The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-28

Mr.. LAMB assured the gentleman
there was no buncombe in the matter.
The phrase objected to was quoted from
the Fourteenth Amendment, which Mr..
PKRPoINT had supported. Did the
lgsntleman mean to slur anybody by bis
support of that Amendment The
words ut which offeDse was taken had
been put there to express in general and
plain terms what the House meant.
MIR. PIERPOINT insisted that they
were in bad taste.
Mr.. JACKSON said he wanted sub
stance not shadows. He moved to
amend the last clause so as to read
"hereafter no person within the juris-
diction of this State shall be required
to take the oath commonly called the
Suitor's Test Oath"
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr.. WHEAT moved to prefix "wbere-
as, declaring as reason for the repeal
that the acts for the forfeiture of rebel
property were nulIity. He said the
intention of the law was the confisca-
tion of rebel property TO public use,
but it was taken advantage of by debt
Ors 10 escape the payment of their just
u0kEbSs IL uI5 W do dlOplGu lC
wodld vote for repeal.
Mr.. WEIGH said the member from
Morgan was as prolific of preambles as
the sea is of fish. He thought the pre-
amble out of place. The law was a war
measure, but the occasion for it had
passed away and it ought to be re-
pealed.
The preamble was voted down and
the, bill ordered to engrossment and
third reading.
LETTER FROM JUDGE HARRISON.
Mr. CARPENTER, under q suspen-
sion of rules, presented the following
letter from. Judge Nat. Harrison, which
was referred to the special committee
appointed to investigate the charges
against that individual:
To The Honorable House of Delegates Of
West Virginia:
Grave charges affecting my judicial
character have been preferred against
meby your body, whether justly or in
justly, whether prompted by considera-
tions of public good, or private malice,
is for you to determine. Into my pri-
vate character, except in necessary con-
nection with my public duties, the
Legislature, / presume, would not
care to institute any inquiry. l
was first appointed Judge of
the Ninth Judicial Circuit by.
Governor Boreman, on the 18th of July,
1865. In 1866 was elected and COM
missiOned as Judge of that Circuit for
term which expired on the lst of jan
uary, 1869. In the Fall of 1868, under
the new arrangement of Circuits, was
elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit Of West Virginia, to take effect
from the 1st of January, 1869, which
Office / now hold. As removal
from Office is the utmost penalty
which the Legislature could in
flict upon me, and as | cannot be re-
moved from an office which / no longer
hold, respectfully submit that the
charges preferred against me must ne
cessarily be confined to my real or sup
posed delinque ncies as Judge of the
Seventh judicial Circuit of West Vir-
ginia, and that all beyond that is sim
ply cordm non judice. Into my public
conduct as Judge Of the Seventh Cir
cult, / shrink from no legiti-
mate scrutiny, to which the Logis-
lature may desire or think proper to
subject me. Nor do l wish to be under
stood as objectiDg to any proper inquiry
into my conduct az Judge of the Ninth
Circuit, except upon the ground that
it would be an idle expenditure of
time and money to engage in tho ia~os
tigation of charges which, whether
true or false, could not properly be
drawn into the present issue.
Very respectfully, N. HARRISON.
WHEELING, w. Va, 9th Jan, 1870.
Adjourned.