Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-17
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Legislative Doings.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.-SENATI
Rogers called up his motion tt
reconsider the vote whereby tn,
Senate yesterday passed Lewis
substitute school-book bill. Car
ried.
Evans then moved to postpone
the bill; ayes 10, noes II. Passed
Before the vote was announc-
ed, Lewis changed from
no to aye, and gave notice OF
reconsideration. Evans commended
that this was out of order as giving
a second notice of reconsideration
Discussion was reserved till Mon
day. The Senate adopted the con
current resolution of the Assembly
on tho death of Ludgate. AID.
journed till Monday at II A. NJ, In
respect to the memory of of Lud-
gate.
ASsEMBLY-Dunlap announced
the death of Ludgate, and offered 6
concurrent resolution that five
members of the Senate and five o.
the Assembly be appointed as a
committee to attend his funeral.
The House passed Assembly
joint resolution No. %, by Sher
man, relative to increased mail SER
vices in Santa Barbara county;
also Assembly joint resolution No.
%, by Upton, relative to the passage
ola bill by Congress levying a per
capita tax on Chinese; also, Senate
Resolution No. IS, by Rogers, rela
tive to Desert Lands.
Adjourned till Monday at p. NJ,
as mark OF respect to the memory
of Ludgate.
Another Asselnbly lyman Dsad.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 11.-Assem
blyman Rnbert Ludgate of Anna.
dor, died last night. He was in
usual health during the day and
was at Committee meeting last
night. When he went to his room 6
he was taken i'll and died soon after.
Vote ON tac silver Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The fol
lowing is the vote on the Silver
bill: Yeas-Allison, Armstrong,
Bailey, Beck, Booth, Bruce, Cam
eron, of Penn; Cameron, of Wis. ;
Chaffee, Cockrill, Cook, Conover,
Davis, of ILL.,; Davis, of West Va. !;
Dennis, Dorsey, Eustis, Ferry, Gar
land, Gordon, Grover, Hereford,
Howe, ingalls,, Johnston, Jones, of
Florida; Jones, of New; Kellogg;
Klrkwood, McCreery, Mcdonald,
Mcmillan, Matthews, MaXey, Mer-
rimon, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock,
Plumb, Salisbury, Saunders, Spen-
Ger, Teller, Thurman, Voorhees,,
Wallace, Window and Withers-
as. Nays-Anthony, Barnum, Ba-
yard. Blaine, Burnside, Christian
cy, Conkling, Dawes, Edmunds,
Hamlin, Hoar, Herman, Lamar,
MCPHERSON, Mitchell Morrill,, Ran
dolph, Rollins, Sargent, Wadleigh
and Whyte-2l. Harris and Pat
terson, who would have voted in
the Affirmative, were paired with
Hill and Butler who would
have voted in the negative.
Ransom, who would have voted in
the affirmative, was absent on ac-
count of sickness.
The following is the full
text of the bill as passed:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, In Con-
gress Assemblies: That there shall
be coined at the several minis Of
the United States silver dollars of
the weight of four hundred and
twelve and half grains Troy,
of standard silver, as provided in
the Act of January 18th, 1887, on
which shall be the devices and
superscriptions provided by said
act, which coin, together with all
silver dollars heretofore coined by
the United States of like weight
and flneness, shall be u legal ten
der at their nominal value for all
debts and dues, public and private,
except where otherwise expressed
and stipulated in the contract; and
the Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized and directed to purchase,
from time to time, silver bullion
at the market price thereof,
not less than $4,000, 900
worth per month nor more
than $4,000,000 worth per month,
and cause the same to be coined
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