Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-27
OUR STATE soLoNs.
The Minority Report on Apportion
msnt.
MiscegenatiOn--T The Quarantine Bill Defeat
ed--Female Suffrage Ameadment--Pay-
ing the PubIishers--Ihe Bill
Passes the House.
ANOTHER QUIET, BUSY SESSION
SENATE
Morning Session.

The Senate met at the usual hour, $50
o'clock. Saturday morning.
House bill No 323, to amend and re-enact
sections l, 3, 4. 6, 0 and 10 OF chapter % Of
the acts of 1881, known as the dog law, was
passed.
Mr.. Smith. from the Joint Special Com
mittee on the apportionment Of Senators
and Delegates, submitted a report which
will be found below. A large number of
bills were read q second time and ordered
to their engrossment and third reading.
I Senate bill No. 21S, amending and re-en-
acting chapter 149 of the code, concerning
offenses against morality and decency,
coming up, was read a second time.
Mr.. Dawson moved to strike out sections
s and which are as follows.
SECTION 8. Any white Pefsnn- VINO xhAll
inter.marry with negro shall be confined
in iail not more than one year, and fined
not exceeding one hundred dollars.
SEC. o. ANY person who sha II knowingly
perform the ceremony Of marriage between
Awhite Person and Negro,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
fined not exceeding two hundred dollars.
The motion to strike out these sections
was lost Mr. Dawson being the only mem-
Der who voted in the affirmative.
Afternoon Session.
A bill making an appropriation for the
purpose of paying the costs OF establish
ing and maintaining a quarantine by the
Board of Health of this State, coming up
with the amendment made by the House,
q long discussion ensued upon the original
bill.
Mr.. Smith opposed the second passage OF
the bill very vigorously, and pronounced
il "stupendous humbug." He wanted to
know what the Board OF Health had done,
and demanded an itemized account OF their
expenditures for which the Legislature
was asked to make an appropriation. In
response to the latter he received nothing
but vague generalities, and proceeded
further to make more searching inquiries
of the friends Of the bill.
Mr.. Donehoo supported the BILL and de-
Tended the Board OF Health in their Ar.
tiops, He thought it would be 'repudia-
tion" Of the worst character if the Legisls-
ture refused 10 pay the ind"b'-an ness which
hs" authorized, by general law. the
| Board of Health to incur.
Mr. Barbee spoke strongly in favor OF the
| bill. He reviewed the work Of the
Board OF Health
| in the quarantine near here, OF the expen-
ses they had incurred by the sanction OF
| law, and thought that the State ought now
to pay the expenses made by the board in
protecting the health and lives Of the peo-
| pie of the State.
A number of other members spoke for
and against the bill.
The amendment made to the bill by the
House of Delegates was adopted. On the
Adoption OF the Bill.
| as amended, the vote was as follows: In
| the affirmative, Messrs- Summers, Barbee,
Dawson, Dawson, Ewin, Faulkner, Nc
| Gregor. Samples Stout and Woods-l0.
r. .ho norat;va Maacrc Rrnun naDpiq
| Donehoo, Maxwell, Newman, Roberts,
| Shelton, Smith. Stelings, Vanmeter and
| Williams-ll. So the Senate refusedito pass
| the bill.
Mr.. Newman introduced a bill making an
appropriation Of 500 for the purpose OF
Paying the costs Of Test estaSiishing u9qaEa9sni
was referred to the Committee on Finance.
A large number of Hoyse billswere taken
| mn. read a first time and referred 10 the
| Judiciary Committee.
A message from the House OF Delegates,
| by Mr.. Cresap, announced the adoption by
that body Of the minority report OF the
! Joint Committee on printing the constitu-
| tional amendments.
| Mr.. McGregor introduced the following
| Joint resolution:
| Resolved, by the Legislature OF West
| Virginia, two'thirds Of all the members
| elected to each House agreeing thereto.
That the following amendment to article
| 4 of this State he and the same is hereby
proposed, to-wit
| That section OF article Of the constitu-
| ton rs it now is be stricken out and the
, following inserted in lieu thereof:
1.-THE mae citizens Of the State shall be
| entitled 20 vote at all elections
held within the counties in
which they respectively reside,
| and all female citizens of the state shall be
| entitled to vote at all school elections held
within the counties in which they respec
lively reside, but no person who is minor
| or of unsound mind, or a pauper, or who
| 10 under conviction cf treason, felony, or
bribery in an election, or who has not been
| a resident OF the State for one year and
| of the county in which they offer
| TO vote, for sixty days next preceding such
| offer, shall be permitted to vote, while such
| disability continues; but no person in the
military naval or marine service OF the
United States. shall be deemed resident
of this State by reason Of being stationed
therein.
The Senate Immediately after adjourned
| until the usual honr this morning.
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