Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-01-11
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SACRAMENTO, Jan. Senator
Wendell yesterday introduced an
anti.Debrls hill in the Senate to.
day. Its object is to repeal sec ion
"a Of the "Act to Promote Drain
age" Section "a IL the section
which provides for the levy of a
State tax OF One.twentieth Of one
per cent. for debris purposes. If
passed it will leave those Interested
In the debris problem to pay for at
| tempts at It's solution, ami relieve
the remainder of the State Of a
burden which IL considered unjust
and onerous.
A bill to reduce the number If
xperemptory challenges has been
lntrcduced In the Senate by Satter.
white. 1t provides that in cases of
Offenses punishable with death of
imprisonment for lie the defend
eut ehail be entitled to twelve, and
i the Safe to six peremdtory chal-
leDges. On trials for other Offenses,
the defendant is.tO be limited TO
ten and the state to i've such chal-
lsnges.
Conger has introduced in the
Senste a bill to re-enact the old
provision Of the code in relation to
ypunish ment FIR murder. 1t reads:
,x'Every person guilty Of murder In
the first degree shell suffer death,
and every person guilty OF murder
| tn the second degree is punishabl le
'lby imprisonment in the State
Prison for not less than ten years.
The object is tn deprive juries OF
the option of fixing the punish.
ment for murder In the first de,
Igree at lie impI Iisonment, with the
attendant chances for commuta-
tion or pardon.
A Dill for the payment OF ths de.
ficienOips In the expenses of the
Unconstitutional Convention is now
Mbef0re the Senate. Anderson Is it's
author. Ii provides for an appro.
Ipriation Of $llS .294 So. Ths debt
n was Incurred in the service Of the
Ipeople. By majority Of 10000
they approved Of the result Of the
labors of the Convention. The hill
10 = just and honest one, and should
ISbecome . law.
4 flLsb-ra,s "", Partial 20 snu ssevers-
MI mens's Pima
X NEW York, Jan. 9th.-A 7ri
bune special from London Of the
18th inst. rays: Neither the
JQueen's speech nor the subsequent
dministeriAl declarations in Parlia-
ment completely satisfy the public
Jdesirs for full knowledge OF the
government. programme regard.
Ing Irelsnd. Nobody outside the
lCabinet yet knows precisely what
1.-THE Cabinet intends respecting
! tleither coercion or land reform The
2Oueen's speech tnld practically
Jno.hing new, for the substance tl
lite contents hsd been communicni
led to the newspapers two days be.
Nlfore. Its general character, how
ever, In respect to coercion. reas'
s}sures the friends cf or
der, fulfilling AS 1t dpsi
lGlads:0ue's Guildhall pledge thai
lorder should pre- cede reform. L
/ bitterly dlsappoints the extreme
radicals who, following Chamber
y blaln's lead, denounced in advance
fjevery form of coercion as uucon
Institutional. This section, alwayl
Uncomfortable in numbers, bu
| 'BpowerfulIy represented In th'
lpress, are row equally indig
! BJnAut and di-msyed u
NJ finding themselves deserted b,
their supposed ministerial leader
aud tindiug also that coercion |
sanctioned by u vast majority Q
the Liberal party aud Liberal press
WNOthIng is more remarkable. In tn
openipg proceedings Of Parfamen
than that the Liberal leaders q
both houses devoted their whtl
strength, not to proving the ne
cessity for coercion, which
Iuow almost universally admit
Hed, but to defending them
selves for delaying coercio
40 long. Both Lord Granville an
n Gladstone offered elaborate excuse
for not summoninR Parliamer
earlier, urging various pleas an
I}cltlng preoe,ients always dear
1.-THE English mind In justi6catio
of their delay, aud thus aoeWesiu
the!eby The pp3lte demand !o{ :