Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-16
Leg isiAtive.

sisters living.
Leg isiative.
SACRAMENTO, Marcl 12th.-The
Judiciary Committee reported back
favorably the bills submitted by
Lewis yesterday, the first amending
the railroad act of 1861 so as to col
lect fares from points within incor-
porated cities, and amending Sec :
tion All of the Civil Code conform.
ing the Code to the first bill.
Pursuant to notice given, Barstow
moved to reconsider the vote by
which the House yesterday refused
to pass to engrOssment Assembly
bill No. %.
Barstow presented a bill to regu
late the course of study and use of
textbooks in public schools.
Dare moved to indefinitely post
pone.
A motion to reconsider was cal
ried; ayes AZ, noes 81.
The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole for the pur-
pose of considering, In special or
der, the State Prison Committed :
substitute for TuJtle's act to sstab-
lish IL State keformatory. The
substitute provides for the speedy
completion Of the branch State
Prison at Folsom. Tuttle's bill
provides for the erection of suit
able building outside the State
Prison walls ut San Quentin, to be
called the State Reformatory, in
which persons under twenty-five
years OF age, sentenced for their
first conviction in crime shall be
incarcerated.
Tuttle made few slight clerical
amendments to his bill and moved
that the Committee rise and re-
port recommending the passage of
the original bill instead of the sub.
stitute. At last the Committee
rose and reported back the substi-
tute with the recommendation that
it pass. Rules suspended and bill
passed.
Bill amending the Railroad Act
OF 1861 was passed by vote of 20
ayes and II noes.
A bill was then passed repeating
section All of the Civil Code in
conformity with the amendment to
the railroad law.
Searle, from the Committee on
Corporations, reported favorably
on the Bank Commissioners bill,
with amendments, and the same
was made tho special order for
Tuesday next.
Santa IsarbRra Hreakwoter rnd I.ns
Angeles P""r Farm.
SACRAMENTO, March 15.-A bill
was introduced in the Assembly by
Sherman in favor of the construc-
tion of a break water and sea wall
at the harbor of Santa Barbara.
Adopted under suspension of the
rules.
The Assembly concurred in the
Senate amendments to the bill es.
tablishing an almshouse and farm
in Los Angeles county.
Nan Francisco Markets.
SAN FRANCISCO, March, 18TH
Wheat, better feeling, choice mill
ing, Sl.S73@l.90; shipping, $l.S0@
1.S5. Barley, active and firm, bay
feed, $l.30; brewing, $l.35@l.45.
Rye, Nebraska, $2.25. Oats, firm
and unchanged. Corn, scarce and
firm; yellow, S1.55@l.sa Potaotes,
active and firm, So. .00@2. 40.
An Assessincnt On Alta.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.-Aita
levies an assessment of one dollar
per share delinquent April 18th.
W"u,d ""; be Interviewed.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15th.-
A deputation of WorkiugmeD,
headed by Kearney and Wellock,
tried to interview J. q. Duncan
to-day, in his parlor in the City
Prison, the object of the inter.
view being presumably to pump
the eX-Manager concerning the
affairs of the Pioneer Bank. Kear-
ney has announced his intention of
settling the affairs of that defunct
concern in the interst of the stock
holders.
Duncan, apparently mindful of the
pet names that Kearney has been
in the habit of applying to him,
and the intimations thrown out
from time to time that Kearney and
his friends intended to raise him on
their platform of hemp, declined to
be interviewed, alleging that the