Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-02-20
neatsIattos correspondence,
RICHMOND. FrBRrARY u. 1916.

RICHMOND, FEBRrARY ~ 1916.
To ths Editor efAs GAZETTE:
The adjournment Of the Legislature hes been
po.,pcned until the 2O,h--occesioned, mainly, BY
the discussion Of the Right Of Way subject. and be
eoo.equen, check given 10 the progress Of other
business.
The Company Is limited by the Bill. as now or.
dered to lis engrossment, and as Il will probably
pess. 10 Wheeling. The provisions. in relation to
the purchase Of the Winchester Road, are retain
ed. although now imperative, as the condition OF
the sale, viz that the right Of wsy should be OBJ
tanned to any point on the Ohio, not lower than the
mouth Of the Little Kanawhs, has not been fu6l-
ed. presume another arrangement for the pur-
chase will be mads, especially If, in The Senate,
such purchase shall be inserted as a condition Of
the Bill The only olhsr provision is one requir-
ing reduction on the Washington Branch to 4 cts
mile in favor Of through passsngsrs on the yir-
GINA Rail Rosd.--the lines passing through Pc
tersburg, Richmond, and Fredericksbarg to Bali.
more
Tho Company has been defeated in one Of its
main objects---s graat OF the right OF way to any
point in its discretion on the Ohio, as stated, not
lower than the Little Ksnawba. continuation
OF hostile interests effected this result--ehiefy,
however, produced by an apprehension, that If the
termination should be below Wheeling, the trade
of the West would be diverted from the james Ry
ef aud Ksnswha Canal. proposed 10 terminate at
the mouth Of the Great Ksnawhs.--Wh neither the
Rail Road Company would scespt the Act is un'
certain.
The Court. Bill the feature Of which detailed
to you last week, has been defes,ed-msny mem
bers being unwilling to venture upon change, IN
the absence of an expression OF public opinion.
The Senate has once aore rejected the Land
Fund.
1t 10 settled that Senator will not be elected at
the present Session. Without debate-without
any reason sssigned-without pretext s,owed, the
Joint Resolution, when taken up on Thursday. in
the Senate, was indefinitely postponed. Loco Fo-
cosm, now in the ascendancy, spurns at oonstitu-
tional obligations. One sckens at its lawlsssness
and its sacrifice Of all that 10 vital and benefcent
in the administration OF the great interests of the
Country. This is but the prelude, il is to be fear
fully spprehended, to such deeds of violence, a.
the old Jackson Dynasty has provided for the dra.
MA, that shall so ap,ly illustrate, on the page Of
History, the purity and honesty and simplicity OF
Republican Government Virginia is not now be-
hind those States, whose Democracy have sgnali'
zed their honest devotion to the Laws and Consti.
tuition of the land
Summary of Legislative Intelligence.
SENATE.
SATURDAY, Feb. l, 1916.
Mr.. peyton, from the committee OF
courts OF justice, reported with amend
ments, the bill concerning commissions OF
Sherlffs and oths- officers, on lorthcom.
ing bonds, &c.
MIR. peyton offered an amendment as a
substitute.
On motion of Mr.. McMulIen, after some
incidental remarks by Messrs. Newman
and Wiley, the bill was laid on the table.