The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-19
SENATE NAMES
ITS ATTACHES.
MESSAGE OF VA. DEBT
PRESENTED BY Cow
House Had Adjourned and 1t,
Was Not Made Public.
Many Important Bills.

CHARLESTON, W Va., Jan. ia
special message from Governor n. ".
Hatfield to the legislature on the SUD-
iect of the Virginia debt which was
submitted today will lie dormant All
least until next Monday. The mes
sage was presented to the senate py,:
Chris Hetzel, assistant secretary 70
the governor, but when TINS :i messeni
ger reached the house OF delegatesi
Adjournment had been taken there
The reading of the message IN the
senate was formally dispensed Win
and the state printer had been giHeoE
the COPY, when Senate Clerk Harrkt
said he did not believe 1t was right
TO SCOOP the lower house, and recalieo1
the message, sending 1t back to tn9j.
governor. ,t,
AS the senate, in respect to Sen
I'M. V. Godbey, whose father died mere
today, adjourned until Monday, It VIII
be impossible for the debt message 70!
come to light before that time.
The committee on privileges ana
elections of the senate made its first
report today showing that the creden:l
tials Of all the members were correct
and that no contest had been filed. I,
Bills which had been referred to-
both the judiciary and educational
committees were reported out Wltnf
the recommendation that they pass.i
These included the measure providing
for pensions for super-annuated scnooii
teachers. The others relate to coufti
procedure.
On motion the senate joint resolu. 7
| tion asking for the appolntment OF an
efficiency commission to make nvesu.,
CATION of the states finances, prepara. !.
tory to inauguratipg budget system
! for the senate, were referred 10 tn0!
| judiciary committee.
Senator NJ. X. Duty introduced three!
of the twenty bills originating. IN tho;
senate, each of which has to 40 with
the abolishment of capital punishment
in West Virginia. Life sentence ls /
proposed as the maximum penai 1911
first degree murder, criminal assault y
! and treason.
! Senate Attaches. ~
| Announcement of At attache ap-s
pointments by President Wells Goody.s
! koontz of the senate, was made at the!
afternoon session as follows:
| Secretary to the presidential. E.j
scherr, of Kanawha county; stem;
ographer to president, Mrs. Nellie
Frost, of Mcdowell county; clerk OF
finance committee, Charles H. Hen
ming. of Ohio county; assistant CLERK
; finance committee, A. j. Hedrue, ukt
! Mercer county; stenographer Of the
finance committee, Mrs. r. E. Rich:
ardson, of Mercer county; CLERK
I judiciary committee, Russell BarretE>
of Wood county; stenographer to the
! judiciary committee, Miss Virgins
! Hill. of Wood county.
! Other committee clerks-M. 7. NC
Avoy, of Brooke county; Harry Berry,
| of Wetzel; ". L. Rhorbaugh, of Up-
shur; Ben W. Bee, of Ritchle; Chas:
Nuzum, of Richie; P. ". Morris, Of
Wood; W P. Pool, of Upshur; J. c.:
/ Higganbotham, of Putnam; r: H.
Graham, of Summers; Marshall HtS.s
ginbotham, of Kanawha; V. B. Greene,
of Boone; John A. Thayer. kanawhA:
George Cooper, Of Monongalia; R. N
Fisher, of Harrison; Carl B: McCrum,
of Preston; John Brown, OF Randolph;
Garfield Davies, Of Monongalia; c.? G..
Wright, of Marshall; Jack Nolte, OF:
: Ohio.
| Stenographers - Lillian Hupp, OF
iKanawha; supervisor, Beryl Cain, or
Kanawha; Monica Sovine, Of Putnam:
Nora Meadows, of Summers; Mabel; !;
Wright, of Harrison; Gay Shaw, OF
! Taylor. s.
Senate Pages. ~
! Pages-Mail and banking, Frank
rro,+I,r.h On pn1a Hi1hkN