Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-11
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
XVI. SESSION-sIXTY-FoURTH DAY
SENATE.

TUESDAY, March 10. 1885.
Senate called 10 order at II clock, President
Daggett in the chair Roll called and quorum
present. Prayer by Rev Mr.. Trefren. journal
OF preceding day read and approved.
Kellogg offered Il resolution fixing the time
for adjournment AT ) O clock ?. n. on March 10TH
Del Vale moved that the resolution be laid on
the table. The motion was adopted.
The consideration of the election contest IN
the matter of L. GaHsSail against f. Paimler
was made the special order for , O'Clock P. NJ.
Cross moved that the Senate take recess I'M
til > o'clock and us reason therefor main
tanned that there was an attempt on the part OF
the Assembly To bulldoze the Senate, and COM
pei action on certain bills-that ii was case OF
| tail wag the dog. The decent selfreSpect of the
! Senate must be maintained, and he hoped re-
cess would be taken.
| The Chair held that no official notice of any
action by the Assembly had been received by
| the Senate.
The motion was lost
Kellogg moved that the Senate take recess
! until 2:l5 r. VI. Lost.
Gross called for consideration of the special
! order for to-day Senate Bill No. $50, to provide
! for the levy of tax for State purposes for the
37th and 33th fiscal years tacetiously alluding
to the condition OF the various state institutions
! in case Il tax levy bill was not passed, and eX-
planning in detail the appropriations which had
/ been made.
| Knight moved that Senate Bill No. $50 be com
mtted 10 the Finance Committee, and that it be
reported back and taken up Immediately after
recess upon its final passage.
| Cross opposed the motion; holding that 1t
would expedite business TO take up the tax levy
/ bill at once: appropriation bills had been rushed
/ through with the greatest dispatch, and why
should this bill, the most important, be ham
| pered by committing it TO the Finance Com
mittee
Reddy and Spencer favored the motion.
Recess.
Session resumed at p NJ, President Daggett
in the chair.
| Whitney was granted leave of absence for two
days on account Of sickness in family.
Wright moved that the Senate concur in the
Assembly amendment to Senate Bill No. 25l, re-
lating 10 municipal corporations. The motion
was carried. ,,
Assembly message concerning Assembly Bill
80. i03 was taken up for cons deration.
Taylor moved that the Senate reccde from its
amendments to the bill, which is to establish Il
State Normal school, aud agree with the House
The motion was lost.
Mcclure moved that the provisions of the Con
stituiOn be suspended and Assembly Bill No.
57S. relating 20 the levy OF taxes, be taken up
and placed upon its final passage.
| The motion was adopted and the bill passed
Knight moved that the provisions OF the Con-
Stituti0n be suspended and Assembly Bill No
81, relating 10 an appropriation for deficiency
in appropriation to pay per diem OF officers and
clerks OF the Assembly, be placed upon It's final
passage. The motion was carried and The bill
passed
Reddy moved that the provisions Of the Con
StitutiOn be suspended and Assembly Bill No.
10, relating to the appropriation of water Tor
sage. The motion was lost.
Consideration Of the special order the cleo
ton contest of GauSsail against Paimieri, was
resumed. Cross moved that consideration there
of be Indefinitely postponed. The motion was
carried.
BeauvaiS moved that the provisions Of the
Constitution be suspended and Assembly Bill
No 425 to provide Tor the management of the
Yosemite Nallsy and the Mariposa Big Tree
Grove, be placed upon its final passage. Tho
motion was carried and the bill passed
Mailer moved that the provisions of the Con
stitutiOn be suspended and that Assembly Bill
No ;il5, in relation TO town lands granted to I'M
iucoIp orated towns, be placed upon its final
passage. The motion was carried and the bill
passed.
Chandler moved q suspension of the provis-
No 25S, relating to the powers of the Common
Councils of cities, be placed upon its final pas
sage.
Cross opposed the motion because he thought
that according 10 the provisions of this bin any
citizen who might commit Il trivial Oilcnsc was
liable to imprisonment, and perhaps obliged TO
work III Il chain-gang. For his part he would
prefer 70 20 to PenitenIary for twenty years at
hard labor, than to work one day on the public
Strects,of any city, with II baisand chain al
tached TO his lcg.
Taylor and Roddy spoke against the motion.
The motion was lost.
Knight moved that the provisions OF the Con
stitutiOn be suspended. and that Assembly Bill
80. jI9. relating TO an appropriation for def
cheney in the appropriation for official advertis
ing tor the 3ttn fiscal year, be placed upon its
final passage. The motion was carried, and the
bill passed.
Al $40 r NJ. the Senate took "a recess until :
O'Clock this evening.