Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-22

REVOLUTIONS.
A number of resolutions were introduced nam
ing certain persons for positions clerks etc, all
of which were referred To the Committee on
Attaches.
GENERAL. FILE.
Assembly Bill Ne. 2-lin Act to authorize the
Board of State Harbor Commissioners to pay the
claims of John 5. Wilkins. Read third time
and placed on its passage. Ayes 30, noes ~
Assembly Bin No l2-An Act for the perna-
ncnt establishment and management of the In
dustrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the
adult blind of the state of California. Read
first time.
Assembly Bill No Gan Act to add new see
ton to the Political Code, to be known as Sec
ton go, relative TO the advertisement of insur-
ance corporations. Read first time.
Assembly Bill No SAN Act TO amend Section
So of the Civil Code. to provide for the levying
of assessments by corporations. Read first
time.
Assembly Bill No. 73-An Act TO amend Sec
ton i04 of the Civil Code of the State of Cali
forna, relating to corporations Read first
time.
ton 500 of the Civil Code of the State of Cali
fornia, relating to corporations Read first
time.
Assembly Bill No. S2-An Act to amend Sec
ton 6l3 Of the Civil Code of the State of Cali
fornia, relating TO cemetery corporations. Read
first time
Assembly Bill No San Act to amend See
ton 37SS of the Political Code of the State OF
California, relating to revenue. Read first
Assembly Bill No 153-An Act to secure the
wages of persons employed laborers on
thrashing machines Read first time
| Recess till P. NJ.
Afternoon Session.
The House reassembled at P ~, Speaker
| Parks il the chair.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The special order for the day was the consid-
| Grafton of the majority and minority. reports
| from the Committee on Elections, in the matter
| of the contest between W. Il. Tyler and T. e.
Morris for the scat for the Fifty-second District
| ALAMEDA county, The majority report was in
| favor of Morris, who holds the seat and the mi
| nority report favored the counting of the bal
| lots as requested By Tyler. Norris is q Demo
! crat and Tyler the contestant, a Republican.
Jordan Rep spoke at some length in support
of the minority report. He hoped the whole
matter would be re-referred TO the committee
with instructions to have the ballots brought
| before it and rocounted. This, he said embod
| led the wishes of both contestants.
| Munday DEM, a member of the committee
\ upheld the majority report and argued at con
siderable length and with much force the legal
| status of the case. He held that Tyler had not
brought his suit in accordance with the specific
| requirements of the Code. and argued that be.
| fore his claim could be entertained by the com
Dittee the latter would have to totally ignore
| the law
Hazard rep argued in the same strain, but
afterward changed his views on being shown Il
certain document filed by Tyler.
Jones Rep.) thought the minority report
should be adopted and the ballots all recOunted
claiming that the true merits of the case could
| be reached in no other way. He held the oh.
| jections made to that plan TO be purely techni-
! cal and unjust to Tyler.
Jordan again argued in support of the minor
| ity report
| lots. and declared that whoever should be found
| to have even half vote in his favor should
have the seat. Personally he had leaning