The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-26
HOUSE ROUTINE.
Tho Business Transacted by tho wlssacrts
Yesterday.

Tho Business Transacted by tho Wiseacres
Yesterday.
spteiai Dipateh to tie intsliiQsneer.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb. 25.-The
rules were suspended in the House this
morning, and tho general aud legislative
appropriation bills were read the first
time by title and ordered to a second
reading. Mr.. Young, Of Upshur, moved
to take up the bills on their second read.
Jog, but they had not been printed, and
the motion was lost. House bill No.
lSG, accepting the provisions Of the act
OF Congress appropriatiug money for the
support Of agriculture and the mechan.
ical arts for white and colored pupils,
designated Storer College for col0red
pupils and the station at Morgautown
for whites, was presented. Mr. Fer
guson offered a substitute locating the
school for colored pupils in Kanawha
county. The substitute was adopted
and ordered to its eDgrossment and
third reading.
House Joint Resolution No. 27, pro.
viding for IN extension of the present
session Of the Legislature was taken
up, aud the vote on its adoption was yeas
43, nays 20. The announcement of the
resolution was postponed till p. m. to-
morrow. Senate bills were ordered to q
third reading as follows: No. 45, estab.
fishing a county court for Pendleton
county; No. As, amending The Code
relating to the paving Of money into the
Treasury; No. IS, TO ascertain the estate
on which feri facidS is lien.
Senate bllls on second reading were
disposed OF as follows:
No. 81, directing justice upon the
filing Of proper affidavit to enter iudg
ment for plaintiff for amount sworn to
unless counter affidavit be filed by the
defendant denying the iustness OF said
amount, was tabled; No. so, to provide
for filing interrogatives to an adverse
party or claimant in actions at law and
proceedings before commissioners oi
courts, was tabled; No. 81, providing the
method for constructing and keeping in
repair county roads, was referred to the
Judiciary Committee; No. 81, concern.
ing damage for tresspasses by animals,
iorfeitures, how boundary lines may be
and lawful fences, was tabled.
Senate bill No. a. amending the
charter OF Point Pleasant and extending
the corporate limits and defining the
powers Of the municipal authorities, was
ordered to its third reading. House
bill No. 81, amending the school law
concerning Boards OF Examiners, how
appointed and how vacancies may be
filed, was ordered to it's third reading.
Senate bill No. 81, which had been
tabled, was taken up and ordered to its
third reading.
House bill No. II, the Australian
Ballot law, was passed. House bill No.
200, empowering the school district OF
Fairmont TO issue bonds for q new
school building, was ordered to
it's third reading. House bill,
No. PIG, to prevent fraud in
Circuit Clerks offices was ordered TO its
third reading. Senate bill, No. 6S, to al
low County Courts to subscribe money
10 works OF improvement or buy bonds,
was ordered to its third reading. House
bill, No. 172, amending Sections one and
two, Chapter 147 OF the Code as follcws:
VII person, TO whom On oath 10 lawful.
ly administered on any occasion, shall
on such occasion wilfully swear falsely
touching any matter or thing be shall
be guilty Of perjury, Any person who
commits or procures another person to
commit perjury shall be con.
fined in the penitentiary not
less than one nor more than
ten years." was ordered to third reading
House bill No. 242, empowering the
town OF Keyser to iesue bonds for S20,-
900 for water works, was ordered to its
third reading. House bill No. 202,
amending the charter of Wheeling,
makisg the number Of wards not less
than four nor more than ten, was or
dered TO its third reading. Adjourned