Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-27
Pacific Coast News.


S25,000 to be divided among the suf-
ferers by the floods was referred.
The Corporation Committee was
ordered to report the railroad bills
as soon as possible.
Goodwin, from the Special Com
mittee, reported substitute for the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the floods.
The substitute appropriates $4,000
to he expended by the Howard So
clety of Sacramento; $4,000 for the
sufferers in Yolo and Solano and
$4,000 in Colusa. The parties dis
tributing the money are required to
report to the Governor. The rules
were suspended and the bill passed.
The Chair appointed on behalf of
the Senate on the Joint Committee
of Elections Dean, Craig and Hay
mOnd.
Ream, from the Committee on
Hospitals, reported favorably on
the bill amending the quackery
law of last session, recognizing
only three medical societies, the
Allopathic, Homeopathic and
Eclectic.
Pierson, from the Joint Commit
tee on Labor, reported bill Gre
ating Bureau of Labor Statistics.
To the file and ordered printed.
ASSEMBLY New bills: By John.
son, to compel the retraction of Ii
belous statements in newspapers;
By Swift, to compel corporations
and savings banks to report the
amount of unclaimed dividends and
deposits.
Bills passed: Barstow's Assembly
joint resolution relative to granting
lands to corporations. The bill al
lowing women to practice as attor.
neys in the State courts. Lost, 80
to S3. To incorporate the town of
Anaheim; to regulate irrigation in
Los Nietos; relative to the collec-
ton of taxes in Los Angeles; sup
Elemental to the act providing for
constructing a railroad from the
hay of San Luis Obispo to Santa
Maria, Santa Barbara county.
The Speaker appointed Hin.
shaw, Waters and Conroy on the
Joint Committee to examine the
election laws of the State.
Special order: Swift's act with
respect to water rights and the ap.
preparation of water was taken up.
The bill provides that water
shall not, in this State, be the sub
ject of property except under GER
tain restrictions, the object being
to prevent the appropriation of the
waters of the State by water spec.
ulators.
Dewitt moved to refer the bill to
the judiciary Committee with in
structions to report at an early
day.
After long debate on Swift's
water bill, the House rose as a
Committee of the Whole and recon-
mend ed the reference of the bill to
the Judiciary Committee. The
ayes and noes were called and the
reference ordered; ayes 40, noes Al.
Relative to eminent domain, re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
The bill allows the taking of an
easement for laying down pipes for
conducting petroleum to main ar
teries of transportation.
New bills: BY Moffat, to amend
section 1410 of the Code of Civil
Procedure relative to water rights.
Referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee. The bill provides that all
water in lakes, ponds or streams is
the property of the State. The
right to the use of water may be
acquired by appropriation during
the pleasure of the State, but gives
an absolute right to appropriation as
against all others. 1t declares water
under actual appropriation to be
the property of the party appropri-
ating it.
The bill reported from the Senate
having passed that body for the re.
lief of sufferers by the late storm
and flood, the House resolved itself
into a Committee of the Whole, the
Speaker in the chair, for considera-
ton of the bill.
The House rose as Committee
of the Whole and reported the bill
favorably. The bill was immedi-
ately passed under suspension Of
the rules.
Cooley introduced, out of order,
by leave, q bill providing for the
payment of salaries, fees, debts,
and Liabilities in any lawful money
Of the United States, whether gold,
silver or legal tender paper. To
the Committee on Ways and
Means.
The Ke~rney Crowd Arrested for
Libel.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26th.-The
Open Letter crowd, consisting of
Dennis Kearney, William Wellock,
A. A. Stout, Thos. Donnelly and
Carl Brown were arrested this after
noon on charge of libel, preferred
by Thomas A. Haywarn, known as
the Potrero blacksmith. Hayward
was formerly fellow agitator
with Kearney and his crowd, but
for some reason left them and went
over to the National Labor party,
since which time time he has ac-
cused his former leaders of sundry
lapses in morals and manners not
much to their credit. They retail
lated by giving Hayward a first
class Safeguarding in the Open
Letter newspaper yesterday, which
Is made the ground of a libel suit.
All gave bail in the sum OF $1,000
each.
Have left for sacramento.
SAN JOSE, Feb. 26th.-S. w. Bor-
ng and J. E. Clark, Senator and
A ssmblyman elect, have received
heir certificates of election and
eft for Sacramento to-day.
Reicons witnesses.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26th.-In
Msrrilps case, J. G. Duncan WAS
placed on the stand to-day and
Questioned concerning his presence
IN the tug Redmond when chased
~ detectives in the Elaine. He
'efused to testify. Frank H. Mer-
Ill also declined to speak as to his