Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-03
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
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,ne c..ns,.,u...na, Convention.


SACRAMENTO, Nov. 2.-The Con.
vention met at 10 o'clock.
Campbell from the Committee on |
the Executive Department, pre-
sented report which was made |
the special order for Monday. This !
report makes but little change In |
the prts9nt Constitution. Sec.
tions one, four, five, six. seven,
eight, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen,
fifteen, seventeen remain as at
present. The alteration recon-
mended are, in section two, that
the office of Governor shall COM
meDce on the first Monday after
the first Tuesday in January sue
ceeding his election. In section
three the qualifications of the Gov
erBor are five years residence in
the State and lie must be thirty
years of age. In section nine pro-
vision is introduced that special
sessions of the legislature convened
by the Governor shall be confined
to the subject mentioned in the
proclamation. Sec. 13, relating to
pardons, is omitted, the subject
having been reported by another
committee. A change is made in
section sixteen by prohibiting the
Lieutenant Governor from being
appointed to any other Office dur
ing the term for which he Is elect.
ed. In section twenty the salary
of the Governor for the next two
years is fixed at $4,000, that of the
Lieut-Governor being the same as
the Speaker of the Assem- bly,.
The Secretary of State, Treasurer
and Controller So, 600; those of the
Attorney General and Surveyor
General to be fixed by the Legisla.
salaries may be diminished by the
Legislature, but not increased, and
the office Of SurveyOr-GeDeral may
be abandoned.
New propositions submitted: By
Huestis, providing for the support
of common schools.
By Howard, providing for the
distribution of waters by irrigators
and the preservation of vested
rights in water; also, for the estab-
lishmsnt of cooperative societies
and the adjustment of difficulties
between capital and labor.
By Reynolds, providing that
municipal authorities shall not
have power 10 levy street assess
ments which shall not increase the
value Of the property to at least the
amount of the assessment.
By Andrews, authorizing the
Legislature to enact registration
laws applicable to particular dis
tricts.
BY Noel, in relation to taxation.
BY Sweasy, declaring the illegal
ity of secret tribunals and provid-
ing for the punishment of partici-
pants therein.
BY Harvey, in relation to capital
and labor.
Tinnin offered a resolution that
the Controller furnish return of
the cost of the militia since 1854.
Adopted.
Swing, of San Bernardino, sup
plemented the foregoing by re-
questing the Adjutant-General to
send a statement of the killed,
wounded and missing of the Ma
tional Guard of California. Laugh
teri Adopted.
After long debate the Conven-
ton refused the invitation of the
Committee on Public Buildings to
visit the State Prison.
The Convention went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the article
on the pardoning power. The rec.
ommendation of the committee
was to associate the Chief Justice
with the Governor in granting par
dons. Campbell moved to amend
by assoclatipg the Attorney.Gen-
eral with the Governor instead of
the Chief Justice and offered a fur.
ther amendment associating with
the Governor the Judge before
whom the criminal was tried. At
Il o'clock the committee reported
progress and a recess was taken.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 2d.-On re.
assembling the Convention went
into Committee of the Whole and
resumed consideration of the par
doning power.
Filcher moved to amend by CIV
ing the Governor and Attorney
General power to appoint a third
official. Referred.
Mcfarland moved to amend by
leaving the section the same as in
the present Constitution, with an
addition that prisoners thrice con.
vlcted cannot be pardoned. De-
feated.
Larkin introduced a proposition
for the election of three State War
dens by districts for four years, to
manage the State Prison, Insane
Asylum, Deaf and Dumb Asylums
and other penal and charitable in
stitutions. They shall also consti.
tute a Board of Pardons, where an
unanimous request is necessary.
Tinnin in the chair ruled the
amendment out of order, as con-
tanning matter not germain. An
appeal from the chair was not sus-
tained.
Blackmer offered an amendment
restricting pardons to cases where
newly discovered evidence estab-
fishing the innocence of the ac-
cused.
On motion of Huestis, who said
that the Convention was not in the
proper mood to discuss the oues.
ton and in view of the fact that
Shafter, the Chairman of the Com.
mittee, was necessarily absent, the
Committee rose and reported pro-
gress. The Convection then ad-
Journed till Monday at 10 A. NJ. L
Ruiofson, the PhOtOgrapsr, Kt,leu
By a Fall from n Bniiding. Ii
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.-About
half-past O'Clock this evening, as
w. II. Rulofson, the well-known
photographer, Of the firm of Brad