Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-03

about. and at the present stage OF the
contest Wheeling is away ahead. Inc
bill for the girls industrial home VIII
be passed by the senate. and make It's
appearance on the house calendar IN
all probability. before the last OF TINS
week. while the bill to establish the
home for the incurables has not yet
left the senate committee on humane
institutions and public buildings TO
which il was referred. DR.. Harriet Is.
Jones. for the Wheeling bill. and Mrs.
, Joseph Ruffner. for the Charleston Dill,
are making a very strong and deter
mined contest. and they each push the
interests Of her measure with such
energy and ability as TO elicit the
highest commendation Of the Ia"
| makers The Ohio county delegation
are giving the girls reform school Dill
their hearty support. Both of these
measures are meritorious, ana the
legislature will no doubt eventually
pass both bills. but it is thought that
both cannot be passed at this session.
When Mr.. Behrens introduced his
bill Yesterday to empower the city OF
Wheeling to contract TO furnish water
TO other towns and cities, the house ulu
him the courtesy to dispense win lts
reference to a committee and 1t there
fore went on the calendar to come up
for consideration in its regular order.
1t is true that the city has ALREADY
contracted for and is furnishing water
to adjoining towns and cities, but there
is a doubt as to whether the city can
force the'payments of water rents rom
these towns by legal proceedings WIN
out an act of the Legislature 10 give
it authority to make such contracts.
Ii is to remove this doubt that MI
Behrens' bill is introduced. Ihere
will be no opposition to The passage ol
the bill in either house.
When the bill providing for a reduction
of the assessment OF the real estate pre-
pared and introduced by Major Bennett OF
Huntington. comes up for consideration ne
will have an important amendment to offer
to it. He will propose that instead of hav-
ing a general reduction of the assessed
valuation of real estate all over the State
the matter be left optional with the county
courts of each county. Wherever, III any
county the county court should deem II
proper to have a reassessment made II Is
proposed to give ii that authority by
statute This. Major Bennett believes VIII
make the bill entirely unobjectionab!e.
The warmest contest that will probably
be seen here this week will be on the ques-
ton of creating the new county of Au-
gusta. The friends OF the bill had the first
inning and had everything their own way
at the beginning of the contest. but since
the arrival of several prominent citizens
from the counties interested. the tide
seems to be turning against the bill. 1t is
now on the calendar of the House, and II
will likely be the subject of some high
flights of oratory this week. The attempt
TO establish this new county is denom-
mated a rape on the counties from which
the territory is to be taken. II Is largely
a local question. II is said that certain
property owners in Warrington want the
new county established and the county
seat located in the town in order to boom
their real estate. They have shown TO the
Republican members of TIE Legislature
that the new county WIFI be Republican
and will elect full Republican county
ticket while they hint 10 Democratic
members that the county as laid off will
he Democratic and will result in making
Marion safely Democratic. outside Of the
people directly interested. there is really
but little interest In the. new county
scheme.