The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-09
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Yesterdays Proceedings In the senat,
and House Of DELEGATES.

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Yesterdays Proceedings In the senat,
and House Of Delegates.
The Senate met at the usual hour yester
day morning and transacted the following
business
The following committees reported.
Mr.. Dennis, from the Judiciary Commit.
tee, reported back House bill go, In rela.
ton TO ferries, toll bridges, water courses
and mills, with lavorablerecommendRtion,
Mr.. Newman, from the Finance Commit.
tee, reported back with the recommends.
ton that II do not pass House bill 800, no.
lating to the act creating two assessment
districts In the county Of Summers.
Alr. Ewin, from the Committee on Coun-
ties and Municipal Corporations, reported
back with favorable recommendation
House bill 400, authorizing the town Of
Clarksburg To divide said town into five
wards, and to provide for the election Of
Mayor, Recorder and councilmen.
Mr.. Maxwell, from the Committee on
Printing, reported back with favorable
recommendation House Joint resolution
No. 80, providing for the printing and dis.
tribution Of the Fish Commissioners Re-
ports for the year 1882.
Mr.. Donehoo withdrew his motion made
on Tuesday to refer to the Finance Com
miiiee the communication OF the Governor
relating TO acquisitions on the civil contin.
gent fund.
llr. Dennis, by leave, introduced Senate
bill No 246, authorizing the Rock Castle
Railway Company to build and maintain a
railroad bridge across the Tug Fork Of the
Big Sandy Riuer, at or below the falls
thereof, In Wayne County. On the motion
Of the same gentleman the reference Of the
bill was dispensed with.
The following billS were passed:
House bill No: 2Tl, relating to persons
exempt from militia duty.
House bill No. 272, relating to the militia
organization Of the State.
House bill No. 1886, repeating an act re-
lating to road tax and labor OF John Wylie
and W. w. Wylie OF Hancock county.
House bill No. 342, to prevent the
spreading OF the noxious weed known as
the Canadian thistle.
House bill No. 1902, amending the code
concerning oilenses against the person.
House bill No. 400, concerning the
school districtsOf Jefferson county.
Mr.. Wood, from the Committee on
Claims and Grievances, reported back with
favorable recommendation, House bill 1916,
for the relief OF Isaac AIcNeel, late Sheriff
OF Pocahontascounty.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Dennis in the
early part Of the session, relating to the
Rock Castle Railway, was taken up and
passed.
MIR. Maxwell, on leave, introduced
Senate bill 247, authorizing the President
and Directors Of the West Virginia Central
Agricultural and Mechanical Society at
Clarkshurg to extend their police iurisdic.
ton, Referred.
The feature OF the morning session was
the speech Of Senator Dawson, whose De-
mosthenian eloquence was hurled against
House bill q, which sought to prevent Ger.
tain animals from running at large &c.
As the rounded periods and elegantly
turned sentences fell from his tongue the
Senators gathered round him in enraptured
silence listeningto his wonderful philippe.
THERE'S no doubt "that it will,go thun.
deringdOwn the ages. And don't you forget
It" The motion to indefinitely postpone
the bill, however, was lost, and after some
amendments were madeto it it was ordered |
to its engrossment and third reading.
A communication was received from the |
Governor, containing the acts approved by