The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-02

from Kanawha WILSON, "a little too
thin" "a.
Mr.. Ferguson said that he had no OBJ.
lection to give every county that deserved
1t, chance for the Capital, but suggested
that II would be time enough when the
representative OF Greenbrier desiredit.
Mr.. Bright, Of Greenbrier county, said
In answer 10 the gentleman from Ka-
nawha (Ferguson) that he did desire the
amendment 10 be made, but had grave
doubts "a 10 whether the small popula.
ton Of the White Sulphur Springs could
stand the corruption OF q legislative
body.
DR.. Hall opposed the amendment, As
the insertion Of 30 many places In the bill
would turn the whole bill into farce,
and that this was too important a Ques.
ton to be trihed with. He said II re.
minded him very much Of the story Of
the stork extriCating the bone from the
VOLTS throat, and said the fable remind.
ed him very much Of the attitude Of
Charleston, which had bone in III
throat.
Mr.. Ferguson said that he had heard
Of that fable before, and thought that the
stork wns more successful than great
mIny doctors would have been.
Mr.. PennybaCker's amendment was
then adopted by the House, and White
Sulphur Springs was inserted in the bill
Mr.. Fisher moved to insert Mouth Of
Salt Lick, in the county Of Braxton. Ad'
opted.
Mr.. johnson moved to insert Bridge
port in Harrison county. Adopted.
Also, BealiDgton in Barbour county.
Adopted.
Mr.. Pennybacker moved to insert Hun
tington in the county Of Cabell. Adopt
ed.
Mr.. Siple, Of POcahOntas county, said
that as the amendments to the bill before
taking the character Of farce, he would
offer substitute for the bill, which was
read by the clerk. The names mentioned
in the substitute are Clarksburg in Har.
rison county, in the first district: Mar
tinsburg in Berkeley county, in the sec
Ond district, and Charleston in KanawhG
county, in the third district.
The Speaker announced that the ues
ton before the House was the adoption
or rejection OF the substitute.
Mr.. Hearn opposed the adoption OF thu
substitute, he thought we would have Ia
go far back into the history Of this worlt
to find n parallel for the way in which
this original bill had been introduced
Experimentation Gilmer Hays he sale
is supposed to have picked it up adrift
very much in the same manner that thu
daughters Of Pharaoh had discovered thu
child Moses, and introduced it as yer,
marvellous proper child. The House hal
taken the bill up for consideration; ii
this change OF tactics, on thu
part Of the remoyalists in this House oil
what is it2
Mr.. Wilson said that the suspicions o.
the gentlemen from Ohio county were
easily aroused. He said he thought thai
the gentleman from Pocahontas (Siple'
was right in his conclusions that this
question was intended to be farce, as
their whole intention has been to load
down the bill so us to kill it. Every one
knows the gentleman from Peudletou
(Pennybacker) is no friend OF this bill
no amendment he desires to make will
be made to perfect the bill, but is intend.
ed for the purpose Of the final defeat Of
this measure or any other measure. He
knew, said Mr.. Wilson, that the people
Of Huntington never asked to have
the capital; that the whole course
Of the gentleman from Pendleton
upon this measure, was TO finally accom-.
plish the defeat Of this or any other bill
intended for the permanent location Of
the Capital; and Wheeling shows by di.
rect combination Of all her efforts, that
she does not intend to assist any bill that
will take the Capital away, either now OF
five years or ten years or hundred
years hence, and as she still refuses to, is
it not proper that she should be excluded
from this substitute? They have already
put the bill in such a shape which they
know will amount TO nothing but defeat,
Mr.. Wilson alluded TO the slurs cast
at the city OF Charleston. In 1869, he
said, the Legislature then sitting at
Wheeling, without any petition or word
from Charleston, passed bill locating
the seat OF government there. They had
sent no lobbyists; they had sent no mem.
bers of the Legislature, but that body,
acting upon its own judgment, located il
at Charleston, and at a time when the
population Of that place was only about
100, and the citizens circulated peti,
ton to present the State with a
building for Capital purposes il the seat
Of government would remain there. Now
We come here, continued the speaker, Ia
ask that the merits Of Charleston and the
merits OF other places may be submitted
to the candid Judgment of the people Of
the State, merits no further than necessa.
ry to justify ourselves and our people in
asking that this question be submitted to
the people. This much, he said, he con.
sidered necessary TO say, not with
the view OF setting forth the merits
OF Charleston as the place for the Capt.
tai, but only in justification of the people.
On motion, Mr.. Wilson suspended his
speech in order to take recess,
The House then took recess until %
o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. Wilson, continuing his remarks,
said that the Legislature has beyond
doubt a right to settle this question. The
city OF Wheeling, he said, was not fit for
the State Capital, being in one corner Of