Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-03-19
Sacramento Correspondence.


EprroR Journal - AS the end of the session
draws nigh the pnmber of bills, resolutions, ETC."
introduced, increases in number, and business
arises so fast as to necessitate eveaing sessions.
An especial increase Is nutceabie in the number
of relief bills Introduced, every person who has
ever performed and overcharged for service for
the State, or any city or county, who has been
refused bis pay on the ground of said overcharge,
or other reason, deeming il his particular busi-
ness to present all the pros and cons of his case
to the Legislature, and pray that body to bother
themselves and deplete the treasury for his es
pecial benefit Another standby for the SolOns
appears TO be the amending of the civil practice
act, and hardly day passes but what some
amendment is tackled on to that unfortunate
statute. BY the time the session is over the
legal fraternity of the State will have to recon-
mence the study of their profession, am afraid.
Comparatively very few bills of the least
general interest are now offered. A bill passed
to engrossment in the Senate on Friday last,
which manufactures Offices for two Democrats );
a Supreme Court Reporter aud Assistant Ator-
ney Genera--a kind of fifth and sixth wheels
to the legal wagon, more for ornament than use
The Senate showed its gallantry on Friday by
refusing to appoint female clerk to the Com
mittee ou Women Suffrage. Not polite, certainly,
but then the Senate was driven to it, presume,
by the pressure of female lobbyists, who are ut
present hunting both branches of the Lcgisla-
ture. They are, am sorry to say, becoming a
nuisance.
The Assembly has adopted a resolution that
no bills be introduced after the 20th instant.
This looks like business, and evidently that body
are preparing for their latter end The Assembly
after the Chinese, still, and few hundred
bills concerning them have been introduced dur
ing the past week, and an immense amount OF
breath has been expended in the discussion OF
the same. Amongst the rest bill ostensibly to
to establish quarantine for the bay ana harbor
of San Francisco, but in reality to tax the
Chinese ten dollars per head for vaccination,
and to prevent the expectation home of their
bones, has been introduced. They probably
think that by working on their cupidity and by
refusing to allow their dearest wsh-that OF
having their bones deposited in the soil of their
own country after death-they will in great
measure stop their immigration to this country.
This is all very good, and suits me well enough.
But submit that, in the face of the fact that the
leader of their party in this State presided at
dinner, full One-half of the company assembled
at which were tull-biooded Chinese and the
knowledge that many of the loudest-mouthed
Democrats employ Cinnamon to do their work,
this action of IA Democratic majority in the
Legislature is extremely inconsistent
During the discussion of these thousand and
one "prOtection against Chinese" bills, on
Thursday, little long haired, smooth-faced, bla-
lying dormant since he exhausted his mental
powers on the fifteenth amendment, charged the
Republican party with having trampled on and
deied the constitution for the last six or seven
years | wonder if Henley, of Sonoma, ever
will get over his spite against the government
for defending itself? Did the Republica2 party
g trample and defy the constitution because
that party resisted the attempts of the Demo-
cratic South to overthrow and destroy the Union
for the only reason that the Republican party
had cOnstitntionalIy elected Republican
President? According to Democratic rea sOning (2)
| suppose it did, for every act OF any other
party than the immaculate Democracy is with
them a violation of and trampliDg on the CON
stitution. While Finney, of San Mates, was re-
plying to the boy from Sonoma, another shining
light of the great unterriied, Halle, of SoanO,
interrupted him, and gave birth to the astonsh-
ing announcement that more Democrats were in
the armies of the Republic during the rebellion
than there were Republicans ! Poor, benighted,
innocent Halle am glad for his sake that the
session is nearly at an end, so he may return to
the obscurity from which he originally emanated.
A few more Haies, and Henleys, and Oates, and
the capitol would be transferred into lunalc
asylum.
A great fight and an immense summersanlt
have been made in the Assembly on the pilot
bills On Monday evening the Assembly re-
fused to pass the bill (which will virtually do
away with all pilots and throw all their bust
ness into the hands of the steam.tug monopoly,
by majority of eleven. On Tuesday they re-
considered the vote, aud passed the bill by ma
jority of twelve Was there a liveier piece
of Legislative crcus2 | have heard it whispered
that certain steam-tug man brought up S20,-
900, on Monday night, which accounted for the
reconsideration. But, Of course, such could not
be the case, for no one would have the tenerity
to offer bribe to so honest ard economical
Legislature ms this was promised to be.
The infamous " Protection of Ltigants' act
act has passed the House, and it is now in the
Governors hands Will he show his honesty
by vetong the measure? We shall see
Considerable agitation exists at present on the
women's suffrage question: petitions in favor
having been presented to both Houses, and spe-
ca committees having been appointed in each.
The female advocates appeared before the Senate
committee Wednesday evening, and will ad-
dress the Assembly committee this evening. 1t
is curious fact that these committees are al
most entirely Republican. An indication that
this question will be brought to bear on our
party in the next campaign. will try and hear
the suffering women this evening, and will give
you my impressions in my next. T. b G..