The Placer herald., 1866-05-05
Great Men in California.

During the laat session of the Legislature
the editor of the Mariposa Free Press visited
Sacramento, and he thus graphically sketches
the personnel Of the assembled Solons:
The body comprised a few very able, and
some honest mtn, but the record as a general
thing places them in small minority. In
the Assembly, Goodwin, of Plumas; Holden
Of Mendocino; aud Brown, of Contra Costa;
were in the front rank in point of ability
and won the respect Of al parties. The
same may be said of Pratt, Of Sierra Belden,
OF Nevada; Montgomery, of Merced and
Pearce, of Sonoma, Of the Senate The pre-
siding officer of this body Uieutenant COVER
nor Machin) performed his duties with dig
nifty. and uniform courtesy to all, without
distinction ofparty. Yule, Speaker of the
Assembly, was arbitrary, overbearing and
unjust. His forte was shooting meaningless
squbs at the American eagle, resurrecting
dead soldiers and calling the "Star Spangled
Banner" all manner of hard names. Yule
will never 60 to Congress, and this is saying
a very bitter thing when we come to consider
that Worthington went. Neither will Low
ever reach the United States Senate-and this
isn't complimentary to "Fred," after we have
sent Conness aud Cole.
If we had right slippery old thieving bill
to engineer through that body under dis,
guse of "honesty," we would have secured
the services of IIawes. alias "oId Honesty"
alias "kasm," alias "Urah lleep." He has
more disguised meanness in his composition
than any six Legislators we can now call to
mind. If we had wished to run something
through roughshod, we would have selected
Wilcox as our champion. John w. is a good
working member, and possesses energy and
vim. If we desired to stihe debate, and
couldn't get on the right side of Speaker
lue, we would have posted Sherwood to
move the previous question. Had we been a
member of the Assembly, and wanted leave
Of absence on account of sickness, we would
have engaged Mace to set forth our ailments
five bad been in very tight place, where
rough work and man to stay with us was
wanted, Jake Chase would have been our
preference. Lee, of Alpine, might have got
the JOB of reciting negro poetry, if we had
the dispensation of any amount of that kind
of literature. Hunt of Santa Clara, is our
man when it is necessary to clear the lobby
and galleries of the Assembly, while Porter
of Contra Costa, is muscled for the same off
flee in the Senate. If we wanted to know
how rubbs, of San Francisco, was going to
vote we would ask Dodge; and to ascertain
the same about Dodge, we would ask Tubbs.
Chamberlain of San Joaquin, represents one
institution in that county very well-Qhe
Insane Asyum). Chamberlain has "nigger
on the brain" and also labols under another
very harmless delusion-he thinks the war
is still going on. Jones of Trinity, is af11cti
ed with the same complaint, but managed to
keep himself from pop dating an extensive
graveyard by beating the air with his fists
and sweating like negro at "corn shuck-
ling" Parson Benton of the Senate distn
guished himself by rising to points of order;
Robinson, of the-same body has style of
painful delivery, suggestive of hauling
refractory cat out of gunny sack by the
tail.
There are some other members possessing
peculiar characteristics worthy of note.
Jump has immortalized them with his pen
cl-as body, the Journals of the session
will give an idea of some of their strong
points, and forthcoming volume Of statutes
about the size of Webster's Unabridged will
stand for at least two years as a monument
to the last Radical Legislature of the State
of California The gave Of the Speaker fell
at l2 o'cloc.., on the evening of the I'd in
stant-the last act of the Legislature of SG6,
An Act entitled an act for The suppression of
houses of i'll fame and for the relief of the
State Treasury.