Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-27
Sacramento Correspondence.

/ ton To use all proper eAeflohs lor '"o i'
establishing of daily mail line between your
city and Shasta, was adopted.
An act amendatory of the Judiciary act
was passed
The Senate also passed the Assembly APP
preparation bill, for the payment of the in
auguration expenses, viz 1902 90.
In the Assembly, although the session was
short one, the proceedings were somewhat
interesting In pursuance of resolution
adopted, a special committee of seven mem
bers was appointed by the Speaker to act
with committee of four Senators, if the Sen
ate will concur, in investigating the merits OF
the prop, sitions already made for locating
the State Capitol. The committee on the
part of the House consists of Messrs. Shaw.
Maxson, Gallagher, Bowman, Welty, Crow
| ell, and Heston. The end is not yet. Mr..
Lawrence gave notice that he would intro
duce a bill for the permanent location of the
State Capitol. l do not know what his bill
is to be.
The committee on Judiciary made very
promising display of conservatism to day, by
recommending the indefinite postponement of
some bills 1t is safe to say that non-action
10y the legislature can do no harm. The bills
! thus treated by the committee were as fol-
lows: One to regulate fees of witnesses IN
criminal cases one to enable poor people to
90 to law for nothing; and the other to A.
mend the act concerning crimes and punish
ments.
The combined efforts of Messrs. CONFESS
and Warner, are likely to bring to light full
and complete details of all the great Indian
wars that have been, and of the many more
which some parties hope will be. resolu
tion offered 10y Mr.. CONFESS, and amended by
Mr. Warner, was adopted. calling upon the
Governor for all correspondence bad in refer
enee to the whole subject matter during the
past year. and in the possession of the Execa
tive.
The committee on Education, under a reso
luton adopted to day, are to inquire into the
necessity and practicability of the establish
ment of "a University by the State.
The great Almaden mining case will be
discussed tomorrow. Mr. Williams (of
Santa Clara) resolution in reference to the
same having been made the special order of
the day. The resolution instructs our dele
cation in Congress to use their exertions to
induce the General Government to discon-
time proceedings against the Almaden Min
ing Company. The people of Santa Clara
have held meetings, and endorsed Mr. Will
liams' proposition. The resolution asks the
Government to dismiss the suit if it can be
done without determining the ultimate RICH,
to the property, and bases the petition upon
the policy pursued by the Government in
reference to lands containing other mineral,
(gold)
A resolution was adopted in the usual form
of Instructions, for the establishment of a
weekly mail route from Sonora, Tuolumne
! county, to Monoville, Utah Territory.
A bill for the establishment at Marysville
of a Branch Insane Asylum. was introduced
by Mr. Wescoatt, pursuant to notice The
bill was read first and second time and or
dered printed by a vote of % to 90 1t was
not printed this afternoon, and I have been
unable to see the original. You will receive
printed copies as soon as l can send them.
Mr.. Gwinn, of Yolo, made some lengthy
remarks to day in support of his resolution
against the adjournment of the Assembly on
any day before four o'clock, unless all bust
ness should have been previously disposed of
He raped the Union "scribbler," as he call
ed him, somewhat severely, and rather i'll
naturally. He said that the scribbler allu
ded to thought the best Fart of legislative
work was done in committee, and not in long
sessions. Mr.. Gwnn said that long discus
sions often took place, concerning reports of
committees, and that the House ought to sit
as late as four o'clock to get those discussions
out of the way for the next days work He
declared that he did not care much whether
his resolution passed or not, for his principal
object in offering it was to express his opin
ious as to how long members ought to be
willing to sit, before thrusting motions to
adjourn upon the House.
Mr.. Lamar opposed long sessions,
Mr. Shannon wanted to amend by making
the resolution concurrent and to read that
tie Legislature adjourn sine die on the 10Th
ofMarch. He thought that if his amendment
could prevail the adjournment might really
take place by the first of April. Somebody
insisted chat Mr.. Shannon's amendment was
not in order. The Speaker said it was. The
House, on appeal, said it was not The whole
subject was laid on the table, and the House
adjourned
The Supreme Court rendered a decision to-
day in the San Francisco firemen's election
case. The Whitneyites are much reioiced.
but they may be little too fast. The Court
simply decided that the contest between
huffman and Whitney should have been de-
cided by the Board of Delegates of the Fire
Department at the time, instead of doing
which they declared the election as to Chief
Engineer null and void, although it was re-
coguized as regular, 10y them, so far as other
officers chosen, on the same occasion were
concerned. The matter now rests with the
Board Of Delegates again.
lhove had no time to get any information
concerning the Turner trial here, further
'noh That jury was empannelled this morn
ing.
heard that one of the prOprietors of the
| DEMOCRAT was in town TO ds,, h,.Ihonoo.