The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-12
@5N1RLISHED AUGUST a. 1852
Cks GnteIligstrter
s.,'.l W., As aud q KOat.senln 9ILoo.'
:. Committee on Revision of the Laws,

,.,., In session 81 'ue ""'' 4
As' ,. have, We are informed, put int
sp'u. u''d,orth public printer, about tiit'
~. 'm,pdiur and rs'snactiug chapter
S5,.r. u Of chapters OF the Code d tn
~. eap These bills are required by q resO
W.. st% oI the Legislature to be printed
Aa'- ,nJ three copies Of each bill to b'
30, ','' "a each member OF the legislature
y, VII. lam that the Committee has not con
.',3.J s' iu l.bow, but on account Of en-
e.., ..n.p, oil some Of Its members ad
iI,'sJl,.. Saturday to meet on the 99sh
y. NJ hi, lnonIh in Wheeling About
wy W. more bills will be reported by the
G,9nj,,,s, Wv mos. Of which have been
y.In, but have not received a final re-
vision. ,-,. A.
.,,,in,usnt Of this committee was me-
'i.,,,, r ,ep. The fact though that 1t was
, ..,.,:,ry, illustrates as nothing else can,
y, U,,l Iacap,cily Of the Democratic
s,,,, ~ Of ibis State to legislate wisely or
. .,,D inlslIigsutIy, The constitution
,EIcb lorths s,ke Of obtaining the Of
s,s., VA forced upon the people is a mar
,,Iol unfortunate English, ingenious OBJ
,raiysuess aud downright stupidity. 1t
lnot, IS II The makers had suddenly
I,,upsd it about twOthirds finished, and
,s,ssd alter the offices. The first Lsgls.
l,tps sler the adoption Of the code
r,J.rook to remodel the general laws,
,odI,, called upon to destroy the code
Which the Republican party in 1868 had
rysn the State, Nothing would answer
Ss seal Of partisan Democracy In
lu!S but to repeal some chapters,
p,pgs o'heu and muddle al! that they
m. Subsequent Legislatures have TO the
btssl their ability aided in the work,
though nOue could approach the first as
,athop oil pure nonsense and stupend-
90, stupidity Hundreds Of thou
nud, oil dollars have been worse
than Iquaudered in paying for
Mi, wholesale destruction oi statute law,
Al tho end oi 1t all even the Democratic
puty realizes that confusion reigus and is
breed to return 10 some Of the constitu-
uoull provisions and 10 the system oil Leg
hSion by which the Republican foun.
d.n Oi The Slats had made its organizA.
lion elective and liz laws clear The
adoption oil the Constitutional amendment
lntytN was an open abandonment Of the
VonNut Democratic county court plan for
IpIlu Oi county organization similar to
thG ilths Constitution oi 1858. A faint
IE,h hO ever the retreat was made by 70.
tIiniogits name ot the county court, and
pHhiN to day In most counties Of the
SIStc,art which hasn't q Judge, can't
GWS Judgment, and in short isn't court.
lIiCIIlel court to shelter the party q
little from the fierce light OF criticism
which hay begun to beat upon ii. Now
other ICofeS oI thousands must be spent
iOf sessions Of committees aud extra sess.
ioui ioithe legislature to restore the Code,
which was once the aversion Of every well
regulated Democrat
WssincereIy hope the work Of the com.
nItiee may be we'll done. We hope SO
for the'lte Of the public welfare, which
hH'o long suffered from the imbecility OF
our Democratic legislature. We hope go
h'clu'e The better the work now done,
the more emphStlC will be the Cosdemna.
ton OIL WhaIhss preceded It.
Wsdo not understand that the LeHisla.
tafs hl'ye. committed itself 10 the pro.
l'c' oil publishing at once a second edition
OI the Code The acts ofthe two sessions
OI this legislature will contain such chap.
ten " have bsen changed, which will
thus be furnished temporarily in a shape
comparatively compact, aud 1t may be
bought advisable to defer the publication
oi the Code in one volume until after at
least one more Lsslslatu,e has met. De.
isCa will doubtless be discovered in the
work now being done. OF course the
school law mus! be tlnkered, the justice
law must bs repaired and the road laws
maas be multiplied, Then, too, there is a
sehoa' danger that by that time the Dem.
OG'A0c party may have relapsed into lie fit
OIL uaF'AsoninS rage, aud run another
muck Among the statutes, II the Code
must be 1Eain destroyed, It had better be
a'ne before The State pays a second time
lot lie publication.