Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-10
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
XVI. sEssIoN-sIxTY-THIRD DAY,
SENATE.
MONDAY. March Q. 1885.


MONDAY, March O. 1888.
Senate called to order al IL O'Clock, President
pro TEN. knight in the chair. Key. c. Me
keVey, of Sacramento, offered prayer. Min
utes of Saturday session read and approved.
Assembly Bill No. $50 was passed on the file.
[ Pre- ident Daggett i'll the chair.
Assembly Bill No. 1jS, relative TO securing 10
persons employed upon thraShing machines
Their wages, was taken up.
Remarks were made in favor OF the bill by
kellogg and Taylor.
MeSsTs Whitney. Langford, Boone and Cross
spoke against the bill as not being in the real
interest of those whom the bill purports TO be
intended to aid.
Cross claimed that it would simply eat up in
Court and officers fees the property upon which
a lien created without any benefit accruiDg
to the 1aborer.
Spencer Of Napa warmly supported the bill.
and cited eases III which great hardShipS have
been caused by the dishonesty OF machine.
owners and which, he said would be corrected
by this bill.
The discussion was continued for some time,
and at the close the bull was passed.
Assembly Bill No. SOP TO promote drainage,
was taken up cut of order and the first and
second readings dispensed with under suspen-
sion of the rules.
Johnson of Sonoma explained that the object
of the bill was merely to correct the title 10 a
former law, so that it might be operative, Us 1t
was ofinterest to his county.
Recess.
Afternoon Session.
Session was resumed at p. NJ, President Dag
get in the chair.
Consideration of Assembly Bill No. SOP re-
sumed. The bill was amended by striking out
the words the water rights needed" out OF
Section !, and the bill sent TO print prior to be-
ing put on passage.
The vote by which passage OF Assembly Bill No.
313, relative to heirship to properly, was lost on
Saturday. was upon motion of Mcclure, recon
sidered and bill passed.
motion to reconsider the vote by which AS
sembly Bill No. 295, relative 10 the sale of State
school lands, passed Saturday, was lost.
langtord moved suspension OF the provision
of the Constitution, and Assembly Bill No. sol,
relating to change OF names be put upon It's linal
passage. The motion was adopted and the bill
passed
ate were each allowed Sl0O additional pay.
A resolution to allow all the clerks of stand
ing committees and all regularly appointed at
taches of the Senate pay Tor the llrst sixteen
days of the session was amended to read ten
days, and then lost.
Assembly Bill No. ass, to change and perma-
nently locate the boundary lines between the
counties of San Luis ObiSDO and Kern, was
taken up out of order and the first and second
readings dispensed with, under the suspension
of the constitutional provision. Thereupon the
bill was read the third time and pass
On motion of Dougherty, the PROVISIONS OF the
Constitution were suspended and Assembly Bill
No. ISL relative to municipal corporations, was
read the third time and passed.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which AS
sembly Bill No. 3D. relative to the compensa-
ton OF Court Reporters passed on Saturday, was
lost
The SPECIAL order for 8 o'clock was taken up,
being Senate concurrent resolution lntrCdu ed
by Cross, to adjourn sine die at midnight Mon
day, March 9th
Cross favored an early adjournment, he
said there was not time to consider properly the
irrigation bills, or any other important measure
Rcddy Del Nal.e and other friends of irrSa
ton opposed the adoption of the resolution.
Chandler moved to amend, fixing The time
for adjournment at i o'clock noon Tuesday
March 10th.
Whitney moved 10 amend, fixing the time fol
adjournment at midnight Mar. h 10Th.
The amendment to the amendment was
adopted ana the resolution, us amended, was
then adopted
Reuter- moved the suspension of the provis.
ions OF the Constitution and that Assembly Bill
No ~, relating to the punishment for passing
laws to license gambling be put upon its final
passage The motion was adopted.
Cox opposed the bill, being Of the opinion
that the license system was the best. He spoke
at some length, giving his reasons.
Reuter- made warm speech i'll favor of the
bill speaking substantially as follows: / desire
to take this bill out of ORDER, 'on high moral
principles" We are afflicted in Sacramento
with a Municipal Council, or Board of Trustees
who HcGHsC rambling of all description. i'll oppO
stion, even in defiance, of our state laws
There is. i'll fact, no punishment for them till
we pass this bill. Nobody ever dreamed before
of such an official conduct. The law did not
provide for the punishment OF such an action
because nobod, Thought it possible that hi,
offense should be committed, but il is. never
thclaSS the fact Is d6ac The capital city o.
California can boast of more gambling hells
licensed to destroy the morals. the health and
the honestly acquired wealth of her citizen:
than all the balance Of the State Of Cali.
fornia. Here in Sacramento the Boarc
of Trustees give license to the head of family
to 90 openly every night and gamble the pro
ceads OF his DAYS work, to come home drunk
without a cent for the comfort Of his wife Gnd
children. This Board of Trustees gives license
to the Young man to gamble every cent he car
take from his widowed mother, or from his ageG
parent. This Board licenses immortality anG
robbery They gather in the Capital of CaifUr
MIA ali the doubtful characters of California
and their only excise is that it does bring
money to the city. Are we going to license
everything Tor money? They had better license
petit larceny. grand larceny highway robbery
ANY thl If is ready to pay a good round sum fol
the privilege Of plying his profession without
that Board OF Trustees take the Criminal Code
and license any crime permitted by it. They
| viii make money, sure. Are We going to SanC
! that? are we going TO be It disgrace in the eye
| OF the world? The days of gambling i'll Cali
| fOrniG are past. and gambling must aud viii b,
| supprc ssed. They pretend they cannot enforce
| the law. This is IL lame excuse. Let them Try
| it over and again. till they succeed chang,
their police force till they find at last good anC
| honest men ia il. But they 90 Tot want 10 hun
| for that kind of men ! hope this bill Will pas
| unanimously.
Sake, Chandler, Mcclure and Spencer alS'
| spoke in favor of the bill, and condemned the
! action Of the Board of Trustees of Sacruuent,
in oyerriding the law in order to license "a inc
Kellogg mOvec To amend the bin by strik.nl
out the word " felony and inserting the wor,
" mi, deueanor'