Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-01-31
FROM THE CAPITAL.
SPECIAL TO THE TRINITY JOURNAL. :"
SACRAMENTO. Jan. %. 1871

choose what to include in this letter.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The most vital measures introduced
are as followsi
To authorize actions against the Board
Of Examiners to test their right to sala-
ries as such, and settle our local salary
grab.
To require supplies to the State Prison
to be advertised for and furnished under
proposals.
Joint resolution asking repeal of the
law fixing the time for Congressional
elections, SO that election for reprercnta-
tives need not be held until 1875.
Resolution opposing Wards Congress
sional bill to sell lands in mineral regions
at SO per acre. The resolution should
pass. The bill will enable capitalists to
to obtain title to large portion of miner
al land to the exclusion of the modest
miner.
To provide for State reform school
for young criminal offenders and unman-
ageable boys. The bill appropriates
$50, 900 for its establishment and expenses
for two years.
Resolution relative to the establishment
of a penal colony in Alaska.
Prohibiting private contracts for labor
in the State Prison.
A bout 700 pages of bills amending the
Codes.
To prevent sale of more than 800 acres
of swamp land to any one person, and to
prohibit sales without notice to settlers
therein.
To abolish the militia system of the
State.
To entirely reorganize the State prison
system by establishment of State re-
formatory, where persons under % and
for first offenSe shall be confined.
An &C. relative to masters and appren-
tees. 1t provides for indenturing ap-
prentices, securing education to them,
and for binding out foundlings and or
phans in certain cases.
Various propositions have been put for
ward to amend the Constitution in vital
and score of matters. 1t is altogether
probable that n Constitutional Conven-
ton will be called. The Union opposes
it, rs it does everything which does not
originate in the Third street office.
To repeal the law requiring deposit in
the office of Secretary of State of copy
of every paper in which summons to alb
sent defendants are published. If the
law is not repealed in two years more the
Capitol will not hold the files.
To require counties transferring crimin-
al eases to pay the expenses of the trials.
To prevent county officers becoming
surcties on official bonds.
THE GREAT DEBATE.
Thus far the two great questions before
the Legislature involving debates have
been the No Fence law and the Freeman
Freight and Fare bill. The latter came
up on Thursday and that and subsequent
debates have established these PROPOSE
tions, denial of which | challenge:
l. That, as the National Board OF
Trade at Baltimore recently assembled
declared, legislative regulation by fixed
laws is not and cannot be successful.
2. That the present Legislature is ut
terly at sea upon the question wanting
facts, wanting knowledge of the subject,
and simply legislating that it may say,
1--WE have legislated." The condensed
debate will show this.
On Thursday it was thus discussed in
the Assembly, 1t was on Tinnin's amend
ment to limit the charge for freight car
ried more than so miles to four cents per
ton per mile, instead of three cents.
EsTEE opposed as it would raise the
present rates. 1t would operate n great
hardship between certain points. He
counseled deliberation and care in this
The cost of the road and the
transported must be considered.
The present bill needed amendment.
For this speech the Union the next
day cracked the Dolly Warden whip over
Estee's shoulders, and denounced him as
an obstructionist, and Estee on Saturday
replied and denied the right of his mas
ter to dictate to him. He was an anti
monopoly man, but had found snags in
g regulation " he had never dreamed of.
He said the ferry fare across San Fran
cisco bay is fifteen cents-the cheapest n
the world-but this bill raised it to thirty =
two cents.
SWIFT thought the bill was perfect.
and dared the members to defeat it. That
was all his talk amounted to.
THOMAS found "snags" and wanted
time to get information.
ALDRIcH, Dolly, astonished every
one by bitterly opposing the bill. He
said its framer had utterly ignored three
things necessary to be considered, compe-
Htion, quotity Of freight and speed. The
bill he showed raised rates in the valleys
to lessen them in the mountains. 1t ig-
nored the fact that cheapness Of transport
tatlon increases ir proportion to amount
of business, and rates advance as compe-
tition lessons, speed increases and supply
of freight grows less. No legislation car
bring spot geographically out of mar
l1et into market at the expense Of points
more favorably located The bill would
turn the curses from the railroad to this
Legislature, and the next election would
be defeat of the new party. He favored
the Chamber of Commerce bill. He gave
examples of the evils of the bill and show
ed what terrible inflctions it would visit.
1t raised rates between San Francisco