Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-13
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
House of Delegates.
SATURDAY, Jan. IL.

the Rev. Mr.. Martin.
A communication was read from the
Senate announcing the passage of bill
for the relief of Floyd Nicely. The bin
was referred to the appropriate committee.
Mr.. PORTER, from the Committee on FL
nance, reported a bill for the relief of spe-
cial commissioners.
Mr.. Logan offered resolution that the
Committee on Courts of Justice be instruCt--
ed to inquire into the expediency of'amPufl
ing the law chartering.the city of Wheeling,
so as to exempt certain property on the
Island, laid out in town lots but not I'M
proved. Adopted. )
Mr.. KRAMER offered a resolution that the
House will, with the concurfence- OF the
Senate, proceed on Saturdaystos the cleo
ton of Major Generals and Brigadier Gen
erals for the Militia'in the1oyal' counties of
| the State. Laid on the table.
Mr.. FANswoRTH offered a resolution that
the Committee on Finance enquireinto. the
exPediency of issuing auctioneer's Licenses:
Adopted. .,..-., -
Mr.. LOGAN offered resolution that the
Committeelon Finance'inquire into the ex-
pediency of reasseSsing the property known
as the Mcclure House, in the city of Wheel
ing. Adopted.
Mr.. Porter offered resolution that the
Secretary of the Commonwealth be in
structed to procure copies of the constitu-
tons and laws of the several States for
the public library. Laid on the table
Mr.. BOWER offered resolution that the
Committee on reads inquire into the ex-
pediency of reporting a bill to incorporate
company to construct 81 railroad from
the town of Charleston to the mouth of
Big Sandy river.
The following resolution, offered by Mr..
f1I- S,H,n
ReSolUed, That select Committee be APP
pointed by the Speaker, authorized to re-
port bill repeating an act of the General
Assembly, passed on the 7th day of Janua-
ry, 1862, repeating an act passed at the OK
ira session of the Legislature, July oath,
1860, and to provide for the re-organiza-
ton of patrols in certain counties.
Mr.. West spoke in favor of the re5olu-
ton.
The question required upon the motion
of Mr.. Snlder, to lay the resolution on the
table. Messrs. Fast, Parsons, Smith Brown
and others spoke upon the subject, when
the motion to lay on the table was lost
Mr.. West then offered substitute, as
follows:
Resolved, That the Committee on Courts
of Justice be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of reporting a bill for the
The substitute was adopted.
The bill author; ing ColOnels of Regi-
ments of Militia to employ ffers and drum
mers, was passed.
The bill doing away with the Office Ol
Brigade Inspector Of Militia, was passed
The following engossed bill was put up
on its passage:
l. "Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, that the Holidays Cove Railroad Com
pany, or its lessees, may locate, construct,
finish and work branch railroad from
their terminus on the eastern side of the
Ohio river, through the town of Wellsburg,
in Brooke county, to the city of Wheeling.
2. Be it further enacted that Sections
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and
thirteen, of Gan act to incorporate the
Holidays Cove Railroad Company" pas
sed March Both, 1860, be, and the same
are hereby repealed.
3. This act shall be in force from its pas.
sage
sideration brings up a question which had
been under consideration for twelve years
Last winter year ago, two charters were
granted by the Legislature at Richmond
one for the Holidays Cove Railroad Com
pany, and one for the railroad proposed to
be constructed from Wheeling to Pitts
delegates from the City of Wheeling, the
charter was only granted to the Holiday IS
Cove Company upon condition that said
company should not bridge the Ohio river
Mt SteubenVille until the railroad from
Pittsburgh to Wheeling should be COM
pleted, and the Ohio river was bridged at
Wheeling. The present bill only asks that
the Holidays Cove Company shall have
an unrestricted right to build their road.
The sections which the bill proposes to re-
peal are the sections which impose the re-
strictiOns complained of.
All the friends of this bill want is Just
and liberal thing. Tue bill will meet with
strong opposition. Already the newspaper
press of the city had sounded the alarm of
a great outrage proposed to be committed
oy the passage of this bill, but he believed
the House would do the friends of the bill
the justice to which they were entitled.
Mr. Porter spoke at some length, urging
many reasons why the bill should pass
He said the delegates from Wheeling want
ed to hold this Panhandle country as an OBJ
struction to commerce between the east
and the west The railroad company, from
the charter of which he desired these re.
strictions be removed, would shorten
the distance upon one of the routes from
the east to the west, twenty-uight miles,
The delegates from Wheeling, in opposing
this bill, said Mr. Porter, are doing that
which is little short of q crime. In illus
tration, he said that some years ago there
was famous snag in the Ohio river, near
theHiittle town of Shyo, about two hundred
and fifty miles below here. This snag was
known from the town of Olean in New
York, to the city of New Orleans. Many
boats ran upon this snag, aud vast deal
ofProperty was destroyed. At last an as
ISOLATION of boatmen determined to re-
move the snag. But what had proved
so disastrous to the boats had been
a., God-send to the people of Shyo.-