Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-09
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

There has been no committee work of any
consequence done since the adjournment of the
Legislature on Friday afternoon, most of the
members of both branches having taken advan-
tage of the recess to visit their homes or San
Francisco. The Senate Judiciary Committee
or part of it-considered a couple of bills on
Saturday, but none of general importance. Sew
eral members came to the city last night but
most of them Will not return until this noon. 1t
is expected that the work of the coming week
will be pretty lively, as both houses will reach
some important measures on their Second-read-
ing files, when amendments will be in order
Among those which will provoke considerable
discussion in the Assembly are those TO pay the
Drainage Act claims, and the irrigation meas
ure. In the former case the Committee on
Claims has presented favorable report, accom-
panied by a strong appeal on behalf of the men
who worked i'll good faith for the State
The anti-gambling bill which passed the
Assembly ON Friday was introduced by Mr..
JONES' of this county, but is not the bill (aso in
troduced by HIM to prohibit city authorities
from licensing gaming. The former was intro
duced for the purpose of including stud-horse
poker and other games in the list already pro-
hibited by law. The stud-horse poker games
have so multiplied i'll this city during the past
two years as TO have virtually captured the
place and as it is in no sense less vicious than
faro or other games that had been placed under
the ban of the law, there can be no argument
advanced in favor of its exclusion from the list.
Although.the Assembly Committee on Fish and
Game resolved not to visit Truckee in an official
capacity and at the states expense, still several
of its members went up on Friday night with
Mr.. McGlashan to gain all the information posi-
bic on the vcXed question as to whether or not
the sawdust deposited i'll the Truckee river is
injurious to the fishes therein.
1t is said that, since visiting the State Engi-
neers office and investigating the character and
extent of the work done by that department,
several members of the Legislature who had
been inclined to favor the bill to discontinue
that department have changed their minds,
having been deeply impressed with the impor-
lance of the work accomplished thus far, and
the advisability of having it all completed.
In accordance with resolution of the Assem-
bly,, Chief Clerk Ryan has prepared the first of a
series of weekly histories of all bills before that
body, which has been printed and will be laid
before the members to-day.
There is a resolution in the hands of the AS
sembly Committee on Rules to the effect that no
bills shall be introduced in that body after the
10Th instant. If something be not done to STAY
the tide, the House will soon be overwhelmed.
there being now upward of $50 bills before it.
Sol. Jewett, President of the Kern County
Bank, and who it has been represented was op-
posed to the present bills upon irrigation ar
rived in the city yesterday, and will show his
approval of the bills by doing all i'll his power
to secure their passage. Mr.. Jewett is an extern
siye owner Of small farms, and states that most
ofthe owners of small tractsin his section of the
State are strongly in favor of the bills proposed
by the Fresno Convention Committee.