Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-22
SPENT SOLID DRY
ON APPROPRIATION BILL.
AND SENT 1T BACK TO THE HOUSE
WITH MANY AMENDMENTS
TO BE CONSIDERED.
FUNDS FOR THE UNIVERSITY
MADE UNAVAILABLE TILL PRESI-
DENT RAYMOND SHALL
HAVE BEEN FIRED.
Special to the Register.

CiARLESTON, w. Va, February 81.
The Senate to-day put in pretty solid
time on the general appropriation bill
and got through with it late in the
afternoon. 1t was sent back to the
House with a long list of amendments,
some of them of considerable import
ance. Chief of these in financial in
terest is the Pan-American %appropria-
ton of twenty-five thousand dollars,
which was put in the bill yesterday by
a good big majority. Another import
ant amendment, as showing the feel
ing Of Senators on a matter that has
been widely discussed, was in the ap-
preparation for the University, to which
a proviso was added to the effect that it
should not be available until the pres
ent president had retired. When this
amendment was put in the Senate bill
the other day it was thought it would
probably not be adhered to, but the
action of the Senate in adding it to
the House bill to-day shows that it is
not a piece of thoughtlessness, but was
done with studied intent, and that it
will be insisted on in conference COM
mittee. Other amendments to the bill
were numerous, but not important.
The House to-day
Passed the Following Bills:
House bill 101, amending the law I'M
der which cities, towns and villages
may be incorporated without special
charter, with Senate amendments;
House bill II, for the protection of fish
in private waters, with Senate amend
ments; resolution to pay j. B. Peyton
for work done in arranging for the ses-
sion of the Legislature; Senate bill 1872,
relating to election Of commissioners
in the school district of Huntington,
effective from its passage; Senate bill
10, amending the law relating to Ii
censes and the amount or rate Of taxa
ton; House bill 1888, providing for the
submission of the registration amend
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people; Senate Bill Is, providing for the
relocation of county seats; House bill
207, concerning duties and compensa-
ton of county superintendent of
schools; House bill 178, relating to
levies for school purposes, with SEN
ate amendments; Senate bill 181, re-
curing licenses for insurance agents
or those doing business for insurance
companies; Senate bill 95, to prevent
the introduction and spread of contag-
ious diseases among domestic animals;
Senate bill 116, concerning the Home
for Incurables; House bin "a, relating
to juries in felony cases; Senate bill
"a, relating to division hedge fences
Senate bill 166, establishing the indie
pendent school district of New Cum
berland; House bill III, Wheeling cleo
trio light bill, with amendments pro-
posed by the conference committee;
House joint resolution SO, to authorize
the appointment of a revenue commits
sion; House bill 20, to create the West
Virginia service commission, as
amended by the Senate; House bill 331,
providing for the submission of four
constitutional amendments to the peo-
pie as amended by the Senate; House
bill 1863, providing for the display of
the United State flag over school build
ings, with Senate amendments.
The Senate To-Day Passed Bills
and resolutions as follows:
Resolution allowing pay to Frank
Beller and William Thomas, as pages,
from the first day of the session at
one dollar per day; House Bill 90, Gre
ating the West Virginia service COM
mission; resolution putting in effect
from passage Senate Bill 101; Senate
Bill 1S1, to fix a tax on insurance
agents. as amended by the House; Sem
ate Bill II, protecting fish in private
waters, as amended by the House; reso-
luton for appointment of one person
by Senate. and one by House to take an
inventory of furniture and other prop
erty belonging to the two houses. and
to furnish same to the clerks to have
put in the journals; resolution to ex-
tend the time of the president and
some of the employees twenty days and
the clerk of the finance committee ten
days; House Bill 149, amending the
law relating to hotel licenses: resolu-
ton to allow the clerk of the Senate
sixty days extra time in which to in
dex the journals, and the three assist
ants thirty days each to help; House
Bill 81, to protect union labels; Senate
substitute for House Bill go, amend
ing the charter of the city of Charles
ton; House Bill IFS, relating to the
levy of taxes for school purposes, with
amendment proposed by conference
committee; House Bill 32S, the general
appropriation bill.