The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-14
m. Peaf.ensIAry QnesiIon Again

TT1,e E1entseniIary Question Again
A gentleman OF Marshall county
writes us what no doub. he intends as
yery sarcastic and cutting reply to our
remarks on the Penitentiary question
Yesterday. It Is easy to write such
communications onr waste basket Is
full of them. But the facts remain,
notwithstanding this gentleman and all
his sarcasm, just as We stated them
Yesterday. No intelligent gentleman
in MoundsvilIe will understand
MS for n moment as disParag-
ing that locality when we say that
il the Penitentiary IS TO be any
thing else than huge incubus great
bill Of expense-upon the public treas
urv. il must be located where the labor
.ofthe eonviets can be made most profit
able TO the state. We did not say that
even in wheeling the institution
could be made self-sustaining- On Inc
contrary, we intimAted our doubts, as
we do now, whether It can be made 10
nav even here. And If such is the case
in regard TO a locality where shops and
factories abound, what chance in the
world is there for the institution In
village where few or none Of them
exist
We desire that those who have the
aloe:ion Of the Penitentiary will look
Mt the question as one peculiarly af-
fec4ing the interests OF the whole State.
There Is no room for rivalry OF local
prejudice in the matter. And The
people of the State will assuredly
view the settlement Of the location
in this light They will demand 10
knew why 9IouudsviIle was selected
And We make bold 10 say that it will
puzzle any member Of the Legislature
10 frame an answer that will be salts
factory and that cannot be used As
club 70 beat him very severely over the
head by his opponent on the hustings-
We may rest assured that in a ques-
zion so grave as the location of a State
institution, that by virtue Of its loea-
ton must become eitherapproximately
self sustaining or else a monstrous
charge upon the public treasury, the
tax payers of the commonwealth will
not be put OF with evasive or trivial
answers.
We are not speaking for the city Of
Wheeling in this matter At all. Her in
tercsts are only a part of the great
whole, just as are those Of Moundsville
or any other town or county in the
State. But We are speaking for the
State OF West Virginia And We desire
10 put ourselves on the record against
so great a wrong upon the people of the
state as the location OF the Penitentiary
at Moundsville woull1 be. We would be
riShtfulIy held amenRble in public
opinion II we remained silent while
this project was going through.
The Amendment 10 the state. COnstI-
tuition.
The proposed amendment to the State
Constitution, which was passed some
days since by the House by vote OF
IS 10 10, passed tho Senate yesterday
afternoon by vote of 1Ito4.
The resolution as passed is the fol-
lowing:
WHEREAS, the Legislature of this
State Mt its last session in conformity to
the Constitution agreed TO the follow
ing proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition Of this State, to be added ut the
end of the first section OF the third arti-
Gle thereof, TO become part of the said
Constitution when ratified according to
the provisions thereof, namely:
"No person who since the INST day OF June,
1881, has given or shall give voluntary aid or
assistance TO the rebellion ngainst the United
States shall be citizen Of this state, or be al
lowed TO vote at any election held therein,
unless he has volunteered Into the military
OF naval service of the United States, and has
been or shall be honoEably discharged there
from"
And trhereaS, the said proposed
amendment was published for at least
three months before the last general
election in some newspaper in every
county in the State In which there was
at that time n newspaper printed:
Therefore, Resolved by the Legislature
OF West Virginia, that the said prOpos-
ed amendment is hereby agreed to.
1t now only remains for the Legisla-
ture TO provide for submitting this
measure to the people for their approval
or disapproval; and considering that
the present Legislature was elected al
most solely upon theissue presented by
this amendment, the very large major
ity it receives in both Houses is an
earnest Of the large majority 1t will re
eeive at the hands of the people them