The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-18
CHARLEsrON LETrER.
CnAnLEsroN. Feb. 1e. 1sa1.

tSSPohuehce OF the REGISTER.
If any of the readers of the REG.
IslER think that it is an easy matter
to sit down and put together en-
ough legislative items of interest to
make readable letter, we advise
some of them to try it, just for the
pleasure there is in it.
When we look at the poor over
worked reporters for the daily pa
pers, struggling for news to make
up dispatch for their papers, our
heart goes out to them in sympathy.
A large number of bills have been
passed and approved by the Cover.
nor. Among them is the "Street
Paving Bill" for Huntington. This
is most odious law, and we are
surprised that the Governor did not
veto it. 1t will cause endless liti-
CATION, will depreciate property and
very greatly retard the city's pros
perity.
We have tried to find out the
status of the bill amending the
charter of Point Pleasant, but could
not. This bill passed both houses,
with slight amendments. Suisse
quently some Senator thought he
discovered a clause in it that he did
not like, and moved a reconsidera-
ton of the vote by which it was
passed, and since then we have lost
all trace of it.
The House Judiciary committee
reported back Wednesday, the cleo
ton bill, with the recommendation
that it do pass. The bill is quite
lengthy, and is materially changed
from what it was when Gov. Will
SON recommended it. 1t retains all
of the features of the original bill,
but is more simplified.
Some of the measures proposed
for the government of the Univer-
sity at .Morgantown, are wise and
will be of benefit to that institution,
"niO OLuCES are Datu anu VIII uuTJ
the University. The State ought
to take pride in its University and
liberal appropriations ought to be
made to it.
The general school law is also be-
ing tempered with, and none of the
proposed legislation will be OF ben
eft; if anything, matters will be
made worse
The road law, matter that eve
rybody is interested in, is receiving
the attention of the Legislators, and
no doubt something will be done to
give the people of the State an i'm
proved and modern road law.
A bill is now before the Senate,
the object of which is to compel all
Banks that are State repositories to
give bond every two years. S me
of them, it is claimed, have not Civ
en- bond for ten years and it is pos
sible that some of the bondsmen are
dead or are not worth the amount
of their bond. 1t is to protect the
State in this matter that the move
is made. The Democrats of this
State do not intend that any such
thing as the Delamater steal in
Pennsylvania, shall occur in this
State.
Some people seem to be exercised
and very much excited over Dele
gate Young's bi | to remove the
Capitol from Charleston. There is
no danger of removal. The Capital
is fixed at Charleston, and there it
will remain forever. But of course
cranks cannot be kept from propo-
sing such measures.
There seems to be a general and
concentrated movement among the
West Virginia cities to increase
their size by reaching out as Hunt
ington did, after all the available
outlying territory. Bills are now
pending before the Legislature to
amend the charters of Parkersburg,
Point Pleasant, Charlestown, Char
lesion, SO as to enlarge their powers
and permit of an extension of their
limits.
Quite wordy war went on in the
Senate Wednesday, on Senate Bill,
No. SO, relating to mechanics liens,
which was mp for consideration on
its second reading pending the ad-
option of the following amendment:
"No payment by the owner, or
his agent, to a contractor, nor any
offset by way of recoupment or 9TH
erwise, shall affect or impair the
lien of contractor, laborer, or ma
terial man, provided for in section
three of this chapter. But such
owner may limit his liabilities so
that the amount to be paid by him
shall not exceed in the aggregate,
the price stipulated in the said con
tracts between himself and the con-
tractor, by having the said contract,