The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-29
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STATE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
An Ordinary EessiOn-BilIs and Resoiu'
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The Senate met at 2:SO P, NJ, yesterday,
the session being opened with prayer by
Rev, E, W. Ryan, Presiding Elder Of the
Methodist church.
A communication was received from
the House announcing the concurrence
OF that body in the amendment to House
In response to q resolution introduced
Bill No. 2, proposed by the Senate,
by Mr.. Smith, asking information Of the
Auditor in regard to the amount Of stock
held by the State in the Fsirmont and
Palatine Bridge Company, and the divi-
dends received by the State since June,
1868, that officer submitted report con-
tanning list OF the stockholders, by which
the State is credited with $50 shares
amounting to $4,000. The amount OF
dividends received BY the State aggregate
Sll, 1860 90, The report also states that
there is no evidence that the State has
ever made any appropriations for said
bridge. The object in calling for this in
formation was to lay 1t before the Senate
so that they could vote understandingly
on bill that will DO introduced asking
that the interest in the bridge held by the
State be transferred to the county Of Mar
ion.
The petitions presented yesterday repre-.
sented quite temperance boom, They
asked that constitutional amendment
prohibiting the manufacture and sale oil
Intoxicating liquors be submitted to vote
OF the people, and were signed as follows:
T. H. B. Lemly and seven hundred and
five others, OF jackson, RoRne and Writ
counties; W. II, Douglass and four hun
bred and forty others, OF Richie, bod.
bridge, Tyler and Peasants counties; Rev,
Matthew Ellison and six hundred and
eighty others, Of Raleigh and adjoining
counties; Mrs. E. A, Davidson and three
thousand 1--WE hundred other women OF the
various counties OF the State, and r. q.
Wood, W. T. Wiley and eight hundred
and seyenty.fve others, Of MonOngalia
Wood and WetZeI counties. The petition,
were referred 10 the Judiciary Commit
tee for consideration.
The following resolutions were intro.
duCed by President Summers (Mr. Woods
in the Chair:
Resolved, That the Committee on the
Judiciary be, and 1t Is hereby instructed
to inquire into the expedienGy Of revoking
the charter OF the "Llvingstone University
Of America" issued from the Secretary
OF States office, October 10, 1874, and re-.
port by bill or otherwise. Also
Resolved, That the Committee on the
Judiciary be, and 1t Is hereby instructed
to inquire into the expediency Of 30
amending Chapter 81 OF the Code as to
prevent the procuring OF certificates Of In
corporation for dishonest Or fraudulent
purposes.
Only three bills were introduced yester'
day, Mr.. MCGrew, Senate bill No. 90, 10
regulateth deposits OF State funds; also
Senate bill No. Gl, to encourage the study
Of practical anstomy. The bill provides
that any physician In good standing may
make application to superintendents oil
jails, asylums, or other State institutions
for dead bodies they may havein their
possession for the purpose OF dissection,
provided they are not claimed by blood
relations.
Mr.. Newman introduced Senate bill No.
90, to regulate the transportation Of freight
on railroads.
The following bills were read third
time, and passed:
Senate Bill No. 90: "Changing tic name
Of the Potomac and Piedmont Coal and
Railroad Company, and to confer add.
tional powers thereto"
Senate Bill No. 81: "Repealing the act
creating County C;urt and Board OF
Commissioners for the county ot Wood"
House Bill No. 2: "Organizing the Cir.
cult Courts in the First Judicial Circuit,
and to fix the terms for holding the same"
Senate Bill No. Q: "a bill to regulate
the practice Of pharmacy and the sale Of
medicines and poisons, was read q second
time, and recompitted,"
House Bill No. 0S: Fixing tho time for
holding the Circuit Courts In the several
judicial circuits In the State" was read q
second and third time, and after a few |
were made was passed, 10
take effect from and after its passage.
Adjourned to Monday at 8 p. NJ.