The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-15

would come back again.
We'll. we got down TO the last
night or the session. The hands OF
the clock had been turned back in
That vain old attempt to stay the re-
morseless hours. but it's pale u i'm
passive face was impOtent as a grave
stone 10 stay dissolution and oblivion
know men who would have spent a
fortune to give that legislature m
more day OF life. but II was sweep
ing on its midnight death. Somehow.
whenever / think OF the legislature. |
think OF that legislature, and when
ever my mind cOnceiyes the state
house II isn't pictured TO me as stand
ing there on the hill. stately In the
sunshine. but as IL appeared that night
as | walked over from h Leland.
with the clouds flying low over its
dome. The lower floors were dark
and Stll as sepulchres, n the mes
senger boys who came over from the
Western Union, now and then, remind
cd me OF ghosts as they vent by, their
heels dragging on the marble floors
of the corridor. \ light vas burning
in the governors Office, though the old
man himself. | knew. was over at the
brary and cursing with classic curses.
We were going to try hat night 10
pass the Bailey bill over his veto.
But the third floor blazed with
electric lights and the big dome was
full OF noisy echoes. The senate kept
its coat on-you know how they
mimic decoTum over there-but the
house was in its shirtsieeves. huddled
Ike n pack of wolves around the
speakers dias. with faces ripe with
whisky. shaking its fists under the
umbrella of cigar smoke. Every fell
low was trying TO get his bill passed
In the last hour OF the sessiOu-yOu
know what IL is. Hank"
oh. yes replied Jennings. but
faint nothin' TO what I used to be
under the 'Ol constitution. We'd stack
q pile o them ere private acts up on
the clerks desk. an pass en- all {
nee it'll a whoop. Them as the
days-but that AS fore your time
Those must nave been good old
days. assented the labbyist. for tie
gang"
= reckon, \ Teller could a done
business in them days. or John Nd
better left the oil constitution alone
~ as good enough. Iut there as a
passion for change right after the
war"
IN" lobbyist politely nodded con-
rurr"ncc i'm this View and continued:
some Of the members Clamher.d
onto their desks. nlliue tho air with
oaths. ink bottles. and hurting books
MAAAl lANAllIE caves. ENTnFffUUta an
IRON weight sheathcd in paper hizzc.i
by IN vindictiye mission. and on.
man made an Egg ptiau utgcsr-kiu.r
with rubber bands. Some even hurled
th'ir copies ~ the revised statutes
- was the first us. they had ever
found for them. ono. IN a while
SOM" one woul toss "a batch ~ print
81 bulls To the ceiling. wher- they SGT
fhr glass rrtSUS II tho chandeliers
1inrlins. ana then fell Ike utumn
icat q shower 81 dead pledges and
wttheicd hopes. And out Of al th.
huhhub rose "a STEADY roar"
Lilo at a lynch.u' bee. assisted
Jennings.
Exactly" assentcd Baldwin. who
had never seen "a Isnohiug. "Thar-
"'r" a0wlS INC
laughs.nri yet We could hear through
u rI % nuIfSo voice % tile clerk. hi-
throat SO heated that you could -..
th. rapJr az his breath. as you can an
orators. or 90 Wund-chopp.r's in win
'rr. rapidly iutruirE senate bills ru
mira reading. The pages were grow
INK needless and impairment. tn.
u""- paper rprrss9nud.rfe. their dis
patches Du the wires. pg1~d their Gig
af"ft'- 100 professional and
AWAITED Happenings worthy ~ laf.
'+i 'tinf The older mrmbers. who
ttl been through the mill many times
before IuIusrd JOSS iu their seats. Oaa
could ~oD. above their desks. only
their heads and heels. The speaker.
OH /eke him s"lf. was IN the chair.
as ever. hut growing calstlc
81" had spAutcred his sounding board
HTly ln the evening. and tad taken
- tapping perfuuctDril. his walnut
desk With his lf'.o inadequate gave.
ana Yet be and the older members
and mo newspaper men would cast
occa4ionaliy an anxious glance az no."
clock. and q eXprctant ouc AZ the big
doors
AS sa' there ou -he Old. rcd
lounge under tho speakers flag draprd
canopy ] noticed Henderson Of Green.
standing away back under the CALLER
JOS on the Democrat. side. ewing Ito
procedure With ne same ms -tsriOl4
stare thar had never lrft h.m since
h" had been sworn .r Ae have
1aid. I hid never spoken o. tho f.'
lu". bIt ] Ind always fI.t 20 pity fIr
h.m- Doc Impressed mo a4 70 man Who
had been stunned hv r..07frd rIr- or
bod irck Along toward tho end or
tl" .ra7ion fr had brought hI4 U..n
1870 room Greene count 20 fTp capita
Hr bad 'Ift tired lr0r That country
HW" have Her ffr. vas scam
nrr check. hollow Dor hfrf Rta benz
n . bow. and D. walled hurrfnTft.
NlNue'r along .u irr "Irr. ug skirts
h"sIr" Dor vail and aruIrn hu. band
-IH had frf.r hf-.r aHr. from home
before. and 'hr boss raa uir. q fauer
over Dor wonder co. flo trolley cars
Hlrrirg along under fIf uauI. frnr
ana ncr fHHra n. fra elevators |r the
state h0u.r-fhOrgh. FOR my pnr. O
could 500 nothing lIIicroIs Ir If aff
D. STAYED three or four days anr
lfnFF I sn" Lincoln ''Hb. over fu
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