantic
corporations owned the Republican
body, soul, boots and breeches.
MIR. Sinclair said he could not IN
derstand the position, of the gentle
man. For himself, he owned no banks
or railroads, and was one of the rank
and file, and had no fear of the bill.
Mr.. Reynolds said the gentleman
took occasion to abuse him.
In his county, where he was
born and raised, he-was not accustom-
ed to such, and said he would only ex-
pect such from one from the jungles
Of Gilmer. Mr.. Reynolds claimed the
dill had been printed twice, and there
had been plenty Of time for days and
weeks to consider them, and was not
responsible for his failure to consider.
Everybody knows that our corporation
Law had many defects. Under the laws
enacted by Democrats, many frauds
could be committed This bill amenas
the law and gives the Secretary of
State the power to stop the formation
of wild cat companies. Shall we con-
tinue the law in West Virginia that
will not allow corporations to hold
lands which they bought and paid for?
1t allowed coal and gas companies TO
hold as much land as was needed. An
individual can hold, under present
laws, as many millions of land as they
want to. Why make this distinction
between the individual and the cor
poration = The only danger that might