Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-14
ASSEMBLY.


Called to order at IL A NJ, Speaker Parks in the
chair
A B. 12-the deficiency hill for the thirty-second
fiscal year-was reported to the House from the Ap-
preparation Committee with recommendation that it
pass. The Hou e went into Committee of the Whole
upon the BILL the Speaker 10 the chair. The items
Of $3.50 for salaries of Deputy Clerks of Supreme
Court and $500 for salary OF deputy reporter of de-
committee offered items as amendments follows:
For per diem and mileage Of Assemblymen, 81 900
pay Of officers and clerks Of last Assembly S. 500;
contingent expenses of Assembly, So 900 /; per diem
and mileage of Lieutenant Governor and Senators,
$40, pay Of clerks of Senate, SIS, ,00o The
mittee then and reported the bill back to the
House. and it was read second time. A motion to
strike out the item Of Si00 for salary of bookkeeper
in Controllers Office lost-39 noes, SO ayes.
Passed to third readi z.
The general approx ration bill was read as re-
ported from the Committee of the Whole, and the
amendments adopted. An amendment was offered
by the Appr ,priation Committee to make the item
for the State burial grounds also applicable for
pairs to the monument of Ex-Governor Bigler. Car
ried. Mr.. PAULK meved to reduce the amount
named Deputy insurance Commissioner from
s., 900 to 81 600. The mover and others argued in
support of the amendment on the ground that the
Dlputy was only clerk, and that the Constitution
expressly states that 81 800 shall be the limit for
the salary of any clerk. Mr. MAY and others op-
posed maintaining that Leputy was not a clerk
in the contemplated by the Constitu-
ton, and the Legislature had so decided by
ary at the amount named in the bill.
Lost-ayes 81. noes 35. Mr.. GRIFFITH moved to
amend the clause granting So 900 for secret service
fund, so as to require the Governor to render
account for the manner in which it expended.
Lost Mr.. EsTEl moved to amend the bill so as TO
appropriate SIS 600 ior construction of wall around
the State Prison grounds at Folsom. Mr.. HARRISON
moved 10 make the amount $4,000. Mr.. EsTEY ac-
cepted tive amendment of Mr.. Harrison The objec-
ton bling raised that the amendment was new leg
isation and could not be included in the appropria-
ton bill without law previously authorizing it,
Mr.. VAN FLEET offered a substitute that $4,000
be appropriated fer the purchase of lime, cement
and other materials for the construction of such
wall. Substitute accepted and adoption urged by
Messrs. HARRISON and VAN FLEET. Adopted-ayes
Il, noes %.
The SPEAKER at o'clock declared a recess until
2PM
Afternoon Session.
House reassembled at P. NJ, and the Engross.
ment Committee reported correctly engrossed a.
B. IL deficiency biD
Consideration of the general appropriation bill
was resumed and Mr.. MATHEWS of Tehama moved
to make the item for stationery fuel lights for
the Legislature and State offices S25 600 instead of
$4,000. He thought that as the Legislature sits in
regular session but sixty days that the S25 COO
would be sufficient and read statistics of expenses
of past sessions in support and TO show that the
Secretary OF State make that sum do. Mr.. MAY
replied showing that Secretary Beck spent In four
years for like purposes over SIS, 600, with two
sessions of the Legislature, and that it was,
he believed, honestly expended Under Republican
rule there are two regular sessions, and the
extra session, and the amount asked by Seere-
tary Burns per year is less than that used by his
predecessor for like period H read statistics to
show what various legislators drew for stationery in
the last Democratic Legislature. Mr.. MATHEWS ad-
mitted the sums were eXtravaSant, and that the
items read were drawn by Democrats. The debate
created much amusement Mr. MATTHEWS claimed
Mr.. Mays showing proved the necessity of his
amendment and that the present Secretary asks
more than was asked by Mr. Beck. The Chair de-
sired to warn members not to make record to be
pulled up on them by successors. lAerrimentl The
amendment was adopted.
Mr.. LANE moved to amend that for the sum for
building water. tanks at the Napa Asylum the
work be done by days labor Ruled out OF order
as being new legislation Mr.. LANE appealed from
the decision The Chair was sustained.
Mr. LANE moved TO amend the item for purchase
of ballot paper to make it read for trhite ballot
papern Ruled out OF order for like reason.
Mr. BURNS moved to strike out the item of $500
for pasting and pr, serving coupons in the Treas
urers office He thought the clerks ought to do 1t.
Mr. MAY said 1t was not duty OF the clerks, and
the clerks had plenty to do of regular duty. 3Ir.
FELTON, and Mr.. MCRPHY favored striking out the
item, the former declaring the whole work should
not amount to weeks time. Amendment
adopted.
Mr.. LEACH moved to strike out all items for Dis
trict Agricultural Societies Lost.
MIR CHANDLER asked why the Guardian OF the
Yosemite Valley is not paid out of the proceeds of
the rents III Tic III. MAY tNpiallleu lHe
matter.
The House then ordered the bill engrossed and
sent to a third reading. Mr. MURPHY gave notice Of
motion to reconsider the item in the bill for the
prison wall at Folsom. The CHAIR said that would
prevent the bill coming to third reading Thurs
day and finally held the notice out of order Mr.
MURPHY withdrew the notice
On motion of Mr.. MAY, A. B. 10 (tax levy) was
taken up and placed on its second reading The
bill provides for raising for the thirty third fiscal
year For general fund, 81, ,650, 900; school fund,
81 200 900; interest and sinking fund, S3l5, ,0OO
For thirty fourth fiscal year General fund.- 81, ,3oo.
oO0 school fund, ST. 200 900; interest and sinking
fund, $4,000. The committee moved to amend,
to strike out $4,000 general fund thirty. third
YEAR, and make it 1865 500. Mr.. GILMORE moved
to amend the amendment by making it $3.50, 600
He said the bill would require tax OF 65 cents for
State purposes, and that such rate s toe high and
that it takes too much money to the tate gov
ernment. Connecticut has State tax of but Is
cents Massachusetts, but 81 cents and other States
range from 81 cents to cents. The average of the
States Of the Union is tax levy OF but %
cents Pennsylvania and Delaware have no
State tax on real estate. Nearly all the
States raise less sum fol State purposes than Cali
fornia He excepted the Southern States which have
heavy debts He claimed that tax of 40 cents will
be sufficient which to run the State Government
He said the prisons and insane asylums of California
alone cost S65o,000 for support. Michigan levies
but Is cents; Maine, Missouri and Nebraska 40
cents; New York levies 65 cents, and expends over
81, 900 900 for the State Government. He urged at
length that the tax rate be greatly lowered. Mr. ED
WARDS said the appropriation bill had been discussed
and agreed to, and now the House must provide for
the money. Mr.. MAY said the speech of Mr..
Gilmore didn't fit the case. 1t was as il a
man finds his expenses $1,000 a year, and
resolves to continue to live at that rate
but to pay it with $500 a year, and let the
rest go debt. The Constitution says the Legis-
lature shall not do this and prohibits the creation
of any debt in of $500 in total aggregate
of all liabilities. Mr. Gilnores plan is not states
manship. He had contempt for buneombt and
sham, and wasn't Chesp John man in the way Of
government. He'd wait to see il Mr.. Gilmore used
the SIS voted him for stationery. He believed in
running the State institutions right even IL IL doe