Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-20
CAPITOL NOTES.

ceedlngs for visitors In that part of the Capi
tol, and few but working members and those
directly interested in the bill remained.
In the Assembly the discussion upon the
debris question in the afternoon drew large
audience. Increased interest was manifested
and was an index of the strong anxiety exist
ing for some favorable legislative action upon
the subject. Leading agriculturists and
citizens from the valley and prominent
miners were seen seated with members
or IN the lobby, with copy of the bill in
/ hand and closely watching the action of the
House as it considered it section by section,
and keeping tally with each vote taken.
! Whenever motion prevailed which was coz
sidered as tending against the mining inter
ests those interested in that industry FREE
| quently expressed their Misrepresentation of
members whom they had expected would
favor them, and these compliments We're ex-
changed by those representing the opposing
Industry when the action seemed to score in
the opposite direction. Nothing of import
ant legislation has created so careful and crit
i:al attention during the present session, and
the witnessing of this fact, which no member
can avoid observing and understanding, will
no doubt have tendency to stimulate earnest
effort to agree upon some measure which shall
~ &C AAi eto DtseiblC dCcSpbdDtS 10 All con-
cerned, and give substantial promise of over
coming the present evils
The Committees of Water Rights and
Drainage and Agriculture, which recently
visited The debris regions, say III their report
The rivers and streams into which the
debris Is deposited, together with thousands
of acres of agricultural lands, have been in.
Jured to an alarming extent, and if some
means are not devised to protect the rivers
and the lands adjacent thereto, but few
years must elapse before the beds of the
streams viii be so filed that protection
against overflow and the disasters and de-
struction consequent thereon will be almost
impossible. Your committee are
aware of the difficulties to be encountered in
legislating ON subject wherein the farmer
and the miner are in direct conflict as to the
best method of remedying existing evils But
fully recognizing the magnitude of the inter
ests involved, they believe that immediate
legislation Is not only necessary, but that the
interests of the State demand that it be
such that the parties in conflict should
each be SO protected by a law
that while it would benefit the one
it would be source of no injury to the
other. Your committee, having carefully
surveyed the field in company with the State
Engineer, who explained and pointed out the
points where dams are to be constructed are
satisfied that the plan is feasible one. and
would afford the desired protection to both
interests. We were more fully confirmed in
this belief after having seen several similar
dams constructed wholly of brush built
across the canyons where large volumes of
water flow in winter freshets, which have
raised the bed Of the stream to a hight of
over twenty feet, and which have withstood
the floods of dozen winters without any
damage whatever, and similar dams are
formed in most of the mining counties Be-
heving that structures of heavy rock, as pro-
posed by the State Engineer, would be in
finitely stronger and more lasting, we have
no hesitation in recommending the adoption
of the plan of dams proposed by him, and
believe that they would prove a success in
every particular" As the subject is to be
resumed this morning, there will probably be
no diminution In attendance or interest
Many gathered at the Senate last evening
expecting the general School bill would be
under consideration, but finding the Charter
bill still being discussed, went to the Assem-
bly,, where the woman-sgtfrage question was
receiving active attention. The announce
ment that the subject would be before the
House drew together those friendly to the
cause, as well as large number who for some
reason had anticipated that the occasion
would afford some merriment as well as argu-
Hicub, anu bACy WOiS llOJ dlSiJpOluJeus L he
floor of the House as well as the lobby and
galleries were filed to the utmost and hardly
standing room could be found inside the
doors. Many humorous as well as logical
speeches were made, and the audience re-
manned, without showing any signs Of weari-
ness, until IL o'clock, when the subject was
postponed until next Wednesday evening.
When the School bill comes before the As
sembly for action an effort will be made to
reinstate the section stricken out by the Sen
ate, which provided against relations of
School Trustees being employed in the dis
tricts of such officers. A case is cited in sup
port of the necessity of this section, which
came under Prof. Aliens observation during
recent visit to the northern part of the
State, where he states to have found school
being taught by daughter of one of the
Trustees at a salary of SO per month, which
school but one scholar attended, and that was
q younger sister Of the teacher.
The memorable Pedro bill, which so electri-
fed the Assembly recently and produced such
q sensation on Its passage that members of
the g Extreme Left" went home without
their overcoats and bare-headed, and sur
prised the sedate matrons of their boarding.
houses by ordering diet of hot scotch and
gin cocktails, with supply OF Z" seven up"
and Fifteen game" to continue until the
Senate outrages the liberties of the people by
passing the bill. and the Governor seals the
infamy of the nineteenth century by signing
away the last vestige of constitutional rights
and independent manhood of a sovereign
people, and compelling freemen socially in
clined to make a square purchase of their
spiritual necessities, without first having fair
constitutional opportunity to adjust the rela-
tions between them by determining, with the
aid of a little game, who shall pay for the
"smile," was yesterday reported back by the
Senate Committee on Public Morals without
amendment, and with the recommendation
that it pass. As soon as the fact be-
came known in the Assembly, although
every member was intently bent on
passing debris bill before they left their
seats that should solve the whole vexed ques-
ton of siickens, there was all at once a
noticeable futter in the recently agitated
chamber, which Immediately took shape in
about twenty members rushing out and over
to the Senate, where they exercised the privi-
lege of the floor by interviewing Senators
upon the prospects of the Mcclure charter
bill, and sat down upon the Senatorial coat
tails as high up as the Wristbands. The
President of the Senate supposed the Assem-
bly, had adjourned and come over to spend the
afternoon and smiled benignantly at the I'M
expected compliment. He noticed however,
upon glancing call of the house." that the
visitors were all members of the Extreme
Left" and that they had taken seats with
the same class in the more august body.
After asking few questions about the Char
ter bill, without waiting for any answers,
they incidentally alluded to the Tyler Pedro
bill, and clearly demonstrated its I'M
constitutionality by being in conflict with
that section of the Constitution which
declares that every man is freeman;
that all men are born equal before the law
Except Chiaamen or Mongelians), aud that
no person or persons shall be deprived of the
inalienable right to decide in their own way
as to who shall pay for social refreshments,
except persons ineligible to become citizens.
Before returning to the Assembly one of
the visiting delegation stated that he had a
supply of that blue ribbon left, and promised
that every Senator who voted against the
infamous Pedro bill should receive Murphy
pledge for each lapel of his ulster which
should be affixed with his own hand and seal.
CoURsING MEETNG.-The Capital Cours-