The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-19
|GOV. HATFIELD DISCUSSES
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES

1915, III part unu IN part ou OClo-
Der LIST OF the same year.
"Thc administration OF this com
mission, which includes the Work
mems Compensation Department, has
cost for this fiscal year ending June
Both, $7,362.O7. One decision alone
rendered by this commission in the
Manufacturers Light and Heat Com
pany case will save the people OF the
northern panhandle more than $120,-
900 a year, and this was the only
method by which this company could
be prevented from putting into et-
feet a rate which was, according to
the decision of the commission, far
in excess of a reasonable and equita-
BILE charge for the service rendered
to the consumers in the territory in
which this company operates. There
are other decisions rendered by tile
commission regulating public SER
vice corporations too numerous to
mention, which show beyond ques-
tion the great results to be obtained
through this very progressive and
Just law which some of us have been
striving to write upon the statute
books OF our state FOR great many
years in the past. 81
mot only has this commission
regulated the public service corpora
lions of this state and made possible
railway connections and railway
accommodations not heretofore
granted, thereby giving to the peo-
pie great many comforts not to be
obtained In the past, but the commits
sion has had under its administra-
ton the Workmen's Compensation
law, as well as the protection of the
only natural asset left - the great
water powers in our state.
Another item in excess in 1914
over the expenditures OF 1912 is the
appropriation made for the state
Board of Health, which was $4,000
for the fiscal year Of 1914. For the
first time in the history of our state
the legislature appropriated a modest
sum OF money to be expended by the
State Board of Health for the pur-
pose OF inaugurating campaign to
bring our state abreast Of other
states in the prevention OF disease
aud bringing about better sanitary
condition in order to reduce the NOR
tally from disease which we find
within our midst, such as tubercu-
losis, which is reaping a harvest Of
more than 1000 of our citizens
yearly. A state laboratory was es.
tabltshed out Of this fund in connec-
ton with our university. A compe-
tent bacteriologist was employed and
the expenses of this department, as
'well us the salary Of the lbacteriolo.
gist, are being paid out of this fund.
Any and all kinds of analyses of wat
er and other specimens can be made
In this laboratory at no cost to our
citizenship or the local boards OF
health. The sum appropriated BY
The legislature is hardly worthy OF
when compared to the
made by the legisla7
lures OF other states.
"Another item is $5.332.20 In
creased expenditure in the admins
tratton OF our banking department
for this year over that Of 1912. The
legislature in its wisdom, at the last
session, deemed it advisable and ex-
pedient to write broader and better
law to take care of the increasing
demands made upon this department
by enlarging its force for the purpose
tof guaranteeing more vigilance IL
the protection Of the peoples money
deposited In the state banks.
"1here is also slight Increase in
the expenses of the Office of the for
est, game and fish warden. Two or
three salaried deputies have been
added to the force of the warden to
look after the prevention of the de
VISITATION Of our forsts, the protec-
tion OF our game and fish and the
purifying of our rivers. Has this
been a good investment for the state?
According to the reports of the
government $5,000,oO0 worth oflfor-
est property was destroyed by fire'in
West Virginia during the year of
1908. ia
During the entire six.years since
that time and since the establi sh-i
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