Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-14
THE SESSION ENDED.

The Hearst Delmas-G observation-disclosures
man session of the Legislature came to an
ignoble end yesterday. 1t was foregone
that it should reach a pitiful death. The
keynote of the session pitched by Judge
Wallace in his communistic resolutions was
too high to besustained and discord followed
rs matter of course. 1t was in the power
OF the body to have done some good work.
If actuated by wisdom and the dictates of
ordinary justice the radical members might
have promoted some wise legislation. The
houses might have given us a better rev
enue system; they might have met the
railroad corporations with frmness, but in
spirit Of fairness and with a disposition
to submit to no imposition or evasion and
yet to do railroad companies no wrong and
to visit upon them no vindictive punish
ments. They might practically have
settled the so-called issues on the railroad
question by giving heed to commercial
laws and business principles But the radi-
cal elements were too shortsighted TO see
in such procedure any gain to party, which
TO them is superior to State They. in
common with other shallow intelligences.
conceived the idea of popularizing party.
and promoting the unholy ambitions of
three men-one for lucre and two for po-
lltlcal parliamentary assailing great in
dustry and seeking to array the people
against 1t, q an enemy, despite the fact
that the interests of the railways and the
people are so interviewer that no punish
ment can be taken by the one without seri-
ously affecting the other. The result has
been over seven weeks of wrangle, hot
blood, knavish scheming, demagogic trum-
peting and treasury depicting. Out Of it
all came two appropriation bills to pay the
legislators per diem and mileage, a bill re-
lating to the funding of the Indebtedness
Of a county, and bill to recognize as law
an Interpretation already put upon our
revenue system by the Supreme Court
these and nothing more. The opportunity
presents to 60 over the whole ground and
stir the nauSeous matter up, to the offense
of decent nostrils and the shame of those
conscientious and self-rcspecting legislators
who were compelled to contend with the
vicious forces that brought about the
miserable affair. But we doubt the profit
ableness Of such review. The extra Scs-
sion, with all its manifestations of hate and
viciousness, Is thing of the past. Its
vices are before the State; it was an Of
Tense to the people from the beginning its
memory viii remain So Nothing more
severe could be now said of the session
than was expressed while its members
were here The adjournment of vester-
day should have been had many weeks
ago; but the only difference would have
Teen the saving to the State of many thou
sands Of dollars for it was very early evil
dent not only that the controlling powers
would not permit reasonable measures
TO be passed, but that they intended
from the outset that the end should be
very much what it was,-in order to enter
the campaign of the year with supposed
capital for selfish ends But they were not
wise in their day the outcome left them
defending, and not in an aggressive posi-
ton. Upon them rests the stigma of hav-
ing stubbornly and wickedly refused to do
fairly and right Upon them rests the
responsibility of having disrupted their
party, and of having failed as leaders, and
failure. Upon these men rests the respon-
sibility of having injured the State credit,
unsettled financial confidence, paralyzed
railway building and investment, checked
immigration, called halt TO incoming
capital and industries, and of having turned
the State backward upon her path by
many years. A decade must pass before
we can hope to recover from the assaults of
the last seven weeks before California can
expect to have restored that confidence in
her good faith which Is so necessary in the
commercial world TO her progress and de-
yelopment. The extra session Is dead
dog, and TO continue to kick it IS but to
cause further emission Of foul odors. What
we need now to do is to undo, SO far as We
ean-and speedily-the evil of which it
made California the. victim. We need to