The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-25

the provisions of which we explained,
so promptly got up after the defeat Of
the original bill, passed the Senate at
its forenoon session, after slight oppo-
sitiou, by a vote of I3 to s. We are
sorry that a better fight was not made
in that body. And we are sorry also |
TO notice that the Senator from Ohio !
county, contrary to the almost univer- |
sal feeling of his constituents, voted 1
tor the bill.
We trust that the House of Delegates |
will present a very different front to the |
people of the State when the question
comes up in that body to-day or to-
morrow. In all probability the friends
OF the bill, stimulated by their sudden
success, expect to rush it through the
House before it loses its Senatorial
prestige, and before the opposition can
organize their full strength. In the
event of any undue pressure to
reach a vote, we repeat our appeal to
the friends of the State to avail them
selves of all parliamentary tactics at
their command to resist such attempt.
1t is not only their right but their
bounden duty to do so. No vote
should be allowed until the bill has
been thoroughly ventilated
We stated on Saturday that even al
lowing all that can be claimed for the
new bilI,as compared with the old one,
there remains against it, as against the
other, and as against all such bills. the
section of our constitution, so often
,n,tnl -, tkfz TO-
equal taxation. The terms of that sec
ton are as explicit as the English Ian
Ruage can make them, and if they are
in force as regards the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, any compromise with the
companyis impossible. 1t has never been
shown that the section does not operate
upon them in common with all the tax
payers Of the State. Why is it not
shown7 Why are we not told under
what law or by virtue OF what provi-
sion, granted by the old state, the COM
pany claim to escape our constitutional
enactment?
But admitting, for the sake of the ar
gument, that a proposition of compro-
mise can be entertained by the State,
who will undertake to say that the offer
OF 10000 per year is an amount worthy
of the magnitude of the issue between
the company and the Commonwealth
In pamphlet before US containing the
report of the Cleveland and Pittsbur gh
Railroad Company for last year, we
notice among the general expenses"
of the road the item of si9,GO7 II tax
paid TO the State of Ohio. How does
that sound in contrast with the $50, 600
offered by the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany to the State of West Virginia,
when it il recollected that the former
road is not half the length OF the latter,
counting only the track in this State,
and earned in gross only n little up
wards of two and IA half millions, while
the Baltimore and Ohio Company GER
tninIy received not less than four times
that amount.
The friends OF the company claim,
and we admit the force of all that they
have said in this regard, that the AS
sessments as made in some of the coun-
ties are oppressive and extortionate.
The remedy is provided by law. But
outside of that remedy there is II way,
the same as in other States, to value
the entire track of the road in this
state, and pro rate it to the counties
through which it passes. The conf
pany have also the privilege of making
t.eir own 'aiuh''oh: Let them aV''il
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