The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-06
HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION
One Thousand Dollars Worth oil
Real Estate and Two Hundred
Dollars Worth Of Personal Prop
ertE 10 be Exempt from Force"
Sale-Remnrks OF Nr. Pannell and
Others.


On FRIDAY, Marci. 10Th, the ConNen-
ton hal under consideration that
section Of the report Of TIE Committee
on Miscellaneous Provisions which
provides that Il homestead OF the value
Of five hundred dollars and personal
property OF the value OF tw" hundred
dollars shall be exempt from forced
sale for the collection Of debts.
Mr.. Jackson, Of Wood, novel to
strike out five hundred and insert one
thousand dollars as the vaIne OF real
estate 10 lie exempted, AMI supported
his views in very vigorous and able
speech, report o. which ! will send
YOU soon for publication. Several
other speeches were made In favor Of
the proposed amendment, bu', being
absent from the hall during their de.
livery | am unable to give You report
of the line OF argument pursued. |
came in in time to hear Mr.. Pannell
make certainly the longest and in some
respect. the best speech he has uttered
during the session. The following is
mere synopsis Of his remarks:
Mr.. Pannell said that he had come
to the Convention without any pledges
being given or required OF him upon
this or any ether subject. Upon nearly
every question that had come before
this body, he had been importuned to
vote one way or the other, for the pur-
pose of making the Constitution popn-
lar or for lear, the people might reject it.
He vas sick and tired Of this kind OF
argument He would vote upon this
and all other questions as his own Judg-
ment dictated, and il his constituents
did not approve, it was not his fault.
He had been told by different gentle
men concerning various propositions
what he had heard said about this, that
it was the most important matter that
could come before the Convention, and
that it would make many votes for the
new Constitution, but he held it to be
his duty and that OF the Convention to
make an honest and just Constitution,
without regard to whether this man or
the other thought it popular or not.
Several gentlemen had advocated a
homestead exemption law for the pur-
pose Of promoting immigration, and
had said that when immigrants arrived
in this country they sought out the
State where the most liberal exemption
was allowed, and there settled. But so
far az he was concerned he did not want
to see immigrants drawn to this State
by any such consideration. 1t was
only the most worthless class OF immi-
grants who would be attracted in that
way-the paupers or the convicts who
were sent abroad from the workhouses
and prisons of the old country. He did
not want such immigration to West
Virginia. He was proud to say that
there was among his constituents
larger number OF German and Irish
citizens than in any other county in the
State. They were frugal, thrifty and
industrious, and paid their honest debts
I aud did not want any homestead ex-
emption or auy trick by which they
might defraud their creditors.
He was not q candidate for any
office, as many Of the gentlemen here
were said to be, and did not care for
popularity. He had no patience with
that class OF demagogues who only
wanted to know whether a measure
would be popular before giving it their
support. His constituency would spurn
him with contempt if he was influenced
by any such unworthy motive He
looked upon the proposition made by
the gentleman. from Wood az an en-
coursgem.nt to fraud aud an obstacleto