Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-12-20
Morning kilograms.
Passengers Gaiug south.

Passengers Gaiug south.
MoJAvE, Dec. 19-Miss Wright,
Miss A Barrus, E N Fenton ami
wife, Miss Coburn, Miss Hathaway,
Nettie Waters, l. Jacobs, j II Van
Vleet, G w Chisman, g Saxby.
DC Neahr, A Kimble, ] OConnell
and three men, Hon James Me-
Dowell, + Baker, Mrs Whitney,
Chas Green and wife, Miss ] Hig-
gins, CL Golding and wife, A NJ
Cameron. TilIie Willis, Gus
Jacobs, Miss Thilhoover.
The Cnurch,Ii Trin,.
SAN BUENAvENTURA,D Dec. 19.-
In the More murder case Austin
Brown occupied the stand for two
hours and repeated his previous
testimony with the addition that,
of the two thousand dollar notes
which he had received for his
ranch, only three hundred dollars
had been paid. The witness said the
notes were signed by one Willough-
by, but that Alex. More had guar
auteed their payment before Brown
testified, saying, II am the only
man through whom you can get
that money" Witness mad gonf
to Oregon, but Alex. More f1Y-
lowed him and threatened to nilng
him back In irons, if he did not
come voluntarily.
The Convention
SACRAMENTO, Dec. l9.-The Con-
vention assembled at 9:30, lis
members present.
White introduced resolution
that no indefinite leave of absence
be granted after this date except
for cases of sickness. Adopted.
Edgerton moved to make the ar
ticle on revenue and taxation the
special order for January 18th.
Larkin asserted that this was a
part of scheme to defeat the Con-
stitution.
The Chair called him to order.
White objected to the motion,
fearing there would be no. quorum
after the holidays. Laid on the
table.
The Convention then went into
Committee of the Whole, resum-
ing consideration of section 5 on
the legislative article. This Sec
tion, providing for forty Senators
and eighty Assemblymen, was
then adopted. The Committee
next took up section 6 with ques-
lions relating to appoint
ments under the Constitution
to form the districts on territory,
population aud vote. Every mem.
ber of the Convention seem ed to
have a scheme of his own for the
apportionment.
Terry's amendment to section 6
was adopted, and 1t now stands
substantially as follows: The dis.
triots, forty In number, shall
be divided as nearly equal
In population as may be
and composed of continuous
territory. The census taken under
direction of Congress in 1890, and
every ten years thereafter, shall be
tue basis of adjusting legislative
districts, and the Legislature, at
the first session after each census,
shall re-apportion the districts as
nearly equal in population as may
he. On making the adjustment
no persons who are not eligible
to become citizens under the natur.
ali2ation laws, shall be counted as
forming tho population of any dis
trict.
An amendment was proposed by
Filcher, providing that no county
shall have more than one-fifth of
the representation of the State.
Estee and Hager made vigorous
speeches against this amendment.
Hager said, "If you reduce the
representation of San Francisco
you should reduce her taxation ac-
eordingly."
Vandyke warned the Convention
that the Constitution would he de-
feated If the pending amendment
was not striken out.
E1gerton did not believe the
Senate should be constituted on
the basis of population. He saw
that San Francisco had been saved
many times by the country delega-
tion and the city press had ac-
knowledged the service. Nine
tenths of the jobbery in the Legis-
lature was put through by San
Francisco. In his judgment the
interests Of the city would be better
served by smaller delegation
than it now is.
Howard, of Los Aegeles, consid-
cred the amendment a gross viola
tion of principle; that the presiden
tialvote of 1875 was fairer index
of the population than any Federal
census. It was Notorious that the
enumeration by the United States
was unreliable.
Filcheris amendment was reject
ed; noes GA, ayes 4S.
Hagel's substitute was also re-
jected.
Barnes offered substitute basing
the representation on the number
of Inhabitants, the enumeration
to be taken under direction of the
Legislature in 1880, and every ten
years thereafter; this enumeration
and the federal census to serve as
the basis of representation. The
substitute provides also that the
number of Senators and Assembly
men shall be fixed by the Legisla
ture but shall not be less than forty
Senators and eighty Assembly
men.
Recess.