Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-18
THE LEGISLATURE.
Routine Proceedings OF Yesterdays Session
Tod in Detail.


Tod in Detail.
Special to the Register.
Charleston, W. Va. February IL
The Senate was opened with prayer by
Rev. T. c. Johnson.
House joint resolution No. 10, pro-
posing an amendment to the constitu-
tion, was read a third time, and an
nouncement CT the vote was postponed
until tO-mOrrCw at 2 O'Clock.
Senate bill No. 113, amending the act
relating to duties Of reporters OF the
Supreme Court was passed.
y communication from the House no.
titled the Senate that that body refused
to cOncu in the Senate amendments to
House bill No. 26, providing for the re-
assessment Of the value of all real es-
tate. The Senate appointed a confer
ence committee, composed of Fast,
Farr and Kidd.
e~nutv bill No. 10, rUr tho taxation
of telegraph, telephone and express and
pipe line companies, came up as a spe-
cial order, and was made a special or
der for 1890 o'clock Monday morning.
Senate bill No. ia, amending the act
relating to appeals to the Supreme
SOo4S " E1pPNNNlNs Ndo passed..
House bill No. Il, to amend the acts
concerning power Of the county courts
in relation to roads and bridges, was
passed.
House bill No. 10, authorizing the
school board CT Ravenswood TO refund
its debt, was passed; also House bill
No. 50, to relieve the sUreties on the
bond Of T. D. Peyton, contractor for the
construction of a school building in
Huntington.
House bill No. POP. relating to re-
location Of county roads, was taken up
on its first reading, and under a sus-
pension Of the rules was read a second
and third time, and passed. The same
course was taken with House bill No.
6, appropriating $4,000 to the West Vir-
ginia Humane Society.
Senate bill No. 1913, pertaining to the
Grafton school district, and House bill
No. GO. for the lease CT the Berkeley
Springs property, were advanced to
their third reading. Senate bill No.
1874, pertaining to interpretations and
taxation Of companies, was advanced to
its third reading, and under suspen-
sion CT the rules, was passed.
House bill No. Is. amending the Hin
ton charter, was passed; also House
bill No. 81, changing the time for hold
ing courts in the eighth judicial cir
cult.
Bills were advanced to their third
reading as follows: House bill No. II.
for the relief Of sureties on the official
bond Of J.. N. Polin, late sheriff of
Jackson county; Senate bill No. 124,
concerning State licenses; Senate bill
No. 90, the Wheeling free toll measure;
House bill No. 81, the valued policy in
surance measure; Senate bill No. 121,
reassessment Of real estate, which has
been affected in value by oil and gas
or other developments; House bill No.
20. making certain secular days legal
holidays; Senate bill No. 66, to create a
school text book commission: House
bill No. %, making notes falling due or
holidays payable on following day.
IN the House the committee on pri-
vate corporations and joint stock COM
panies reported adversely on Senate
bill No. IS. providing for the assess
ment of foreign building and loan as-
sociations, and for the assessment of
the stock Of such associations, held by
persons residing in this State.
The substitute for House bill No. 157,