Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-22

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, February 20
When the House opened the report Of
tue committee on counties, districts
and municipal corporations was re-
reived. 1t reported back H. B. 80
changing the county line of Lincoln
county and definitely locating the same
with an amendment, but without rec
ommedation.
II. j. r. Is, providing for a constitu-
tional amendment providing for five
Supreme Court judges, returned from
the Senate with amendments, was pass
ed, the amendments having been con-
Cured in.
H. B. IL, concerning allowances to
county officers, as amended by the SEN
ate, was passed, taking effect from pas
sage.
S. B. 161, regulting the sale OF liquors,
preventing liquor dealers from going
on the bond of other liquor dealers, was
advanced to its third reading.
H. B. $50, to preserve the purity OF
the waters of the New and Great Kan
awha rivers, was passed.
H. B. 1874, creating a county court
and a board of commissioners for Pen
dleton county, was passed as amended
by the Senate SO as to become a gen.
eral law.
H. B. 237, authorizing appointment by
Circuit Courts of commissioners to
audit the accounts of county courts,
was passed, as slightly amended by the
Senate.
H. j. r. 45, proposing an amendment
to Sec. IL, Art. 4, of the Constitution,
providing for the registration Of vot-
ers, was passed, receiving the necessary
two-thirds majority.
S. B. 1873, concerning the independent
school district of Central City, in Cab
ell county, was put into effect from
passage, on the announcement of the
vote taken the previous evening.
II. B. 2S9, concerning the West Vir-
ginia Asylum for ~Incurables, as amend
ed by the Senate, was passed.
S. B. 101, amending the Code, entitled
"Of Cities, Towns and Villages, incor-
poration of without special charter"
amending charter where population is
less than 1000, read a first time and
advanced.
S. B. 113, amending the Code relat-
ing to The salary of teachers, was pass
ed.
Special order, H. B. 1928, the general
appropriation bill, was read a third
time. Pending its reading, at 1890 p.
M, the House took a recess to 2 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
At 2:30 p. m. the House reconvened
and the third reading of the %appropria-
ton bill was resumed.
Mr.. Smith, of Ohio, asked unanimous
consent to submit the report of the
committee of conference On the dis
agreeing votes of the two houses on the
amendments proposed by the Senate,
and disagreed to be the House to H. B.
III, the Wheeling electric light and gas
bill, the Senate receding from its
amendments, and adopting the amend
ment agreed upon in committee.
On motion of Mr.. Jackson, a confer
ence committee of three vas appointed
by the Speaker, consisting of Messrs.
Jackson, Colcord and Williams, to con-
fer with a similar committee on the
part of the Senate, on the disagree
ments as to H. B. 17S, in relation to
IeVleS Tor ScnOOl purposes.
The third reading of the general ap-
preparation bill was again resumed,
completed and the bill put upon it's
passage, receiving AZ votes for to IA
against, taking effect from passage.
Mr.. Henshaw called up S. B. Sc, max
ing it lawful for any person at any
time to remove and destroy any nets,
seines, traps or other devices, placed
in any stream or runs, with certain
exceptions as to rivers, and giving the
owners of such property no recourse
against the party destroying the same.
Mr.. Hervey opposed the provision of
the requiring owners of mills to build
chutes. He said other members could
vote for this bill and go home. He
could not. You construct these cRutes
and a man would go out there at night,
throw a net over the chute and catch
all the fish passing. He thought the
law unconstitutional. What was kill
ing the fish was the saw-dust coming
into the headwaters of the streams,
getting into the gills of the fish and
killing them. The bill passed by a
vote of 80 to 10.
Mr.. Anderson called up S. B. u, for
the further protection of fish in pri-
vate waters and the rights of persons
on whose lands are brooks, springs or
runs, not to apply to streams usually
called creeks: advanced to second read
ing, reference being dispensed with, and
made special order for 1890 to-day.
H. J. r. 7, providing for the submits
sion of a constitutional amendment,
striking out the prohibition against the