Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-12-18
LAST NIGHTS NEWS
Especial to the HERALD by the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Pacific Coast News.
Tie Convention

SACRAMENTO, Dee. 17.-Tht
Convention met at $50.
O'Sullivan presented a minority
report from the Committee or
Lands and Homesteads.
Miller presented an amended
memorial from the Committee on
Chinese. Adopted.
The Convention went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the legis.
lative department.
White moved that the report be
re-committed for amendment, Fro.
viding for sessions only once in
four years. Lost.
Another amendment providing
for quadrennial sessions was offer
ed and a long debate ensued.
Various other amendments were
introduced extending the first ses.
sion after the adoption of the Con.
stitution beyond sixty days. Law.
yers generally favor at least one
hundred days for the first session
and sixty days thereafter. The
second section, as amended, now
provides for biennial ses-
sions, no pay to be allowed
for more than sixty days,
except for the first session, where
payment is allowed for one hum
dred days; no bill to be introduced
during the last ten days except by
consent of two-thirds. The only
change in section 3 is the addition
of a clause allowing the Legisia-
ture to change the time of election
to conform with the proposed
change pending in Congress.
An amendment to section 4 was
offered by Weller requiring three
years. residence in the State to be-
come eligible to the Legislature.
This caused long discussion. The
amendment was adopted; ayes 6S,
noes Al.
An amendment to section 4, re-
quiring members of the Legisla-
ture to be over twenty-five years of
age. was voted down; noes go, ayes
SO.
Section s, providing for the num-
Der of members in each branch of
the Legislature, was under long
consideration. The original section
reported from the Committee on
Legislative Department gives the
Senate thirty, and Assembly forty
members. The Committee then
arose and reported progress.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention re-assembIed at 3
o'clock.
Steele moved the indefinite post.
ponement of the election to fiji the
vacancies caused by the death of
Strong and Kenny.
Reynolds said the San Francisco
delegation, comforting among
themselves, had consented to in
definite postponement.
The motion was carried, ayes 80,
noes 80.
Jones gave notice of reconsidera.
ton.
The Convention in Com mittee of
the Whole resumed consideration
of legislative affairs.
Section 5 was amended, increas-
ing the number of Senators to 40
and of Assemblymen to 80.
Kelly offered an amendment to
the same section, vesting in the
Legislature the power to form Sem
ate and Assembly districts, and
providing that each county shall
have one Assemblyman. After
long debate, the Committee, get
ting confused, recommitted the re.
port to the Convention. The Con-
vention got so confused in the
multiplicity of motions to amend,
refer and recommit, that an ad-
journment was taken until to-mor-
row morning to get the main ques-
tion clearly presented.
The San Francisco delegation,
both WOrkingmen and Non-Par-
tizan, express determination to
vigorously oppose every measure
to cut down the represen-
.ation of that city.
San Francisco Miscellany.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17th.-In
he trial OF i. G. Duncan. Qoinp on