Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-16
DAWSON Corporation
HA 70 THE governor.
BOOSTED BY THE HOG COMBINE,
SEEMS LIKELY no BECOME
"A LAW.
Special 10 the Register.

Special 70 the Register:
CHARLESTON, w. Va, February Is.
The reassessment bill. in which Kan
awha county is so deeply interested,
passed the House to-day by the mar
row margin of two, aud the battle
ground is now transferred to the Sem
ate,
The fight has developed into the very
bitterest of the whole session. Party
lines have been obliterated and Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are found on
both sides of the question. The lead
ers of the Hog Combine are the lead
ing spirits in the fight for the bill, and
it is due to their efforts chiefly that it
has been pushed as far along as it has.
The fact that they are lined up in its
support has also been one of the chief
arguments used against it, for there is
no denying the fact that their organ
ization is one the people generally re-
gard with q very considerable degree
of suspicion. Nevertheless it's mem
beers have won the fight so far, and the
chances seem good tonight for them
to get the measure through the Sem
ate in good time
The Dawson Corporation Bill
passed the Senate to-day by a strict
party vote, and now only lacks the
Governors signature, and the expira-
ton of the ninety day limit to become
law.
Already there are reports of an i'm
menSe coal syndicate being formed
under it's provisions to secure control
of the entire bituminous product of this
State. 1t seems the promoters have
only been waiting for the passage of
the law taking the limit off lana
ownership to begin operations that viii:
make them to this section what the
big corporations are to the anthracite
region of Pennsylvania.
The house to-day
Passed the Following Measures;
House joint resolution So, directing
the Senators and Representatives in
Congress to try to have the pension
law amended so as to provide for pen
5ioning militia and home guards;
House bill 210, concerning the educa-
ton of colored children: House bill
81, to provide for boards of equali-
cation for the reassesSment of real es
tate; House joint resolution A, re-
questing representatives in Congress to
endeavor to have one of the perma-
nent camps of the United States troops
put in this State; House bill 1926, con-
corning the board Of education of the
independent school district of Charles
ton: Senate bill 81, to define the cor
poration boundaries of Hinton, diyid
ing the town into two towns.
The Senate To-Day Passed.
the following measures:
House joint resolution 3, to amend
the Constitution so as to make the Sec
rotary of State an elective officer;
House bill 316, to establish a prepar-
atory branch Of the University at Key
ser and to abolish the preparatory
branch at Morgantcwn; House bill 277,
the Dawson corporation bill; House bill
rs, fixing the times for holding court
in the Tenth Judicial Circuit; Senate
bill Ill, concerning education in Han
cock and Brooke counties; House bill
219, extending the time in which dis
traint and sale may be made for taxes
House bill 246. to allow the judges of
the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits
to employ stenographers.
There was a good deal of s1irmish-
ing over Swisher's pure food bill, and it
was amended in a good many unim-
portant particulars before being sent
to its third reading. There is a strong
lobby OF baking powder and other peo-
pie here fighting the measure