Year: 1873




this State in aid Of agricultural colleges,
shall be invested by the Governor for
the benefit OF the University, thus pro-
vidiug Tor some splendid jobbery in the
future. 1t is safe to say that section
79 will be attended to. In this connec-
tioa it may be stated that proposition
is being very favorsbly entertained to
give Bethany College three thousand
dollars. The State is to have the privi-
lege OF sending there fifty students, who
are to have the benefit OF the whole
college course. This would make the
tuition OF each State student about sixty
dollars per year. At Morgsntown it is
about seven hundred dollars per year.
Other advantages are obvious.


THE UsURY BILL


has been killed. 1t was indefinitely
postponed in the House yesterday by a
vote OF 35 to Is. The general opinion
is that the present law in relation to
money and interest is more generally
acceptable and satisfactory than any
that can be substituted Tor it.


vRToEs-PREsENT AND PROSPECTIVE.


Another veto from the Governor was
sent 70 the Senate chamber today. but
it has not yet been read. 1t is under
stood to relate 10 the act providing for
the appointment Of com nissoners in
chsncery by the Courts, the orthodox
Jacobin doctrine being that no appoint-
menls can be made by any body but the
Executive. The Senate bill relating to
certain officers and their salaries, con-
tanning the Janitor provision about
which the big fl hit occurred the other
day, has passed the House, and will be
vetoed by his Excellency. 10 fact, the
statement is freely made that the veto
was written before the bill passed, and
as Jrmsweeney and Fizhugh were clos.
eted win the Governor almost CO slant
~ while the bill was pending, it is fair
10 presume their sage conclusions have
been reduced to writing and will shortly
be communicated to the Senate. The
Governor is by no means averse to cal
linz to his aid those persons OF culture
and political experience with whom his
tribulations have made him intimate
The veto just submitted was determined
upon in consultation with old man
Flanagan OF Fayette, and has already
been baptized the Flanagan veto.
Jimsweeney will give name and fame
10 the next production, and | suppose,
il a bill should be passed requiring a
certain bank 10 your city to pay interest
On the Cumberland road deposits, as
State deDosIteries do on other public
funds, 'Sl,pperyandy might read his title
clear to immortality in the same way.


PROMISING PLOT.


with the appointing power
and its exercise has just been disclosed.
Senator Sherrard, Governor Jacobs
spokesman in the Senate, introduced
get OF resolutions the other day, direct
ng the Judiciary Committee to inquire
whether the act making the State off
,ers members Of the Board Of Public
Lhey '"1Iv- enens''tufinnal. and whether
ton. He clearly suggested IN Ms
speech that vacancies existed in the
Board OF Public Works, by reason OF
the ineligibiity OF the officers on whom
its duties were imposed, The Senate
not being disposed to commit the folly
of condemning its own act by impIica-
tioa, rejected the resolutions. But the
Jacobin Senator $ resolution had not
fallen unobserved Subsequent hints
rom some OF his Excellencys indiscreet
friends led to the suspicion that it was
his purpose Immediately after the ap-
adjournment, to declare the
Board vacant and to proceed to fill
The vacancies by appointment. and
hus control whatever patronage may
he placed at the disposal OF the Board
of Public Works. A meeting OF the
Board was called for to-day by ma
iority OF the member thereof. The
Governor, though notified, did not at
Iend, nor was he to be found at his Of
fee, during the entire afternoon. Once
he passed within sight OF the State
House, and note was sent him, re-
questing him to meet with the Board
But the great dodger continued TO dodge
HIS course ls creating q good deal OF
talk tonight, and there is no little
merriment over the premature develop
ment of bis plans. The immense APP
pointing power which bis friends claim
Ior him, will not be given him, and
should he persist in an effort 70 usurp
the control Of the ten thousand small
offices 10 this State, it will only have
the effect to recall the Legislature to
Charleston at a much earlier day than
that to which it will adjourn.


A TOUCHING INCIDENT.


Senate Bill No j, providing for the
State Printing and Binding, was under
consideration in the House lew days
ago. A number Of amendments were
reported from the House Committee, and
on them the Republicans made fight,
particularly the amendment providing
that the Superintendent OF printing
should be appointed by the printing
The bill, as it passed
the Senate, gave the superintendency
to the Secretary OF State. and furnished
an excuse for giving that officer thou
sand dollar clerk. On this the contest
was warm. Reynolds, OF Marion. vo ed
against the amendment, when h's own
name was called and then tried In
vote no, in response to the name OF
OF Jefferson, that gentleman
not being 10 his seat. The vote was
recorded, unobserved by the clerk, but
Speaker Miller detected the fraud aud
exposed it. He then advised the re-
pesting member that for another offence
in that line he would be put under ar
rest A great number sf strangers
were in the House at the time, among
them q number OF ladies, aud the affair
oraofsd o1ita q sanaafi0n