The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-21
DEMOCRATIC JUGGLBRS
Oppose Amendment to the Bal
lot Bill Submitting it to
THE PEOPLE FOR ADOPTION
Also Ono Providing Against Certain
Frauds Senator Carr Violates n
Promise "E:xpfanntiOn"
Don't Explain Matters.

lrauuS -ScnNtOr Carr violates n
| I'romfsc-1iis "i:xpinnntion"
| Don't Explain Matters.
Special Dispatch to he IntRigcntcr.
I CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. 20.-It il
now almost certainty that tho present
session OF the Legislature will extend to
the frat OF March, that being the full
limit OF the cons.itutionalsession OF forty.
i've days.
When the Senate opened tho morning
Senator Maxwell, chairman Of the Com
mittee on Judiciary, reported back
House bill No. 2S, tho Wilson Ballot
monstrosity, with numerous amend.
ments. The report filled thirteen pages
OF legal cap. Among other amendments
was one to add to section IS the fol.
lowing:
III, after the ballots arc delivered TO
the Clerk OF the County Court sealed up
as aforesaid, If by his act, neglect or con.
! nivancc, they, or any Of them, .hall be
altered, defaced, or injured 80 rs to
change the result OF the election at the
precinct where they were cast, the said
Clerk OF the County Court shall be guilty
of felony, and upon conviction shall be
coEtiucd in the Peniteutiary not less
than two, nor more than ten years."
In section GS, in line 81, after the
word delegates" the committee recon.
mend the insertion OF the following:
"The Legislature, neither in the separate
houses nor in joint assembly, shall have
any control over the Speaker in regard TO
opening and publishing the said GER
tiiicate and shall not have power to
adopt any resolution directing or con.
trolling him in opening and publishing
the same, and the Speaker shall have no
power or control over said returns, ex.
cept to open and publish the same as
herein required; provided, that il any OF
said certificates from any Of the counties
have not been returned to the said
Speaker, the Legislature shnll have
power to compel the return OF the same
to the Speaker as herein required"
NO MORE "rwE" BUSINESS.
In the same section, in line sixty, after
the word thereof" insert: III from any
cause any OF the said certificates shall
fail to reach the Governor, or shall be
unintelligible, or defective in any par.
ticular, the Governor shall procure from
the record required by this act to be KEEP.
by the County Courts, copies or dupli.
Gates OF such certificates, and shall make
proclamation OF who are elected on the
face Of the returns. II he shall make
proclamation OF any one elected who
does not have the highest number Of
votes for the same office, he shall be
liable to impeachnentan and removal from
Office"
Such election to be held under the
present election laws OF the State and
majority OF the votes cast 10 be necessary
to its adoption or rejection.
DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT TIE BILL IN.
PROVED.
A minority report OF the committee,
signed by Senators Price, McCreery and
Arbucklc, was also presented, objecting
to the amendments given above and
recommending the passage OF the bill
without them. All the other proposed
amendments were recommended by the
entire committee. The report was re.
ceived and Senator Flournoy moved
that the rules be suspended and the bill
be taken up for consideration, which
motion prevailed by an unanimous vote.
Senator Flournoy then moved that
debate on the bill be limited to five min
utes for each Senator desiring to speak
upon each proposition. Upon this Sen.
ator Snyder said that ii the gag law was
to be applied, he wanted the people to
know it and for that reason demanded
the ayes and nays. The motion was
adopted by vote OF 8 to s, Senators
Carr and Woodyard voting with the
Democrats for the resolution.
cARR's EXPLANATION.
Senator Carr then arose to personal
explanation. lie said that he had felt
great interest in this bill from the very
beginning. During the past summer he
had been frequently consulted by the
then acting Governor in regard to it and
had offered such suggestions as, in his
Judgment, would add an interest in the
bill, that he had pledged himself to the
Republicans to support every amend
ment offered by the Judiciary Commit
tee, although he did Hot agree with all
Of them, thinking that if the amend
ments were adopted the bill might be
passed and that ii the amendments were
rejected the bill also would meet with
defeat. Last evening the Republican
members had voted unanimously for nd.
tournament, as he understood, for the ex-
press purpose Of killing the bill. He
considered this as an evidence OF bad
faith on their part, and for this reason he
proposed to vote against every amend
ment, as he believed, to vote for the
amendments would be to vote to kill the
bill. He would vote for the passage OF
the bill rs it came originally from the
House.
Senator Maxwell said he had voted in
favor of adjournment at o'clock to-
morrow, because he thought the bill
could be disposed OF by that time. II
not, he was willing to extend the time
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for the amendments.
Senator Synder said that it was known
that the Senator from kanawha had
pledged himself to vote for the amend
ment. and that now, because the Repub-
licans favored adjournment, as they had
for days, he saw tit to violate his prom
ise. The gentleman on the other side
had claimed that the people were clam
oring for the passage OF the bill, and yet
when the committee proposed to submit
it to the people themselves for their
verdict, the gentlemen were not willing
to do so.
GOOD FoI SNYDER.
| He said the man who was afraid to
trust the people was u man whom tho
people should not trust. He was not a
safe man and the people although they
might have trusted him once, would not
trust him again. He thought the Demo.
Gratis themselves had taken water yester-
day and had wanted to adjourn at IL
o'clock this morning. Senator Price
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