Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-18
HEARNE SEATED
IN THE SENATE
Favorable Report by the Committee is
Adopted by the Senate by Uuani-
NOUS Vote---End of Contest

house, that body finally ordered the
bill to its third reading.
This bill has already passed the
senate and will likely be passed AID
go to the governor for his signature.
The resolution follows.
'tBe 1t Resolved by the legislature
of West Virginia that. our senators in
the congress of the United States be
instructed and that our representa-
tives threin be requested to vote fer
and promote the passage of the bill
now pending in congress, making pro-
visions for carrying into effect a pro
posed reciprocal trade agreement be-
tween the United States and the Do
minioa of Canada.
Senate Favors Druggists.
The bill reducing the druggists Ii
cense from twenty-five dollars to two
dollars was also passed by the SEN
ste.
Income Tax.
Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 10.
The senate judiciary committee re-
ported the French Jim Crow car
bill without recommsn dation. The
hfll, 1t is claimed viii disfranchise a
large number of negroes and some
whites If it becomes a law.
The house postponed action on the
Municipal Code bill.
The house took up this bill last
night as a committee of the whole and
there was free discussion of the bill
but no agreement.
The senate took up the income tax
amendment and the discussion had
not yet concluded when the noon re-
cess was taken. Senator Grimes fav-
ored the resolution while Senators
Kidd and MacCorkle opposed 1t. The
discussion was continued at the after
noon session.
House Votes For Free Books.
The house adopted the Free Text
Book bill and indefinitely postponed
action on the Hubbard legislative
amendment, providing for three state
senators from each district
For More Court Circuits.
The first of the democratic bills for
redstricting the State was introduced
in the house by Delegate Dice, q
Greenbrier county. The bill relates to
the circuit courts, and increases the
number of judicial circuits from Is to
"a. Under the present districting, only
three circuits, the seventh, seven
ttenth, and eighteenth, are democrat
ic. Under the new bill eleven circuits,
the second, third ninth. tenth, elev-
enth, fourteenth, sixteenth, twenty
first, twenty-third, and twenty fourth,
will - democratic.
The bill redistricts the State as fol
lows: First, Hancock, Brooke, Ohio,
Marshall; second, Wetzel Tyler, Pleas
ants; third Calhoun, Gilmer, Richie;
fourth, Wood. Writ; fifth. Clay, Roane,
Jackson; sixth, Mason. Putnam; sew
enth, Cabell; eighth, Wyoming, Boone,
Lincoln; ninth, Raleigh, Summers;
tenth, Mingo, Wayne, logan elev-
enth, Monroe Mercer: twelfth. Kama
Nha; thirteenth. Mcdowell; four
tenth, Greenbrier, Pocaholtas; fiji
teenth, Fayette; sixteenth, Braxton,
Webster, Nicholas; seventeenth. Up
shur, Lewis, Dodridge eighteenth, Har
rison; nineteenth, Marion; twentieth,
Taylor, Monongalia; tweaty-frst, Ran
dc lph, Barbour; twenty-second, Grant,
Tucker, Preston; twenty-third, Hamp-
shire, Mineral. Hardy, Peneleton;
twenty-fourth, Berkeley, Morgan, JEFF
fe rson
To Entertain at Dinner
United States Senator Clarence w.
Watson and United States Senator
elect Wrn. e. Chiffon, on next Tues
DAY evening, at the Hotel Kanawha,
will entertain at dinner Gov. Glass
Geek, the members of the Supreme
Court of Appeals, the members of the
Board of Public Works, the members
Of the Board of Control, the members
Of the State Senate, the members Of
the House of Delegates, the attaches
of the Legislature, and the members
of the press.
The senators at first intended to en-
terrain a much larger body OF their
friends but the fact that there is no
place in Charleston where dinner OF
the contemplated magnitude could be
given necessitated the drawing Of the
lines.
Appropriation for King Daughters.