Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14

Huriburt, johnson OF San Bernardino, Johnson
of Sonoma. Knight, Lowe, Lynch, Mailer, Nc
Gur paimer Pa5kinso pey Red Mt Re
Noos-Bald,vin, Boone, Chandler, Cox, Creigh-
ton Cross, Days, belong, Dougherty, Dr,lmm,
Napa, Taylor Wallis-total, II.
So it will be seen that the alleged
friends of the railroad company-the men
who had stood for fair dealing with rail-
rads-uere quite unanimous in support of
the motion to take up the bill out Of its
order March 7th it appears that Assem-
bly, Bill No. 40 had the ffty-ffth place
on the file. That day Senators Nc
Clure and Vrooman urged that the
file be adhered to, and the bills Whitfield
down, and finally all bills down to 90 were
disposed of. On the 9th Assembly Bill No.
40 stood No. IS on the file, and Assembly
Constitutional Amendment No. 8 was only
fifth OF the file. How easy it was to cor
slider the file and reach both measures
every impartial observer Of that days pro-
ceedings knows, and it resided wholly with
The alleged friends of irrigation 20 have
accomplished this result But they pur-
sued different course, and they allowed
many bills to be taken up out Of order, the
whole list being 9omer Ge,cp on the file than
Constitutional amendment No. 3, and all of
them, save two, were lower numbers oa the
file than fated Assembly Bill No. 40.
Senators Del Vale and Reddy voted during
the sitting on March 9th to take up all of
these bills out of order, and failed to make
single appeal for the measure supposed to
be i'll their charge. They could have pre-
vented the taking up Of bills out of regular
order, for it required only fourteen votes
to shut off that business. March 10th, we
find that Assembly Constitutional Amend
ment No. was still fifth on the file, and
Assembly Bill No. 40 was numbered q
On the file. Now, it was easy to work OF
the file and reach the bills that day, but
Senator Reddy tried 10 take up Assembly
Bill No. 40 out of its regular or
der. The motion to do SO was lost
by the same vote as the previous
motion, except that OF Senator Days, who
voted with the irrigators. So the record
discloses that Mcclure and Vrooman,
Whitney, Knight, Perry, Reuter- and
IL lx,
enemies of the railroads as always voting
in favor Of so-calIed railroad measures
voted in favor Of taking up the bill out Of
order. No further attempts were made
by the friends and advocates of irrigation
to get irrigation bills considered.
This is the history disclosed to our re-
porters in their search Of the records and
their inquiry into facts, and Of their cor
rectness there can be no possible doubt.
So the irrigation bills, after passing the
Assembly, were smothered in the Senate
by either the miSmanagement or the pur-
po5eful action of the pronounced friends,
who claimed the sole right to man
age them Let the reader note the
condition of the files as given
on the dates stated, and take into consid
Grafton the fact that majority vote, which
the irrigators had on every test could have
disposed Of the bills on the file that stood in
front of the irrigation bills, while two
thirds vote was required to takeup such bills
out of order. Let him also keep in view the
fact that no attempt was made by tho
managers OF the bills to take them up until
afteg. the constitutional limit of the sitting
of the Legislature under compensation had
passed.