Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-01-15
LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL
IRREGULAR CORRESPONDENTS OF THE sorRx,11
Plenty of Work cut tOut.-Economv.
Proposed Legisla lation.-CataI
OF the most Important BiiIs-
Earnest Work the Rule.

l>lature has recently shown commend
able spirit of economy, and to this dav
has spent less money than any of its
predecessors for a like period. To specify
how it has done this would absorb my
letter space-suffice it, it is fact, and as
Republican l gladly recognize it.
So much has transpired since my last
that l cannot give the JOURNAL readers
more than the main features, without ex-
ceeding my allotted space. In all the
matters mentioned, 1 have been at pains
to examine the bills and be assured of
their true character.
Proposed Bill to make adultery the
only cause for divorce. Won't this sim
ply increase adultery and fail to decrease
divorces To appoint Commissioner
to prevent extortion and discrimination
on railroads. Patterned after the Massa-
chusetts plan. Abolishing the office of
State ArmoreI, a mere sinecure. To
prevent the sale or giving away of liquors
on the State Capitol grounds. To prevent
complice only. Referring the whole ques-
tion as to the Constitutional Amendments
the late vote thereon and what action
should be had, to the Assembly Judiciary
Committee. To encourage the growing
OF new varieties of fruits-a sort of boun-
ty bill, loosely put together and bad on
principle. Making it crime to mali
ciously drive nails or hard substances into
logs or wood intended for manufacturing
uses. To permit no new bills after March
Sth in the Assembly-passed. In the
Senate the resolution was temporarily
tabled. This toreshadows an early ad-
journment, but l do not believe business
can be concluded short of the regular four
months limit. To punish for selling liq-
uors to Indians-introduced by Mr.. Brice-
land, and amends Sec. 397o of Penal Code,
making the law more effective. Also by
Mr.. b. to fix the time when an official
shall take his oath of office, and directing
how entries on Great Registers shall be
made, and providing for the payment of
expenses of witnesses in criminal cases.
To provide for the support of an academy
in the town of Tehama. To establish a
uniform policy of Life Insurance. 1t
prescribes the form and words of all poll
cies and makes them so plain that any
one can understand whati is meant. As it
is now there are so many conditions and
such verbiage no man can know what his
polic;' means. Resolutions calling for an
Assembly Committee on the question of
land monopoly to report bill back how
to prevent the evils of that kind and how
to remedy the land moropolies of the
past. Defining more clearly the crime of
assault. That property sold for taxes may
be redeemed by any party in interest
within a year, instead of six months, from
the date of sale. Passed the Senate
Assembly Act abolishing the State Ma
rine Board, a useless Board and well
abolished. Passed both Houses. Memo
rial 20 Congress setting out all the facts
and damages relative to the deposit o.
mining debris on agricultural lands, rep
resenting the total damage thus far to be
$780, 900 and prospective damages four
times that. The memorial asks national
legislation to prevent the filling up of the
rivers and the running of productive land.
Act to legalize the contract made with
Bancroft & Co., for School Books by the
State Board of education. Act to pay
female teachers in all public schools the
same salaries as are paid to male teachers.
Memorial from women of the State ask
ing for the elective franchise. Bill to
provide for the management of the Napa
Insane Asylum. This bill is really to
give the faithful q greater proportion of
the loaves and fishes, and repeas the good
law now in force providing competent
d rectors for the Branch Asylum. Memo
rial to Congress asking that stop be put
to the fraudulent locating of homestead
rights, and toprovide that applicants must
apply to the Land Register in person and
must be resident of the State. Memo.
rial asking Congress to permit greenbacks
to be received at par for customs dues.
Noticed Bills To repeal the Compul-
sorry Education Law. To call Consti-
tutional Convention. To regulate the
p actice of medicine. To prevent the
wanton destruction of fish. To regulate
the price of gas in San Francisco, and fix
the size and number OF exits from theaters
and other places of amusement. Provid-
ing for the collecting of facts relative to
the deposit of mining debris on agricul
tural land and the alleged damage there
from. More amendments to the Consti-
tuition. To define the right OF eminent
domain more clearly. Fixing the time
when the Supervisors shall equa lize the
Assessments throughout the State. By
Mr.. Tinnin, bill to confer the elective
{, f,anchise upon the male descendants of
whites and Indians born in the United
States.
These are the chief measures of the
past week to date. l may add that the
Senate is now in trouble over the question
VIII, ther it will oust the old Directors of
the Insane Asylum and put in political
favorites. If it does so Act, it means the
discharge of DR.. Shurtleff, which the mass
of the people and press look upon as a
great wrong. The position of Resident
PHI sician is one which should not be the
subject of political manipulation. The
Senate refused to confirm Gov. Pacheco's
appointment of Maj. Gen. Coey and also
that of Brig. Gen. Crowel, but it con-
frmed the appointment of John McComb
of the Alta as Brigadier General. Harry
George, late of the Post, has been con-
firmad ~ Gas Inrnnntor Tho nrnnositin