Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-27
OUR SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 25th.

Of Nevada, to reconsider the vote whereby
c. Hawkins was yesterday elected as an as.
sistant clerk of the enrolment committee.
Young had friend named Lee, whom he
wanted to place in the position; hence his
strenuous opposition to the precedent Of elect.
ing clerks of committees by vote of the
House. De Long gave Young a terrific
blizzard in speaking against the motion to re-
consider, designating him as the great
grandmother of inconsistencies" Young as
the accused member is the charge is very
nearly correct-in fact quite so, barrin' the
gender. He is quite competent to steer any
boat that Dan Gelwicks might sail in, and
you know Dams peculiar idiosyncrasies. The
House refused to reconsider the vote had
yesterday, and Hawkins, who in days of yore
was newspaperizer, stands duly chosen as
the desired clerk.
Reconsiderable as this Assembly has shown
itself to be, it quite surpassed itself this morn
ing After the Hawkins matter had been dis
posed Of Pixley's motion to reconsider the
vote whereby the House on yesterday re-
fused to indefinitely postpone Taylor's Butch
er Bill, came up, and being duly discussed
and put to vote, was carried Pixley op.
posed the bill upon constitutional and lega!
grounds Taylor supported it in eloquent
strains of higher law" but the constitution
got the best of it, and for once again, Pixley
battered a moiety of reason into the sconce
boxes of the stold Lecomptonites, and his
motion prevailed Then Gwin's motion to
reconsider the vote upon the State Register
appropriation bill was considered, and was
beaten: Gwin opposing it himself, after ex
planning that he only made the motion to re-
consider by request. (Gwin is the member
from Yolo, and being generally honest in his
notions and actions, is singularly unlike his
namesake Of Lime Point memory.) Tom
Shannon, Of Plumas, made some highly SEN
sible RENT rks about the folly and injustice of
reconsideration, and although he voted
against the passage Of the bill yesterday,
voted an emphatic no upon the motion to re.
consider. (There is a little leaven still in
1.-The popular branch.O
Sam Merritts bill for the funding Of the
debt of Tulare county, came from the Senate
to ;he House to day If Sam is a gramma-
rian, if Liudley Murray is not "a muggins,'
as was proposed by gentleman Of the As
sembly the other day, why he, (Sam. not
Lindley) allows his abstracted aspirations
Congresswords, to work him great injustice
will not insnuate that Sam cannot proper
ly coniugate the irregular verb to be; but it
was painfully evident uTon the reading of
his bill, that he had permitted the third per
son, singular number, of the present tense of
the verb alluded to, TO supersede the claims
of the third person plural in an instance
where the latter had right to have place,
in the construction of one or more of his SEN
tences, and various scholarly persons were
merciless enough to call attention to the in
accuracies A motion to have the bill referred |
to the Committee on Education did not pre-
vail. l may be allowed to add that is has
right to occupy certain high positions unless
are beats as 10y plurality. This has no bear
ing upon the query proposed by Hamlet
concerning the merits of "Tobey"
Trusting you will excuse this syntaxcal
digression, will proceed to say that the
Senate to day passed bill releasing from
liability the sureties of ex-Tresurer Doctor
Bates. This is great display of magnan-
mostly on the part of Buchananite Senate
toward a Know Nothing dehulting Treas.
urer and his hackers. However, if the State
can stand it, feel quite sure can.
l have necessarily to run about so much
from one house to the other, that miss much
that transpires in each, and came very near
missing the discussion had upon proposition
to change the name of person of German
extraction from that of Schekpellwitcht,"
TO that of Robinson" got into the House
in time to hear Aud move to have the bill
referred to the Committee on Swamp and
Overlooked Lands and likewise to hear
Shepard, of San Francisco, aude to Mr.. Aud
as "the facetous member from Yuba !" The |
unpronounceable Teutonic name was refer
red to the Judiciary Committee, and Aud was
properly rebuked for making light of SO very
serious a matter.
Parks Free Bridge bill, which originated
in and passed the Senate, was taken up in
the House to day and upon motion, was made
the special order for tomorrow at II o'clock
If the vote upon the Hanson and Fall bill is
any indication of the state of feeling in the
House, this free bridge proposition will be
likely to become law.
An act supplementary to an act that was
silly slipped through the two houses, so
amending the practice act as to deprive Dis
trict and County Clerks of their accustomed
fees for codying complaints, was to-day in
troduced into the House and placed on the
general file. This supplementary net, ex-
empts large number of the counties of the
State from the provisions Of the amendatory
law. In justice to many present incumbents
of clerks offices, this act out to pass, and it
probably will
Among the peculiarities of this asscmblage
of legislators, is q weakness for demanding
the previous question" | don't know that
it ought to be termed a weakness, either. for
it has the wholesome effect of shutting off
much useless debate and many sophimorical
recitations. But that the previous question
is often, very often called for, is fact that
strikes looker-On with much force.
The Bulkhead bill lthat best abused Of nu