The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-08
MONEY OFFERED
LAW PAR 7 NER
Of LEGISLATOR!
SENSATIONAL ASSERTION &
BY DELEGATE HACKNEY
Weiss Small Loan Bill Is De-
feated in the Lower 'I. I
House.
By THos. D. kAH.
Special to The Intelligencer.

By THos. D. NAHk - ,t
Special to The Intelligencer. ~
CHARLESTON. w. Va. Feb. The
session Of the legislature today was,s
featured by the defeat Of the Weiss blu 8
to license small loan companies in the 4
house of delegates and advancement OF q
the Bloch boxing bill to third reading
in. the senate, placing that measure on =
the calendar on passage tomorrow. sa
Somewhat Of fight was staged in tbs:
No. SO, all Of which. however, was
against the measure. as not q single
house on the Weiss MEASURE. house: bill
member spoke in behalf Of the bill. ~
The attack was lead by delegate Or. ).
willie Hackney, Of Kanawha county, tho :;
youngest member Of the house, who de- Z
nounced In the I:ost scathinS manner
the provisions Of the measure ana per-
! sons who have been at the capitol In the. Z
, interest Of its passage 80
Delegate Weiss introduced the meas. !.
ure by request and took no active part:
In the discussion s
Further than charging that the realy
proponents Of the measure were Ger.s
mans outside Of the state, who sought:
to legalize the loan shaJk business, dele,
gate Hackney alleged that money had $
been offered for the promotion Of the
bills. He characterized the two. men
who appeared here in the interest Of the
bill as modern shylockS E8E5
Delegates Houv1uras and Nutter also !.
opposed the bill. the former declaring
that he had been informed that the Ruc-
sell Sage Foundation representative
who appeared before the COMMITTEES
hearing on the bill also represented the
Loan Association Of America Sz
-
mcnt to the bill proposing>to strike out (
the clause providing for interest 1t the: I:
rate Of ~ percent month, inserting Z
q rate of one percent a. month. y ;fi
The amendment was adopted and on
motion BY Delegate Brand to strike OUT
the cnacting clause Of the measure the &
bill was overwhelmingly defeated by. ~
vivi yoce vote. The bill provided for 8
interest at the rate Of ~ percent on I
loans up to 500. IS
CHARLESTON. ". Va. Feb. 7-By
d vote OF 1S to 10 the senate this after
noon passed the state racing comniK ion
bill, and by vote Of II to 10 defeated
a motion OF Senator Sanders 60 strike Z
the enacting clause from the state box:
ing commission bill The boxing bill I
was then advanced to third readinE.
.. 4Hc 0leplOc goo UIlA, SoLo4ka8 w I.Ahs
! the. senate on second reading, waB madc-,
a special order for Monday afternoon
hat O'Clock, on agreement Of those fofS
and those opposed to the measure: The:
motion. made by Senator Gribble, ttes
put the bill over to MondEx, aftefnooik
was defeated by not receivinEisa5 mast.
!, jority of the votes in the SEMI IA. thes
roll call standing at IA to II. Mater.
however. Senator Harmer. patron of5th6s
bill, agreed that it should go over.
Norton BIl Passes. =Ess
The senate passed the Morton bill.1
providing for lengtheninG the term ofa'
elementary schools conducted in connec.
tion with teacher training high schools
to tho length Of the high school term
the we,lsburE charter bill; the Luther y
bill, providing against tho exhibition OF 4
any motion picture In this stafe which =
may have a tendency to arouse race
riots; the Hall bill, requiring the item-:h
izing Of all claims against state. county
district or municipality before payment,
1and the Writ county bridge levy bill. 4 &:
The Luther board Of embalners bill,
was defeated by vote Of II to 16. His Z
bill proposing the licensing Of all un-3
dertakers. however. was advanced fronlf
second to third reading without amend :
ment.
The house Of delegates this afternoon
sent two bills to their deaths by the Z
stricken enacting clause route. One of
these was. the Wysons bill. proposing 4
the establishing of a state commission 4
for: licensing engineers Of stationary en-
gines, which was first amended, on order
| of Delegate Swisher. by striking out Z
| one whole section after another until !
II had been made of no effect. after :
which a motion to strike out the en-
acting clause was adopted.
Money offsfsd. 10
The other measure meeting its fate
was the Weiss bill, proposing the licens-
ing Of small loan companies. When It
came up on second reading an amend
ment was offered by Delegate Hack y
ney. of Kanawha county, to decrease
the proposed rate of interest to be !
| charged from 81 per cent per month
to 1 per cent. per month
In support OF his amendment Hackney
madc q strong attack on the bill AZ It j
! stood, pointing out that the interest pro-
/ posed to be churGcd amounted to an j
per cent per year. He declared thar Z
tho bill had the effect OF legalizinS 81
loan sharks instead Of regulating them
as contended by those behind the bill. {.
He charged that the real persons bc-$s
hind the measure were two Gcrrnans
from indianapolis. two Huns. two mod
ern shylocks." he explained. He fur
ther charged that money had been Of g
fered for promoting the bill, and when !!
asked to whom the money had been q
offered he said 1t had hccn Offered I
BY one OF the Germans to his; law !.
partner. II
Delegate Brand. Of Monongalia coun-Gss
~. then moved striking out the enact 8
ing clause. declaring that il all the dele:s-
gate Of Kanawha said about the olllHf
were true II ought TO be killed. not
amended. 80 His motion was adopted IS.
The house judiciary committee re-
ported favorably on its own draft Ok
O. primary election bill: on the senate
resolution providing for increasing the
nay Of members OF the legislature andS}
increasing !the length Of the session 3
from IS to 60 days; and reported out
the state repositories bill and the BOND
Of state officers bill. without recon-
mendation.
The Taylor oil and gas tax bill, de- :;
signed to raise s1,5oo.onh Of revenue
annually, came up on second reading
and was made q special order for 1O:s0 2
n m. Tuesday Of next week. to give :.
, gas companies time 20 be heard heforc .
the finance committee in tho meantime.
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