Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-01
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
House of Delegates,
FRIDAY, Feb. 1, lsD

FRIDAY, Feb. l, 1852.
A communication was received from the
senate announcing its concurrence in sew
eral House bills
On motion of Mr.. WILSON the rules were
suspended in order to take up the House
bill for the relief of the North Western
virginia Bank. The bill was ordered to
its engrossment.
Mt. SMITH moved to suspend the rules in
order to take up the Homestead Exemption
Bill. The motion to suspend the rules re-
curing two thirds vote was lost.
The act providing for the appropriation
OF Military Fund of $40, 900 was reported.
Mr.. PORTER said he should vote for the
bill ms there vas a clause in it which
would not allow of depletion of the
Treasury.
Mr.; sSIDER said he should vote against
the Oil because there was the sum of ST.
600 due this Government from the General
Government which could be used.ror Mill
tary purposes.
Mr.. RUFFSER said there was no official
evidence before the House that we had any
such available fund.
Mr.. HoOTEN said he had been inform
ed By the Auditor, that the sum of ST.
600 was dae from the General Govern
ment.
Mr.. MINER spoke in favor of the bill.
opposition to 1t, he commended, exhibited a
a lack of confidence in the Executive,
through whose hands the money would
pass.
Mr.. WEST was in favor of placing at the
disposal of the Executive, the largest
amount possible.
Mr.. Smith was in favor of the appropria-
ton. He intimated that the opposition to
this appropriation grew out of the misun-
Outstanding between the Auditor and the
Executive. 1t had been said that the Gov
ernor had spent money for lager beer.
crackers and cheese. The committee APP
pointed to examine into this and other
matters, had found there was not penny
wrong. The cheese and crackers were
purchased for single repast for the 10th
Indiana Regiment, which passed through
the city after their glorious fight Mt Rich
Mountain.
Mr.. WILSON called Mr.. Smith to order.
Dir. SMITH said he would save the gen.
I tleman the trouble of reducing his point OF
or order to writing, by combining himself
to the subject.
Mr.. WILSON said the gentleman had no
authority to allude to what the committee
had discovered, as the committee had not
reported.
Mr.. FOREMAN said that if the gentlemen
would wait until the committee reported,
they would find that there was nobody
hurt. Everything would be explained,
aud the crackers and cheese placed where
they belong.
The bill was passed by vote of "a ayes
to noes.
On motion of Mr. Porter the appropria-
tion bill was taken up.
Mt PORTER moved to appropriate So
per day to the Trustees of the Linsley In
stitute, for the use of their building
Adopted.
Mr.. PoRTER also moved to appropriate
$4,000 for the Civil Contingent Fund
Adopted.
Mr.. KRANEa moved to strike out from the
Contingent expenses of the Auditors Office
$500 and insert $500.
Upon this motion Mr.. Arnold called the
ayes aud noes with the following result
ayes noes %.
Mr.. FAST moved to strike out $1,000 for
the payment of the Auditors clerks, $500
tor the first and $500 for the second, and
insert $4,000.
Mr.. WEST said he had a conversation
with the Auditor and that officer Informed
] him that he..desired n steady mana mar
RED man-in his Office, and married man
could not come here for less than $500.
/ Mr. FAST said he thought there must be
something personal IN this matter. He had
no sons or sons-in-law who were clerks in
} the Auditors office, but Notwithstanding
that he did not think that to be a good
clerk in an Auditors Office, it was essential
to be "a mouied man.
Mr.. WEsT said the gentleman from Ma
rion had given him pain. He had made
: Legislative business personal. Because he
MIR. West) happened to have a son.in-law
in the Auditors Office, the gentleman from
Marion (Mr. Fast) had deliberately attemp-
ted to hurt the feelings of an old mana
, thing that no gentleman would do. His
son-in-law had reputation which the
gentleman from Marion could not tsrnish.
Mr.. FAST said that nothing the gentle
man from Wetzel could say would offend
f him. If that gentleman had had a proper
sense ofpropriety under the circumstances
and RETAINED from making opposition To
the motion to strike out he would have
saved NIL this talk.
MIR. PORTER demanded the previous uues-
ton. The demand was sustained and upon
f the motion to strike out Mr.. Smith de-
manded the ayes and noes with the fol-
lowing result: Ayes IL, Noes Is.
MT. WEST for the first time in his life he
said, asked to be excused from voting.
Mr.. WILSON moved al amendment to an
propFiate $50 to the Clerk of the House for
extra services. Adopted.
The hour of five having arrived the
House took recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. WEsT moved to amend the appropri-
: alton bill by inserting $40 for the use ot
Is. w. Price, Clerk of a Battalion Court st