The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-07

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attempt 10 proceed regularly with it viii
result in the defeat of all, because Of the
limited time of the session; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill Al, House
substitute for Senate Bill so, and substi.
tute for House Bill l9l, are of prime and
generar importance; therefore,
Be It Resoleed, That the said bills and
iolnt resolutions be taken up and acted
upon first; and
Be IL fartaer ResoLoei. That each dele
gate NAV select one bill from the calen-
dar, which, in his opinion, is most I'M
portant to be acted upon, and report the
same to special committee, who are
hereby appointed, to consist OF
tho Chairman of each of the
Standing Committees, and the said
committee shall proceed to select from
the calendar such other bills as in their
Judgment are of most general importance
and most urgently required to be passed,
the whole number of bills selected, how
ever, including those reported by the
various delegates, not to exceed IN the
aggregate eighty. The bills thus selected
shall constitute new calendar to be Ia
ken up and disposed of in the same order
they would have been upon the original.
Objected to by Mr.. Jordan.
On motion of Mr.. Wilson, leave OF
absence was granted Mr.. Peyton, the
Clerk, for one day.
On motion of Mr.. Jordan, the proceed
ings of the House on Saturday in rtela-
ton to House Bill No. 10, concerning the
fees of justices, was expunged, and the
bill taken up, amended and ordered to It's
third reading.
The following House Bills were or
dered to their third reading and engross-
ment: Nos. 80, 80, 40 Al, As.
House Bill Gi, requiring railroad COM
panies to fence the lines of their roads,
came up on its second reading. Several
amendments were offered and lost. The
bill was ordered to engrossment and
third reading.
House Bill 20, known ms the Road Bill,
came up on its second reading. This bill
provides for every male person between
is and % working on the public roads.
Mr.. Welch offered substitute, re-
quiring the county roads to be kept in re-
pair exclusively by taxation.
On motion of MI. pepue the substitute
was amended by permitting any one to
work out his tax, and requiring all per-
sons between u and soto work two days
in the year in addition to the Tax.
The vote on the substitute, as amended,
stood:
AYES essrs. Agee, Campbell,
Carlisle, Chapman, Dcpue, Dychs,
Enoch, Hutchinson, Tough, Me
Culloch, McEldowny, Miller. Pugh, Sch.
on, Snider, Shencer, Stuart, TAYLOR Far
ncr, Welch, West, Wilson, Zinn, MIR.
Speaker-24.
NoEs-Babb, Blnkemore, Chidcstcr
Dix, Farnsworth, Ferguson, Fleming,
Goltlnger, Good, Houston, Hoffman, Ice,
Jordan, Krtley, Long, Mason, Mont
gomery, Morgan, Powell, Prichard, Rey-
nolds of Mercer Reynolds OF Taylor,
Rogen, Roles, Short, Simpson, Small,
squares, Touner, Thorn burg, Upton,
Vaughn, White, Williams, Wooddel-
80. The substitute was rejected.
The original bill then came up and an
amendment was offered to strike out "lS
and insert "2l" so rs to work all male
persons on the roads between q and %
The amendment was lost: Ayes, q;
noes, 81.
The bill was then ordered to cngross
ment and third reading.
House Bill No. "a, concerning the as
sessment of railroad property, was laid
on the table.
The Compulsory Education bill No,
l23 was lai. on the table.
Mr.. Welch offered joint resolution
extending the session of the Legislature
fourteen days, which being objected to
lies over one day.
Senate Joint Resolution No. %, con-
corning the Point Pleasant monument.
was taken up and adopted. The resolu-
ton requests the States ofNirglnla, Ohio
aud Kentucky to cooperate with this
State in building such monument.
Mr.. Wooddcll from the Committee on
Roads, reported "a bill to provide the
terms upon which different corporations
may have limited use ofthe works OF
each other, and to prescribe the mode by
which rates Of transportation shall be
pro-rated between such connecting com
panies respectively" recommending ITS
passage.