Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-04-05
rhe Final Proceedings.

Comfy Seat Bill. Instead of indulging IN
single square of the columns that might o'
wrhten in review of the whole question, We
prefer, for the present to allow our readers
to make up their own opinion, unbiased
Also. refused to concur in Senate amend
ments to Assembly bill so: an act to submit
the question of the removal and location o.
the county seat of Amador county to the
choice of the voters of the county, and re-
ouested the Senate to appoint Il committee o.
conference relative to the proposed amend
ments in said bill.
Mr. McCoun offered q resolution, which
provided that committee OF conference DC
appointed on the part of the Senate to con
fer with like committee on the part OF the
/ House. relative to the amendment.
Mr.. Vaudeville moved that the resolution
be indefinitely postponed.
/ President ruled the motion out OF order.
The question must first be: "Shall the Sen
ate reeede n
Mr.. Crandall--I desire briefly to give a
hittory of this question of the removal OF
Amador county, and in doing so will occupy
but a few moments of the time OF the Sen
ate. The Legislature of 1884 passed an act
"granting to the electors of Calaveras county
the privilege to vote for or against division
Of said county, and to organize the county OF
Amador."
This act provided that the election for a
division should be held on the l4th day OF
June, and if a majority OF the votes cast
at such election should be in favor OF a
division. then, ON the third Monday in July
following. an election should be held for
county officers, and place for the location
of the county seat; and the place IN the
county having the highest number OF votes,
should be the county seat.
Before the election was held, the principal
towns in the county, except Volcano, offered
to give different sums TO the county, towards
the erection of county buildings, if the seat
of Justice should be located at their town.
jackson agreed to give seven thousand five
hundred dollars; she received majority over
any other town in the county, and imme-
diately erected a substantial Court House,
and deedca Il 10 tie county
Now, sir, the bill under consideration was
introduced into the Assembly by my colleague,
Mr.. Speaker Farley, who resides in the town
of Volcano. Senators are aware that 1t pro-
yides for submitting the removal of the
county seat to the qualified electors of the
county, and in the event of removal, if Vol
cano is selected, she shall furnish county build
ings, eta; in short, the county shall not be
put to further expense, so far as county
buildings and the removal of the archives are
concerned; but what is to become of the cit
liens of Jackson, who subscribed seven
dollars towards building q court
house and gaze it to the county? Shall
their rights be trampled upon merely to
crafty the citizens of rival town, as is rep
resented by the action of the Assembly in
sending the bill back here because it was
Justly amended by this body?
Sir / do not believe the citizens of Vol
cano desire that their representatives in the
Assembly should place them in so ridiculous
a position. know they are a hgh-minded
liberal people. | do not believe
that the paltry sum of three or four thou
sand dollars, which the people OF jackson AS
well as other portions OF the county, have to
pay, weighs as much in their estimation as
their immediate representative, Mr.. Farley,
would have you believe. | do not think that
he represents the wishes Of his constituents
when he says the Senate amendments will
make the bill obnoxious to the people.
! do not believe, sir that there are ten
sensible men in Amador county, besides Mr..
Speaker Farley, who would have the face to
advocate bill to take the scat of justice
from the town of Jackson without paying her
back the ptiful sum of three or four thou
sand dollars that she actually gave the
county when the seat was located there. 1t
appears, sir, that the bill cannot pass the As
semby with the Senate amendment, and in
view of that fact, and that it may not put
the State to any more expense, ! hope the
whole matter will be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. McCoun thought it the best plan to
appoint a committee Of conference. If the
Senate insisted on the amendment, and the
House, as was most probable, would refuse
to accept the amendment, the bill would be
lost, and he did not suppose that the Senator
from Amador wished to defeat the bill.
Mr.. Crandall said that if il could not be
passed with this amendment. which he deemed
to be but just he should prefer that the bil
would be indefinitely postponed.
The question being taken, the Senate re
fused to rceede.
Mr. McCoun renewed his motion to appoln
committee of conference.
Mr.. Mandeyile moved to indefinitely post
pone the notion which was carried.
The Secretary was directed by the Presl
dent pro TEN to return the bill to the As
scmbly.
NoMEN LAcKEE REsERvATIoN.--M A. X
Benton, formely resident OF this city, bn
] who has rnr the last eiphtnen months bee