The Placer herald., 1872-02-24
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENTS.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. g. 1877.
Dr,p HERAIp-Could the secret workings oi
our State Legislature be seen, and the diheren'
motives that actuate the several members De
known by those who sent them to TINS oou;
there is no doubt in my mind that but lew woui"
be returned to any subsequent gathering VI VIC
sort.
OF politicians in our present crisis are but SOL
emn mockery, a humiliating farce, degrading
cxhibition of betrayed confidence and insuited
intelligence. The members of this BODY uiu
most solemny pledge themselves to rePeal tne
FIVE PER CENT LAW.
And what is the result? Why, conceive they
are ready to grant subsidies if but asked to
greater extent than ever before. NO man Will
ewes to see and ears to hear can fail to become
aware of the hollowness of the declaration maze
TO the people before the last election. lhey
have scarcely gotten over the hoarseness con
tracted in loud declarations of ant-subsidy anti
five per cent and reduction of freights ana iares'
when the first bil-the bill to repeal this Justly
obnoyous laws defeated, and committee OF
nina Assemblvrnen sign q report, AZ Commit
tee ON Incorporations filled with falsehoods ana
false conclusions. thus striking down, or attempt
inc 20 strike down one of the very measures ior
which they were elected.
REDUCTION OF FREIGHTs AND FARES
OH consistency thou art a jewel, but one OF
rare appearance in Legislative bodies ana where
we find member of either House with such
level how well it does become him. 1t Will out
shine any pewgaws that railroad can present
him. This report is a lovely affair to come from
the hands or heads of any committee OF the Leg
islature 1t ought to have been announced as
emanating from the railroad attorney The Eng
lsh is not sufficiently pure to be the product OF
our ex-Supreme Judge Sanderson; the argument
is not quite as clear as we would expect from B
B. Redding, and hence we are forced to trace it,
parentage to our Ex-Governor, Stanford. Well,
it is hardly fair to give him all the blame OF such
a production, for have no doubt 1t was detaced
and somewhat marred of its proportions by being
moulded into report of Legislative body, MIR.
Luttrel has already shown that its statements are
garbled and false and its conclusions lamo and
| illogical These nine wise men tell us " the
United States Government and the Union has an
interest in the question of the reduction of rail
road fares and frei. hts" Wonderful discovery!
And what an argument under that head! Cali
fornia only owns about two and three-ifths
per cent of the whole. Should this small pro
prieory interest Of two and three-ffths per
cent seek to control the railroad to the injury
of the remaining 97.3-5 per cent?" OH
| what question for statesmen to ask. There Is
| not a schooboy in the State but knows that
| California has right to control all corporations
! formed under her laws, no matter who owns the
stock. Again: Prosperity of California not de-
! pendent upon a rigid tariff These great logl-
! clans say because California can even withstand
the imposition of such outrageous tariffs on fares
and freights as this company are putting upon
| her people, she ought to do it. Oh, wise men,
where has your light been hid up to this time?
These apologsts for the railroad say cit would
be acting IN bad faith to the whole United States.
1t would be acting in bad faith to the holders of
railroad securities What sophism. Every
| holder Of these securities with brains enough to
eat when hungry, knew that the State had the
right to regulate the fares and freights upon the
road 1t is pretty argument to use to prevent
| fair and just rates being made the rule for this
company. After We have no roads left-when
| they have no competition, when the whole state
is dependent upon the road for its carrying trade
| then they come i'll and say: Oh, you can dis
| turb the tariff on these matters. Although every
other thing is getting lower, money more yalua-
BILE, this monster monopoly must continue the
same rates 1t is person holding its powers
from the State, and liable and subject to the po-
lice regulations and the general laws Of the State
as any other person or corporation is. "A re
ducton of the present tariff would discourage
the construction Of new roads" God grant it
may, if the State loses right to regulate the
| fares and freghts. ''What meat hath this Stan
| ford fed upon, that he has Crown so fat?' Other
roads are subject to the laws of the States in
which they are located but this not The rail
road IS one government, and the State another.
The State has its Governor, the railroad its King
| 1t is n government within government; "Impe-
rum in imperio." But enough of this. The
railroad men are not so much to blame for get
ting all they can, are the miserable tools whom
| they make use of. The latter are the ones the
people should hold responsible. The Assembly
has indefinitely postponed the bills.
REGISTRATION
Mr.. O'Connor has introduced a bill placing
the natural born and the naturalzed citizen upon
equal footing in reference to registration The
oath of the former is now taken, and his bill
makes the oath of the naturazed citizen who
has lost his papers sufficient to place him on the
Great Register. A man becomes citizen by an
oath Mt first and an oath is all that ought to be
required OF him to place him amongst the list OF
| voters.
| PLACER COUNTY TAXES.
l observed bill introduced into the Assembly
creating three assessors at thousand dollars
each, for the purpose of collecting your taxes
They each collect for their Supervisors district
do not know whether this will cheaper your
collections or not
THAT bill is understood here as only increas-
ing the pay of Assessors $500 per year. If it is
as our correspondent says, to mako them also
Collectors, it removes all checks and opens the
door wide to rascality.-ED. HERALD
| SCHOOL LAW.
After long time, our friend Larkin has gotten
his school bill before the Senate. The change
which do most approve is the paying of teach.
ers from funds out of the State Treasury. 1t is
true, the people have to pay for the education OF
| their children under any system, yet this vii
help sparsely settled and poor districts Mr.. L.
says tins bill will provide the means to keep Q
school III any district, where there are ten chill
dren or more, for Il period of six months an6
then the people of the district Gun raise as muei
In addition as they wish. Mr.. l.. is general,