Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-14
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Especial to the HERALD by the Western
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Pacific Coast News.
The Convensson-Af.eIuoaa.

| SACRAMENTO, Feb. 13th.-Laine
moved to refer sections 2, and II
to the Judiciary mittee.
The Chair ruled the motion out
of order.
Laine appealed from the decision
of the Chair. The Chair was sus.
tained-ayes 81, noes 53.
| Rolfe offered an amendment to
Section II, reclassifying the Judges
and reducing their salaries. The
question of compensation should
be removed wholly from the coun.
Ties. Rolfe's amendment was re-
jected-ayes 33, noes 20.
West offered an amendment re-
ducing the salaries $500 n year on
Judges of each class. Adopted
ayes 81, noes 36.
Biggs moved to reconsider the
McCallum amendment, compelling
the counties to pay half of the su-
perior Judges salaries.
| Barbour said that payment from
the State Treasury meant that San
Francisco, with one-sixth of the iu-
dietary and one.half the taxable
property OF the State, should pay
for interior Judges.
| McFarland's motion to instruct
the Committee to report in favor of
the present system was lost. Kelly
moved an amendment to instruct
the Committee to classify the SUI
perior Judges into two classes, the
salary of the first class not to eX.
ceed four thousand dollars. Kelly's
amendment was rejected. The mo.
ton to lay Van Dykes resolution
on the table was carried, ayes rs,
noes As.
The section as amended was
adopted.
Campbell called up his motion
to reconsider the vote by which
the Convention refused to concur
| in section nineteen, as recommend
| ed by the Committee of the Whole.
Campbell said the motion to con-
cur was rejected. The motion to
reconsider was lost. Ayes, 3S; noes,
40. The article was passed to en-
grossment and second reading.
The article on the right of suf-
frage was then taken up.
Beerstecher objected to the clause
in the first section requiring one to
reside ninety days in a precinct be.
fore being entitled to vote. He
offered an amendment limiting the
time to thirty days, the amend
ment simply requiring a residence
in the county of ninety days and in
the precinct of thirty days, which
was adopted. Ayes, 81; noes, 81.
Ayers introduced an amendment
| giving the Legislature power to
confer the ballot upon women, and
spoke in its support.
Fatal Explosion.
SAN JOSE, Feb. 13th.-There was
an explosion at 9:l5 last night from
the fire damp in tunnel No. 8,
Southern Pacific Coast Railroad,
near Alma. Fourteen men We're
injured, nine Cinnamon probably
fatally.
FURTHER OF THE RAILWAY AC-
CIDENT-PETRoLEU GAS THE
CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION.
SAN JOSE, February 13th.-A
most distressing accident took place
at tunnel No. 8, through the Santa
Cruz Mountains, on the line of the
South Pacific Coast Railroad, four
and one-half miles above Alma sta
tion, at half-past nine o'clock last
evening, by which one white man,
M. @. Hyland, the foreman, and ii
Cinnamon were so severely burned
1t is thought that eight or nine of
the latter cannot survive. For sew
eral weeks, owing to having struck
petroleum gas, oozing from the
assures in the rock, through which
the tunnel 10 being run, great care
has been taken to flash or burn this
gas accumulation between the