The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-01

Dayton, Doolittle, Gold, Harman, Hum
phreys, Koonce, Leonard, Patrick
Phelps, Ramsdell, Werninger, Wilson
Young and Mr.. President Farnsworth
-22. Nays none.
When the Senate took a recess the
pending question was the indefinite
post tponement of Senate JOINT Resolu
tion No. %, authorizing the Governortc tc
employ counsel in certain cases. The
question recurring on the Indefinite
pOstponement, it prevailed.
By Mr. CATHER-Senate Joint Res
olutiOn No. 25, providing for an exten'
sion of the session of the Legislature
for the purpose of trying Judge Nat
Harrison.
Mr.. Wilson moved the rules be sus
pended that the resolution be passed
now. On this question he dem ande
the yeas and nays.
Those voting in the Affirmative were
MesIs. Applegate, Boreman, Brown
Gather of Taylor, Gather of Gilmer
Davis, Dayton, Doolittle, Gold, Har'
man, Leonard, Werninger, Wilson, Young
Mr. President Farnsworth-15.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs. Cook, Grams Dayton, Doolittle
Gold, Harman and Leonardo.
The rules requiring three fonrtht
majority, the rules were not suspended
BILLS PASSED, &C.
Senate Bill No. ITO, to alter part oil
the division lines between Harrison and
Barbour.
House Bill No. 12, to refund certain
taxes to Z. Kimberling, administrator oi
the estate of Samuel Windon, of Mason
county.
House Joint Resolution No. 8, pro,
sposing an amendment to the constitu.
| tion of this State in regard to suffrage
striking out the werd "white" This
is what is known as the Elick amend.
ment.
Mr. YOUNG entered his protest
against the word male.
Those voting in the Affirmative were
Messrs. Applegate, Brown, Gather Of
Taylor, Gather of Gilmer, Crane, Davis
Dayton, Doolittle, Gold, Harman, Leon.
ard, Koonce, Patrick, Phelps, Ramsdell
Young and Mr.. President Farnsworth-
II.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs. Boreman, Humphreys, Werning-
er and Wilson,.
So the resolution passed.
House Bill No. II, to amend the
charter of the town of Elizabeth, Writ
county.
House Bill No. 50, to amend the law
relating to sales under deeds of trust.
House Bill No. 81, to amend the char.
ter of the town of Hedgesville, Berke-
Icy county.
Mr.. PATRICK moved to print the
protest of J. +. Caldwell, as Mayor ei
Lewisburg, against petition of Alex.
F. Mathews. The yeas aud nays being
demanded, the proposition was carried
yeas IA, nays s.
House Bill No. SO, to refund certain
taxes to K. K. Riley, citizen of Jack.
son county, was lost
House Bill No. Sc, authorizing Solo
mon Fleisher, of Highland county, Va,
to send his children to school in West
Virginia.
House Bill No 1903, to repeal an act
passed March 5th, 1868, entitled an act
enlarging and extending the corporate
limits OF the town of Weston, Lewis
county.
SECOND READING.
Senate Bill No. 60, concerning the late
elections in Nicholas county. Laid on
the table.
Senate Bill No. %, providing for a
record of forfeited lands and certifying
lists of the same to Recorders. Ordered
to third reading.
On motion Of Mr.. RAMSDELL, the
rules were suspended and the bill passed.
Senate Bill No. @, concerning Joint
stock companies. Laid on the table.
House Bill No. %, to authorize the
Auditor to grant relief against taxes
enormously assessed or inequitably
charged on real estate and returned de-
linquent. Ordered to a third reading.
On motion of Mr.. KOONCE, the rules
were suspended and the bill passed.
House Bill No. So, to authorize the
Young Ladies' Institute Of Wheeling to
confer degrees. Ordered to third
reading.
On motion of Mr.. WILSON, the rules
were suspended and the bill passed
House Bill No. 76, providing for the
payment of the claim of Peter A. Snow
cen, of Hancock county, was laid on the
table.
House Bill No. 7S, to amend the fifth,
section Of an act creating a school dis
tIict in the town of Phillippi, was laid
on the table.
Adiourned