Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-05

Senate adjOurns for the day, they do so IN mono
of President Grover Cleveland. Adopted.
Assembly Bill No. 81, providing for the ap
pointment of an interpreter of the Italian
language Read first time.
Cross Senate Bill No. 2l9, providing for i'm
pounding mining debris, came up for its thirC
reading.
Cross made a lengthy and strong appeal in be
half Of his bill. He said that the bill provided
an honest means of livelihood to 100000 people
of California, without doing any man, woman
or child any possible harm. He said the ques
ton had been,defnitely settled that no man car
deposit mining debris on the land OF another
that mining was an industry tostered i'll The
highest degree i'll every country III the world
IL was the industry that founded the great STATE
of California, etc. The bill asked for no ap
preparation of State funds. They simply de
sired to be allowed to delVe with pick aut
shovel in the mines He knew OF towns thai
before the sawyer decision was rendered contain
ed a thousand happy, prosperous people, that art
so deserted to-day that coyote even would re
fuseto buIrow in them. The miners VIII con
struct the dams ut their own expense. y dan
can he built in Nevada county for $4,000 anC
which will enable them to take 100000 pc
aunum for ten years from the banks of one
single stream. 1t will result in IL gold produc
ton of $4,000 eco II year for twenty years L
come.
Chandler took the floor in opposition to the
bill He drew picture of the devastation
the lands in the valley ana the destruction %
the naVigable Streams by the How OF debris iron
the hydraulic mines. The passage of the bill
would wipe out the benefit derived from the
recent decisions of the Courts. lie SAID tbs
dams could not hold more than sixty per cent. o
the debris. the other forty would come to
the valley in solution. The dams they desired
to build would in the course of time give way
and the material they held back come upon the
valley like an avalanche. lie Sald the valleys
must be protected from destructiOn-they mus
be handed down to our Children and leave then
IN condition to be titled by generations yet I'M
born. lie gave graphic description OF by
drauiC mine, saving that the Little Giants were
handled with the ease Of Il garden hose. He
said the hydraulic mines employed but very few
labOrerS, their work being mostly done by water
and powder
Wallis said the miners had some rights that
some persons were in duty bound to respect
This was q bill that affected the welfare aHd
prosperity Of 125,Gj0 people. 1t protected The
rights and industries OF a large section OF law
abiding citizens. who have invested today over
500 OJu, 900 Il was true the streams had beer
polluted, but on their muddy waves it must be
remembered have tloated down s2,GO.CU9.OJ0 III
gold.
Reuter- said it was bill to legalize an illegal
act An Act to enable the hydraulic miners tc
destroy our rivers. our homes the filling up OF
San Francisco Bay, and to force the removal OF
the Capitol from Sacramento. lie asked the
Senator from Nevada if he ever saw flTmeI
driven from his home by floods, his cattle and
crops destroyed, financially ruined, by the re-
suit OF hydraulic mining? The Senator from
Nevada rctresented 100000 people. | represent
represent the future and progress.
Kellogg said the bill was to protect agricult
ural lands from the flow of debris. II, under
the provisions Of the bill, the miners fail L
properly impOund their debris, the Courts art
open to those injured. Let the bill become q
law and try it for few years
Pitcher said he represented constituency
that had been reduced by the Sawyer decision
to a condition almost of pity. He would not bt
doing his duty il he did not raise his voice in be
half OF a bill that would extend relief toa large
section, and could work harm TO none. IfthcrC
was ever Il bill based upon justice, this is one
II ought to pass unanimously.
Cox spoke against the bill, saying he could
not for TWO reasons support II. First, III his
opinion the dams would not do the work pro
missed; and second, that it was not IN the inter
est Of his constituency.
Langlord was very much'opposed to the bill.
It was not i'll he interest of the people of the
State but few individuals IL the mines. He
hoped the Senate would vote ii down
The bill was refused a passage by the follow
ing vote:
Ayes-Beauyais Boone, Cross, Dougherty Fill
cher. kellogg Lowe, Lynch, Mailer. Palmicri
Perry, Wallis-l2.
Noes-Baldwin, Chandler, Cox, Creighton.
Days De Long, Del Vale Drumm, Foster Hurl-
burt Johnson of san Bernardino. johnson OF
Sonoma, Kelly, Lan9ford, Mcclure, Parkinson,
Reddy, Reuter- SAKE, Spencer OF Napa. Spencer
of Stanislaus, Steele, Nrooman, Whitney. Wright
Is
Assembly Bill No. 22l, to appropriate money
Drainage Act came up on its passage.
Chandler spoke at length. lie claimed that
the debt was cont racted by the State, and
should be paid. Third partics-innoceut and
honorable men-will be ruined if this bill does
not pass.
Del Vale gave his reasons for voting against
the bill.
Mcclure said he was in favor of the bill be-
cause he believed it TO be just debt hat the
state owes Il Is not honest for the State 10 re-
fuse to pay these claims. am not TO be shaken
nom an honest and manly act because some
paper says here is a bill that has steal
in it," We owe the debt and we ought to pay
it. The laborers and contractors have mort
gagged their property and homes 50 as to be able
10 live since the State failed 10 give them the
price of their toll.
Vroon.an, Reddy and Cox spoke in favor OF
the bill
Spencer Of Stanislaus, Langford, and Johnson
of SOnOma spoke against il.
The bill was passed by the following vote.
Aycs-BcauVais, Boone, Chandler, Cox, Crcigh-
ton, Cross. Days, DeLoug, Dougbcrty, prunm,
Foster. johnson Of san EeTnardiuo, Kelly, Kel-
logg, Mcclure, Pdlmieri, Parker, Parkinson,
Perry, Eeddy, Reuter-, SAKE. Steele, Taylor.
EroOmau, Wallis, Whitney, NrigRt-2S.
Aoes-BaldWin, Del Vale, Filcher, Hurlburt,
Johnson of souoma, LaugiOrd, Lowe, Lynch.
Mailer Spencer OF Aapa, Spencer Of StanIsaus
senate Bill No liz, relating to liens OF me.
chanics and others upon real property, etc, was
At $50 P NJ. the Senate took recess to 40
o'clock.
At the evening session Senate Biz No. lS2.
concerning agricultural districts, ETC., was
passed.
Substitute for Assembly Bill No.72, the county
government bill. was read second time and
amended in several important particulars.
Assembly Bill No. $50, relating to the clasSiii-
cation of counties. was read the third time and
passed
Wright moved that the following Assembly
deficiency bills be declared cases of urgency.
the provisions of the Constitution suspended
and that they be placed upon their passage.
The motion was adopted and these bills passed /:
Assembly Bill Nos, in the support OF State
Prison at san Quentin io9 ihirty-i!th and thirty
sixth fiscal years.
Assembly Bill No. /, in support OF State Prison
at san Quentin for thirty fifth and ttirty-si&th
Assembly Bill No. 70, for salary of the clerk
OF State Board Equalization Tor thiity-hnh and
thirty sixth iisea. years.
Assembly BIZ No -, in the appropriation for
state Prison at san Quentin for the thity -fourth
fiscal year
Assembly BIZ No; 9s, for postage and eontin-
gent expenses in Office OF survey General for
the thirty fourth fiscal year.
Assembly Bill No %. for postage and contin-
gent expenses in Office OF Attorney General for
the tbiriy-teurtE fiscal year.
Assembly BIZ No. 100, for copying maps in of
fee Of Surveyor General for the thirty fourth
fiscal year.
Assembly Bin No. lol, for postage aud ex
prcsSage in Office of Superintendent of Public
Instruction for tbe thirty-iouTth fiscal year.
Assembly Bill No iJ2, for contingent expenses
of State Board of Equalization Tor the thirty
fourth fiscal year.
Assembly Biz Ne 103, for postage and contin-
gent expenses in office OF Clerk of Supreme
Court for the fhirty-fonrth fiscal yeat.
Assembly Rill No III, Tor postage and con-
tingent expenses OF supreme Court for thirty
iith fiscal year
Assembly Biz No. l25. for continuing special
Investigation in the agricultural department
Df safe University Tor thiriy-ntth fiscal year.
Assembly Bill No. l6l. fer the salary of CLERK
Of the supreme Cour; during the thirty-fourtb
iScai year.
Assembly Bill No l67. for support of the State
Prison al san Quentin for the thirty fifth fiscal
year
Assembly Bill No. II, for travelling expenses of
he State Board OF Equalization for the thirty
18th fiscal year.
ary and completion OF State Engineers reporl,
md maps on irrigation for the thirty fourth tis
al year.
Assembly Bill No, %. for arrest Of criminals