Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
[ Special to the HERALD by the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Pacific Coas. News.
Tne Conven.tom-afl.i.aou.

TAe ConvehstOn-AfteI uaOu.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. b.27.-Ths prop
osition relating to the State bound.
ary, Distribution of Powers, Land
and Homestead exemption, were
finally adopted.
State and Municipal Indebted.
ness were next considered.
Casserley offered an amendm ent
to perfect the article. Adopted.
The article was finally adopted.
The Schedule was taken up and
finally adopted after n few slight
amendments.
Miscellaneous Subjects, the last
article on the file, was next consid-
cred.
Rsddy moved the previous ques-
tion on the entire article.
After many changes from no to
aye, the main question was ordered.
Applause followed and the article
was finally adopted, ayes 90, noes
10, and referred for revision.
Shafter, Chairman of the Com.
mittee on Revision and Adjust.
ment, reported on five articles. The
changes read were simply transpo-
sltions of words and alterations
where conflicting provisions re-
garding days of election occur, ex.
oepting in the last section of the
Chinese article. The Committee
on this section asked the instruc-
ton Of the Convention. They were
of opinion that the section directs
the Legislature to provide for the
punishment of companies and in.
dividuals residing in China and
other foreign countries. The Con-
vention did not instruct but order
ed copies of the Revised Articles
printed with the changes indicated
by italics.
Adjourned.
The A0si-Cbanese Meeting I'm.
nnenso DEMONSTRATION.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27th.-The
mass meeting called by the Mayor
and Board OF Supervisors, at the
request of the Chamber of Com
merce, at Platts Hall this after.
noon, was an imposing demonstra-
ton. Long before the doors opened
Montgomery street was blocked by
thousands awaiting entrance. Sew
eral hundred, including the Vice.
Presidents, prominent citizens and
representatives of the press, were
admitted by the private entrance,
filling the seats on the platform and
Ia the body of the hall. Shortly
before 2 O'clock the doors were
opened and in five minutes the
building was Ipacked to its utmost
capacity. There were nearly five
Thousand in the hall and as many
more In the street unable to gain
admission. The platform seats
were occupied by leading mer-
chants, business and professional
men Of the city, and three-fourths
OF tue audience was composed of
substantial citizens, while the
Workingmen were represented by
o large attendance. At 2 O'Clock
Mayor Bryant called the meeting
to order, and after calling attention
to the Importance of the occasion
and briefly reviewing the history
Of the anti-Chinsse agitation, in
troduced Governor Irwin as pre-.
siding sfficer.
The Governor made short, forci-
BILE address, dwelling upon the
magnitude OF the occasion and pro.
prlsty OF the calling of such a meet
ing TO convince the President of
tne United States that it was not,
as had been intimated by . MEM
Der 81 his own Cabinet, merely the
hoodlum element that demanded
the restriction of Chinese immipra.
tion, but the solid men, property
holders and mercantile classes Of
California. the Governor then
took the Chair, and M. d. Boruck,
secretary Of the Republican State
Central Committee, read resolu.
tions re-afiirming the resolutions