Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-28
Special TO the Register.

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Charleston, w. Va, January 81
Both houses of the Legislature adj
journed to-day until Monday, the
House until Monday afternoon.
Since the excitement over the polit-
ical situation has subsidized there is lit
tie t%ranspiring except the routine work
of the two houses, and even that was
unbroken to-day by any e%nlivening in
cidents or debate. Many of the mem
bers have gone home to spend Sunday,
and several of them will not return
until Tuesday.
Speaker Mckinney was to-day grant
ed a leave of absence until Tuesday,
and designated w. l.. Mansfield as
Speaker pro TEN during his absence.
Nearly a score of other leaves of alb
sence were granted to-day, and the
town will be pretty well deserted by
the statesmen over Sunday.
In the meantime the committees are
proceeding with the work of examin-
ing bills. More than two hundred bills
have been introduced in the two
houses, and scarcely twenty-five have
been examined by the committees and
reported back to the two houses for
action. The work has piled UP so up
on the House committees on the jul
dietary and on taxation and finance
that it became necessary to provide a
s~tenographer and typewriter for their
use, A resolution to that effect was
adopted by the House this morning.
AS predicted in the Register to-day,
the Senate adopted the House resolu-
ton providing for
THE INVESTIGATION
as to the payment of the military
claims for which $4,000 was appro-
priated by the last Legislature, but it
was amended by a provision that the
investigating committee should be
composed of two Democrats and two
Republicans. Senator Fast attempted
to amend the resolution providing for
a Republican majority upon the COM
mittee, but Senator Ashby proposed a
non-partisan committee, which the
Republicans had to accept.
Delegate Martin made a speech in
the House this morning in favor of
electrocution instead Of hanging. A
pill providing for the execution of the
6ath sentence by electricity and n
tho nvnnIIfinn &c Ill l~o4I
! fences in the p~enitentiary by hanging
were considered by the committee on
penitentiary, and the latter was rec
commended. Mr.. Martin, who had IA
\yored el~ectrocution, continued his fight
lor 1t in the House. He said the State
} should put an electric light plant IN
the ~penitentiary and use it for electro
cutions as we'll as for lighting. The
amendment he offered, to substitute
el~ectrocution for hanging, was lost.
The bill was amended to make the
time for executions between sunrise
and sunset, and the bill will probably
pass in hat shape.
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Smith was recommitted in the Senate
to allow the committee to make changes
in the bill. In it's present form it could
not pass.
The bicycle law of the last Legisla-
ture will doubtless be repealed, or at
least amended so that cities may make
their
BICYCLE REGULATIONS.
and so as to require wheels ridden at
night to carry lanterns.
A petition was presented in the
House to-day asking for legislation in
which all saloon keepers will be in
terested. The petition asks for Iegis-
lation making saloon keepers liable on
their bonds for ali damages done to
persons or property ''by persons obtain
ing their intoxicating drinks from said
saloon, provided said damage be lone
while under the influence OF said intoxi-
cants.'
Members of the House committee on
railroads are working on a bill relat-
ing to railroads. They have nothing
to say in regard to its provisions, but a
bill modelled after the Interstate
commerce law will probably be framed.
They seem to have nc disposition to be
unfair to the railroads nor to let them
be unfair to the public.
SUMMERS.
Rou6ine Proceedings on Third Page.