The Placer herald., 1874-01-24


asking that our Representatives be instructed q
and petitioned to oppose the U. $. Seneato on
II, which relates to the swamp lands OF tne
State. We all know there has been too mucn
i monopolynd speculation in the swamp lands
granted to the State already, and any measure
that will tend to prevent this ought to be passed.
and any legislation calculated to instgate or pro
mote or instigate this should be passed ms
bill is therefore approved by the Assembly
substitute being adopted. Messrs. Estee
Amerman, Williams, Coggins, Kerchival, aad
others participated in the Enthusiastically
will take final action Thursday.
BILLS.
The bill authorizing the Clerk Of the Supreme
Court to make indices for certain records, of
fered by Mr.. Laine, was indefinitely postponed
Some thought it was job for the benefit OF the
Clerk more than for public good.
| By Graves bill to provide for the payment
of private property, condemned for public use
before it can be used or taken into possession by
the public
BY McCune, to pay for public printing--an
must be paid.
ASSISTANT COPYING CLERK.
Under a resolution it was attempted to ap-
| point Mrs, Neely johnson, and nearly if not al
, together two-thirds of the Senators were in fa-
| vor of her appointment, but by and through o
| resolution previously passed by the Senate, and
made part of the rules, Offered by McKusick, the
will of the Senate was defeated-the Clerks got
! the appointing of clerks. Nc. got his brother
in-aw or some other relation appointed. Mrs.
Billet was also appointed, and Mrs. johnson
defeated. This was not as it should be, II It
was the will OF the Senate, which leading Sen
ator asserted, that the last named lady should
be appointed Mrs. ]. is competent, has a
blind husband, who was sick all this last Sum-
mer and fall and had the promise of support
from many who deserted her in the time OF
need But all thanks to Malone, who gave her
clerkship until the end of the session. l
mention this because there was considerable
feeling about the treatment she received, and
newspapers published her defeat without rea-
sons.
SUNDAY LAW.
Ry Murphy, bill to repeal the Sunday Law.
This will bring on n bitter contest if l mistake
not
By the same, an act to prohibit the carrying
of concealed weapons 1t is asserted that there
is more criminality since the repeal Of the law
that prohibited the carrying of concealed weap-
ons
TEMPERANCE.
A petition signed by five or six thousand per-
sons was presented to the Assembly, asking
that law called
LOCAL OPTION
be passed, by which an elector of any precinct
shall have the high prerogative of saying. by
his vote, whether intoxicating drinks drinks
shall be sold or not. This petition, as l learn,
for have not seen it, also asks the Legislature
to pass
CIVIL DAMAGE LAW,
similar to the one now in force in the State of
Illinois, They contend that this law does
good there. 1t enables any friend to for,
and recover damage for any losses or injuries
that the inebriate may do while drunk. There
must be actual damage done before a suit will
lie. The wife sue for the damage done by
the husband to his own, or her own property.
1t may be that it will do good here, but we fear
t would be dead letter on the statute book.
The people are not sufficiently educated in this
direction. They know from the Sunday Law
that public sentiment must endorse a law before
it will produce good fruits, and this is true of
all moral enactments.
The Cv,niuiuteeS tnau nave Deen vlsluuY our
various institutions have returned, and will soon
report. Their reports will generally be of fiat
tering kind except, perhaps, the Committee on
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
have information of private nature that
warrants me in stating that the expenditure
upon the University buildings has been care
lessly made, and that there has been culpable
| neglect of many of the officers connected with
this institution, which should be the pride of
the State. The Regents are generally men of
a high character, who have more business to at
tend to, of private nature, than they can give
attention to, and therefore must and do neglect
the affairs of the university. The Committee
are generally active and thorough business men,
such as Beck and Boggs, and it surprised them
to find, when they went to the performance of
their duty, that no specifications or plans were
&,,h ha 1. I A..
to DR.. Merritt, and he had called in the aid of
DR.. Gilman, and thus it went along. They
could not get vouchers without great trouble,
and they found looseness about extra work
allowed and extra charges made, that astonished
business men. Powers, the contractor. was
gone, and the whole matter was considered as
settled. There was $500, 900 appropriated, and
now it is all expended when all the accounts
will be audited. The business was managed in
a slipshod manner. l look with interest for
the report of the Committee on this, and the
Napa Branch Insane Asylum.
FREIGHTs AND FARES.
The Freeman bill was taken up in the Assem-
bly, yesterday, and, after speech by Mr. Free
man, and some amendments by the Judiciary
Committee, the subject was referred until Thurs
day the 22nd,
BELLS ExPUIsIoN.
AID An"''er chiue Oh aiuloSt Hke Iarce' I III
ney placed himself in bad attitude. He made
it turn on question of veracity between him
Bell, and the Senate supported the latter. Pen
degast made one of his master efforts, full OF
irony and bitter sarcasm and grandiloquence.
lie concluded as follows;
Il have about come to the conclusion that
public men have no private character which
newspaper men are bound to respect, and sup
pose we might just well conclude that every
thing is lovely, and that the bird of the 'hunky
goose quill Sort, (this is from Finney) is sus-
pended above the dome of the Capitol, at an
immensely of altitude.
The report was adopted restoring Bell to his
seat. WArCHMLN.