Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-04-18
N Le9ISiatGTo and wheeling.

The Le0IsIat1ro and wheeling
We have been at some pains and some
curiosity, to look over the journals Of
both Houses of our Legislature for the last
session. in order to see what was done and
what was not done touching our local in
terests. We find that the following
wheeling bills passed both Houses and
are now laws:
1. An act to provide for the payment by
the State, of the interest on the bonds OF
the city of Wheeling, for the half year en-
ding LIST of January, 1859.
2. An act to incorporate Abrams En-
campment No. l, of the l. U. Y. +. OF tue
City of Wheeling.
R An act to amend and re-enact section
1st of an act passed l4th March, 1858, en-
titled an act to amend the Sd section OF
ar act entitled an act amending an act
concerning the district pablo schools IN
the county of Ohio.
4. An act to amend thescharter of the
town of South Wheeling
s. An act to incorporate the Peoples
Savings Bank of the city of Wheeling,
6. An act to incorporate the wheeling
Railroad Bridge Company.
T. An act to incorporate the Eureka IN
surance Company of Wheeling.
8. An act to authorize Ohio County to
borrow not exceeding the sum of S225 ,OOO.
9. An act to enable the city of Wheeling
to compromise with the holders of her
bonds and coupons issued on account OF
her subscription for stock in the Marietta
and Cincinnati Railroad Company, the
Hempfield Railroad Company, and the
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Com
pany.
10. An act to incorporate the Etna Fire
aud Marine Insurance Company of the city
of Wheeling.
IL. An act to amend and re-enact the
9th section Of an act passed March 22d,
1850, entitled an act to incorporate the
Washington Hall Association of Wheeling.
And now, per contra, we find that the
following Wheeling bills passed the Sen
ate, but did not pass the House of Dele
gates, and consequently failed to become
laws:
1. - uIr~CCIns NuS DVuTu OF fuouC
Works to purchase of the City of Wheel
ing, at the par price of $lO6 per share,
5000 shares of the capital stock OF the
Baltimore L Ohio Railroad Company
2. A bill releasing to Owen Sheeke all of
the Commonwealth interest in and to
lot of land situated on Market street, in
the City of Wheeling.
3. A bill to incorporate William Tell en-
campment, No "a, of the l. o. o. F. of the
City of Wheeling.
4. A bill to incorporate Yirginus Lodge
No. 3, l. o. o. F. in the City of Wheeling
Thus we find that the Senate passed
every Wheeling bill that was brought be-
fore it, without exception, and that the
failures were in the House of Delegates.
There were several other bills in which
Ohio county was interested-the West
Liberty Academy loan bill, for instance.
that originated in the House of Delegates,
and there failed, and of course did not
come before the Senate.
Our design in copying off this statement
or exhibit of our local record from the
journals of the two Houses, is not to place
them in contrast or to draw any unfaYora-
BILE comparisons whatever. We presume
that our delegates have adequate and sat-
isfactory reasons to give for whatever fail
ures occurred in their branch. Our de-
sign in producing the record, was first,
10 show IN a brief resume what we had
got and what we had not got, and next, to
call public attention to the somewhat sim
gular circumstance, that in that branch of
the Legislature where we had been told
that we could hope to meet with but little
or no success, on account of the odious
political principles of our representative
there, we had achieved success in every
instance that we sought it. Our readers,
we presume, recollect very we'll, what we
were told only few months ago-at the
beginning of the session. They will re-
collect the auathemas that were showered
down without stint on the head of Sena-
tor Caldwell. He was DETAINED and ira
duced more scandalously and Indignantly
than any public man ever was in this COM
munity before. And why? Simply be-
cause he chose to have and to express his
own independent political principles, and
because those principles were not in uni
son with the niger programme of his
traducers. He had betrayed his constitu
ents, said the vengeful orthodoxists, who
Just then essayed to crush him out by rem
dering him contemplate and consequently
powerless, in the body to which he was
elected. He was in alliance with Virgin
las enemies; with the John Browns and
all the insurrectiontsts, and he was black
spot on the fair fame of the Common
wealth, and as such, he was adjured day
, after day to hide his disgraced body poll
tic from the public view and voluntarily
give place TO some one who could chime
in with all the ideas and requirements OF
&ha EaatarD nronorandistS