The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-26

introduce new matter, when Mr.. Slack
moved that the further consideration of
the bill be indefinitely postponed.
The question was put and decided in
the negative by the following vote:
YEAs-NIessrs. Burdett, Burnley, Dix,
Hagar, Raymond, Mahon, Martin,
O'Brien, Slack, Werninger and Wilson
Ill.
NAYs-Messrs. Stevenson, (President)
Carskadon, Chapline, Dolly, Duval,
Earnsworth, Hoke, Thatcher, Wright,
Young and Emil.
The Senate adjourned.
| NoTE.-The vote on the railroad bill
was improperly given in your paper
this morning. Mr.. O'Brien voted tor
the bill and Mr.. Dolly against it.
The correct vote is as follows:
YEAs-Burdett, Chapline, Hagar,
Raymond, Hoke, Martin, O'Brien,
Slack, Thatcher, Wilson, Wright,
Young and Zinn-13.
NAYs-Messrs. Stevenson, (President)
Burley, Carskadon, Dix, Dolly, Duval,
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Prayer by the Rev. d. II. K. Dix.
member of the Senate.
Mr.. Armstrong made n report from
| the Committee on Enrolled Bills.
Mr.. Carroll presented petition of E.
p. Burke and other citizens of Wayne
county, asking the passage of law au-
thorizing lottery for benevolent pur-
poses.
Mr.. Cunningham presented n remon-
STRANGE of Jesse Martin and sixty-fiVe
other citizens of Marion county, pro-
testing against discrimination in taxa
ton in favor of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
| Mr.. Heermans presented remon-
STRANGE of ID. b. LETTERS and tifty-one
other citizens of Preston county, pro-
| nfra 49,
ton in favor of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
| The bill for the relief of Albert and
| Philo Nj. Platte, was taken up as I'M
finished business, put upon its passage
and rejected, the vote reconsidered and
the bill laid on the table.
Mr.. Hiser moved to suspend the rule
to take up the bill apportioning the
school fund to Pendleton county, but
| the House refused.
The bill re-enacting section 10 of
chapter rs, acts of 1868, so as to compel
| the Boards of Supervisors to levy II tax
of 81 on dogs was read third time, the
vote ordering 1t to engrossment recon-
| sidered and the bill tabled.
| The bill re-enacting the 29th section
of chapter 20 of the acts OF 1864, ex-
empting certain property from execu-
| ton or other process was passed. The
effect of the bill is to provide that where
judgments for trespass have been OBJ
tanned against persons engaged in the
| rebellion they are excepted from the
benefits of the exemptions provided by
| the act.
The following House bills were also
passed=
The bill authorizing the Elk Hill Gas
Coal Company to borrow money.
The bill to amend the law in regard
to the mode of collecting taxes.
The bill for the relief of the Board of
Education of Grant township, Harrison
county.
The bill to legnlize the conveyance of
n lot of the NJ. Il. Church in Elizabeth,
Writ county, to Barrett f. Ball.
The bill to amend the law in relation
othe publication and distribution of
the acts.
The bill to amend and re-enact the
charter of Ripley, Jackson county.
The bill to release the State militia
from duty in time of peace.
| The bill extending the time of filing
surveys for grants to Dec. 9, 1868.
The bill concerning insolvent militia
fines.
The bill declaring Spring Creek in the
counties of Writ and Roane, a public
highway from the mouth of the stream
in Writ county, to Spencer, in Roane.
The bill to fix the times of holding
courts in the Second Judicial Circuit.
The bill for the relief of certain SOL
diers of Brooke county.
The bill relating to the assessment of
property in the city of Wheeling for
municipal taxation.
Mr.. Williamson called up the Senate
bill to incorporate the West Virginia
Transportation Company, and had it
amended by striking out Wood county,
so as to limit its operations to Writ
county, and providing that there shall
be no consolidation of the company
with the Little Kanawha Navigation
| (tnnnunV NJ hn
one company to the other, but that
each shall remain entirely separate
and distinctundert the penalty of forfeit
ing their charters and franchises.
Mr.. McWhorter called up the Regis
try bill and it was passed, without dis
eussion, by the following vote!
EAs-Messrs. Armstrong, Bee, Bee
son, Borgess., Foreman, Bower,
Brown of Monongalia, Caldwell, Car
roll, Cracraft, Cunningham, Ferguson,
Fleming. Gof, Crosse, Harris, Herr
mans, Hibbets, Hiser, Hoffman, John
son, kincaid, Koonce, Lightburn, Lit
tie, Mann. .Marshman, McQuilkin,
McCarty, AcWhOrter, Seel, Payne,
Smith of Brooke, Smith of Rerkeley,
\ Spencer, Taylor, Vaughan, WeIton,
| Wheat, Williamson, and Workman-4l.
NAEs-Messrs.B ickel, Brown of Ohio,
Burke Cooper, DAWSON, Kellar, Lamb
and Snider-S.
Absent or not voting-Messrs. Bal
lard, Billmyer, Gibson, Harmon, Lane,
ockhart, and Pinnell-T.
The bill to release. certain sureties of
q. A. Murphy, late Sheriff of Mcdowell
county, was rejected by a vote of p
to 20.
Mr.. Lightburn moved to take up the
Senate joint resolution providing that
this years assessment shall be on the
old valuation; but the House refused.
Mr.. Ferguson then called up the bill
on that subject, it being the substitute
offered by himself, and adopted instead
OF Harris bill. 1t provides, as already
explained, for an equalization of the
valuation by board TO consist of the
Auditor, Secretary and Treasurer.
Mr.. Hoffman moved to so amend as
to provide that the assessors shall be
citizens of the cou-ties to be assessed :.
Mr.. Foreman favored leaving it dis
cretionary with the Board of Equaliza-
ton to appoint assessors, either resi-
dents or non-residents OF the counties.
Mr.. Hoffman so modified his amend
ment, and IL was agreed to.
Mr.. Harmon moved to refer the bill
to the Committee on Taxation and
Finance, but the House refused.
AIR. BoggesS proposed an amendment
TO provide for equalization as between
olstrlcts of the same county, and it was
Mr.. Lamb submitted an amendment
ProSldlng for the approval of returns
by the Board decentralization. Agreed to.
5 Tue Siii was ordered to epgrosSment.
me Dill 10 re-enact the general road
law was taken up on second reading
ana tne question arose on Mr.. FerGu-
sion's substitute.
The substitute so amends the exist
ing law as that the Supervisors of each
S ,S can; as they choose, provide