The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-25
NAY S00N ADJOURN.
It is Likely That tho Legislature
Will Go Home Tomorrow.
MR.. WILSON'S ELECTION BILL
Still Hangs Fire, and SO Does tho 4 y.
preparation Bill - Moro Confer.
cnco Conmlttccs-Livcly Dc.
bato In tho Scnntc-Notcs.
Special Di.paieh 10 the Inttlligencer.

Speeia! Dispaieh 10 the Inttlli1ncer.
| CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. 24.-In tht
Senate this morning communication
was received from the House announ.
cling the passage Of House Joint Resolu
ton No. 10, providing for tho appoint.
ment at each regular session Of the Lcgis.
lature OF joint committee 10 examinc
the executive offices, and that the House
tAsagreed to all the Senatc's amend.
ments TO Wilson's elaction bill and
asking the Senate to reccde thcreirom.
On motion OF Mr.. Lowther tho report
OF the third Conference Committee on
Houao bill No. 30, was adopted and the
committee discharged. Mr.. Lowther
then moved that the Senate ask for A
new conference and that the President
appoint three managers on the part Of
tho Senate to act with like number on
the part OF the House, which was agaeed
to, and the President appointed Senators
Lowther, Price and Woodyard.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 10. pro-
viding for the adjournment OF the Leyis.
lature at G o'clock p. IN. Tuesday, Febru.
ary o5, was taken up and passed by q
vote Of II ayes and noes.
TIE ELECTION BILL.
Senator Carr moved to take up House
bill No. 2s, the Wilson election bill, and
the chair Campbell presiding) ruled the
motion out of order.
Mr.. Price moved to take the bill up
out Of its order, which motion pre-
vailed. Mr.. Oxley moved TINT the Sem
ate recede from its amendments TO the
bill.
On this Mr.. Morris called for the ayes
and noes and the motion was lost by a
vote OF to 7, q strict party vote, Carr
voting with the Democrats.
Mr.. Oxley then moved that commit.
tee Of two be appointed by the Senate to
confer with a like committee on the part
Of the House in regard to the disagree.
ment as to the amendments to the bill.
Senator Morris moved to amend BY
substituting three for two to meet with
a committo Of like number on the part
Of the House.
Senator Snyder arose and made few
remarks, in which he stated that the
Senate would never recede from its
amendments and lie saw no use for n
conference committee. He would
vote against it. Senator Gettinger
said he thought Mr.. Snyder might
be wrong. Gentlemen sometimes
changed their minds. Senator Camp.
bell also opposed the appointment Of a
committee. He said he was sorry for
his friends on the other side. They have
got themselves into an unpleasant prc.
dicament and hoped to get out of it by u
conference committee. The Democrats
had begun in the hope of getting party
buncombe for themselves for use ia the
next campaign. II they had let
the bill diein the committee, they might
have gotten buncomb until they yot it
before the Senate, and in doing so thew
had gotten themselves into hole which
they hoped to get out OF by appointing q
conference committee. They had placed
themselves in the position Of obstruc-
tionists and for three long weeks, at the
expense Of the people, blocked every Mt.
tempt to adjourn, claiming that they
wanted to purify the ballot. Now they
found all their efforts were about to 70
for nothing, and they hoped to get out OF
the hole in which they had been fools
enough to place themselves by asking
Tor q conference. The people under.
stand the position they have taken and
the people will hold them responsible
for it. ~
THE HOUSE DIsCoUITEous. H.
Senator McCallister, Price and Gettin-
ger all expressed themselves on the
matter, replying to Senator Campbell,
and fayoring the appointment OF a con-
ference committee. Senator Snyder said
the bill had never been discussed upon
It's merits in the Senate. He was on.
posed to it from principle because he
believed it was not fair bill. The Sen.
ate's amendments had been treated dis
courteously in the House. Gag law had
been applied aud the amendments had
been rejected in n lump without any
discussion OF their merits. He believed
tho amendments were necessary and
right, The frauds which the gentlemen
claim to want to prevent are not com.
mltted by county election clerks and
commissioners, but the county clerks
and county commissioners have every
opportunity to commit them il thew
want to, and the bill throws no restrict.
ion around them. 1t proposed to send
poor devils to the penitentiary who had
committed no crime and had no inten-
ton to commit q crime, while the Gov
ernor, the Speaker Of the House and the
Secretary Of State could commit crimes
against the purity Of the ballot and
could go scott free, 80 far as this law is
concerned. .....s...7
Senator Morris amendment to the
resolution was then adopted, and the
resolution as amended was agreed to,
The president appointed Senators Nor
rss, ?Lowthcr and Oxley as members Of
the conference committee on the part of
the Senate, and Senator Oxley was in.
structed to notify the House OF the fact.
MOTION TO RECONSIDER.
A motion by Mr.. McCreery that the
rules be suspended and that four bills
on their first reading be taken up was
lost. Mr.. Morris moved that the vote
by which the Senate ask conference
committee in regard to the amendments
proposed by the House to House bill No.
Is be reconsidered. The ayes and noes
were called for and taken, but on motion
OF MIR. Morris, the announcement OF the
vote was postponed until :. o'clock.
When 4 o'clock arrived tho vote was
announced and the motion to reconsider
was lost by tie vote. After some un-
important business the Senate adjourn
ed until tomorrow. IS 6a-
In tho House. sl
The proceedings OF the House were
opened at 10 o'clock this morning with
prayer by T. @. Johnson, Of the Baptist
church. Z.
House Joint Resolution, authorizing
the Governor to sell certain guns to
Grand Army posts, with the Senate's