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The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
EXTINGUISH MONOPOLISTS.

The following sections from Assembly bill
No. COZ, an act to regulate fares and freighs
and other things, introduced by Mr.. Snyder,
are sufficiently suggestive to pass without
explanation or con- ment:
SEC. L. 1t shall be unlawful, for any rail
road company, steamboat company, stage
company owner or proprietor of any railroad
steamship, steamboat, vessel, stage, coach,
wagon, hack, carriage, or ot her vehicle, used
in transporting passengers or freight, to
charge for freight more than three cents per
mile per ton, and two and one half cents per
mile per passenger, and any person violating
the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and punished by death by
burning al the stake
SEC. S. 1t shall be unlawful for any at
torney and counselor to charge more than
fifty dollars for trying any cause; and any
person violating the provisions of this section
shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, on
conviction thereof, shall be beheaded, drawn
and quartered, and his descendants. unto the
fourth generation, shall be forever barred
from practicing law in this State.
SEC 8. 1t shall be unlawful for any ply
sician to charge more than one dollar for a
professional visit to patient; and any per-
son violating the provisions of this section,
shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, on
conviction thereof, shall be hanged by the
neck until he is dead, dead, dead.
Sec IL. 1t shall be lawful for any per.
son to take from another any property OR
thing which be may require or desire, and
all persons who shall teach or preach this
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
SUPERVISORS IN PLACER.

Following is the bill in reference to Su-
pervsors in this county as it passed the
Legislature. 1t reduces, as will be seen,
the number from five to three, which is a
good thing. 1t provides for them taking
their seats in February instead of Novem-
Der, which is a good change, as it leaves
the old and experienced Board to fix the rate
of taxes, one of the most important duties
it provides that they, after the first election,
shall be elected alternately, wbich is also a
good thing. Altogether it is a good and
needed local measure, and will be generally
accepted as such by the people:
An Act recognizing the Board of Super
visors in the county of Placer and provid-
ing for the election of the same
The people of the State of California rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Sec. l. The Board of Supervisors of
Placer County shall be composed of three
members, and each Revenue District in Pla-
Ger County, as now defined and bounded,
shall constitute a Supervisor District.
Sec. 2. AT the general election to be
held in the year 1875, there shall be elected
three Supervisors one in each district; one
Of whom shall hold his term of Office for
two years, and the others for four years;
and they shall take their seats on the first
Monday in February A. d. 1876.
Sec. 3. The members shall, at their
first meeting after said first Monday in Feb
ruary, 1876, determine by lot which one of
their number shall serve for two years, and
such member shall be Chairman during his
term of office. AT the expiration of bis
term OF office the Supervisor holding the
oldest commission shall be Chairman of the
Board; and where two commissions expire
at the same time, the Board must elect a
Chairman from those holding the oldest
commissions.
Sec. 4. Each Supervisor District shall
elect one Supervisor at the general election
Immediately preceding the first Monday in
February on which the term for which the
incumbent from that district was elected
shall expire, and the Supervisor SO elected
shall hold his Office for four years, or unit |
his successor is elected and qualified.
Sec. B. Whenever vacancy occurs in
the Board of Supervisors from a failure to
elect or otherwise, the County Judge must
fill the vacancy by appointing some qualified
elector of the district in which the vacancy
occurs, and such appointee shall hold his Of
flee until the first Monday in February sue
ceedng the next general election.
Sec. g. The members of the present
Board of Supervisors shall hold their Office
until the first Monday in February, A. d
1876, or until their successors are elected
and qualified.
Sec. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts con-
6ictng with this Act so far as the same re-
hte to the county of Placer are hereby re.
Pealed.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

We DIssENr.-INe see some of tie In
dependent press crops out occasionally in
the advocacy of compulsory education. AL
ready are our rights as States and individu-
ais being encroached upon by tyrannical acts
of unprincipled Republicans to an alarming
extent. When Federal or State authority
steps across the threshold and dictates the
management Of the household, then may we
Did adieu to liberty, and freedom will hide
her face in sorrow.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

THE argus had a long article, something
less than two columns, last week, in which
the name of our paper occurred at intervals
But what the said article is intended to
prove, or illustrate, is more than our weak
mind has beoh able to comprebend-that is,
about us. 1t treats about half hundred
things, but tells nothing about any of them.
1t is, indeed, the best specimen of congom-
Grated, jumbled-up nohingness that we ev-
er attempted to wade through, until near
the end of the article, when we came to a
quotation. The quotation is clear. A fool
can understand it, and what it tells and un-
controvertably proves is, that the "Dolly
Warden" Legislature, as The argus calls it
in another column, has saved to the State,
in its own expenses alone, say nothing
about the appropriations it has cut off
and the stealngs it has strangled, in the
first 81 days, $5l 900. If the argus can
fild any more figures so forcibly in our fa-
vor, we hope it will bring them forward.
We would at least advise it to quote extern
sively. 1t will find well written articles in
the Record that will suit it exactly.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

VALLEJo.-The division of Solano county
excites greater interest in the Legislature
than any question now before it-excepting,
perhaps, Freights and Fares. We don't
pretend to say whether it is right to cut the
city of Vallejo off, and compel it to support
county, as we'll as a city, government, or
not There are, in our mind, two sides to
the question, and it is hard to tell which is
best. 1t is not light hat the whole agri-
cultural county of Solano should be con.
trolled by the Navy Yard scamps of VAL
lejo, nor does it seem right to impose upon
the innocent people Of Vallejo the extra bur
den of county government in order to
punish these scrmps. The proposed new
county is two miles wide by FIVE miles long
about one-tifth the size of San Francisco.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

WILLIAMS bill to prevent railroad COM
Panies from taking up or removing the tracks
Of their roads, passed the Assembly last
Tuesday. On Wednesday motion was
made by spooney Ferguson to reconsider
The motion was discussed at length by
Cowdery, Williams. Swift, zimmerman and
Tully, and was beaten by vote of 35 te
81. The bill was sustained on the ground
that railroad was public highway, and
as such cannot be removed or destroyed to
the inconvenience of the people.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

RAILROAD MONEY DOES IT.-In speaking
of the combination forming in the Leglsla-
ture and in the State between the scalawag,
Federal Republicans and the monopoly Dem
ocrats, the Bulletin says: "Shameful and
disgraceful alone can be the bond which
unites parties in political professions SO dis
similar and antagonistic. For these twins
there can be no ligament but the Railroad
money!"
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

F1NNEY's compulsory education bill was
squeezed through the Senate by the Lieut..
Governors vote. Finney was delighted
though the people of the State hang their
heads in shame to think our Senators don't
know better. Michigan and other States,
where it has been tried, were quoted in sup
port Of the bill, and it is fact, that in
Michigan and every other place where it has
been tried, in the United States, it has
proved failure, and the people are dis
gusted with it, We shall hope the Assem-
bly, will show their good sense and defeat
this bill.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
NEW PLAN OF APPORTIONMENT

BY the apportionment bill that has recently
passed the Legislature, it will be noticed
that San Francisco, alone, will have one
fourth of the Representatives of the entire
State, and the counties of Marin, Sonoma,
Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Santa Clara,
Alameda, and San Mateo, will have another
fourth. These last named counties, includ-
ing San Francisco, are commonly known as
the Bay Counties. They are classified by
geographers distinct from other counties in
the State, simply because their commercial
advantages gives them different character
of interest. These counties often seek the
enactment of measures that work detr-
mental to other Iarts of the State. Often
the rest of the State demands measure
that, if these counties could have their way, =,
would not be allowed to pass. The new
apportionment law, though, perhaps, just in
its main features-exceptng Placer and one
ort wo other counties under the present
act of pportionment-will give to these
Bay Counties the control of both branches
of the Legislature. Now, it needs no ar
gument to convince that such concentration
of power is sure, sooner or later, to work
injustice to the balance of the State, For
experience will soon prove that it will be
next to impossible, in a Legislature where
these Bay Counties hold sway. to pass any
law that is not strongly favored to their
taste This state of affairs, we will admit,
deplorable as it is, cannot be helped under
the present State Constitution. But the
necessity of remedy is another proof of
the recessity of Constitutional Convention
We are indebt, to Senator Marion for the
suggestion, that inasmuch as the population
of California is likely, for some years, to
centre near the Bay of San Francisco, legis-
laton is bound to favor those counties, at
sacrifice of the best interests of other por-
tions of the State, unless we adopt a differ
ent system of apportionment. His idea is
10 eject Tue members OF tno House on tDe
basis of population, as at present, and elect
the members of the Senate by districts, re-
gardless of population. In this way the
Senate would be conservative body, and
would hold in check any undue sectional
legislation that might be attempted. The
wisdom of our forefathers has been demon
strated in adopting this system of represen-
tation in our national councils, and in State
like ours, where majority of the popula-
ton is likely to centre to one point, it is
equally as necessary to justice as it is in the
case of the nation. This, we think, is the
first article in advocacy of this plan for our
State, but it will not be the last; for it is
needed. The idea will become popular.
All the interior press will take it up. And
by the time the Constitutional Convention
comes off, will have the minds of the peo-
pie prepared to adopt it.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

COUNTY REcoRDER.-Last Wednesday
morning Mr.. Ncff introduced bill into the
Senate making the Recorders Office of Pla-
Ger County salared Office, and fixing the
salary at SO, 500 per year. This is calcu-
lated to allow the Recorder about 50, 500
for his own services, and about 81 900 for a
Clerk. We think the allowance is perfectly
fair, provided, the salary of other county Of
6cers corresponds. The rules were sus-
pended and the bill passed.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

new doctrine of morality, shall be regarded
as pensioners upon the State, and worthy of
promotion to the highest office within the gift
os the people.
1t is unnecessary to state that the monop-
DIV and Snyder are friends.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

Mr.. NoRToN has introduced bill which
provides that Eastern Insurance Companies
may invest their money in real estate in
this State. This act seems to be regarded
With popular favor, from the fact that it
makes policy-holders here more secure.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
OH, SUCH A UNION!

There seems to be. and it has been daily
more apparent, since the election by the
Legislature of Hon. Newton Booth to the
United States Senate, coalition forming
between the leaders of the Democratic and
Republican parties. We have been very
10th to believe that this was the case, be-
cause we thought such a thing impossible
Being yet in tender years, and uninitiated
in many of the mysterious ways OF the
world, we have been credulous enough to
believe that most of the Democratic, and
occasionally Republican leader, were hon
est; and wien they talked or preached the
undying, self-sustaining, lfe-giving principles
of Democracy, or the degrading, tyrannioal,
oppressive, centralizing monopoly principles
of Republcanism, that they meant it; that
they were the sentiments which controlled
their nature; that what they said and en-
deavored to teach was what education and
circumstances had taught them sincerely to
believe, and that in a majority of cases they
could not believe or act otherwise if they
should try. And their principles and teach
ings being as wide apart as the polls, we
have thought the polls could be brought to-
gether as easy as they. But, oh, my!
should we not beseech the good Lord to pity
our weakness For the fact is no longer
disguised. that many of the Democratic and
Republican leaders in this State are using
every means in their power to bring about
spective parties, and all to beat the Inde
pendents. We see efforts of such union
in the Legislature, and in the recent city
election in Sacramento we observe the same
efforts to bring the two old parties together.
How they ever can unite we do not under
stand Many of the leaders can, for they
are corrupt enough to do anything for pow
er and railroad money, and that element of
the people, devoid of principle, will follow.
We say, let them go; let the coalition take
PiaCC 40 Sooii 40 ~ may VIC aiC iCauJ W
meet it. For it is evident that no such CO.
alilion can ever be formed by men of prin-
ciple; and hence it is evident that none will
degrade themselves by such a union. except
those who have no principle to sacrifice.
And it is these unprinciped scamps that the
Independents delight to fight. No sooner
will such an unholy, unnatural coalition
openly take place than every good man will
at once drop in with the Independents, il
being the only party in which good men can
hope for justice. We, as the peoples aa-
vocate, ask no better fighting ground than
the side of honesty, truth, Justice, and con-
sistency against the most unholy, unnatural,
corrupt, unprincped coalition the country
ever saw For it needs no argument to con-
vince that nothing goodcan come from the
rotten, putrid, thievipg elements of the two
old parties.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

TIE House Committee on Mines and
Mining recommend that Sargents bill for
the sale Of mineral lands do not pass. 1t
gives too wide an opening for land monopo-
lists.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

AssEMBLYMAN RoUsH will please accept
this acknowledgment of our thanks for nu-
merous papers, bills, etc., received from
him during the week. Burt and Crutcher
will please do likewise.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
NOTICE TO LITIGANTS.

As the constitutional al right of the Legislature to re-
peal the Act Protect Liigants so far as relates to
the contracts of those papers that have complied win
thesaw TO be test ed in the courts notice Is hereby
given that the proprietors and publishers of this pa
per will continue to comply with its terms in accord
ance with bond filed until Judciay determined.
If legal notices Published in the HERALD they
are sure be right If published elsewhere, decis
ion in our would make illegal all publications
not made in the HERALD, and throw the suits o.. all
litigants who have leen dsreoarding this no
tice back into the courts word to the wise is sui-
Cient.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
Eggs For Hatching
SEASON OF 1874.

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Cochins, White Leghorns, Houdans and Sill
yer Spangled Hamburgs.
Black Spanish, White Dorkings, Golden Po-
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Sebright and Black African Bantams.
A fine invoice of Bronze Turkeys, weighing 50
pounds to the pair just received.
.-y- Send stamp for illustrated circular to
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Please state what paper you saw this advsr-
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The Placer herald., 1874-03-21

TEE Road LAW for Placer county is still
b. the Senate.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
1FRoM SPECIAL RREsPoNDENT.]

SACRAMENTO, March 1S, 1874.
ED. HERALD
"Time and tide do not wait for anyone, and
how often during the past session have l found
this out? Many time would like to have re-
tired to nv virtuous couch; but alas! the HERALD
or the Sun, or the Tribune letter not written,
and the time and tide would not stop But my
object in giving the quotation was to remind you
that the Legislature was about over. That time
had carried it nearly over another space of four
months in our history The history of q Legis-
lature is not like that of the men who compose
it, It's history is written as soon as its laws are
written up.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
CAR CONDU CTORS.

This BILL which effects only the city Of San
Francisco directly has reference to a great prin-
ciple whether State can step in and prevent
the expressions of the capitalist or the en-
ployer when the laborer consents, and say to
them, You shall not permit men to abuse
themselves by laboring 16 hours per diem, nor
shall you, sir, hire yourself out to anyone to
labor 16 hours per diem" 1t treats this class as
infants, in this regard, and steps in to save
them, upon the grounds that a State can exercise
certain police regulations for the protection OF
society. l think the law is constitutional,
though many think not.
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