The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-20
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CHARLESTON. W. Va, Feb. 20
The usual raid upon the State treas.
ury has already been planned and an
effort has been made to get the enter
ing wedge in but It looks as though,
the attaches who are always greedy
Tor more money than they are allow
ed will be compelled to be satisfied
with the regular allowance this year,
Judging from the stand President Nc.
Dermott of the Senate has taken. On
Friday an attempt was made to intro
duce a resolution allowing the cloak
room keepers, who do nothing but sit
around and when the Senators go out
hand them their hats, two dollars
extra pay for the session, but the
resolution was quickly voted down.
although IL It had included all the
other attaches It might have gone
through. President McDermott took
occasion then to call the attention of
the Senators and the attaches that he
had told the people wnen they were
appointed that they should not re-
ceive anything extra for their ser.
vices. The pages and some Of the
other attaches now have resolutions
ready which they will spring during
the week, but # is douptful IL they
will be able to get them through.
many Of the Senators being Of the
opinion that they are already paid
more than they ought to be for the
small amount of work they perform.
The attaches Of the Senate are now
depicting the State treasury at the
rate of about $500 per day and with
about 100 of them getting extra COM
pensation 1t would be necessary to
revise the revenue raising measure
which is going through the legis.
iature.
The big three" lobby-oiI and gas,
coal and railroads, sem to be unable
to get along together here this year
and while they pulled together the
early part OF the session and hob,
nobbed like a lot Of college boys and
girls. there Is nov a eoldness between
some Of the combination that may re.
suit very disastronsly. 1t all came
about over the fact that the railroad
people came to the conclusion they
could run things to suit themselves
without the aid Of the gas and OIL and
the coal people and last week the
railroad interests gave out the ulti-
matum that In the future they would
go 1t alone. They not only started out
to do this, but to gain their VI ends
they tried to throw the hooks into the
gas people when the Bailey amend
ment to the revenue bill. providing
for a production Of tax on gas, was
up for consideration. Every railroad
attorney and others who are connect
ed with the railroads IN any manner
voted for the adoption OF the amend
ment, but the coal and gas people
were just a little too strong for them
and won out, but 1t was by a mighty
narrow margin, the adoption of the
amendment being lost only by n tie
vote. Now the coal and oil and gas
people have a chance to make things
interesting for the railroads in any
legislation that comes up and the first
intimation that something of this kind
would be done was when Forman
amended the telegraph operators
eight hour law so that 1t gives the
operators some snow and will be of
some force as for as the railroads are
concerned. The battle between the
giants from now on will be interest.
ing, with the odds against the rail-
roads.