Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-28
IN THE LEGISLATURE.

Considerable Business Transacted In Both
Houscs-The First Senate Bills Passed.
Speeial 7sieordr 10 tie Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, January 27.-The
House was opened with prayer by Dele
gate Burgess.
MIR. Lively. for the Committee on Judici-
ary. reported q substitute for the bill con-
corning the suppression of notes by judges
and justices, with recommendation that
| it pass.
Mr.. cambridge presented the report Of
the Committee on Taxation and FINANCE,
| recommending a substitute for the Dill list
ing credits and investments, and favor
! able report for it; also, favOrably upon the
Joint resolution concerning the repeal OF
| the law exempJing national currency from
taxation.
Mr.. Smith, Of the Committee on Military
reported back the bill to appropriate money
| for the erection of monuments upon the
battlefield of Gettysburg with the recon-
mendatlon that it pass, and the further rec
ommendation that it be referred to the
Committee on Taxation and Finance.
The insurance department bill was
finally killed this morning. 1t came in
upon its first reading, and having been re-
ported adversely by the committee the
question was on its rejection. The house
unanimously decided TO reject it.
Speaker Shaw then announced the fol-
lowing appointments: Committee TO visit
Insane ASYLUM, Messrs. Hays, McGhee,
and Greer; to visit penitentiary, Messrs.
Prince, Imhoff and Gramm; to visit May
shall College, Messrs. EcCalllster, Conrad
and Shaw (of Mineral.
Mr.. McCallister introduced .STbill author
izing the appropriation ola portion of the
grounds upon and ii Which Marshall Col
lege is situated for a street extension in
the city of Huntington. He then offered
! resolution to appoint a committee TO visit
| the college, which was adopted and under
which the above committee was named by
the Speaker.
Bills were then introduced as follows:
By Mr.. Clark, to reform, alter and modify
the County Court of Upshur county; by
Mr.. Koontz, concerning the liability OF
companies and corporations for injuries re-
sulting from the negligence Of agents and
employees.
Mr.. Gramm presented petition from
TAYLOR county praying for the passage or
bill to COMPEL land owners along any pub
lie road to clear all the land Of brush and
thistles along the roadSides.
Mr.. Workman offered bill for the pro-
lection of hotels and boarding houses, pro-
NlQlnE IOr lu6 ny PllSOu-
ment, not to exceed six months, OF any
person who defrauds hotels or boarding
houses.
a bill was offered by Johnson prohibiting
the issuing OF railroad passes to public Of
hcers, etc.
A little breeze was created by the nitro
duction of resolution instructing the 1anl-
tor to purchase dozen chairs. The Board
of Public Works had refused to accept
chairs from Grand Rapids, Mich, firm,
ana the agent who has been here has rem
dered himself obnoxious TO the Board and
the members Of the Legislature. He was
on the floor Of the House when Mr.. Dand-
ridge rose to speak ann that gentleman was
compelled to order him out OF the hall.
Mr.. cambridge offered substitute for
House bill No. 26, providing an anti-Pink-
erton law. 1t prohibits the entrance OF
any body of armed men, except United
States troops, to suppress riots. and makes
il unlawful for any corporation to bring
armed men into the State for the purpose
of protecting and defending its property.
The Speaker read NUMBER OF bills for
the first and second time, and the House
then took a recess until 2:3O O'Clock.
The Senate session was opened with
prayer by Rev. John Stump, OF the Baptlst
Church.
The committee OF education reported
favorably on the bill to prohibit the sale
Of Intoxicating liquors to students: also
favorably upon the bill providing for the
the election of county superintendent at
the November elections
The Committee on immigration and
Agriculture reported that it had merged
the bills relating 10 the State Board OF
Agriculture and the bill providing for
holding agricultural institutes into one
] I
mended its passage. The committee also
reported a resolution directing the Com
mittee on Taxation and Finance to place
an item in the appropriation bill, not TO ex-
coed $500, to pay the expenses OF the West
Virginia delegates 10 the National Farm
ers' Congress.
The judiciary Committee reported sub
stitutes for the bills establishing Criminal
Courts in Mercer and Mcdowell counties.
The Committee on Municipal Corporations
presented favorable report OF the bill TO
extend the corporation limits OF Parkers-
burg, with a number Of slight amend
ments.
Bills were offered as follows: BY Peck,
authorizing an Official seal for the Adjutant
General: by Parks, to amend the code re-
lating to the assessment of taxes, proposing
TO strike out the words except agricult-
ure," and allow farmers to deduct the
amount of their Indebtedness from the
value of their taxable property, placing
them on an equality with men engaged in
any other occupation; by Peck, TO amend
the law relating to the West Virginia Ma
tional Guard.
Senator Tarr announced that the con-
tinued absence Of his colleague, Senator
Whitaker, was occasiOned By sickness in
his family.
President Wiley announced the follow
ing appointments; Committee TO visit in
sane asylum, Henderson and Woiley; to
visit penitentiary, Dorsey and Cunning
ham.
Senator Haynes offered bill 70 estao-
lish criminal court in Summers county.
The Senate got down 70 actual business
IN advance Of the House, and Senator Gall.
Notwithstanding the fact that his pet meas
ure. providing for the establishment OF a
girls industrial school, was defeated, sue
ceeded in getting the first two bills through
the Senate. His bills extending the DOW
ers of State Boards or Examiners, and es-
tabtshing an independent school district
in BelingtOE, Barbour county, were taken
up, read a third time, and passed, after an
animated and prolonged discussion.
The remainder OF the morning session
was spentin discussing Senator Dorsey's
penitentiary bill, which passed third
reading, after which the Senate adjourned.