The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-18

Delegates thereof, in pursuance of q
joint resolution OF the Legislature o1
said State; and subscribed by us, resi-.
dents of the said city, this 18th day OF
February, 1869.
HENRY X. LIST. n & J. POLLOCK.
d. c. LIST. WIN. BAILEY.
i GEORGE ADAMS. WIN. B. SIMPSON.
j. X. HUBBARD. JOSEPH BELL.
NJ. REILLY. b. STANTON.
CHESTER ID. KNOX. LAME d PAUL..
NJ. l.. orr. THOS. HORNBROOK.
J. N. VANCE. s. p. HILDKETH.
REEWOOD IRON W'KS.DANIEL PICK.
FREw, HAGANs &
| HALL.
Joint resolution TO prOVidc for the tenn
POrGTy continuance fthe Seat Of GOU-
e'mment ut the city Of Whcclimg,
Resolrcd, tEc., That the President
ofthe Senate aud Speaker of the House
of Delegates, on behalf of the State OF
West, Virginia, sign the proposed agree
ment submitted to the two Houses, be-
tween the State of West Virginia and
certain residents of the city OF Wheel
ing, respecting the temporary contin.
usnce of the Seat of Government, and
OF the State at that city; and that the
joint committee mentioned in the said
agreement consist of two members OF
the Senate and three of the House of
Delegates, to be appointed by the pre-
siding officers respectively of the two
| Houses.
Mr.. Carroll referred to the fact that
at an early day of the session a reSolu-
ton had been passed by the House de-
claring that a location of the Capital
ought TO be made. lie thought it the
duty of the House now to stand by that
resolution. He found fault with Wheel
ing for not bringing forward her propo-
sition earlier. She had made no offer
until it had become probable location
would be made.
The offer was no better than that
made by Parkersburg which had pro-
posed TO furnish buildings for five years
free. Referring to the charge which
had been made that Parkersburg was n
more rebels in Wheeling than there are
people in sParkersburg. lie said the
State was not under the necessity OF
asking buildings free as charity. The
object of the Wheeling proposition was
to defeat a permanent location. 1t was
not made sooner because the people OF
Wheeling thought perhaps they could
keen the Capital without giving any
thing. He said the newspaper repre-
| senting the dominant party here, had
been slandering the Legislature four or
five years. AS general thing the peO-
pie of Wheeling take no account of the
| LEGISLATURE, and never come near eX'
| cept when they wanted some paper
signed or some measure passed. sup
pose the proposition was accepted, the
next Legislature could repeal it and
locate somewhere else, and int was now
adopted he hoped they would.
He moved the indefinite postpone
ment OF the resolution and report.
Mr.. Lamb said the proposition be-
fore the House was not for permanent
location. The people of Wheeling had
never entertained any other thought
than that the Capital could not be per-
mnnently retained here. Nor would
the acceptance of the present prOposi-
ton prevent permanent location after
the period indicated in tho proposed
contract. The mem bers of the House
must be sensible that if they do not in
tend to accept what the gentleman from
Wayne called "charity," that tho
finances of tho State are not in cOndi-
ton To- embark in the erection of the
necessary public buIldings-which in
the ond would certainly cost the State
not less than a million of dollars. The
proposition here made was to relieve
the State for the present from that DIM
1 cultV TO bridge over time till the re-
sOurcee of the State will be sufficiently y
developed and the wishes of the people
better understood, when the whole State
would be prepared to settle this question
so as to best cOmpOrt with the interests
of the whole people. The gentleman
from Wayne urged that this was no bet
ter proposition than that offered by Far
| k9TSDuEEs h6 SuOulu 50 'A~
burg asked to have it permanently. II
q permanent location were made they
| could not alter it under the wording oi
the Constitution. Once fixed 1t must
stand. It was said this proposition had
come at late day. 1t was known that
a proposition OF similar character hau
been made last year, and 1t hau Deen
known from the commencement OF this
session that similar proposition could
he had at any time from citizens oil
Wheeling; and it was but in difference
to requests of members that the repre-
sentatives from Wheeling should put
something definite before them, that he
had brought forward the proposition
now. under consideration. AS for the
rebels in Wheeling, they were Union
men during the war almost without eA-
ception, and did their utmost for The
suppression OF the rebellion. 1t was
true many people here differed with me
gentleman from Wayne in regard to the
expediency of political measures, and
they had right to. But they always
had supported the Government OF the
United States and of West Virginia. de
asked that gentlemen to look back "t
the past history of the Union party OF
West Virginia and tell us wnere ives.
Virginia would have been to-day, Whal
would have been her condition, had moi
Wheeling-in conjunction, it was true
with patriotic men of other sections ol
the State-taken at the very outset o.
the rebellion, when there was danger
in assuming the position she did, po--
sition firmly and unitcdly in support ol
the United States and in opposition to
secession. No man knew better than
himself what was due to the people O.
Ohio county and OF the Pan dandle
and to the other patriotic men WhC
supported them in the movement here
and then inaugurated for the rescue o.
West Virginia from the hands of seces-
sion.
Mr.. Smith, of Morgan, followed in 6
speech OF considerable length the bur.
den OF which consisted in the expires
sion of his scorn and detestation for the
city and people OF Wheeling. He re-
ferred to a remark in the Register al
the time the Legislature had visited the
} Penitentiary, expressing regrets thai
. fore leaving there, and declared he
would Just as leave stay in the Peni-
} tentiary as in Wheeling. He eulogized
the people and section he represented
Thev paid a sixth OF the revenue of the
State and "had a right to be heard
He complained of the high prices here
the cost of peanuts, livery horses anc
other creature comforts. There were
disagreeable rolling mills here, and
smoke and SCOT and dirt. ContrasteC
with Wheeling he pictured the lowell
ness of a seat in the Legislature a
I Richmond before the war, as il
} appeared to a member from Western
Virginia, of the attentions paid tt
members, of the seductions by
which they were surrounded anC
how every effort was made to make
f the honorable members comfortable
, He had been laboring here and leaving
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