The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-07
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The House took recess until 2s
O'clDCG
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House again resolved itself into
Committee of the whole and resumed
consideration of the Capital question.
Mr.. McWHORTER, on behalf of the
reople OF Charles ton, offered the State its
choice OF grounds IN that locality for
its use. lie spoke OF the advantages OF
placing the Capital in locality so rich
IN resources and requiring SO little 10
develop them. Place the Capital of the
State at Charleston and ere yOu lad
the bindings erected and the public
business removed hence the voice of the
iron horse would rcverOcrate through
the rich hills aud fertile valleys of The
Great hauawha region. The public
buildings are now ali in this portion Of
the State-the' e'Prnitentiary at Mounds
Vile, Asylum at Weston, and the Agri-
cultural College at Morgantown-and
now it was proposed TO place the
Capital here also. This shodld not
be done: one section OF the State should
not seek 10 mOnopolize all of the advan-
tages conferred by the location OF the
Public Institutions; the resources of
this section of the State are already
comparatively developed-give us the
Capital and thus assist us in the nat
urally rich south and southwest 10 de-
velop onr vast hidden wealth.
Mr.. PINNELL arose to reply to some
playful allusiouS made TO him by the
gentleman from Kanawha' aud, also, to
rvprl some charges made by the gentle
man from LsdthcTrOOd, Mr.. BLAIR. lie
trusted that Buckhauuon has claims OF
such merit as 10 commend that place to
the members of this House without the
necessity for him to detract from the
/ fair fllur or merits of any competing
uoiut. In soberness and cander, he ap
peaird to members 10 remember that
they are here sitting as jurors OF the
interests of the whole people Of the
State; we are not legslatiug for the
people OF this day alone, but tor poster.
ity: it i our duty to get all the infcr
nation We can and to consciensciously
consider and act upon II 10 TIE
best of our abilities; we mast take Mt
narrOw-nO sectional view of the sub
jeci; one of the great mistakes Of TIT
mother State, Old Virginia, was her dis
position to monopolize in ono section
all the public improvements whicl
should have been scattered among al
sections for the development of tn,
wealth that is yet idle. Our peOpl,
are groaning under burden of taxa
tiou: the cry for relief comes up from al
GuaIters; by an examination of the re
port of the Auditor of State it will b'
seen that, out of the less than l0,0OO,OOt
acres OF land in this State nearly -,OGD,
/ 900 acres are assessed at from 40 Ia u
ceats per acre, thus throwing the bur
/ den of the tax upon about one-tifth o
the lands of the State. Our duty is L
develop this vast wilderness; aud thi,
can only be done by establishing add
/ tiOnal lines of railway through IN,
State. The Central West Virginia road
is chartered, and will be built from {
point on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
/ road to Charleston through Buckhan
non. if the Capital is placed at the lat
ter place. Tue liue of this road
Z is 2lU miles in leDgth,-the capital Il
build the road will be forthcoming: the
estimated cost is $4,000 per mile oil
/ y, 9,450. 900 for the construction of the
road, without its equipment; this cap
/ ital, all foreign. will be thus brought
/ into the State and added to our wealth
chen take the land lying on each side Oi
( the road, strip of five miles, the tax
able value Of which will be increased
say s. per acre, would add, alone, to the
tax duplicate S6,400,0O0. This is the
shortest and easiest way TO reduce the
/ taxes of the people.
. After remarks from Mr.. GREGORY
which cannot be reported, on the same
subject. four additional ballots wer'
had, none materially differing from
those had in the forenoon.
We give the following as fair speci'
men of the whole of them.
For GraffoH-Crsue, Dayisson, Dan
niugton, Cold Heermans, Huffman
Parker, Smith and Miller-9.
CldrksJHrg-Bougbner, Fleming. o.
Harrison, Fleming, OF Marion, Gof
Hervey, James. Martin. Welch and
Morgan-9.
ParE,rsburg--Allison, Armstrong
Blair, Jacob, MahOn, Powell, Steere
Stewart.
BackkaHROa Bender, Bill
myer, Chambers, Evans, Gregory
Howes, Hinchman, Largent, Mann, Nc
Claskey, Pinnell, Pope, Riddle, Woed
ford-l5.
/ CkarlestoR-Boggess, Cole, Ferguson
r rAII I,...,.o, of Narsbaii Hauer