Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-01-26
GETS HONOR.
Democrats Give Him Support In
Preference to McGraw.
VERY LITTLE WORK DONE
Only One Bill Has Passed the Senate
and Only One Through the
House.

Charleston. w va, Jan. a2.-The
democrats nominated John ]. Cornwen
Monday night as the candidate for the
empty honor Of receiving the democrat.
ic vote for United States senator.
There was a sharp fight between John
7. McGraw and w f. Chiffon for this
honor as it was considered that 1t
would carry with 1t the party leader
ship.
McGraw got fourteen votes for sew
en- ballots, while Chiffon got twelve.
Then the McGraw strength went 10
Cornwell and on the ninth ballot he re.
eeived seventeen votes, while Chiffon
got thirteen.
Have Done Little Work.
The legislature has now been IN ses.
sion for Z of the As DAYS provided by
the constitution for legislative ses.
sions, and has accomplished less in
the way of enactments than has ever
been accomplished by previous West
Virginia Legislature in the same length
5of time Only one bin has passed the
house and i Is hung up in the senate,
with no possibility of telling when Ii
will get through. Ii is the measure
appropriating $4,000 for a state ex.
hibit at the jamestown Exposition. 1t
was passed under suspension OF rules
in the house, and everybody Supposed
it would go through the senate the
same way, but objections were raised
II is not at all certain that Il will be
passed at all as it now stands.
The senate passed the first bill that
has run the gauntlet of that BODY It
amends the law relating to the times
of holding terms of circuit courts so
as TO change the time of such terms in
the Seventh judicial circuit.
A few more attaches were provided
for running the list up to III, Oh three
and twenty-eight hundredths attaches
for each senator. The joint resolution
to amend the constitution so as to pro.
hibit the manufacture and sale OF in
toxicating liquors in the state was re.
ported back from the judiciary com.
mittee without recommendation show
ing that the members of that commit
tee preferred TO sidestep the issue. In
the house a resolution was adopted
recurring the public printer to furnish
the house with 1900 copies daily OF
the journal Of the house.
Pure Food Commissioners.
/ The judiciary committee reported IA
Vorably the bill to create the office oil
pure food commissioner and the bill re
j lating to negotiable instruments, so Ms
20 make the law uniform with that OF
other states.
The house bill to amend the law sc
I that taxes ON property assessed by the
board OF public works can be returned
! when found excessive was amended SO
! that an extension of 10 DAYS is made
of the time which public service cor
porations may pay their taxes and get
the benefit of the per cont discount
and escape the 10 per cent penalty
The house adjourned because the bills
reported from committees had not
been furnished them by the public
! printer. and there was nothing further
TO do.
Governor Dawson for the Senate?
1t is claimed that Governor Dawson
has his eyes fixed upon seat in the
United States senate. and that every
move he makes is with a view TO land.
ing the honor. In his message he
recommended the enactment of a mum.
Der of laws that-would put much more
power into his hands. He wishes to
have the secretary of state made an ap.
pointive office, as 1t was formerly, the
attorney general made appointive, and
all the prosecuting attorneys made re.
movable bY executive order Almost
every bill introduced by the admins
tration advocates provides for com
mission or new member to be named
by the governor, and thousands of dol
lars are proposed to be dished out at
his will Even some of the most ar
dent friends and supporters of two
years ago are now criticising him and
complaining of his seeming desire to
grasp everything in sight. There prom
Uses to be a merry war over the exten.
sion of the power of the executive be-
fore the legislative session ends.
The resolution introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator Littlepage and in the
house by Mr.. Mitchell calling for an in
quiry into the methods of oil com
panies operating in this state and as
to whether the Standard Oil company
has lobby here now. seems to be the
outward manifestation of fight be.
tween the Baltimore and Ohio railroad