The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-28
West Virginia Legislature
SATURDAY, Feb. 26, 1870.
SENATE,
BILLS. PETITIONS, &C

SATURDAY, Feb. 20, 1871.
SENATE.
~ BILLS, PETITIONS, &C.
By Mr.. BOREMAN-Senste Bill No
lis, legalizing the marriage Of Andrew
]. Collins and Sarahetta Cottrill, o
Gilmer county. Under suspension o
the rules the bill was passed.
By Mr.. YOUNG-Senate Bill No. 116
amending the militia law.
On motion of Mr.. WILSON Senate
Bill No. 113, relating to compensation
Sheriffs and Collectors, under suspen
sion of the rules, read first, second
and third time and passed.
BY Mr.. RAMSDELL-Senate joint
Resolution No. %, providing for the ap
pointment of managers for the trial o.
Judge Nat Harrison. Laid over under
the rules.
BILLS PASSED, &C.
Senate Bill, No. AZ, regulating the
sale of spirituous and vinous liquors
poisons, &C., by druggists, was lost.
Senate Bill No. 50, for the protection
of the Cumberland road.
Senate Bill No. 96, authorizing the
sale of the parsonage property belong
ing to Zion's p. E. church, of Charles
town.
!. Senate Bill No. 1Ol. authorizing the
Sheriff of Cabell county to sell property
returned delinquent for taxes.
Senate Bill No. 103, for the relief Of
Susan A. Joice.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 81, intro.
duced by Mr.. Young, progressing an
amendment TO the constitution, making
voters of tax payers without regard tt
color or sex.
Mr.. PHELPS moved to lay the resolu.
tion on the table.
The yeas ard nays being demanded
those voting in the affirmative were
Messrs. Applegate, Brown, Gather Of
Taylor, Gather of Gilmer, Gold, Har.
man and Phelps-7.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs. Boreman. Cook, Crane, Davis
Dayton, Doolittle, Humphreys, Koonce
Leonard, Patrick, Ramsdell, Werninger
Wilson, Young aud Mr.. President Farms
worth-15.
The previous question being demand
ed, the resolution was lost, by yeas, 6
nays, l3.
The committee appointed to examine
the offices of the State officers reported
that they found the books, &c, well
kept except in the Auditors Office, where
a safe is needed. The report was adopt
ed.
SECOND READING.
Senate Bill No. l07, amending the
Registry Law.
The bill was introduced by Mr. DAVIS
and is as follows:
/. Every registrar shall register any
person claiming to be qualified voter
in the township or ward in which here
sides, who shall take and subscribe, oil
offer to take and su bscribe, the following
oath, to wit: 81, A. b., do solemnly
swear Cor affirm) that have net since
the first day of June, 1861, given volun'
tary aid or assistance to the rebellion
against the United States, aud that
will support the Constitution of the
United States, and the Constitution oI
this State" Nor shall any person bt
stricken from the register by the Board
of Registration unless proven not to bt
qualified voter, under the Constitu
tion, by proper evidence thereof pro
duced before them after due notice t
him of the facts alleged against him.
9. So much of chapter three of tht
Code of West Virginia as is inconsistent
with this act, is hereby repealed.
The question being on ordering tn,
bill to third reading, Mr.. FOREMAN
demanded the ayes and nays.
Mr.. GATHER, of Gilmer, explained
that he came TO this Senate as o ''ls
up." He had supported every measure
looking to that end except the moditi
cation of the registration law. That h'
had voted against. He had agreed Il
let the registration law stand with tht
understanding that the Senate woult
adopt the Flick amendment. With thi
understanding he should have to vot'
against the present bill.
Mr.. DAVIS said that this bill, as il
well known to Senators who have takeI
the trouble to read it, makes but tw,
changes. One of these is that no mai
shall be stricken from the registration
lists without proof against him. Th
registrars in our neighborhood require
man to prove his innocence. They d.
not attempt to prove him, guilty.
doubt if Mr.. President coald prove hi
LOYALTY if his name was stricken frou
the lists, and yet none Of us doubt ii
There is also o slight change in the forr
of the oath. When party spirit IA
high men were stricken from the regis
tration lists and cannot vote to-day
though they may have carried musket
and knapsacks in the Union army. w,
owe this change to ourselves; we owe
to the country. We are the last OF al
the States to continue this proscriptiv
policy. Why is it that We are in thi
behind the general Government aud al
our sister Statesi Why do We here
five years after the war, still depriv
men of their dearest right, the right Q
suffragei In all the Border States me
who advocate the disfranchisement @
their fellow men are in the minority
Let me read you what Horace Creole
says, and heis pretty good Republica
authority:
Every year one thousand of you
rebels die, and one thousand Cor more
of their sons become of age. You can
disfranchise them. You have now nv
thousand majority. Six years at ful
thest will convert this into . rebel ma
jority of one Thousand. Then the rebel
will be eafranchised in spite of yoI
Go your own way, and see
the rebels don't have you under foot i
less than six years.
i 81 speak from wide experience, VINE
/ I tell you that your house is built on ID
sand. Every year will see the passion
of the war cool, and the demand for an
j lnesty strengthened. Now you can an
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