The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-08
WHEELING w. VA SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1868.

officers shall hereafter be held with the
State and county elections, on the fourth
Tuesday in October in each year, in
stead of the time now provided by law
2. The ballots for township officers
shall be kept separate from those foI
State and county officers, AID for this
purpose the clerk Of every Board of Su.
peryisors, shall at the expense Of the
county, provide aud furnish at every
place of voting in the county an addi-
tional ballot box, marked Township
ballots" in which the ballots for town
ship officers shall be deposited.
). The term of Office Of all township
officers shall hereafter commence on the
first day of January instead of the time
now prescribed by law, and such OFF,
during the present year, be appoint d
to eli vacancies shall continue in Office
until the 3lst day of December, 1868,
and until their successors shall be elect
ed and qualified according to law.
House bill No. 30, constituting the
bank of the Ohio river, from the mouth
of Glenn's Run to the lands of Acheson,
Bell IL Co, north of Wheeling, lawful
fence, was passed.
House bill for the relief Of Lorenz
Kidwell and George Heckhert, late con-
tractors on the Parkersburgh and Staun-
ton Turnpike, passed.
The hour for the special order, being
the consideration of the bill for the
permanent location of the Capital of
the State, having arrived, the House
resolved itself in Committee of the
Whole with Mr.. ARMSTRONG in the
chair.
Mr.. WEIGH believed the interes Of
the people of the State demanded that
the capital should be located at this
session; and be believed it the duty Of
the peoples representatives. to select the
most accessible, most eligible, most
central, and most healthy place in the
State for the Capital. That place was
clearly Clarksburg.
Mr.. SrEERE deprecated the mode of
mode of warfare adopted by some men,
bers of the House, in their attacks upon
places not their favorites and reflections
upon the motives of members with
whom they differed. While he favored
Parkersburg, and believed the public
interests would be better subserved by
the location of the Capital at that
point thaa any other, he was not willing
to hear gentlemen attacking other
points as If those points possessed no
merits whatever.
Mr.. SMITH, who on yesterday placed
Grafton in nomination, now withdrew
that nomination and declared himself
for Buckhannon. The fact that there
was no public thoroughfare to that
place had Ne terrors for him. For his
part he could walk the distance from
the railroad easy enough-only % miles
as he got mileage at the rate of ten
cents mile for going to and returning
from the Capital.
Dir. DAVISSON placed Grafton again
in nomination, remarking that Mr.. ).
had deserted Grafton after the first bal
lot or two on yesterday. He said that
he held in his hands deeds to the State
for certain tracts of land at Grafton,
which were as valuable as the liberal
offers made by the friends of other To-
calities. He spoke of the advantages
possessed by Gratton-as TO accessibility
and every other consideration. If the
Central West Virginia railroad was
ever built through Buckhaunon, it
would most likely start frem Grafton.
Grafton is already approached by rail
road from three directions, and this
would give her the fourth and make her
still, as she now is, altogether the most
accessible point to all parts Of the
State.
After balloting without result,
the committee arose, reported pro-
gress and asked leave to sit again. The
House then adjourned until , o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A number of bills were read the sec
ond time and passed TO engrossmcnt.
The House then resolved itself into
committee of the whole and resumed
consideration of the bill for the perma-
uent location of the seBt of government.
Mr.. Huffman placed in nomination
farm in Gilmer county.
Mr.. FERGUSON then arose, aud on
his own behalf and on behalf OF several
others from his part of the State, de.
clarad in favor of Buckhannon. He
said that he was determined to put an
end to this Capital controversy, and the
only way to do it was for members from
the extreme portions of the State to
compromise on some central point. lie
had stuck to Charleston rs long as he
saw any necessity for so doing; Ill fact,
he never believed that that place had
any chance of success. It would be
gratifying to him to have the Capital in
the Great Kasawha valley, but he knew
it could not be done, he would therefore
now cast his vote for his second choice,
which was Buckhannen.
Mr.. TOMLINSON regretted that the
gentleman from Cabell had so early fall
len by the wayside, and gone over TO
the enemy. He believed that the
friends of Charleston had no reason to
be discouraged; she had, so far, re-
ceived quite as respectable vote as
any of her competitors, and she had
more to recommend her than most OF
them; she is nearer the center of the
State than is Buckhannon; she has n
fairer prospect of being brought into
communication with the rest of the
world by railroad than has Buckhannon;
she is situated in a region that pays
more toward the support of the State
in region, also, of greater natural
wealth; in the center of greater
populations; every argument that
will apply in favor of the town of
Buckhannon will apply with more
than double force in favor of Charles
ton. Then you have in the northern
portion of the State a great number OF
costly public buildings Penitentiary,
Lunatic Asylum, an Agricultural Col.
lege; YOU have railroads and turnpikes;
in short, you have a monopoly of the
expenditures of the public funds cell
lected alike from that region as from the
north. You have the Governor, both
United States Senators, and all else OF
honor and profit that the State has to
bestow, aad you are making MS of the
southern portion of the State "hew'
ers of wood and drawers Of wa
ter unto our brethren" Of the
upper end, as our old mother, Virginia
used, unjustly, do to US OF West Vir'
ginia. He appealed to the sense of jus,
tice of the members from every part OF
the State not to trample them always
under foot; he appealed to them on be
half of the interests of the people of the
-L~lo Stota not m hastily ard aa hf