The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-22
BUSY DAY In
LEGISLATURE
AFTER SESSION LASTING UNTIL
AFTER q O'CLOCK
SUNDAY
Both Houses Dispose o. Many Meas
ures-Some Of the More I'm
portant Enaetments.

Special Dispatch 70 the Intelligence
CHARLESTON. W. Va. Feb. 2i.-
Saturday was a busy day for the leg
islature and a number OF important
measures were finished up and will
become laws with the signature Of the
governor. AFTER much wranEling and
many conferences the county salary
bill was adopted and under the COM
promise the Ohio county officials will
receive the following. sheriff. $4,000:
County clerk, $4,000: Circuit clerk.
$500. and the same for prosecuting
attorney. The bill does not become
effective until the present terms Of
h officials expire and will not be-
come fully effective until 1922.
Shortly before midnight the Viz
ginia debt commission bill went
through. As amended II provides for
a new commission OF hve men TO take
charge of the controversy in conjunc-
ton with the attorney general and en-
lpowertng II to employ additional coun.
sci with the approval Of the board OF
public works.
The workmens' compensation bill
vas passed and goes TO the governor
Tor his signature. The Parrish cor
lrupt practices act was also passed and
VIII become a law. The Wertz asses.
sor bill providing the employment of
additional assessors for Ohio and Ka-
nawha counties and the bill authorib-
ing Ohio river counties TO issue spec.
ial bonds TO assist in the construction
OF The Lake Erie canal were both
The Talbot outstanding bill. pro
htoiting betting in any form or wager.
ing money on any game of chance was
also passed by both houses.
AFTER a long conference the senate
nnAlly receded from its amendment
providing civil service for the police
department and the Wheeling charter
bill was then passed.
In spite of much Republican opposi-
ton the congressional redistricting
Dill went through the house in the
same form that II passed the senate
and viii become a law. II provides
six congressional districts.
Senate bill No. 332. regulating
practice OF attorneys at the bar.
passed.
h house receded from its amend
ments 20 tho Warrington charter and
passed II as the senate had.
Delegate Hall complained OF the
TACT that demands for the printing
OF h state audit had been ignored
u demanded calling up the public
printer The latter official appeared
ana explained that the printing was
delayed by a rush OF other work.
The house adopted a resolution ask
ing the senate to order the judiciary
committee to report out Of committee
house bill No. 80. making gas pine
lines common carriers.
The last bill passed granted a now
charter for Fairmont. II had been bit
terly fought since he early part of the
session, and the tight tonight lasted
nearly two hours. The roll call was
announced at sos O'Clock and The
senate Immediately adjourned. In the
the house had been marking
tlme unul notified OF the passage OF
the Dill. n adjournment Of the low
er branch was taken a few minutes
afterwards.
Practically all important measures
advocated by the administration. with
the exception OF the revision OF nv
dro-electric power legislation. have
been enacted.
The White primary election law was
passed tonight by favorable action
on the recommendation of the Joint
conference committee.
When b final struggle for the pas.
sage of a bill creating a state depart
ment Of health came in the house TO-
night, the opposition vanished. and
me Dill introduced by Senator Nc
Ciung passed, So 10 10. DR.. Allen, the
county delegate. called up the
Dill. which was passed under a sus-
pension of the rules.
Juvenile Court.
The bill introduced hv Delegate
Moreland. OF Monongalia county pro-
Vlding for the establishment OF fuve.
nile courts, was paessed by the sen
atc without opposition SCOT after con-
yenlng for the second night session OF
this Legislature.
me senate passed a bill revising
the Nost prohibition law. permitting