The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-07
Fights Present and Prospective
Progress OF Work i'm the C0nven'
ton and legislature and Prospects
OF AdjoUrnment-ToO Much "faik-
ing Talent

OF Adjournmeni-TOO Much "faik'
ing Talent
CHARLESTON, January 81, 1872.
Editors Of the Register:
l believe | am the most unfortunate
cuss alive. 1t seems 10 be fatality
that the more careful l am OF the feel,
ings Of others The more cei tain / am 10
tramp upon the particular corn that
makes them swear. And now, when |
have been straining every nerve to be
on the safe side, there are about half a
dozen Infatuated individuals going
around with vengeance in their eyes and
hickory clubs in their fists, inquirng
for the undersigned. Half dozen
fights on hand aad as many more in the
fast coming future! just think Of it
If the Internal ice would get out OF the
river | think | would light out, but as
it is, if you fail 10 hear from me again
YOU can announce that | have been
sacrificed by the aforesaid infatuated
individuals, but until that time shall
continue to keep you posted as we'll as
can az to matters Transporting here.
The Iatelligenccr man must he gifted
with second sight, to judge from the
remarkable accuracy o, his guesses as
10 who write TO you from this place
It's fun for us poor fellows, but death on
Baker. No matter what we choose to
scrbble, or whom we take the liberty to
criticise, we lay back and langh, and
the Mtelligencer shovels it all on him.
Shouldn't wonder if he had some fights
on his hands before long. heard OF a
large, overgrown, raw-boncd specimen
of the genus homo, Yesterday, saying
he was going to see Baker, and hed
find out who dared to say be was
bull"
There has been no business OF import.
ance done since my last letter. The
two Houses of the Legislature are
doing large amounto of work. Already
there has been nearly two hundred
bills introduced, and out of the whole
lot | do not think there are twenty
which are general in their character.
This is all wrong, and itthe Convention
fails to remedy this evil by incorporat.
ing in the new Constitution positive
prohibitions to all special Legislation, it
will not have done lis duly.
Already there is talk Of the adjourn.
ment OF the Convention at an early day,
but as yet but one OF the committees
has reported, that is Taxation, &c.
The article which they report in lieu OF
the VIII in the present Constitution
seems to meet general appreciation, and
will probably pass as reported. | be.
lieve the 18th of March IS as district as
any member fixes the period of adjourn,
ment, and many of them do so as early
as the 10th of February. 1t were a
"consummation aevoutlv to be wished
if this could be done, but from all that
| can gather / am led to believe that
no adjournment will be made before the
middle of March. The Judiciary sys-
TEN will evoke much discussion, and
as a large majority Of the body are
lawyers, they all seem to want the
circuits arranged so that they will
all be judges. A distinguished speci,
men of this was laid before
the body a few DAYS ago, in the
shape OF the plan Of Mr.. Woods and
Mr. Martin, by which the circuit in
which those gentlemen reside was so
arranged that there are no lawyers in it
Of sufficient age and experience to be-
come judges, except, of course, the dis
tiuguished authors of the plan.
Then, as before intimated, there will
be a lively fight over the basis of repre-
sentation, upon the system Of cumula.
tive voting, the terms Of State and
County officers, and the method OF
voting. All these things will take
time, and | fear much time, for if am
any judge of men, there is more tQlk-
ing talent in the Convention than in
any body Of men of the same
size | ever heard OF. Now,
talking is good thing, and certainly
an accomplishment much to be desired,
but it is a good deal like the beans a, a
boarding house wot OF. They were
very fine, and we all ate of them
heartily for fifty or sixty meals, but
when the landlady undertook to make
them a steady diet, they soured on US.
Now, l can stand as much talk as we
did beans, and have no objection for
these gentlemen to explurgerate for fifty
or sixty days, but Tits got to be steady
diet; We won't take any in ours. The
Constitution will be judged BY what il
contains rather than by the length or
eloquence of the speeches which may
be made, and l hope that l may be
mistaken in my estimate as TO the
peculiar talent of the members in this