The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-15
acknowledgement.
Iu,sagc of tho Capital BiII.

Our special dispatch from ChaF'cs'""
this morning announces the final passage
of the bill for removing the Capital
of the State to Wheeling. The bill origi-
mated in the Senate and passed that body
by 13 to II, and has now passed inc
House by IS to q. 1t goes next to the
Governor for his approval II he iails
TO sign the bill, but does not veto IL 1t
becomes a law in five days. II he vetoOS
II he must send il back to the Senate,
with his objections, and it must again be
put ON its passage through the two
houses, The following is the exact
language Of the Constitution Of the State
in regard to the Governors relations to a
bill that has passed the two houses,
"Eyery bill passed by the Legislature
shall, before il becomes u law, bO pre-
scented 10 the Governor. II hV approve,
hc shall sign it, and thereupon It shall
become q law; bnt II not, he shall return
H. with his objections, to tho house ~
which II originated, which house shall
enter II upon its journal and proceed to
reconsider it. II, after such reconsider,
alton, majority Of the members elected
10 that house Agrec to pass the bill, It
shall bc sent, together with the oblccr'
tons To the other house, by which u
shall be likewise re.considercd, and II
approved by a majority Of the members
elected 10 that house, 1t shall become u
law, notwithstanding tho objections ol the
Governor, But, in all cascs, the vote In
each house shall be determined by yeas
and nays, to be entered OH the jour
nal. Any bill which shall not be re-
turned BY the Governor within five days
Sunday exceptotl) after II shulI have
beun presented to him, shall be Il law In
like manner Us II he had signed 1t, unless
the Legislature shall by their ADJOURN
ment, prevent its return, In which clSo II
shall b. filed, with his objections, ~ NO
Office Of the Secretary Of State, within
five days after such adjournment, or De-
come u law"
Our correspondent intimates that the
Governor may veto the bill ~ 1t has now
passed the two houses Of the Legislature
We have heard this intimatinn before,
but shall not accept II rs anything more
than Il mere rumor until We hear further.
II has never been understood heretofore
that Governor Jacob wOs opposed to the
removal Of the Capital from Charleston,
and We are ut loss 10 conceive what rca-
son could have occurred to him lately for
intcrposing his veto. The question waS
before the people more prominently in
the late elections than ut any previous
time since tho existence OF the State, and
although the question Of removal was not
made an issue In the canvass to any gen.
cral extent, yet II was widely discussed
by lllc newspapers and thus kept before
the people as 1t never was before II Is
therefore to he presumed That the repre-
scnlatives Of the people Mt Charleston at
this session Of the Legislature hal n bet
ter idea OF the popular sentiment OF the
State on the question q removal than
those Of any preceding Legislature, and
this being the case we do not zee why the
rumor should arise at Ills late day That
the Governor expected 10 veto the bill.
Certainly II ia not on account Of rOlit-
ical considerations that he will inter.
fore, for OH this head he owes moth
Ing to the Third District. While this
fact has nothing, and should have nothing
to do with the Governors views upon the
bill just passed by the Legislature Tor
the removal of tho Capital, yet
it is proper to alludc to 1t ns
showing that there need be no ground Of
apprehension oil the part Of those who
do not understandable political relations
Of the Governor. Governor Jacob will,
we arc sure, do what he conscicntioOsly
believes to be his duty in the premises.
Should he, for some reason not hitherto
disclosed, sec proper to veto the bill, we
trust that the Legislature will lose no
time in taking It up and promptly pass