The Placer herald., 1866-03-31
JOTTINGs DOWN FROM THE CAPITAL.
[BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE


Another week of legislation has passed
since my ast-anl such legislation! God
| forbid that the State of California should
ever witness its parallel! / cannot iken the
action Of the. present model law'making
power Of the State to anything except an
old fashioned grist'mil. where parties had
to wait their turn. A certain number Of
bills are pitched into the hopper (no aluson
TO the member of Assembly from the de-,
fuuct county of Grauite-that, like the little
boys defanct brother, "wa'ant no year old
at all, it died bornin' ")-and when the
Speaker starts the mill going, the grist is
ground through by the first intention.
THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN PLACER AND NEVADA.
After hard fight between your deega.
tion from Placer and that from Nevada, i'm
which it was nip and tuck for long time
Speaker Yule and Judge Belden, of Nevada,
arguing the case, for their respective delega-
tions, before the Committee on Counties and
County Boundaries-and each party inter.
ested fighting the ground inch by inch on
the floor of the Assembly ly-Sexton's bill
passed by a small majority and went into the
Senate where, l understand, the Committee
having it in charge, have reported against it
and it starts so far back on the general
file, that unless it is taken up out of its
order, it will hardly be reached before
the time fixed for adjournment. BY the
way, Wilcoxsn, the County Clerk of Sut-
ter, was down here few days since, and
says, that in return for Assemblyman Bos
quit trading him Swamp Land for Railroad
stock, be is at work aiding Placer to steal all
the territory of Nevada-takiug 10 Salt
Lake and Fort Churchill
THE LOBBY
The good book says, that "where the car
cass is, there the buzzards will gather
as the session draws near to its close the
lobbies of the two Houses are crowded TO
their fullest extent. The Third House is
more fully represented than at any previous
time during the session. Nap Broughtou
and Zeke Wilson, the officers Of this body,
are "as busy as nalers," and on the qui vive
day and night. After having voted down
the bill raising the fares on the San Francis.
co Street Railroads, by decided majority,
the Assembly the other day passed the same
bill which came from the Senate by an
equally large vote. The San Francisco Bul
letin charged that the failure of this bill in
the first instance, was owing to the fact that
the wheels of legislation in the Lobby had
not been sufficiently greased-and upon the
passage of the Senate bill, reversing the for
mer decision of the Assembly, by a most
decided vote. that paper charged that the
parties most directly interested, had in the
meantime come down handsomely to the
Third House. Although the Bulletin is not,
as general thing, the best authority, in this
instance its surmises are pretty nearly cor
rect; and there is more in it than meets the
eye. The Lobby is power neither to be
sneezed or grinned at member Of the
Assembly, elected from an interior county
few years since-a man of integrity and in.
Iigence-informed me, that after the close
of the session. during which be had voted
conscientously on every measure tba: came
up, prominent Lobby member, with uni
blushing effrontery, stated to him that he
had sold his vote not less than eighteen
times, when all the time he did not know it,
Another member, in giving his experience as
a member Of a past Legislature, stated, that
after the close Of the session, one of the
members Of the Third House insisted on
presenting him with an elegant new suit Of
clothes. Surprised at tie proposition, he
inquired why he should be made the recip-
lent of such :. mark of favor His friend
from the Lobby coolly Informed him that be
had made ten times the amount by using his
votes AS trading capital during the session.
1t is queer world we live unexpectedly
that portion which governs t-when we
come to analyze its constituent parts.
UNBLUsH1Ne EFFRoNrERY.
In the face Of the clear unconstitutional
ity of the measure, the majority of the AS.
sembly have passed, by decided vote, bill
changing the time of holding the municipal
elections of the City and County of San
Francisco. from the Spring to the FalI-and
extending the terms of the present Officer
holders far beyond the time for which they
were elected. Senator Dodge, in meeting
Of the San Francisco delegation, and Assem-
byman Wiggu, in advocating the measure,
with unbushing effrontery boldly proclaim
ed, that the bill was designed to defeat the
Democratic ticket at the next election, by
bringing Hawes' iniquitous and unconslitu'
tioual Registry Law to bear upon the mat
ter. 1t is an oft quoted saying of sage of
antiquity, that ''those whom the Gods would
destroy they hrst make mad. judged Oy
this rule many Of the rabid leaders OF the
present Legislature, are better fitted for the
wards of the Insane Asylum at Stockton,
than the balls of legislation. The leaders Of
the dominant party see the handwriting on
the wall. They know that their doom is
sealed, and the days Of their party are num-
bered. With reckless disregard of the
| rights of the people, they seek to drain the
Treasury in every possible way, In their
greed for spois they grab every Thug within
reach-and like eeches, gorge themselves
with the very ife-blood Of the body polite.
Thinking that they have "a dead thing"
they are determined to die hard.
The General Appropriation Bill, which
passed the Assembly some days since, still
hangs in the Senate, where it has been MAJ