Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-13
Afternoon Session.

The following bills were read second time, and
disposed of given below
S. B. 6l, to amend Section 634 OF the Penal Code,
relating to the violations of the law for the preser
vation of fish. Ordered engrossed
S. b. O. to prevent the sale of adulterated milk.
Ordered engrossed.
s. B. 81, to amend the Political Code of the State
of California, by adding new section thereto.
Special order next Wednesday.
S. B. 63, to amend the Penal Code by adding two
new sections thereto, to be known Sections 969
and 1025, providing for proceedings In cases where
previous conviction is charged. Ordered engrossed.
S. B. So, to amend sections 392, 1893, 39i, $685. 1885,
397 and 39S of the Cote OF Civil Procedure, relating
to the venue in civil actions. Ordered eugrossed.
S. D. As, to regulate the rate of charges on tele-
graph lines, and to prevent eXtorton by owners OF
telegraph lines.
Mr. uARLocK offered an amendment excepting
night messages from the reduction.
Mr.. NEUMASN introduced amendments making the
reduction IS instead Of S5 cent, and forbidding
companies to make extra charge unless the place
OF delivery is situated more than one mile from the
Office OF such companies, which were adopted.
Mr. iirAiS introduced an amendment to Section 3,
sub stituting 200 for zoo mites.
Mr. JOHNSON offered an amendment in addition to
Section g as follows And to said lines the
charges shall be the same as were charged January
l, 1881"
Another amendment, by Mr.. JOHNSON, permitting
the companies to charge that multiple of five which
nearest the exact rate fixed by the bill,
passed.
Mr. Fxos said he had not had an opportunity of
familiariZing with the present rates, and conse-
quently was not prepared to vote on the present
bill. He therefore hoped tina. it would be recon-
mitted.
Mr. NEUMAyN was opposed to the re-comnitment
OF the BILL and thought the Senate ought to act
upon it at once. He knew nothing with reference
that they Were too low, but he knew that some OF
them too high. He thought he understood
himself when he SAID that message sent from here
to San Francisco at cost of 40 cents, with addi-
toOal oharoeS of for daily Dr II II tn
part of the city not thirteen blocks distant not
only too high, but exorbitantly SO.
Mr.. JOHNSON hoped the bill would not be recon-
mitted. 1t seemed to him singular motion to
come from Senator who voted for the same bill at
the last session Of the Legislature and participated
in the discussion, and whose name was recorded on
page 579 of the journal of the Senate as having
voted for the bill He thought that the effort retard
the passage of the bill came with peculiarly bad
grace from that Senator now. The Senator from
Yuba also voted for that Identical BILL and fhe would
turn to page SIS Of the journal of the last session
he would find his vote cast ave for the final
passage of the bill, and the speaker was
sorry ne could not vote aye at this session.
The bill under consideration the bill that
was carefully considered by the Judiciary Commit
tee the year previous, and which afterWard passed
the Senate. The amount of reduction was then Il
per cent but this year, motion of Senator Neu,
manu. and by vote of the Senate in which vote, if
he mistook not, the Senator from the Thirteenth
concurred, the rate of reduction made % per
cent Why not reserve all such objections until the
bill came up for its final passage? If informa.
ton was desired by the Senator from the Thirteenth
he could obtain it by that time. There were
but fifty days left of the session, and in
that time this bill must be read once more
in the Senate and then go through the crucible OF
the Assembly and be there read four times before it
became law. He asked the senators not to delay
this bill II they thought that gigantic corporation
which stretched like an octopus over every foot of
inhabtable ground in the United States which had
at its control hundreds of millions OF dollars; which
held by the neck every newspaper in the nation;
which dictated terms to every man, woman child,
corporation and newspaper in the land il they
thought they were afraid to wrestle with that
poration; if they thought they were not called
upon to regulate the charges made by
that monopoly, let them say SO squarely
and fairly by their votes According to the plain
mandate OF the Constitution the Legislature vas
compelled to regulate the charges of telegraph
companies. At the last session "a Senators had
voted for the BILL and he hoped "a Senators would
vote for it this session. He submitted that the
judgment of Senator Wendell, the Chairman OF the
judiciary Committee, had considerable weight rea.
tive to the constitutionality of the bill
Mr.. ENos, while admitting that he voted for the
bill passed at the last session. claimed that this bill
was different in some respects, particularly in
gard to the more sweeping reduction.
Mr. DAVIS made long argument in reply to
Mr.. Johnson and against the consttutionaty of the
bill, but when Mr. johnson called his attention to
his amendment, prescribing that the rates of the
companies whose lines were less than two
not exceed what they were on the 1st of January,
he admitted that the til might be constitutional,
and said he had not heard the amendment read
NJ. PARDEB seconded Mr.. Enos motion to fe refer
the bill He great determination get the bill
through to-day, and was opposed to hasty legisa.
ton. He cited the hypothetical case of two roads
doing business in the same direction one OF which
was $50 and the other 300 miles in length to show
the injustice which would be done by the passage OF
the bill In conclusion he said that he wanted more
time TO consider the matter, and asked the Senate
to re-refer the bill.
Mr.. CosGER opposed the motion to recommit, and
favored the edate passage OF the bill to engross
ment.
Mr.. SEARS offered an amendment to Section 1,
which was adopted, but subsequently was reconsid-
cred and defeated.
Mr.. KANE opposed the bill.
The motion TO recommit was lost by a vote Of 80
to Z.
Mr. Ryan's amendment was lost
Mr.. Jobnson's amendment was adopted
Mr.. NEUNANS Offered amendment to iasert in
Section g. before the words :" this Act" the words
Section l Of" which was adopted
On motion Of Mr.. PARDEg, the Senate adjourned
at 4:30.
An ERROR.
The bill reported in yesterdays RECORD UNION
adding eight sections to the Political Code rel.
ative School Trustees raising money for building
purposes, which credited 10 Mr.. RoweD and
marked referred to the judiciary COMMITTEE was in
troduced by Mr. Carloek and referred TO tie Com.
rnittee on Education.