Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-03
ExrRAeKpIyARY OCCASION NOTES

The Assembly Judiciary Committee met last even
ing and adopted the following substitute for As
semby Bill 40. S, introduced by Mr.. Atwe Marcf
25th, to amend Section 2S3 of Article / Chapter /
Title l of Part w. OF the Civil Code. 1t now reads
A corporation il q creature Of the law haviup
certain powers and duties Of natural person Be
ing created by the law, it may continue for any
length of time which the law prescTibes; but a re-
fusl Of any corporation to pay to the State or any
county, or municipality or district, city or county,
the taxes levied and assessed upon its property or
TO regulate its freights fares tolls in accordance
with the laws OF this State shall DESTROY its corpOr
ate existence and it shall 10 longer be entitled to
protection under the laws Of this State, or to
the processes Of any Court Of this State in any
action for its protection or 10 maintain any action
suit in any such Court, and such refusal may be
pleaded in abatement by the defendant in any suit
brought by such corporation, and the Attorney
General Of this State shall institute and prosecute TO
Judgment a proceeding to obtain Judicial for
feiJure of its charter
The committee then went into consideration OF
the matter of the effect OF TIE recent action of the
Attorney General in accepting judgment in certain
railroad tax in the United States Circuit Court
Il the first proposition, " Can the penalties inter
est, attorneys fees, ec, claimed by the State, be
collected by lawf" the committee decided in the
affirmative.
Proposition No. ." Had the Acknowledgement
authority to waive the right Of the State to collect
such penalties, attorneys fees etc the committee
decided in the negative.
Proposition No. S-"Did the Attorney General,
tered waive the right Of the State to collect the
penalties, ETC. referred to ?? next taken up and
q long discussion ensued. The committee found it.
sell unable to arrive at any definite conclusion, and
further consideration of the subject was postponed
until next Tuesday evening. The Secretary was in
structed to subpoena Messrs. Greathouse, Delmas,
Rhodes, Hart, Blggett, Waymire and Attorney
General Marshall to be present on that evening and
present vheir views to the committee Most Of
these gentlemen had been requested to do so last
evening, but none of them attended the meetingl
The only other business transacted by the com
mittee was to decide, by vote OF to T. that none
of the attaches of the Assembly-other than the
Chief Clerk, Minute Clerk, and Sergeant-at.Arms-
were entitled to mileage for attending upon the ex-
ira session.
y member Of the majority element in the Senate
on being asked when that body would begin to do
something or show its hand, replied that it was
waiting patiently for the Assembly to cut out the
work ; that the keynote would have to be sounded
bY one or two of the leaders in the latter branch
but that the horn-blowers had not yet struck it ex
actly TO the taste of the majority in the upper
house.
The Senate Committee on Corporations will hold
meeting this evening.
1t is said that one Of the " lonely eight Repub-
lieans in the Senate contemplates the early intro
duction OF resolution to increase the force OF the
Journal Clerk. He doesn't like to see so much ex.
tTaordinsry" work imposed on three persons.