Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-26

\ number OF the more important committees
Of both branches of the Legislature LETT the city
on saturday and yesterday-Educatiou, state
Prison, Public Buildings and Grounds, otc-aud
the greater portion OF the members not included
in those committees also departed for their
homes. Aenee, matters have been very quiet
IN legislative circles since the adjournment of
both houses ON Friday.
i was expected that the Assembly Committee
on Elections would be ready To report to-day in
the matter OF the Tyler-MnrviS contested elec-
ton case. but, owing to the enforced absence of
one or both of the contestants, nothing hes been
done in The matter The committee having been
instructed 10 recount the ballots cast in the
FIit! second DiSlTlct alameda county, the con-
testants VIII be kept or the anxious seat for sew
eral days to come. Pending the result Mr. Nor
ris viii continue to exercise the privileges per-
tanning to the right!ul owner OF the scat in the
Assembly.
There has been some talk during the last day or
two that Governor Stanford would come to the
city the iorepart OF this week Immediately
after the Legislature elects United States SEN
ator. The frequent expression is heard in the
city in this connection, that ii has been IL long
time since Governor Stanford visited Sacra-
mento, and that should he come he Will receive
Il hearty welcome at the hands of his former
townsmcn, rs well as sojoUrning Legislators.
1t seems to be the general impression that the
bill introduced in the Assembly the object of
which is to have the state assume responsibility
for the losses sustained by the IreaSurerS of
certain counties through the peculations of
young January has been virtually killed by the
almost unanimous report made against it by the
judiciary COMMITTEES One of the arguments
made before the committee by counsel for the
local Trtasllrers was that the funds appropriated
were actually state moneys but this was met
by members Of the committee with the answer
that, II proof oi Such tact Cahue established, the
passage of Il bill 10 reimburse the County Treas
IreTs would not be necessary, as the State
Treasurer and his bondsmen should be held re-
spoDsble for the stolen funds. Eut counsel
went further and claimed thar the state Treas
urCrs receipt for the special deposits ought To he
sufficient TO establish the states responsibility.
This argument was held ty the committee to
the law expressly prohibits the State
Treasurer from receiving special depoS-
its In the case of the Treasurer of
McndOcinO county, stress was laid by eoun-
sci on the fact that the custom had prevailed
for more than twenty years past. and has al
ways received the sanction of the county au-
thoTities and Courts. certificates OF such deposits
having been regularly transferred by 'iFeGsurers
70 their Successors and settlements between re-
tiIing and incoming officials made on the basis
Of these deposits Taking this view of the
case. said one of the committee to a represent
ative of this paper last evening, g the gentleman
only argues himself and his clients still more
ehectually out of Court. If any county has
been in the habit of indorsing the Illegal acts of
its TreasureTs in making special deposits in the
State treasury and that fact has served as a JUS
tification OF such act by its present Treasurer,
the latter should look TO his county for redress,
and not to the State. So long as these alleged
claims against the State are based OF the single
fact that their special deposits have disap-
peared. the claimants have, clearly, no redress
against IT,
A prominent Democrat remarked last even
ing that certain gentleman, whose name
figures near the top of the roll OF George
Hearst's henchmen, has stated that Hearst is
coming to Sacramento q with a sack big enough
to buy sufficient number of Republican votes
to elect himself nited States Senator" In that
case Uncle George viii have to bring pretty
long sack, for he viii have to buy not only fifty
two Republicans, hat the nine Democrats who
were not of the caucus which honored" him
with the nomination.
Two members ofthe Legislature last evening"
while quietly chatting upon the duties of the
sie9; as 70 whether there was any law to prevent
the caplts city, at every st 81 - he-iaw-nlak-
ing body, lroEf->t eng ;<galed regularly with
constant heastly y--|IriZe ;ightS ''to the
finish" cock fighting and other brutal
apd Gchasing exhihitianS MY said
one Of them, It's becoming q disgrace
day night he continued, two o. three prize
fights and cockfghtiug were advertised
and conducted openly on the princi-
pal street and in the very heart of the
flooded with dodgers announcing that another
prize fight to the finish Is to take place to-
night, as Sunday evening performance, at the
Elite Theatcr. ii seems TO me that the City
Fathers of Sacramento could do no more beuefi-
cent work then 10 pass an ordinance absolutely
prohibiting all such demOraiizing and degrading
eAnlpltlCIS, CNltuidttN 10 prove Hut Only lue
truth of the doctrine of total depravity, but
that portion OF mankind is also demonstrating
that it can sink itself below the level Of the low
est brute creation. Ifthese cannot be stopped,
let us also have public bull-tights and take on
all the various phases Of The stage of hafciyili-
zation to which these debasng practices belong.
If there is no statute upon the subject he con-
Guided, " think it is fully time that bill which
will efectually put stop to this era Of human
debaseLcnt should be introduced and immedi-
ately passed as a measure of public urgency"
Yes replied another member of the Legsla-
ture who was sitting near by. let the law be
general and apply to San Francisco as well,
where such exhibitions are permanently estab-
lished aud regularly conducted, and where the
press treat them in the matter Of criticism upon
the same plane as theaters and the best operas"
The Trustees of the Blind Association-J0hn
Gilbert William Hutchison Jesse Biggs Hugh
johnson and +. r. Evans from San Francisco
are in the city. and win remain week or two
in aid of the passag4 of the blind mems bill now
before the Legislature"