Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-01-09
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Passengers ls0sng A.uals,
i MoJAvE, Jan. 8-Los Angeles
Mrs Curig aud child, J w Redway,
Geo T Hooper aud wife, ] w Blk
by, Mise e Fawcett. Del Harbaugh,
wife aud son. Miss M E Harbsugh,
Mise 3 s Harbaugh. Jos PortIngton,
Peter Burton, NJ Allen Huber.
Colton-Geo w Mears.
San Diego-J Foster.
Arisoua-D J Bowiefleld, Jas
DinsoD, L D Merton, w Fl Gra.
/. ham. D Hoag, VIM Schulz, F H
Reed, H G Olar.
A eso"a oG Btsts.
1 eACRAMENTo, Jan. 1.-THE pres.
ent Legislature seems to be Inspired
4 or inflamed with an ambition to
Il snnpass all its predecessors In the
4 numbe Of bills presented. Already
two hundred bills have been intro.
duced. IL is impossible to tell
what il contained in them. It is
: almost enough to know that the
Z State has 10 pay for printing. them.
4 This IL no small item. Wen Que
considers the number of copies
printed, and the number aud length
OF the bills, an idea may be OBJ
tanned Of the enormous expense in
Cured IN the printing. office. When
q member wants to be funny. he
puts his fun in bill; when he
wants recold, he puts his record
in bill. Everything goes, includ.
ing ell the buncombe clap-trap
that can be produced by
one hundred and twenty men
in sixty days. Out Of
ell this mess of stuff introduced
aince last Tuesday, sonnet hing uss-
ful and beneficial may be evolved
hv the committees. Certainly the
hard working committees deserve
the sympathy aud support Of the
com mon wealth. 1t will fall to
their lot to go through everything
and read every line. The fact may
not be generally known that little
spite bills are often introduced to
punish enemies, along with genes-
Ous measures to reward friends.
Perhaps this assertion needs the
qualification Of saying that such
measures are not commended by
the Legislature when the real facts
are known.
The only changes o: note from
the com mittees of last session in
the Senate are that Wendell takes
Nyes's place at the head of the Ju-
dietary; West takes the place OF
johnston At the head Of Agricul-
ture; Sampson goes to the Chair
manshIp Of the Hospital Commit
| tee, inst cad of RoweIi,
Baker is added TO the Judiciary
Committee, and Chase to the Irri-
CATION and Drainage Committee.
The Apportionment Committee is
entirely new. aud is regarded as
| favorable to San Francisco In its
com POSITION. Cougar takes the
place of Zuck as Chairman of La
bor and Capital. The County aud
City and County Government Com.
mittte in increased from five to
1 seven, ami Euos aud Sears added.
Ths MosMOn 0a s,so".
WAsHINGToN. Jan. 7.-Repre-
4 sentative Willets, OF Michigan,
\ who has charge Of the Mormon
bill, proposes To punish and dis
/ courage Mormonism by denying
suffrage to any who practice polyg.
amy. He hopes to get 1t reported
and before Congress this session,
20 that the next Congress will deal
1 with the question in way to
Wipe out this Disgrace. DEM
ocratic members of the COM
mittee nre not so much
interested IN keeping 1t back now
40 they were last session. when IT
I was Understood Proctor Kuott had
| . scheme to admi. Utah asa State
Y II the d nnocrats carried the elec-
ti0n This wnnId have given tw"
more Democratic Senators. rhate
10 now m such incentive to the
4 Democrats, aud the Mormons tind
themselves desertel by their friend
!, Of last year.
Il Tue Ir,sn Qm.s,io~.
! LONDON. Jau. THE Home
u Rule party agre,s not to discuss
the land question In the debate or
\ the address In reply to the Qlseh's
81 speech.
Thr lr,sh Oov eiaE Flfiis.
LONDON. Jan. 7.-Ths Time
J says: The expected debate in thu
! H0use Of Commons on the address
U 10 reply to the spcech from thu
[4 Throne, and the amendment
thereto, viii occupy three nights
| In order to facilitate the discussion I
Of the Coercion bills and to expe
dite their passage, the Government
Il intends, II necessary, to have pro
longed sittipgs for the House.