The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-20
R[BRY EXAMINATIONS.
A Lively Day Is Witnessed in
the State Senate Over the
ADJOURNMENT RESOLUTION

Il - ~ ANkASSAS AVA
And tho Ballot l5ill-Snydcr and Nor
ris DO Some Plain Talking aud
Echo the Sentiment offhc Pco-
plc-Wilson Still Lobbying. /.
Special Di'patch to The inteiitOneer.'
CuARLEsroN,W VIVA, Feb. .l0.-Tho Sen
ate was opened this morning at 10 o'clocl
with prayer by Rev. W. II. Payne, Chan
cellor OF the University OF Nashville
Tenn. 4
A message from the House by it
clerk announced the passage by thai
body OF Senate bill no. 10 to repeal Chap.
ter 2sof the acts Of 1880.
Senate Joint resolution no. 7, ptovid.
ing for tho adjournment Of the :present
session OF the Legislature, coming up in
regular order, Senator Flournoy moved
to amend tho joint resolution by substi.
tuting the following preamble:
"WnEREAs, Tho obstructive action OF
the Republican majority oithe Judiciary
Committee In taking repeated adjourn.
ments for the purpose OF preventing the
consideration Of tho election bill
and its report to the Senate for
action has made it apparent that no law
providing for ballot reform can DO enact
ed at this session,"& &c.
This gave rise to quite an interesting
debate, in which Senators McCreeIy and
Snyder took part. Senator Snyder said
that he had often said before, and do.
sired to say again, that the bill is not the
Australian bill, not the Massachusetts
bill, not the Missouri bill, not the Iudi-
ana bill. It is nobody's bill on earth but
E. W. Wilson's bill. He was honest
and conscientious in his opposition to it,
and said, rs he had often said before,
that tho bill should never pass If he
could prevent it.
WHAT TIE PEOPLE WANT.
The people are clamoring, not for the
passage Of this bill, but for the adjourn
ment OF the Legislature. They are tired
Of this needless expense. In response
to little tilt from Senator Price, he said
that he was willing to accept all respon.
sibility for his action in voting for ad-
journment, If only to defeat this bill,
and added If the bill did not pass, ii
curses hot and heavy and kissing did
not fall from the people OF the State, re.
gardless OF politics, upon the heads Of
those who voted for it, he was no pro-
phet. He also called attention to the
fact that its passage would prevent the
temperance people from running a ticket,
the Knights OF Labor from running u
ticket, or any other new or independent
movement from going before the people
for their votes. unless it has been before
them once before and had polled q GER
tain percentage OF votes.
Senator Gettinger then made few re-
marks and Senator Maxwell arose and
spoke briefly in defense OF the commit
tee, and pointed out few OF the bills
weak points and Inconsistencies.
THE EX-GOVERNOR STILL A LOBBYIST.
During all this time E. W. Wilson, the
author Of the bill, was seen going around
among the Democratic members, and
telling them what to say. Several seemed
to take in what lie told them and.popped
up to shoot the little wads furnished for
that purpose.
Senator Price made rather fiery
speech in which he criticised the action
Of Senators Maxwell, Morris and Camp.
bell, or rather endeavored to explain
their motives, charging them with bad
faith in the matter. He spoke OF the
laboring men who were subjected to i'm.
proper influences and could be caught,
and claimed that the passage of such a
bill was necessary, presumably to pre-
vent them from selling their votes ut
best. Any inference that could be drawn
from his remarks would not be, in the
least, complimentary to the "horny-
handed" sons Of toll, in whom tho Dem
ocracy have generally claimed to feel
such all interest. He insisted that there
had been fraud at the last State election
and expressed himself as willing to re-
main here until the bill its passed. ne.
cessary.
Mr.. MORRIS spEAHs. ~ '
Senator. Flournoy spoke in behalf Of
his amendment to the preamble of the
resolution, and claimed that it should be
adopted; that it placed the response.
biiity where it properly belonged, and
accused the Republican members OF the
Judiciary Committee OF lodging the
question.
Senator Morris said he had sat and
listened TO- the harrangues from the
Democratic side OF the chamber until
his patience had been almost entirely
exhausted. He saw no reason for the
violent cases OF Mysteries that had been
deAeloped on the Democratic side, and
was ut a loss to understand why they
should resort to low insults and improp.
er methods, such, for instance, as max.
! ing public the occurrences in the com
mittee room. He didn't see why gentle.
men whom he had esteemed as his
friends should, because he and his fel
| low Republicans didn't see fit TO allow
themselves to be dictated to by the
Democrats, hurl their insnlts at himself
Auu'ulb purity AEltuu6 loE tuelr honesty
"Of what crime am I'guilty n" he asked
Perhaps it may the murder OF scheme
.. that my Democratic friends dearly love
They tell us the death OF this bill mus
come, and IN open day. If this bill
should be killed in the committee, vii
It be the first one that has met with thai
I fate? What is the issue7 Are we to be
compelled to come out openly and defy
! our position, while they delay adjourn
!. ment for two or three weeks longer? !
am willing, and believe the Rapub
licans are willing, to meet this question
like men," He said the Democrat
seemed to have an idea tha! they wer.
getting certain men Of, the State agains
the Republicans on account Of their op
position to the ballot monstrosity, al
would be seen from the resolutionI
read by Senator Gettinger, as cominl
from the Knights Of Labor, asking TO
the passage Of the bill, when, for all any
.. one in the Senate knew, and which wai
quite probable, those resolutions werl
framed and adopted by only three o