Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-02-11

Coast, In session at Sacramento,
yesterday adopted resolution urg.
Ing tho ratification of tho new Chi.
nese treaties.
Relief fer Fsooa suner+rE-Othsr
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10TH
Eight hundred and forty dollars
has been sent from here for the 70.
lief of the sufferers 10 Washington.
YolO county.
A man supposed to be Henry
Obernan killed himself in Jeffer-
son Park this afternoon with q pis.
tol shot in the head.
The Pacific Stock Board now
makes no other charge for listing
stocks than the $50 for annual
dues. Quite q number of active
stocks not previously on the list
have recently been added in conse.
quence of this move.
| The LeglsiatUre.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. l0.-SENATE.
On the second reading and con.
sideration Of Senate bill No. 40, as
amended in committee, to estab.
lish a uniform system Of county
government, q long discussion fol.
lowed Oh an amendment making
the term of effice of Supervisors
two years, instead of four, as pro.
vided in the bill. Lost; ayes 16,
noes %.
An amendment to abolish the
hold-over provision and require the
full board to be elected at each
| election was also lost.
Baker moved that the bill be
continued to the. exclusion OF all
other business until completed.
The motion received q majority.
but failed to get twO.thirds, and
the third reading file will be re-.
sumed at 2 o'clock,
Senate, afternoon-On third read
ing Enos's bill to establish and
support Bureau of Labor aud Sta.
tistics was passed. 1t appropriates
$4,000 year.
Gorman's bill, Senate bill 81. to
regulate the hours of labor on work
done for the State, was also passed.
The bill to establish q Normal
school at Redding was lost on final
passage.
A call of the Senate was made,
when the act to govern the practice
of medicine and defining who are
legal physicians and surgeons, was
reached. The bill failed Of passag e,
ayes 10, noes %.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. of San
Joaquin, asked and obtained con-
sent to introduce tie following res.
oiutiop, which he stated was done
at the request Of citizens of Colusa
county: "Resol0ed, That q special
ommittee be appointed to inquire
into the official conduct Of +. L..
Hatch, Superior Judge OF tho
county of C0lusa, State of Califor.
MIA, and to report their opinion as
to whether said F. L. Hatch has 30
acted in his judicial capacity as to
require the interposition Of the con.
stitutional powers OF thisHouse."
With the resolution was submitted
an affidavit of John T. Harrington,
Attorney Of Colusa county, stating
that on the 18th OF August, 1880,
Hatch was so intoxicated that he
could not properly hear case
then pending; also, that when the
Judges son, jackson Hatch, was
an attorney in case before the
Judge, deponent saw the accused
coach his son and tell him to read
from a certain book which was the
law of the case under considera.
ton. Another affidavit of E. A.
Bridgeford, also an attorney 81
Qolnsa, states that Hatch was
an argument for habeos corpus was
under consideration and has been
intoxicated on divers other occa.
slons.
| Another resolution by J. T.
Wharton sets forth the same con.
dition Of affairs.
| Streeter, Of the Committee on
Irrigation, reported Senate bill No
~, to repeal the act to promote
drainage and recommended that Il
be made the special order for to-
morrow at 2 O'clock. Ruled out O.
order.
The third reading file being
taken up, long debate ensuee
over Bakers bill appropriatina
; $25, 900 to improve the Norma
school grounds at San Jose.
FELTON, offered an amendment
devoting half the money to thu
grounds and the other half to fur
nishing the building, on which .
protracted debate occurred. The
roll was finally called and the
amendment was lost.
FELTON, moved to strike out $685.
900 and insert $4,000. Pending I
vote recess was taken.
Del Vale made lengthy speech
against the reconsideration Of til,
) Bank Commissioners bill and reat
from an editorial in the Record
Union, q Republican paper, de-
nOunciDg all attempts to legisIat'
the Bank missioners out o.
office as movement of spoilsmen
which ought to be defeated for til,
good of the party.
May stated that his bill was de-
signed to remove from office Off.
cials who had not properly fillst