Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-02-22

ton was put whether the Senator
should have leave to introduce tbs
reselu ton and the vote stood, ayel
"a, noes Is.
The Chair ruled that a two. th irdi
vote was required.
Johnaon appealed from the deci'
sion. The decision Of the Chair
was sustained.
Adjourned.
ASSEMBLY, Immediately aftel
the reading Of the journal 6psaksi
Parks rose to . question Of privil'
eye and stated that the San Fran
cisco Chronicle Of yesterday printed
an article assuming that the Speak
or of the Assem bly, was drawing Z
salary OF SIS per day. There was,
no desired to say, not one syllable
Of truth 10 the statement. It had
appeared, he continued, that he
did not draw his salary for the fret
three weeks Of the session, and
when he applied to the Sergeant.
alarms he found that two ssts oil
warrants had been drawn for him
ono for So and SO q day. Without
. moments hsaitation he told the
SergsAnt-at.Arms to return the Sc
warrant. Two weeks after he
again found that the Controller
had drawn two sets of warrants fol
him. He took one set to the Con-
trOllsr aud told him that he did
not think that he was entitled
to SIS . day. The Controller
informed him that he (the Con.
trollsr) construed the law In that
way and could not cancel the war
rants until the expiration Of Ger.
tain number Of days, when the
Board of Examiners would cancel
them. All the eight dollar war.
rants had therefore been left fol
cancellation. This statement waa
received with spplauss.]
Matthews, Of San Bsnito, dem.
ocrat) and Rsddick Republican, J
having been present at the 11rst
conversation with the Sergeant at
Arms, corroborated the Speakers
story.
Mcclure stated that the Spea ker
had consulted him as to the law
and had been informed that he
could not, under it, draw two sala.
ries. The Speaker had then said
that no believed he could not and
anyhow be did not propose to.
Consideration Of Hartson's cleo.
ton bill was then resumed and the
roll was called ON Plstps amend.
msnt, which provides for an cleo
ton this Fall for one year and an.
other in 1882. The amendment
was lost.
Baker, OF Yolo, then moved to
reconsider the vote by which the
words ''ctty and county, had been
inserted in the bill.
Harrison said that II cities and
counties were excluded from the
bill, all the bill would be good for
would be to multiply legislation.
Pending . vote on the motion to
reconsider, the usual recess was
taken.
On reasse nbling Lane intro.
duced q resolution TO adjourn over
tomorrow out Of respect to the
birthday of George Washington.
Plat moved to amend by max.
Ing the hour 3 o'clock Wednesday.
PauIk moved to lay the resolu-
ton on the table. Lost. Ayes 20,
noes 40.
Del Vale moved to make the
hour IL O'Clock. Carried.
May thought the Assembly could
honor Washington's memory by
staying here and working.
Murphy thought the Legislature
could best honor the State and
Warrington by adjourning sine
die. He moved to adjourn. Ruled
out of order.
Plat said that If the Assembly
could by any possibility do work
of value, he would be enthusiastic
cally in favor of remaining, but
being convinced that nothing
would be done, he was In favor Of
adjourning.
jackson said the member ought
to be ashamed to resist an attempt
to honor the memory Of the great.
est American that ever lived. The
opposition came with bad grace
from native Americans. II 1t was
Grant, or some other political
vagabond, they would ali DO in
favor Of adjourning for a week,
Laughter and applause. The
resolution was adopted; Ayes 49,
noes 80.
The house then refused to recon.
slider Bakers motion. Ayes 49,
noes SO.
A number OF amendm 6nts were
proposed, part Of which were ruled
out Of order and part voted down,
One by Westbougher, inserting
the word "Assessor," was adopted.
The previous question was final
ly ordered and the bill sent to en-.
grossment and third reading.
Van Fleet attempted to Introduce
q res0luti0n-authorizing the Attor'
ney.Generat to prosecute all mi
nsrs who run debris into mountain
streams and empowering the Gov
ern0r to appoint q Com N ission, ia
serve without compensation, whose
duty 1t shall be TO ascertain the
miners violating the law. Var
Fleet moved that the rules be sus'
pended and that he be given leave
to introduce the resolution. Lost
After considering unimportant
bills on second reading, the As
sembly took = recess till 1880.
The KalIoch Trial.
BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21st.-Iu
the Kalioch case this morning hal
been devoted to the cross-s xsmina.
ton Of witnesses for the prosecu
ton. Nothing new has been ellie
tied except that Reed, one Of ths
witnesses Of the shooting, tsstiflsd
that he and Spear went to the
Chronicle office that evening to Oh.
tain . copy Of the pamphlet Will.
Tying the prisoners father, but
that Charles DeYoung informed
them he had none of them,