The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-18
TURNS DOWN BILL FOR
CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING
MOTION TO POSTPONE ACTION
iNOEF lNtTElY CARRIED BY
VOTE OF ~ 70 30.
Compensation Law Passes House
With Only Seven Opposed - At
tempt TO XIII Boxinq Bill Fails.
BY W. r. KEYSER
(Staff Correspondentl

- NfiAAAAsr-o lOENs ". y a feb. IL
Unless the House tomorrow recon
siders lis action OF today in indefinite
~ postpOning further consideration
or the Blessing redistricting bill plans
Tor redistricting the State as TO Con-
gressional districts are dead, as far
as the present session OF the Legisla-
ture Is concerned. The bill proposed
10 divide the State into six Con-
gressional districts. The First district
would have been affected by hayins
harrison and Lewis counties dropped
and Taylor added.
The bill. which recently passed the
Senate by an almost unanimous vote.
has been before the House several
DAYS, but action was deferred other
Than advancing IL to its second read
ing, Coming up as a special order OF
business at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
on It's amending stage, its considera-
ton was requested by Delegate
hughes, chairman OF the committee
OF Tedistricting. Delegate Duty. OF
hitchie. who has been opposing the
Oil. moved that IL be tabled. but HIS
motion was lost by a vote OF 80 ayes
10 ~ noes. Duty then moved to in
definitely postpone further consider
alton OF the measure. This motion
prevailed by the close vote of Al ayes
TO 80 noes. Party lines did not figure
TO any extent in the voting. and near
bill as opposed il, though il was sup
posed to create six Republican Con
gresslonal districts. The motion
would have been defeated. but before
the vote was announced Delegates
ballard and Heager OF Pocahontas
democrats, changed their votes from
no to aye.
How They Voted.
The vote was as follows: Ayes
Anderson, Allen. Bales. Ba,,ard.
Beard. Blackwood. Bloch. Board
Brown. Burr. Cline. Davis, Duty. Glow
er, Hinerman. Huddleston, James.
hf,eI6augh. Marley. Moore. Moreland,
mneCollum, McGraw, Otto. Pierce.
sinsel. Smith CDoddridEe), Smith TI;
CIylerl, Smith (Wood). sullivan, Swi-
ger; Talbot (Ritchie). Thurmond
weiss, Neager (Pocahontas), Yeager
wood. and Speaker johnson.
Noes-Akins. Bailey. Barlow, Ben
ger. Bland, Boone, Burnham. Clark,
erhart,. Garretson. Hall. Harman
(Grantl, Harman (McDowelD, Hers
man. Hiner, Honaker. Hughes. Kittle.
Layne, Lemon, Lilly, Marsh, Monroe.
Mullens, Murray, McCauley, McKim-
ME, Reynolds. Rinehart, Shafer. Sha-
yer Th Ialbott CWebste) Thomas,
Absent-Parsons. Pnchard, scherr.
Waldo. Wertz, Wolfe.
IL Is believed that the vote win be
reconsidered tomorrow and that the
Dill vii be advanced TO third reading.
IN that event a Republican party
caucus viii likely be held Thursday
evening.
The Parrish corrupt practice act
was advanced to third reading this
afternoon by the house after the
ddiin nme recommended by the ju-
dietary committee had been concurTed
IN. It's sister measure, the White gen
eral primary law, was reported ont
by the committee this afternon. with
several amendments recommended by
the committee, the principal one OF
Whlch provides that judges shall be
nominated in convention instead of
primaries. Another requires the state
10 pay expense OF primary relieving
candidates OF assessments.
BOARD OF Review Bill Amended.
Inc House amended Senate bill
winch sought TO abolish boards of
equalization and review by requiring
county courts. upon petition OF five
pr cent OF the voters OF the county.
10 SUBMIT at an election the question
OF whether or not the board in that
particular county should be abolished
Inc Bloch workmen's compensation
act. amended yesterday, was passed
by the House today, only seven
fNh'e oRROaAnNs among those voting
against the bill was Brown of Mar.
shall
The Otto boxing bill, legaIizing
bouts or ten rounds, was passed 10
third reading without amendments
after an attempt to kill II by striking
out enacting clause. had been defeat.
ed. Other bills advanced to third
reading include compulsory school
law. itinerant vendor bill. bill Great
ing board OF pharmacy. senate bin
relating to false advertising. senate
Dill creating office OF county road en-
EineCr and others. Among four new
bills introduced I'm the House was one
by Delegate otto, reducing member.
ship OF Wheeling Independent school
district 70 nine commissioners, one
from each OF eight wards and one
from the city at large.
Mother-And so my little man did
not cry when he fell down.
Little Man-There wasn't ANYBODY
N haa .oUFaw nwf-f.-