Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-02-26
LETTER FROM WHEELING.

Mr.. Editor-The tint committee appointed to
take into consideration the necessity and pro
pIiety of extending the present session OF the
legislature beyon forty five days aud oil holdieg
AL uo)culnef session, made their report 10 ootn
HOUSES on Saturday, apd suppose will be taken
up tbis morning Tor consideration. They re-
commend that the present session be extended 10
day In March and that an a burned session
be held commencing on the first wednesday III
February 1852 They alec recommend that
committee of two members of the Senate and
three OF the House be appointed TO cit during the
recess and To prepare and have printed such
bills as in their opinion are pecessary TO be pass
ed al the dlOurntd session. To this portion ot
the report there seems TO be great deal oil oppo-
siior; sfwe go so far as TO say that it IS making
a soft place ard lat job for somebody. From
what can learn this morning this present SEES
sion will be * ended until the l2ln of March.
House Bill M. 20, "a bi 10 revir, amend
and reeuact chapter 80 OF the Code OF West Viz
ginie," and known here rs the Justices bill has
been under consideration in the Sena since
Friday and after numerous amendments was
passed yesterday evening and returned TO the
House OF Delegates for their concurrence 10 the
amendment and suppose vii! be passed this
vel.
The House has been engaged fer the last two
days on the general school bill; this bill Is gen.
erai revision of all the school laws passed oy Tor
mer legislatures; it has some good features and
some not so good. One section provides FOR the
increase of the ate School tax from ten TO ~
cents on the 500. The members who are OPP
posed TO the increase seem to think that they
have ma DriLy on their side which If so know
tue people Of Jefferson will rejoice.
As mentioned in my last letter the prohibi-
ton amendment was made the special order Of
the day in the Senate on Wednesday last at
O'CLOCK 2. NJ. Long before the hour arrived the
floor and galleries Of the Senate chamber was
crowded with ladies, preachers and everyoody
else that could fud standing room. Senator
Woods of Ohio moved 10 Indefinitely postpone
the consideration Of the resolution which made
square issue between the parties, and after two
days ciscuss ion the motion 10 indefinitely post
pone Was carried by vote OF ID TO .. Senator
Faulkner made a very able argument in favor
OF tue motion. He showed by statistics and
other eviden &C that in the States where prohioi.
ton has been tried that ii has bee failurr, and
Of the present time there are more l. Liquor
license grants in prohibitory Maine than there Is
in West Virginia. He also C aimed that there
Vas no nee ssity for the Amendment rs under our
present laws any county can prihioit the sale oil
intoxicating liquors, His speech Was highly
complimented by nearly every one except those
VITO had temperance on the brain.
Both Houses of the legislature will adj >urn to
duy AT O'Clock in order that tie members AID
att .ches may visit M'de ChaDtal, tris afternoon,
a catholic "stitute, about four miles IT. IN the
CRY, and will have u very pleasant time, as they
are always handsomely entertained when they
visit it. h.
Wheeling, Feb. %, 1881.