Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-05
Senate Bill No. lol, relating to burial permits

Senate Bill 40 1ol, relating to burial permits.
Read second time.
Senate Bill No. 100, relating TO certificates of
Incorporation Read secon,; time.
Senate Bill No. 81, relating to requests to pub
lie parks. Read second time.
Senate Bill No 50. to provide for the con,
( Structlon OF two 1ntlrmarleS at Napa. Reau
second time.
Senate Bill No. l54, relating to agricultural
districts and associations. Read second time
/ Senate Bill No. 106, relating to taxation of
certain personal property. Read second time
! Senate Bill No. Is, relating to counterfeitcd
! trademarks. Read second time.
! Senate Bill Nc. 49, to provide for analyzing
the minerals mineral waters and medicinal
/ plants, and of foods and drugs, and TO prevent
/ the adulteration of the same. Read second
Senate Bill No 90, to legalize acknowledge
ments of certificates in writing. Read second
time.
Senate Bill No. 2S5. relating to roads ana high
ways Read second time.
Senate Bill No. 80, to provide for exceptions
! in criminal cases. Read second time:
Senate Bill No. Isl. to provide Ponce Courts
/ for cities of bstween 81 900 and 10000 inhabit-
itants Read second time
Senate Bill No. 70, to provide for work on
streets, sewers, etc, within municipalities.
Munday moved 10 amend so that the bill shall
not apply to cities and towns already incor-
porated under the Act of 1888. Adopted.
The bill was read second time.
Assembly Bill No $40, relating to the preserya-
| ton of fish and game Read second time.
! \ resolution offered by Carter of Contra
!
and preparing the Journal. Referred.
! Recess till $50 NJ
Evening Session.
The House reassembled al 100 P. NJ, Speaker
| Parks i'll the chair.
The first business taken up was Assembly Bill
| No. 49, relating to the qualifications of voters.
| providing for giving women the right TO the
| BALLOT
Lowell championed the bill He said he did
not desire to be classed with that line of polit-
zeal cranks who feel that they have some ITO
plan measure to present to the world. But the
women of the State are standing at the portals
and asking to be allowed voice in its govern
ment. II has been said that woman's capacity
is not equal TO the task but what
right have we TO say this, since we
have never given her an opportunity to test that
| capacity in the halls of science or legislation?
There has been no principle of English or
| American law, or liberty, Tor the past two hun
dred years that does not cover and enumerate
woman's just right To voice III government.
| The underlying principle of wOmans claim is
| that taxation and representation should be CO.
existent. The opinion has been, expressed that
woman, by assuming the rights and duties of
citizenship, would lose herdistinctive character
and purity. But it is TO that sterling quality that
| lifts woman above man-that qua.lty, indeed
to which man cannot aspire-that gives her Il
right to voice in determining the
| character of the laws by which
all are to be governed: those qualities of self
| denial of courage and faith that have distin-
| guished woman down through all the ages of
| history Love other women as we may; gaze as
we may upon other forms and other faces, there
| yet remains down deep in our hearts an image
| set in casket eternal and indestructble-of
mother. Bend as we may to other influences of
| life. beyond and over all-silent, but mighty ms
Ocean currents or sumner suushine-there
comes over us all at times a sweep of mother
! love, and the Influence of pure and noble
motherhood, reaching out wherever cur foot
| steps may lead us. We may be told that this
| love mus; not shape the course of legislation.
| But go with me to the metropolis of our State
and will show you localities that are morally
| pest ridden. We find there women who go daily
down among the dregs of humanity that there
| abide. doing noble work. and yet they come
| forth fron those fields of duty with their honor
and their womanhood unimpaired If this
motherhood and w0manhood had the right 10
say what should be done with these foul localities,
| through which their children must daily pass
and witness scenes of crime ana immortality,
| surely they could be trusted to deposit their
ballots for such measures would blot
out these iniquities Their motherlove would
close the pcstierous dens in week care lit
| tie for the assertion that woman would be con
terminated by politics. That is IL fiction that ex-
| perience has diSprOycn. As well try to rob
| the diamond of its brilliancy as to dim the
character of pure and noble womanhood. It is
said by class of women VINO ought to know
better that we should trust all questions relit
| Jig to government to the chivalry of man. But
| an instance cannot be shown in which man has
framed law that does not "cinch" woman.
The great mass of women have not homes of
their own nor others 20 care for them. They
have to strive for their daily bread the same as
men. and it is no more than right that they
should have voice in making the laws under
which they must continue their struggle for
cXiS cnce.
Mr. Lowell continued his remarks at length
and eloquently, in behalf of woman's claim 20
the ballot
Henley offered the following amendment
Every woman over 81 years of age is hereby
declared to be male
Ruled out Of order.
Mr. Henley quo,ed from the Constitution to
show that only male" citizens shall be emit
tied To the right of suffrage. He did not see
how 81 law could Ice framed that would be COLI
stitutional without making every person in the
State-so far as the right of suffrage is concerned
ii male.
Ynle defended the bill He said the problem
should not be riCiiculed. He hoped the bill
would be passed and placed upon the statute
books.
Henley insisted on having action taken on his
amendment. The question was put and the
amendment lost
Several demands were made for call of the
roll on the second reading of the bill, ana il
50 ordered. The result Was-ayeS g. noes 81.
Wairath gave notice OF a motion to recon-
slider
The report ofthe Mccarthy investigating COM
mittee was read, showing the amounts due TO
witnesses, sergeant alarms, clerks, expert, etc,
for per diem and mileage.
COrcOran moved that the bills be referred
back to the committee with instructions to re-
duce the mileage from % to 10 cents per mile.
So ordered.
senate messages were then taken up, consid-
cred, and read the first time. They include
bills passed by that body on the same day.
The general appropriation bill, as an ended by
the Senate was taken up, but laid over till the
following day
his trespass bill was defeated on Tuesday. Car
ried.
AT s:l5 P NJ the Assembly adjourned.