The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-03-21
OF
Old TACTICS BY
FRIENDS IF TIE
GAS PRODUCERS
Some Disagreeable Surprises
in the List Of Senators Who
Are Trying to Kill Progress
sive Measure-All Hope of
Speedy Adjournment
Passes With Two Houses
at Loggerheads.

Special Dispatch to Tho 1ntclligcnccr.
CHARLESTON, ". Va, March 90
Refusal of a majority OF the members
OF the state senate this afternoon to
permit dispensing Of committee REFER
ence Of the John oil and gas trans
portation tax measure came as a great
surprise, as aid the similar action OF
the senate majority IN defeating SEN
ator Earner's motion that the finance
committee be instructed to report
back the bill not later than next Mon
day.
inspection Of the roll call Of tho
votes taken In the senate Is equally
surprising, as the names OF several
senators who were confidently be-
Hsved to be among the supporters OF
the movement to tax OIL and gas ap-
pear among those voting to bury the
measure for all time In the archives
Of the finance committee.
The whole situation recalls the
many past successful efforts in West
Virginia legislatures to shield the oil
and gas interests from bearing their
equitable share Of taxation.
The only way out Of the present
situation is by the senate ordering tho
measure ont from committee, or by
Friends Of the bill are hopeful that tho
houses action In tacking on q refer
1ndurn provision to the Virginia debt
bill viii bring tho senator's opposing
the oil and gas legislation to time.
The vote Of the motion to dispense
with reference OF the John oil and
gas tax bill to COMMITTEES and advance
It. to second reading follows:
:TS-B1och, Burr, cobur. Harmnn,
aar1na<, johnson, Poling-Seven.
Hoes-Arnold, Burgess, Chapman,
Dodson. Duty. Fox, Gribb1e, Eough.
Huuter, Kunp, Lewis, Luther, Sand
erS, Scherr, Stewart and VencH-Si1-
teen.
Abster and not voting were Messrs.
Coalter, Fraxier, Staats, York ana
Sdnsel. Messrs. Morton and Montgozn-
cry paired.
vote on the motion TO refer the bin
to the finance committee with tnstruc-
tious to report It ont by Monday fol-
lows:
Yes-Bloch, Burgess, Cobun, Duty,
Harr,an, Hammer, johnson, Kump and
PoIng-Ntne.
Noes-Arnold, Chapman, Dodscn,
Fox, Gribble, Hougt, Hunter, Lewis,
Luther, Sanders, Scherr, Stewart, Ven
cdl and Sinsel-Tourteen.
When the gax tax bill came up In
the senate on nrst reading as reported
from the house, Senator Bloch moved
that reference to committee be dis
pensed with and that the blu be ad-
vanced to, second reading. There
was long discussion over THIS mo-
tton- In which 1t was favored by B1ocns
Harmer and Morton and opposed py
Gribble, Duty and Arnold.
The motion was lost and the Dill was
referred to tho finance ccsum1eSee.
Senator Hammer then moved that the
committee be instructed to report r-,e
bill ont for consideration on the moor
of the senate by Monday. This mo-
t1oa was lost by q vote Of 13 to >
Taking up the house resolution re-
sardine the league Of nations ~
amended BY the judiciary cora11attse..
the senate adopted 1t by vote OF ~
70 =. rne amenumenL was CREAMY
curtailed and made merely to express
di.approval Of the proposed league OF
natous consLlJutIou, Uot 1SVo11nS
some sort Of agreement limiting arzna-
ment and otherwise tendinE to prevent
.war, and In approving the action OF
senator Lodge and 36 other United
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