The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-27
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS.
considerable Business Despatched by Bot
Houses NJ the IeriSlature.

Considerable Business Despatched by Both
Houses OF the Legislature.
Special Dispaich 10 he Iatslt0eneT.
CHARIEsroN, w. VA, Jan. 2G.-1n
the house to-day, Mr.. Brockunior, Of
the committee on taxation and finance,
reported adversely on the bill providing
for the payment OF certain military
claims and tho bill reducing tho tax on
distilleries and breweries having a Gu.
pacity Of only one hundred barrels per
annum, Tho committee on education
reported favorably house bill 119. con-
earning tho election OF school officers.
The committee on immigration and ag-
riculture reported favorably the bill to
amend the code concerning lawful
fences. The committee on judiciary re-
ported adversely the bill to amend the
lew regarding the printing of supreme
rccords;, on tho bill amending tho law
relating to liens for purchase money,
and on the bill amending the law reHu-
lating the compensation OF election oll-
GERS. The committee also reported. ia
votably on the bill amending tho law
relating to property levied on, claimed
bya person other than the judgment
debt, or In cases before Justices courts;
on the bill amending tho code relating
to the appointment OF committees; on
the bill relating to the employment OF
shorthand reporters In the circuit
courts, and on the bill concerning the
criminal court Of the county OF Fayette.
Tho following bills wero introduced:
BY Mr.. Wilson, to amend the act for
the incorporation OF savings banks BY
Mr. Thompson, giving school teachers
the right to inaict corporal punishment
on pupils. BY Mr.. Shumate, to ostab-
lish O court Of limited Jurisdiction in
Summers county. By MIR. Prince, by
request, to extend the time in which
application may be made for the COR
rection OF erroneous land assessments
to July !, 1893. BY Mr.. Maxwell, to
amend the act authorizing the division
OF the town OF Clarksburg into five
wards and to provide for tho election
OF city officers.
Mr. Floyd offered a resolution pro.
viding for the appointments Of two addi-
tional pages, one to DO Democrat and
the other u Republican. Mr.. McClung
objected to It's immediate consideration
and It lies over one day.
AT tho afternoon session the resolu-
ton Of Mr.. Brockunier proposing con-
atitutional amendment abolishing the
irreduclblo school fund was read first
time, and passed TO Il second reading,
when the special order, the resolution
in regard 10 Senator Konna's death was
taken up.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the senate the committee on odu-
cation reported back tho bill to create
tho independent school district Of I'll.
kins without Recommendation. The
judiciary committee reported iavorably
on the bills concerning rates for legal
advertising (sunator Calls billy; con.
corning tho construction OF booins, and
mixing tho franchise Of q bridge com.
pany, together with the othor property
thereof; and adversely on the Bills con-
corning commissions In chancetyt 10
prescribe tho limitations Of suits In
equity TO quiet titles 10 land aud 10 70.
fnovO clouds from titles and concerning
plOadings. The bills relating 10 allow
RncOs 10 county officers, and duties Of
county clerks a. 10 recording and max.
Ing index and llst Of witnesses were 10.
pofteN back without recommendation.
The bill TO create q HtatO insurance
department, and tho bill 10 extend tho
aetion AZ law known 40 tfnapasa on the
case IN assunpalt were read q iifBt time
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