Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-03-11
OHIO'S ELEPHANT.
Two Constitutional Amendments,
Resak ding tho Liquor Traffic, to
be Suimlttsd to tho People.
Belmont conuty's Iaterssts Well
Looked fter-.Messsrss Bsns-
fetal to SieubeRviiliaas.
The Belmont County Seat BiII.-St.
Clairsvills's Workers--A Eour-
nalistic Entertainment.

Special Dispdtch to ge Sunday Ry,ss-.
| COLUMBUS, March 10.-At the aloss> Oi
my report last week left the temperance
| question in a state of such interminable
confusion that it seemed order would
nerer again prevail. A new leader has
bs4sss sEtiEes( hosnlr ll1uzs1ts stAs'
proposed constitutional amendment that
passed. Mr.. Pugsley, the gentleman from /
Highland county, who has attained the
reputation of being the Sam Cox OF the
House, offered a substitute for what is
known as the
Kinney Resolution
which read as follows:
Be it resolved by the General Assembly
OF the State of Ohio, That propositions To
amend the Constitution of the State OF
Ohio be submitted to the electors of the
State ,.at on the e. second seTS Tuesday Of October
First proposition-That the additional
section to Article Is Of the Constitution be
amended so as to read as follows, and that
said original additional section be re-
pealed:
Section -. The General Assembly may
by law provide for levyng special taxes or
assessments on the traffic in intoxicating
liquors, and shall by law provide against
the evils resulting therefrom.
Second proposition.-That the additional
section of Article 10, of the Constitution, be
amended so as 10 read as follows, aud that
ssid original additional section be repealed:
Section -. The manufacture of and traffic
in Intoxicating liquors in this State TO be
used as be yerage is forever prohibited.
At such election the electors desiring Il
vote in favor of said first proposition shall
have OH their ballots the words, Taxation
Liquor Traffic, Yes, and the electors desir-
ing 10 vote III favor OF said second PROPOSE
tion shall have on their ballots the words
"PrUhibiticn No"
This Broaght ont the AbIest RepubIi.
In tiae sTeeCLcS, Messrs Locke, MCFar.
land anti IugsL+y particularly distinguish
ing themselves. This leavss,the matter be.
tween prohibition and tax, both subject to
cc!Slative control. The people will OF
course choose tax" but il will be left with
the Legislature, and the thing will be med
died with in every Legislature until it be.
comes SO absolutely sickening that a sensi-
tle Legislature, at some period IN the future,
will pass sensible measure and settle the
thing forever.
Good for wagener.
Colonel Wsgener put through two OF his
pet schemes tits week.
THE Martins Ferry improvement bill,
allowing the citizens oil that happy hamlet
TO issue bonds for the purpose OF buying
grounds and improving them for cemetery
puTpt sss; whole amount not to exceed six
thousand dollars was rushed through on
2:40 time. so that the NJ. i. folks can now
fix up their city OF the dead.
Hiehly satisfied with his success in this
instance, lrCic David called mp his local
bill Irs' ~fcrring $50 from the road fund to
the -,.iIroi Untingent fund in Washington
township, Belmont county.
TIE circumstance, under which this
state Of affairs came about are as follows:
The inWn,hip trustees had invested funds
in railroad stock which in time was paid
baCE into the tUnd. where il has been lay
ing. Tis people wisely concluded that it
woU d Le better to apply this amount to-
wards teaching he young idea how to
shoot, and two hundred residents OF the
township petitiorcd Tor the transfer to the
schaol fund Of the money. About fifty de.
lud,d individuals who evidently do not be.
! Ii, yc in edu aIionaI :advantages. petitioned
against It, but it passed by nearly unani-
n.Uu> vote.
Too nuch Money.
Two Steubcnyille bills, fashioned by Mr..
| Kilhcart, went through with a wbirl this
ptek One was Ia transfer money from an
especial to a general fund in the water
| works department rf the city. Some time
| silCe q Crrtsin sum Of money WAS appro
| priaied tO an especial fund In the depart
| mtnr for the purpose Of making SUne im-
| rruyeneniss After they were concluded
| IL VAS found that s., ,W] s;ill remained un.
| used. 50 much money was more than the
| Stcuhe nyi iian~ knew what to do with, 81
| tlrv had 10 call nn the Legislature 10 assist
| Il en! in transferring 'he cumbersome three
| q rt.-bDd rack 10 IT." General fund.
| The urhe. Sieuheuvi.Ic hill thHt passed
| au' hOri2eS the trustees OF Steubenvllie
| township to levy an additional tax for poor
| atH road purpose, Mr KcthcorL states
| 'haf tho tax levy al present is very low,
and the population Is Increasing constantly
| II therefore become necessary for an ad'
| dtional tax levy in order to promote
! fund adequate TO care for the city's poor
aid improve the public highways. This
does not indicate that Steubsnviile is over
| stocked with poor, but simply that
| with the growth Of the city the
| puor OF course becomes more numerous.
The New BuiIdings.
| The Committee in charge OF the Locke
| hill providing for new county buildings at
| St Clsirsville, have decided in favor of the
| bill, but have not yet reported to the
| House. Indeed il is uncertain when they
will. 1t may be in a week or 1t may be in
| three. The impression is that they want TO
| wait for an opportunity to catch the
Bsilaire people mapping and then rush 1t
| Il rough In this little scheme they will
| fail however. or wait until doomsday.
| BelIaire don't suooze when her Interests
are in volyed. Hon. G. l.. Poorman, John
| T. ,>chenefelt Vim. NJ. Armstrong and VIM.
q. Barnard, of Bellaire, have been here this
week watching the movements OF the
1 ntR- lhaR IN
81. Clairsville travellers, in " h0m they seem
| 20 tske but little stock.
A GosdIy Gang.
| Colonel Alexis Cope, who has just re-
tired from official existence in the Secre-
isry Of States Office, DR.. West, Rev. Alex
andsr and Sim Pickering formely oi 81.
Cgsirsville, now OF Athens. are now on
hand. as they have been nearly all winter,
| in the interest OF the "0ld Historic City
| These gentlemen have been so assidious IN
| their attentions TO members that they have
| been termed by some as chronic lobbyists
| but OF course that is dead wrong. They are
| simply here to tell what 8 grand old place
| 81 CIsirsyiile is and the old romantic mstn-
| ories that cling round about il like the
| toisoping around the water Elm. Sim
| PICKERING, though now taking sacrament in
Athens, still loves st. C., and Cope, though
beat ont OF good job by the last election,
still infests the State House.
Rsyerent AIe1Auaef.
This prescher lobbyist has ran across d
few curious incidents in his Columbus CO
rret. Last winter. when he was here, he
of,en delivered the morning prayer in the
| House. He earnestly petitioned Him who
directs all to lead the members in the righl
| trsck and gIide them 10 the adoption o
| wise measures. II was supposed, when b
| said this. he referred indirectly TO the 81
CIairsyille matter. The Bellaire peopl,
gave him hint that he could come up u
Columbus and pray all he wanted to, bat b,
shouldn't come 70
Lobby and Prny Both,
or, by the Lord Harry, they wonld msks
, , warm for him. Reverent A TOOK u q ger
tie hint. and since then has conten0-d hin
self with button-h -holing the members Ba
Mr.. Alexander is q real good kind OF