Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-01-24
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


Mr.. Parks is on the following
Committees in the Senate: Counties
and Municipal Corporations; Mill
tia; Immigration and Agricultural,
Chairman; Claims and Grievances.
In the House Mr.. Lamon is on the
following Committees Chairman of
immigration and Agricultural, and
Penitentiary. Mr.. Viewer is on the
following Executive Officers and
Library; Private Corporations and
Joint Stock Companies. Some little
excitement was caused in the Senate
by the refusal of Gen. Watts Of Ka-
nawha, to serve as Chairman of the
Committees on which he had been
appointed.
The following is summary of the
mast important Bills introduced in
the Legislature, a number of them
by the representatives, from this coun-
ty.
SENATE
By Mr.. st. Clair, Fayette, asking
the Judiciary Committee to report
upon the expediency of having
another edition of Warth's Code
published.
By Mr.. Parks, No. ID, Berkeley,
authorizing Berkeley county to re-
fund at lower rate of interest
$l05, 900 of its bonds.
By Mr.. Parks, Berkeley, Senate
bill No. 10, providing that juries
may be summoned for special terms
of Circuit Courts without requiring
a lapse of thirty days.
By Mr.. St Clair of Fayette, SEN
ate bill No. 9,providing for the Aus
tralian ballot system.
A resolution was offered in the
Senate instructing the Committee on
Judiciary to inquire into the advisa-
bility of a Constitutional convention
and to report by joint resolution or
otherwise.
Bills were introduced as follows:
Releasing from taxation real es-
tate which has been purchased or
that may be hereafter purchased or
condemned for public roads, and re-
leasing farmers from paying taxes
on lands contracted for or condemn
ed by railroad companies; relating to
selling intoxicants to minors and
persons in the habit of becoming in
toxicated; providing that at each gen.
eral city election the question of
granting license for the sale of liqu
ors shall be submitted to a vote of
the people.
Mr.. Samuels, of Cabell, withdrew
the resolution he offered Friday SUBJ
stituting House joint resolution No.
9, providing for the appointment of
a joint committee of l3, 8 from the
House and from the Senate, to re-
port plan for the re-districting and
re-apportionment of the State
Adopted.
By Mr.. Viewer, Berkeley, House
bill No. 116,to amend the Code con.
corning diseased animals.
By Mr.. Havermale, Morgan, No.
"a, making sale Of intoxicants to
drunkards and minors misdemean.
or and providing penalties.
Col. White offered the following
amendment to Young's resolution :
Resolved, That our Senators in
the Congress of the United States
be instructed, and our members in
the House OF Representatives be re-
quested to use their influence to Sc
cure the early passage of such meas
ures as will give proper bounties,
pay and pensions to the West Vir-
ginia State troops who served in the
war Of war of 1875, in support OF
the government of the United States
and who may ueserve the same, and
to their orphans and children"
The ayes and hayes were called
for on the adontion of the ame1ld-
ment. The amendment carried by a
large majority. A vote was then
taken on the question of agreeing to
to the resolution as amended. Again
the ayes and mares were called and
the resolution as amended carried.
Bills have been introduced defining
domestic and foreign building & loan
associations; appropriating money
for the erection of a suitable monu-
ment to the memory of the West
Virginia soldiers who fell in the bat
tie of Gettysburg; concerning taxes
on collateral, Inheritance legacies
and distributable shares; fixing and
regulating the liabilities of railroad
companies for damages; for punish
ing persons under age who obtain
intoxicants through misrepresenta-
ton.