The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-18

CHESTER d. KNOX, LAMB PAUL.,
NJ. L. Or, THos. HoRSBRooK,
j. N. VANCE, SP HILDRETH,
BRNwoop IRON W'Ks, DANIEL PECK,
FREw, HAGANs & HAL
Joint resolution to proride for the tempo
porary continuance of the seat of Gorern-
ment at the city Of Wheeling:
Resolved, &C., That the President of
the Senate and 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 continu.
ance of the seat of government of the
State at that city; and that the joint
COMMITTEES mentioned in the said agree
ment consist of two members of the Sen
ate and three of the House of Delegates,
to be appointed by the presiding officers
respectively of the two Houses.
Mr.. CARROLL moved the indefinite
pcstponement of the resolution and the
report.
Ia the discussion which followed, Mr..
FLICK made speech in denunciation
of Wheeling. He declared that in max
ing this proposition the citizens of
Wheeling wore wholly mercenary. They
expected to get back from the Legisla-
ture every cent thus expended for the
State. He referred to the fact that some
members had been robbed of money and
valuables during the session, and said
if the citizens of Wheeling could not
get back the money which they proposed
to donate the State in any other way,
they would steal it from the members of
the Legislature while they were asleep.
Referring to this robbery as hav-
ing taken place now while the
State is paying its own ex-
ponse for a State House, he said
that he supposed after the citizens of
Wheeling assumed that expense they
would rob the members of the Legisla-
ture even of their boots. He complain
ed that members were not invited to
the houses of citizens of Wheeling, who
would not allow their wives and daugh-
ters to associate with them. He didn't
know whether they were afraid of their
wives and daughters or afraid of the
members. The people of this town,
without regard to party, had made
the e Legislature u sort of scape-
goat and laughing stock for sew
eral years. The exponent of the
dominant party here had referred to the
assembling Of the Legislature as
calamity" This proposition was
wholly selfish and the persons who had
signed it would do all they could to get
out of the members of the Legislature,
by some means, enough to make them
selves whole. The gentleman proceed
ed in this strain at considerable length
and with great vehemence. He con-
cluded his remarks by reading a propo-
sition signed by the citizens of Par
kersburg, proposing to accommodate
the State, free, until the erection of
public buildings, and donating $4,000
cash to be expended on the Capitol
building.
Mr.. PINNELL said he had listened with
a good deal of modification and pain to
the repeated attacks here on the citizens
of Wheeling. He did not know that he
was any favorite of Wheeling, nor that
they occupied position in his affec-
items beyond what they are legitimate
IL entitled to. But from his knowledge
of the citizens of Wheeling, he knew
that the attacks made here were wholly
uniustifable, unkind and void of graf
itude. He happened to know some
thing about the citizens of Wheeling at
the time this State was graphing with
the enemy for her existence in the
Union. He was member of the Con-
vention that first met here under the
restored Government, and he recollect-
ed with pleasure the open arms with
which the citizens of Wheeling received
them from the interior and border coun-
ties of the State. l know of my own
knowledge, he said, that gentlemen
whose names are appended to that pro-
position, when we had not dollar to
pay our expenses-not dollar to pros
ecute the restoration of the State
threw open the vaults of the banks to
us, furnished us money and material
by which we were enabled to make the
State fast to her moorings on the banks
of the Ohio. know that some of the
gentlemen who acted with us then have
seen fit since to disagree with us po-
litically, but l know that even
these gentlemen then afforded the
most material and efficient aid that could
not have been had from any other quar-
ter. And now because at the hour of
midnight-as there are in all cities
some stragglers found their way into q
private boarding house where members
had taken up their board, and robbed
them of their watches and money, it
was unbecoming a Yirginian to brand
this community with dishonesty and
theft. There was within the corporate
limits of Wheeling as loyal and hospita-
BILE a spirit as he had found in the bosoms
of virginians anywhere. Why this ap-
peal to passion, to party and to preju-
dice, to carry into, execution plan
which, If eonsummsted, must blight
the prospects of the State for years to
comet 1t was unbecoming Legisla-
ture, and gentlemen would find when
the vote was taken that they were mis-
taken in the material they were appeal
ing to. He appealed to members to di-
vest themselves Of personal, sectional
or political feeling, and deal with the
! question as statesmen-not degrade
themselves so much as to come down to
an attempt to malign and slander and
injure the fair fame of class of persons
who stand equal to any before the coun
try for their loyalty, hospitality and
moral honesty.
Mr.. CARROLL moved the previous