Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-21


be considered at such session, each person
of the class named is strongly impressed with
the idea that he can bring to bear on the
Executive sufficient influence to have the
particular measure favored by him 1.-THE pet
hobbies of these people who have such high
regard for their own power to influence)
named in the call. 1t is as remarkable as it
is amusing, when moving among the lobby
and the advocates of mice little measures"
to notice that there is scarcely any man in
favor of any measure who has so
mean a regard for himself as to
think for a moment that he may
not be able to persuade the Governor to issue
the call, and SO these over-contident people
come to believe that the call will be made,
and the pet measure named in it, and other
men quite as shortsjghted are brought to rely
upon these self-sufhcient ones. AS a conse-
quence there exists
A DISPOSITION TO DEFEAT
The appropriation bill, and il grows stronger
daily, because the line of such defeat has
come to be part of the settled policy OF
nearly all those measures, the friends OF
which wish nodded into laws, and which they
realize can only be accomplished by the call
for an extra session. So far as the Governor
is concerned, the inquirer at the Capitol finds,
even before he reaches the Executive office,
that there viii be no call by the Governor
information which that magistrate confirms
very positively by expression when con-
suited regarding it.
1t is noticeable that the lobby is a lazy one,
that it has comparatively little to do just
now but gossip, and in this certainly it in
dulges with unwonted freedom One hears
it whispered, therefore, about the corridors,
halls and Hobbies that the difficulty about the
extra session is to be surmounted, the scruples
of the Governor as to the expense to the
people are to be overcome, and by
lobby shrewdness the mountain is to be re-
duced to mole-hill The present very fer
tile field for gossip among the lobby favors
the ploughshare of inquiry and upturns all the
details of the plan. 1t is that the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, aided by GER
tain aspiring politicians, and certain other
gentlemen with less Judgment than money,
shall furnish SIS, 600 in gold coin of the Re
public, with which to pay the per diem of
the legislators and attaches for period
sufficiently long to enable that grave and
reverend body to legislate until it can reach
the apportionment bill. Concerning this mat
ter such Democrats as lay around the lobby
make no remark in the hearing of Repub-
licans, however audibly they may smile
but in the privacy of their own coun-
ellis, and under the shadow of the
L SUdi SOue, Gucy Will d "ioetoLi
which does them more credit than the man.
agement of some of their campaigns would
lead one to award them, that if anything OF
that kind is attempted the gentlemen who
engineer the job will be very likely to get
themselves into such close quarters that they
will wish their mothers had never given birth
to sons-in short, that any such proposition,
if carried out, will amount to nothing more
nor less than improper lobbying, and render
all engaged in it liable to a heightened resi-
dence
IN THE STATE PRISON.
They are disposed to think that it will be a
simple and unauthorized offer to employ
legislators to enact given measures, and that
the Legislature itself will thereby be placed
in the attitude of an employe. They say
quietly to each other, suppose railroad cor
poratiop, a water or a mining company
should come into the lobby with a sack, and
should offer to furnish money to defray legis-
lative expenses during an extra session,
could anyone be warranted in drawing
any other conclusion than this, that
it was done to influence legislation, and that
the legislators accepting it are guilty of par
taking of corruption fund And they add,
with very serious expression, that it is just
as unlawful to offer money, promise or re-
ward to secure the passage of good as Of bad
bills. They can see 10 difference between the
act of party or corporation swinging the sack,
and an individual manipulating the money
bags in the lobby-and it must be confessed
that the force of their logic is such as not to
be resisted by the most speciOus and stilted
defamation about " the good of the State, .
and all that. The Democracy, however, has
not grown so suddenly and thoroughly honest
that it will cry out and warn the Republicans
far from it. Nothing would suit it better
than TO have the plan suggested get well upon
its legs for it believes that the attempt
would sufficiently damn the Republicans, and
supply the Democrats with campaign ammu-
milton enough to wipe the dominant party
from the political slate of California next
year.
1t is apparent to the unimpassioned OBJ
server after a week or two of on-looking and
study of the matter, that the Republican
party
LACKS LEADERS.
Its want is strong men; strong in the sense
that constitutes political leadership. 1t is
becoming painfully apparent that leadership
in the establishment of right principles and
in the marking out of policy, to deserve
well Of the people by originating and passing
measures of great public value, is lacking.
The doctrine that great parties live by adher-
ence to great principles appears to have been
banished from the minds of politicians who
train under second.rate leadership. But
these reflections, though the direct result of
observation, lead the gossip-hearer from the
track of news which conviction brings him
back again, and to the reproduction of a
very silly story that is floating about in the
lobby and within the bar and without. It is
almost too foolish to repeat, decidedly too
mean and manifestly too baseless to excite
contempt, ard serves only to awaken
ridiculous mirth at its absurdity. Neverthe-
less, there are some so far lost to the sense of
the ludicrous and so ready to accept the most
outrageous and indecent stories concerning
anything of the corporation kind that this
CoNTEMPTIBLE STORY
Has not lacked for believers. The tale is to
the effect that the Central Pacific Railroad
Company land, by the way. to the casual OBJ
server it would appear that that institution
is never to be anything but a kind of bugbear
in some minds, and an eternal scare crow for
very little ones), that the Central Pacific
Company has formed league conspiracy,
combination, or what not, with The Demo.
cratic party-head, hams, shoulders and
heels-to prevent the passage of the appor-
tionment bill Whatever that corporation
may do, sensible men do not write it down
fool nor snap up for belief every story told
of it, especially such as would indicate the
managers of that concern to be asses. The
number taking stock in this witless yarn is
not large, but its believers are apparently sin
cere, judgment which, while apologize for
their belief, can hardly be considered as COM
plimentary to their intelligence. Having by
an unintentional route got back to this cues
ton of the apportionment bill, it may be
stated that it is conceded at the Capitol that
the bill TO be passed will result in legislator
to succeed Senator Farley, and this fact has
led, doubtless, to some one inventing the
story that the railroad corporation desires to
have Senator Farley returned, in lieu of any
other yarn with which to spice the occasion.
THE MEASURES OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE
Now before the Legislature may be briefly
enumerated: The appropriation ill, the APP
portioument bill, all Acts and parts of Acts
relating to hydraulic mining and correction
of the rivers. and lastly, the county govern
ment hill Tn this connection If has leaked