The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-22
THE LEGISLATURE.

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FRIDAY. February 81.
SENATE.
Senate met at l0o'clock.
The journal of yesterday was read and
approved.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr.. McGregor,- on leave, introduced
Senate bill No. 1S2, bill to locate a mar
row gauge railroad from Pennsborc, i'll
Richie county, to.the city of Charleston,
in kanawha county, and appropriating
ST, 600, when the counties OF Richie, Cal
houn, Roane and Kanawha shall contrib
ute an equal amount. Referred to Com
mittee on Roads aud Navigation.
Also Senate bill No. 1SS, creating an in
dependent school district i'll Sub.School
District No. 6, in Grant District, Ritchie
county. Referred to: Committee on Edu-
cation. r
by air. Johnson CDR. Summers i'll the
chair: Senate bill No. 1S4, to amend and
re-enact Section 81 of Chapter SIS OF the
Acts of 1928, rs amended and re-enGcted
by Chapter 106 of the Acts of 1877, so as
to restore the section as it is in the Acts of
1928, in relation to giving existing rail-
roads in this State all the powers and priv
iIeges of the general railroad law OF this
State. Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
Mr.. McGregor presented the petition OF
James Pan and 81 others, of Ritchic coun-
ty, asking for the establishment of an in
dependent school district out OF sub. dis
trict No. 6, Grant district, in said county.
Referred to the Committee on Education.
The Senate then proceeded with the
calendar. Quite number OF bills were
read and ordered to their second reading.
Under unfinished business the Senate
then took up Senate bill No. 152, to regu-
late the prices of class books i'll the free
schools OF the State.
At one o'clock the Senate took q room.
Afternoon Session.
Senate bill No. 152, the school text book
bill, was ordered to an engrossmcnt and
third reading.
The Senate then took up Senate Joint
Resolution No. II, the judiciary resolution,
as amended by the House of Delegates,
and refused to concur in the amendments
fixing the number of Jugdcs OF the SUI
preme Court of Appeals at three Instead
of four.
Also refused TO concur in the amend
ment changing the salaries of Supreme
Court Judges from $3.50 to $4,000, and
Judges of the Circuit Courts from 81 500 to
81 600.
Also refused to concur in the amend
ment giving Justices of the Peace $500 jur-
isdiction instead of 5000 as adopted by the
Senate.
Adjourned until tomorrow at 10 a. NJ.
HOUSE.
House met at 10 M.
Prayer by Rev. D. \. Cunningham.
The reading of Thursdays Journal was
dispensed with.
MIR. johnson offered House Joint Rcso-
luton No. %, providing for the appoint
ment OF joint committee to arrange with
the officers or agents OF the i. & y. Rail
road Company freight tariff TO be charg-
ed on said road.
WHEREAS, Being DESTROYS of promoting
the best interest of the citizens of this
State as we'll as to encourage the invest
mcnt of capital from other sources to aid
in developing the immense natural re-
sources of mineral and agricultural wealth,
and
WHEREAS, The Charter OF the baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company as defined by
the acts of the Virginia Legislature OF
IS27-37 and 1917 prescribcs rates OF
charges for travel and transportation far i'll
excess of those now charged by roads Of
like character east of the Mississippi river,
and it is in some respects injurious to the
company, compelling them to carry one
pound OF freight at the same rate per ton
per mile for single mile that they charge
for car load OF freight for the entire
at the same rate per'milc for five miles as
for the entire length OF said road; and
WHEREAS, The said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company did put i'll operation
on the 18th inst, tariff of charges for
transporting passengers which is based
on lust Onc-half the rate authorized by the
charter and on an average below the rate
prescribed by the general railroad law of
1928, and i'll no case docs ii charge more
for conveying Il passenger Il less than II
greater distance; and
WHEREAS, The Parkcrsburg branch run
ming from Grafton to Parkcrshurg cannot
be subjected to the limitations imposed on
the main stem by the act Of 1861, authOriZ-
ing the construction OF said road then
known as the North Western Virginia
Railroad, demanded S cents per ton per
mile for transporting freight and i cents
per mile for transporting passengers;
and
WHEREAS, TO enforce strictly the pro-
visions OF the charter OftEIc Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company would give but
partial relief TO shippers on the main stem
and none whatever to shippers on the
Parko:Gburg branch bat would most like
~ result i'll the rates on said branch road
being raised to the cxOrbitant rates per-
mittcd by the general railroad law OF 1857;
Therefore be it.
Eeol,rtI, That a Joint com mittcc of five,
three on the part Of the House and two on
the part OF the Senate, be appointed to
confer with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company, through its officials or
agents, for the purpose OF arranging a
freight tariff, which, if agreed upon by
said committee and railroad company and
ratified by this Legislature, shall be the
legal maximum rate of freight upon said
railroad in this State, to and from all sta
tons in this or any other State through
which said road is located.
Nothing in this resolution shall be so
construed as TO affect the charter OF said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as
to the aigIts of either the State or said
road
TO the immediate consideration OF the
resolution Dir. Post objected, and it lies