The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-23
AFTERNOON SESSION

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Messrs. Peck, Slack, Burdett and
o'Brien favored the amendment in
spirited addresses, and Messrs. Chap
line, Kitchen, Chambers and Hagar
opposed 1t with'muc earnestness;
Pending the amendment the bill was
tabled. Adjourned.
House of Delegates.
Prayer by Rev. s. B. Barnitz.
Mr.. Goff. from the. Committee on
Finance, reported bill for the relief
of James Odbert. late Sheriff of Mo-
mongolia county, and bill amending
the 1sSessment law SO far as relates To
railroad companies. The latter bill
also proposes to release the Baltimore
& ohio railroad from the payment of
back taxes on the payment to the state
OF So, 600. -
Mr. McWhorter, from the judiciary
reported a bill to legalize
the qualification of two Justices of Up
shur county. He reported IL inexpedi-
emit to grant the petitions of citizens OF
Hampshire for stayslaw, or of Mar
garet Emory for a divorce.
Mr.. Hngans, from the Committee on
Roads, reported it inexpedient to grant
the petitions of citizens of Ritchie
county for an appropriation for a road,
or a petition OF citizens of Upshur Tor
an appropriation for road from F1em-
inpton 10 sAiaxwell's Mills, and inexpe-
dent to make an appropriation TO build
"A bridge across the Potomac river, ut
Piedmont. He also reported a bill re-
modelling the road law.
Mr.. Cassidy, from the Commlttee . on
Counties, reported bill to amend the
charter Of Sistersville, and bill au-
thorizing the people OF Hampshire coun-
ty to select a permanent county seat,
and reported itinex pedientto allow the
people OF Mercer TO change their county
seat.
senate Bill No. 81, forthe relief of the
Overseers of the Poor of Brooke county,
and Senate Bill No. 81, changing tne
times OF holding courts in the 9th and
7tIr circuits. The latter bill was on MI;
Goff7s motion, read three times and
passed.
The other Senate Bills passed were:
Senate Bill No. ~, amending the char
ter OF Fairmont.
Senate Bill No. SO, inrelation to ac-
Senate Bill No. q, Incorporating the
town of Ceredo.
The House Bills passed:
House Bill No. SO, providing for
system. of free schools.
No. 20, to settle the boundary line
between the counties of Barbour ana
Upshur, and the House substitute for
Senate bill No. %, providing for an ag-
ricu1tural college.
AZ eleven O'Clock the Senate in res
ponse to invitation of the House re-
paired TO the hall of the latter, where
the farewell address of George Wash.
ington to the American people was read
by AIR. Mairs, of Kanawha.
The bills appropriatlng $500 to the
East River and Wyoming road. 5000
to rebuild bridge in GreenbrieI
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TAYLOR county, were all defeated.
The bill fixing the terms of the
Wheeling Municipal Court for civil bu-
sineSs was SO amended, on motion Of
Mr.. Bell, as to provide for eight terms
in a year to be held in those months
when they will not interfere with the
terms of the Circuit Court, and the Dill
will probably pass in that shape to-
day.
made some time since by the Judi
ciary Committee, unfavorable to
any change of the law in relation
to divorces, was taken up, and MIR:
Zinn- moved that it be recommitted
with instructions to report a bill allow
ground of abandonment for three
wears. Mr.. linn advocated his motion
In several speeches, and it was opposed
by Messrs. McWhorter and johnson
and lost. The report of the committee
was then adopted.
Mr.. linn presented the. petition o.
citizens of Randolph and Pendleton
counties, asking the formation OF a new
county OF parts of those counties.
ON motion of Mr.. Bee, the Committee
on Roads was directed to inquire into
the expediency of appropriating 5000
to repair the Shinnston and Lumber
port turnpike. ea
Mr.. Fleming introduced n bill requir-
ing hawkefs and peddlers, under pen
atty of fine, TO take out license.
Mr.. Cunningham introduced a bill
violators not less than $50 nor more
than 500.
The Freedmen's Bureau BiII-What
TWAS the President Vetoed.
The whole country is now excited
over the message of the President pub
lished yesterday yetoeing the Freed
mems Bureau Bill. Nodoubt the read
ers of tho IntcIEigenceT have a curiosity
to read tho bill itself as well as the
message yetoing it. Accordingly. we
ireproduce it from the Congressional
Globe. Both of our Senators voted for
il on It's passage through the Senate,
but both of them voted against, its pas
sage over,the Presidents veto.
An .aes 10 amend an act entitled IAn
Act to establish q BGredtt for tie RELIEF
OF freedmen and Refugees" and Jo1.
other purposes.
Bet enacted, Zee, That the act to es-
tablIsh a Bureau for the relief OF freed
men and refugees, approved March .,
1865, shall continue in force until other
wise provided by law, and shall extend
to refugees and freedmen in all parts of
the United States, and the President
may divide the section of country with
in which the privilege of the writ of
hdbedS corpus WAS suspended on the
first day OF February, 1866, containing
such refugees and freedmen, into dis
tFicts, each containing one or more
StateS, not toieSceed twelve in number,
and, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, appoint an Assist
amt Com missioner for each of said dis
tricts, who shall give. like bond, re-
ceive the compensation and perform
the duties prescribed by this and the
act to which this Is an amendment; or
said bureau may, in the discretion OF
the President, be placed under Conn
missioner and Assistant Commissioner,
to be detailed from the army, inwhich
shall serve without increase of pay or
/ SEC. 3. lad be IL further enacted, That
the Commissioner, with the approval OF
the President, and when the same
shall be necessary for the operations OF
the Bureau may divide each district in
to number of districts, not to ex-
coed the number ofcounties or parishes
In such district, and shall assign to
each snb-districe at least one agent,