Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-17
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to which he was elected if he had asked a
neighbor or friend 10 take drink. Amend.
ment rejected.
Mr.. Depue moved to make it ''one" day.
He favored prohibition on election day.
One day was all right, and served to keep
order at the polls, but he did not believe in
extending the term so long.
Adopted; Ayes "A; nays %.
Mr.. Seabright offered substitute for sec
ton IL, which provides that all saloons
shall be kept closed on the day oil election
until the polls are closed. The reason he
offered it was, that it only made the change
above stated, when the election was over
there would I've no more treating, and there
fore there was no reason why the saloons
should be closed.
Mr. Ferguson said the substitute changed
the law in two particulars. First, it struck
out the paoviSion requiring saloons to be
closed the day before election, and second
it permitted them to be opened
After the Polls Closed.
Certainly there was no time when they
ought 10 be closed, unless il was immedi-
ately after an election, when excitement
was high and the blood heated, and TO then
throw open the doors, was TO invite riot
and blOodShea.
Mr. Leonard moved TO strike ont the ..'on
the day previous thereto" so as to have the
act apply to election day only, and after
considerable discussion this was adopted
the substitute of Mr.. Seabright having been
withdrawn, and the bill was ordered to be
engroSSed.
Bills and Resolutions.
BY Mr.. Brady-A petition OF Mr.. NJ V.
Smalley and others TO prevent the spread OF
the Canadian thistle.
Nn q, a.
steamboats,: No lSJ, to amend section Is Of
l62 relation to writs Of supersedcas, appeals
and writS OF error; l5S, concerning bills,
notes and other writings; lt2, relative to
entry on lands and the time OF bringing
suit for the same. coming up on the cLiea.
dar, and were laid on the table.
House bill No. PIE. to establish an indie
pendent school district a. Peel Tree, Bar.
bour county, was read a second time, and
ordered to be engrossed.
House bill No. POP, to establish an incOr-
porated school district in the town of Duf-
field, Jefferson county, was ordered to be
engrossed.
House bill No s07, providing for the sur
yey OF a railroad from Grafton to point
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, la
Greenbrier county, was laid on the table.
House bills No. 2o6, relative 70 police
regulations at watering places; Isl, TO pre-
vent trespasses by non-residents in the
lower counties of this State, were referred
to the Judiciary committee.
House bill i2l, relative to Berkl$
Springs, was made the order of the day Cor
tomorrow at o'clock, after which yhe
House adjourned.
Miscellaneous Notes
Delegate Irons, of Monroe county, was on
the sick list yesterday.
Hon. B. II. Lurty, OF Harrison, appeared
in his seat, fresh and fair as June morn
ing Mr.. Lurty is the Oldest member OF
the House, having passed his I'D birthday
Yet he is still one among the youngest in
appearance, the sprighliest in manner, and
the best preserved man IN the House. As
some member remarked: He is the youn-
geSt old man ever saw
The bill mill has ground very slowly at
this session, and seems now to be almost
without grist.
"A Democratic member" who occupies =
desk, and not sea. at the reporters table,