The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-11

Mr.. Grantham did the praying again
Yesterday morning at the opening Of the
House.
The Committee on Taxation and Finance
reported back Mr.. Depue's bill to transfer
the States interest in the several normal
schools to the counties in which they are
located, and 10 establish training schools
for teachers in all the other counties, with
out any Recommendation as 10 its passage.
Judge Ferguson, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported House bill No. 405,
amending chapter $50 of the Code, con-
corning the public health. 1t contains
some new matter relative to the sale Of un.
wholesome or adultepted food, etc.
On the. Judges motion the rules were
suspended and the bill read the first time
by its title and semitic the printer.
Mr.. Kepner presented several petitions
bearing on
TIE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER
OF the city of Wheeling. They all asked
that the bill be either rejected, or so amend
ed us to make the act operative only after
the measure is ratified by vote of.the PEG.
pie OF the city They were signed respect.
lively by S. Speidel and liity,six Others, OF
Ohio county; Oscar SandrOUk and twenty.
five others Of the same county; W. J. Roth
and twenty others, also Of Ohio county.
They were laid on the table TO b. con.
sidcrcd in connection with Senate bill No
202, making the changes referred 10.
Mr.. Silcr, Of Morgan county, submitted
the petition Of Vim. Holiday and 1906 Other
citizens Of his county, asking the repeal Of
the dog law.
Mr.. Gnntham presented House bill No
4OG, in relation TO the school districts o.
Jefferson county.
House bill No. 90, adding a section tC
Chapter lis OF the Code, providing for the
punishment Of persons dumping coal, slack
cindcr, sawdust or other material into thu
unnavigable streams OF the State, was ther
taken up in connection with some amend
ments proposed by the Committee on thu
Judiciary. The proposition tostrike out The
words "or other material" was adopted
together with proYiso that the law shout
not apply to saw mills operated by water
On motion Of Mr.. Hubbard the bill wa
further amended by inserting clause Il
the effect that the provisions OF the bill
shall not apply to any stream running
through city, so rs to prevent such dump
| ing ut any point within three miles OF tn
mouth Of such stream.
The bill was then, on motion OF MI
Lurty, indefinitely postponed.
House bill No. III, amending the pro
visions Of the Code in reference to weight
and measures, was then passed with II
title.
Mr.. CrcSp entered a motion to recon
slider the vote by which the mining bill
was indefinitely postponed, and MI
Thompson motion to reconsider the vot
BY which the House rejected Mr.. Mcneil
amendment to the same bill,
House bill No. 323, amending the do,
law, was passed, as was also House bill No
500, TO authorize the Atlantic 4 North
western railroad company to bridge Ell
river at Charleston, and House bill Nc
$50, 10 create the independent school dis
trict OF Jane Lew, out Of sub-district mum
Der two Of Hackers creek district, o
lewis county.
House bill No. 500 was then taken UP oil
a third reading, and was pending when tn
House took the usual recess.
Prior TO taking the recess, however, leav
oil absence was granted MesSrs. Poe AM
Crumrine.
Upon reasSembling the pending bill wa
again taken up. 1t provides for
\ EEASsESsMIST OF THE REAL ESTATE IN TIL
STATE.
Judge Ferguson favored the massage :