Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-05


II ayes to Is noes and the resolution then voted
down by vote of Is ayes to II noes.
Various committees presented reports out of
order.
The Senate then took up the special order
Flynn's bill to divide the State into Assembly dis
tricts-and it was read second time.
Alpine was taken out of the Seventy second Dis.
trict with IEyo and Mono, and put in the Seven.
teenth District, with Ell Dorado.
Filcher proposed series Of amendments which
would take Assemblyman from Humboldt
county and give him to Placer He urged that it
was only just according to the population, and
spoke warmly in favor of its adoption.
The amendment was lost.
message was received from the Governor an.
nouncing his approval of s. 3. lSS-An Act to re-
peal an Act to authorize the State Board of Exam.
liners TO invest money derived from State school
lands in the bonds of the several counties of the
State; S. b. 1S9-Au Act to mend Sections ESQ and
6S2 and to repeal Section 6Sl of the Political Code
relating to the investment of the proceeds of the
sale of Stlte school lands; and S. B. 355-An Act
to amend an Act creating Hastings College of the
Law.
Consideration of the Assembly apportionment bill
was resumed.
Brooks moved to amend so as to put Santa Bar
bara and Ventura together instead of Kern and
Ventura, and Inyo and Kern together.
The amendment was adopted, but IN motion of
Del Vale the vtte was reconsdered and the amend
ment lost by vote of II ayes to 10 noes.
Cox introduced an amendment to take from Hum
boldt county one Assemblyman and Give it Sacra-
mento and spoke in favor of it.
Ryan stouty o posed the amendment.
Taylor opposed the amendment, and after some
further discussion it was rejected.
The bill was then ordered engrossed, and at
o'clock the Senate took recess.
After recess the Senate took up second reading
| the general appropriation bill.
The following committee amendments were
adopted:
Raising the salary of the book keeper in the office
Of Secretary of State from $1,000 to $1,000 per
mum.
| Raising the salary of the book keeper in Con-
trollers office from 81 600 to s., 900 per annum
On these amendments somewhat heated dis.
cussion took place. Gross insisted that the Con
stituton provided that clerk should receive more
than 81 800 per annum, and he ella med that book
keeper clerk.
Murphy and Reddy argued that a book keeper was
not clerk, and that the law Of 1850 clearly made
the distinction, and made the salary Of these book
Spencer of Stanislaus and Kellogg explained that
while they believed the Constitution intended that
these officers should only have $1,000 per anuum,
still the law of 1880 fixed the salary at 81 000 and
u refusal to make the appropriation would only IL
volye deficiency bill at the next Legislature.
The appropriation for lights, fuel, postage, ex-
pressage, subscriptions for works on the subject of
transportation, travelling and other expenses of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners, was raised from
81, 050 to 81 500.
Vrooman moved to strike out the appropriation of
$4,000 for the completion Of the State Engineers
irrigation Investigation report and maps, and urged
its adoption He believed that the work done in
the State Engineers office ought to be done in the
Surveyor Generals Office.
Laugford favored the amendment, and Murphy,
Cox, Filcher, Ryan, Reddy and Whitney spoke
against it.
The amendment was lost.
Vrooman moved to amend so as to prohibit the
use Of the money unless the work is completed by
January l, 1885. Lost, Is 10 10.
Lynch moved to reduce the amount to $4,000.
Rejected 8 to "a
Vrooman moved tn amend so as to require the
State Engineer to eiSe'a s 1000 bond to complete
the work by January 1, 1885. Lost, Is to 90
The committee amendments as recommended
were then adopted at IS coo instead of $1,000 for
repairs of the State Capitol and furnture 81, 900
instead Of 81 800 for travelling expenses of the Yo-
semitic Commissioners; $50, 900 instead Of $4,000
for the San Jose Normal School; SIS 900 instead of
sec, 900 for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum;
$3.50 600 instead of 100000 for the support of the
San Quentin Prison.
Ferry attempted to reduce this amount to $780,.
600, and justified it by statement that hereafter
the iute factory would be profitable, but failed.
The So 600 for the erection Of outbui!ding5 at the
Napa Asylum was stricken out, and new item Of
5000 for the Secretary of the Forestry Commits
sion.
Kellogg succeeded in having the item of 81 600
for District Agricultural Society No. IL increased
to s2400. The bill was then ordered to third
reading.
The allowance of 81 500 to the Bacon Law Library
was agreed to.
Chandler's motion to reduce the item of '0,C0o
for the State Viticutural Commission to $1,000
lost.
The appropriation bill, amended as mentioned,
then ordered TO third reading
The Hughes Assembly Harbor Commission bill
was then passed by a vote of % to 6.
The Governors nominations of RI. II. Watson
George Wiliiams anu Edward N. Laffey were then
considerea and confirmed, only Vrooman (Rep.) and
Wolfskill (Dem.) voting in the neg tive.
The Assembly bill providing for county and towr-
ship governments was read first time and placed
on the spe .ial file.
Adjourned until to day at I:31 Pm
The Assembly met at lOA M, Speaker LaRue in
the chair.
The special file was taken up Johr IONS s. B. 2i7,
to provide for the better control and management
of the several funds of the University Of California
and for the investment and security of the same,
was read second time and made the special order
for to-day at 10 o'clock.
Salgans S. B. 2sS, authorizing the State Boar.
OF Regents to reconvey to DR.. Cogswe Certain
property, read first time and mails the special
order for to-day at II oc'ccS,
Meolures s. B. 2sS, providing for the submission
Oh proposed amendments to the Constitution OF the
State OF California to the qualified electors for their
approval, was declared case Of urgency, read
third time and made the special order Tor IL o'clock
A. NJ. to-day.
The bill which passed the Senate few days ago to
pay Jams Saultry $4,000 for the loss Of both
While in the service Of the State, ard acting under
the orders OF superior officer, taken up aud
brought out debate which showed how men
can smother all the Bobler emotions Of hum an
nature and drown all feelings Of sympathy when
| once they set OUT on the denlag0glcal road to a
record on behalf of the dear people. In this in
stance, if the dear people had their way about it,
they would consign large number of the present
A sembly to the fate of poor Saultry. He has been
an officer Of the State in different capacities for
many years, and has bean known to all as one Of the
most faithful pubic officers in the State. He has
now lost both of his arms in her SERVICE and has
| wife and four children to support.
| , he Assembly committee recommended that he be
! paid $3.50 per month during his natural life.
| kerrick moved to amend by making it $4,000.
| After an hours debate Gutter offered substitute
for all the amendments that the State Board of Ex-
aminers shall invest S25 900 OF the State funds in
State county bonds for the benefit of Saultry,
the principal to be returned to the State at his
| death. Adopted.
Coleman offered resolution that IS 900 be given
to his wife and children upon Saultrf s DEATH With
| drawn.
The bill was then ordered printed and to a third
reading.
After recess Wharton's irrigation bill was taken up
aud dis used, motion to read second time After
| two hours discussion the second reading Of the
bull ordered. at o'clock, by vote of As to %.
80, to establish Bureau of Labor Statistics, had
| ceived the Executive approval.
At SIS wharton's Irrigation bill was ordered to a
third reading, but the House refused to make it a
special order for Monday This arrived 1t by a
majority in vor Of the motion to m Ike i5 a special
orc err the Chair (Campbei) ruling that it required
| two thirds vote.
motion to place the bill at the head OF the third
reading file was lost, and recess was taken until
7:30 P. N
In the evening Levers1n's Civil Code was taken
ND on special order. and the author granted per-
mission TO address the hose from the space in front
| Of the Clerks desk At $50 he gave way for the
| purpose allowing Flynn 70 introduce bill au-
thoTizng cities AID couates to issue toEds By the
consent aud vote OF the people therein Flynn ex-
planned that this measure ealculsted 10 meet
the emergency in san Francisco caused by the de.
! feiencies in the public funds In that city.
Soon after 10 O'Clock Leyerson concluded speak
ing and the question put ON the previous mo-
! ton TO indefinitely postpone the bill.
] The motion was lost, and the Assembly adjourned.
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