The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-23
THE iEE,GISEATURE.


THE LEGISLATURE.
!. a TIN, SENATE SESSION. moor
Mason, !. TsEBni Ruinedl can u che senate.
Ia ! 56iiii5iThe City BI1fih.n Rip s7'4'gl
snThs Senate was opened with prayer
Saturday, morning by ReMp ESwr II.
Cooke. oftheseco Presbyterian church.
.A,resolutioni was offered 10y, Mr.; AfortiE-
son, providing tor apbraising Vie fpShltalEIsf
Of thesenate chambe and cling tin par
GELS to suit at its apptaibedyalue, and Mr..
Dawson. offered, another one, expressing
the regret Senate that they could
not attend the soirse musicale'at' hit, de
cbantalaoThe latter resolution was re,
iccted very quickly. Tie State House
Appropriation billtcame up as unfnished
business, and was again the sabject Of
some yerywarth debate and numerous
n,onosed Z amendments. Mr.. Plonrn6y
T,ovsd 10 lay the bill on the table, which
the Senate refused to do by q tie vote.
Alter considerable talk, pro and con, the
previous question was ordered, and Mr..
SIelyin's motion 10 make the appropfia3
ti6h $40 600 was lost also by q tie vote:
Mr. Smith moved 10 insert St5, 900! This
wasIikegise feiect6 az MI. Floyd propp.
sition to make 1t $50, 600 was also felectpeeds'
when he moved TO make the sum Sl2,qoo.
MT I,obbani wanted to cut 1t down 20
5000, but the majority said no 70 tnis
nrob6sition and accepted AIr. Floyd's
si2tO00 amendment. Mr.. Dawson moved
10 r9fer the bill, but this was lost, aud the
Sannta then refused to order the bill to
ia enerossnient and third reading by
vSteiof {, 70 49, Mr.. Cochran was absent
and 40 Mr.. B.rW. Price east. but one vote;
Tina six Senators who voted against kill
INC Inc Bin were Messrs. FLOYD, OF .Loga4iri!
comfy. Hays, Of Calhoun; Mel Grew, 81
Memorabilia: Scott, Of Ohio; Smith, 81
Tyler: Someryille, Of Brooke. '9In. III III
MIR Dawsoil then offered the following,
which lies over until to-day under the u I.
IS! j. R. No. is; providing for the repadi;t!
ofthe Capitol building IN tho CITY 81
iRssoIrai That the Board Of Public Works
kei and Il hereby inst to put- the
Capitol building in good repair, the cost
thereof not TO exceed SO, 900. The said
Board shall let the work by contract as
far rs it may be practicable.
lNr. Scott introduced Senate Bill, No,
1875. the bill TO prevent tho city'ot Wheel.
int from incurrlng indebtedness, etc., and
athis request It's reference was dispensed
with. 7'ill 1' " n ~, u n,
sence, with pay, for four days: H.. !,
Senate Bill No. 40, authorizing circuit
jndees to employ stenographefs, was wa
passed. go Ia,
op.M. .IS,tttA JILL q - -
upon reassembling, woodward
moved that the Senate take q recess until
$50 +. NJ, in order to, attend the soiree
musicale al Mt. dc Chantal. The motion
,.os TInet no lss1z iiittiA ~ N'lb1 s. "te
MI. Melvin offered aresolution that the
President appoint a committee OF. three,
whose duty Il shall be to select from bills
on their first reading those OF greatest I'M
portance, and which will elicit little or
no discussion, and report at the earliest
practicable moment, 50 that said bills may
Be considered and passed. On motion Of
Mr.. Smith,th resolution was laid on the
table. ~ "a BliIt5n ~ -. ~
Z Mr.. Scott presented Senate Bill No. $50,
10 authorize the Ohio county Board OF
Commissioners to sell the court house.
The reference was dispensed with iR Lft
! A call Of the Senate took eplace In; the
but 1t developed mo fun! jon
motion OF Mr.. Lobban, the Senate ex-
pressed its regret that tho state of its bust.
ness prevented its visiting Mt. de- Chantai
in body. 49, ~
A recess was taken at $3.50 tp.M. until Z
O'clock ,3ig.hL siIR hia1llaslir Rrfffol
Al The night session the Mason Tax bill;
the bill prepared, by the subcommittee
OF the Committee on lTaxationa and
Finance, recasting the assessment laws OF
the State, known on the calendar as Sem
ate Bill No. 1l9--was taken up, and occu-
pied the entire session. Mr.. Byrne made
an exhaustive general argument in favor
Of the bill in the form in whichuit came
from the Committee. On motion OF Mr.,
Morris the bill was so amended as to ex-
einpt from taxation manufactures and
farm products now exempted by the law
which many hold to be unconstitutional
under the decision'of the Supreme Court
Of Appeals in the Chesapeake 4 Ohio tax
case. The bill was then, on motion Of
Mr.. Brown, laid onthe table, and the'Sent
ate adjourned till 10 o'clock AIM. to-day.