Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-21
BOTH SIDES.
WHAT Is SAID IN PRINT 0F
THE EXTRA SESSION.
Clipped from the Grist of an Ex-
change List-Irrigation and
Its Problem.

This Legislature is notoriously greedy,
and no such haste can be made unless the
g sack F" has already been opened wide
Red Bluff Ne.cs.
In Napa county it is the almost uni
versal sentiment that the calling of an
extra session at this time is mistake, and
something not desired by the people
Ndpa Reporter.
The denuncation and ridicule the call
meets is just and deserved. But it will
nake Republican success at the coming
election a certain result. The Governor
| has politically killed himself and wrecked
bis party for this campaign-San Rosa
| Republican.
| 1t seems to be the general opinion of the
lawyers of the State, irrespective of their
/ politics, that the extra session of the Legis-
lature will have power to elect Senator in
the place of Hearst, Notwithstanding that
the same was not included in the call of
the Goyernor.-.StocktOa Mail
| This impolidc act, added to the many
acts of the same kind during the Stoneman
reign, will undoubtedly shelve his Ex-
cellency as Democratic candidate for re-
election. 1t viii also carry decentralization
into the ranks of the party that made him
Governor Of the State.-Napa Register.
If the irrigation plans of Haggin and
LEWIS, 0eOTSe IlttISL anu otIleIS dic ~
| immensely popular, and are entertained so
generally throughout the State, why is it
that they continue TO have names of parties
| signing their petitions or platform OF prin-
eiple published in different country and
city newspapers, and who pays for it?-
Iruckee Republican.
! If the scheme Of these appropriations is
meritorious it will keep until it can be
reached in regular course. Neither is it
believed that the interests Of the people of
the State would suffer particularly, after
having existed nearly forty years without
| the legislation demanded, if not passed.
There is in all human probability as much
! safety for the people with riparian owners
as with the appropriators.-Bu Record.
How would it do to begin where it seems
we shall have to leave off-to let the State
construct the irrigation works and sell
water? This would be in closer accord
with the terms of the proposed constitu-
| tional amendment, which SAYS that the
water of streams is the property of the pub
lie" On the plan now proposed it looks
as though il was not the public but biessrs.
Haggin and Carr 10 whom the water be-
| longed.-.S. +. C2roHicle.
While it is true that the above judgment
Supreme Court decision) served TO awake
the people of California to the fact that the
| legally possible for the benefit of the cult
ivators and the State at large, it does not
seem to follow that the Legislature must
so amend the law as to allow an irrigation
monopoly of the water at the expense of
| the owners of land along the streams and
the general pnblic.-S. f. Report.
If Governor Stoneman is fishing for
popularity for himself or party by spending
$4,000 of the peoples money on an extra
{ session of the Legislature, he is simply
batting for a whale to catch gudgeon."
The present Legislature has disappointed
| the people once on the same question, why
trust. them again 1t would be a thousand
times safer to trust the new members who
are to be elected this fall and who meet in
regular session five months hence-L0dt
Sentinel.
Through the influence of J. De Barth
Shorb and other influential irrigationists
having large landed interests in southern
California, Governor Stoneman has been
induced to call an extra session of the
Legislature 10 consider the irrigation ques-
ton. This action will cost the State a
large sum Of money, but it must be re-
membered that the people of the southern
portion of the State consider the question
as one of prosperity or sterility. Politically
it cannot be made a party question, from
the fact that the people of the entire south
ern portion of the Slate are unanimously
in favor OF some kind of an irrigation law,
which in q measure will neutralize water
privileges under the English riparian law
| Therefore many thousands of voters will
| say that Governor Stoneman has not hupg
a milestone around the Democratic parry
by his call.-MarySville appeal.
In assembling the Legislature the Gov
| ernor has taken the only sure means of
/ a. nrs1 ulgn Of
water rights for the people. In striking
down a custom in this State, which has
| come to be recognized rs a system of un-
written law, the Supreme Court laid the
train for disputes, neighborhood difficult
ties, inunctions and resistance to legal
authority that would, but for the interfer-
ing power Invoked by the Executive, have
led TO all kinds of anarchy. That, in it
| self would have terminated the career of
the State as prosperous community, even
| if the means of production-water for irri-
| gation-whch the Court has denied the
people in its refusal to recognize their
vested rights to appropriate water for agri-
| cultural uses. had not forever put an end
| to agricultural development aud the prose-
cution of the ordinary business pursuits of
the people MnysriHe Democrat.
We desire to express the hope that the
members of the Legislature, will. during
the entire session, keep ever before them
| the idea that very large portion of the
| area of California cannot be made produc-
] tive save through the auxiliary process of
irrigation. Our position on this question
has been pronounced and well defined.
! We realize. fully, that no lengthy argu-
ment is necessary to demonstrate the fact
| that farms, orchards, vineyards. etc, re-
quire the application of artificial water in
order to insure their successful maiuten-
ance. Such water exists, in abundance, in
the innavigabe streams of the State. Shall
their waters be diverted from the channels,
and used to the benefit and profit of the .
people, or be permitted to flow on and be-
come wasted in the seas? This is the all
| important question for consideration. May
| our legislators be guided by sense of
right and justice, while carefully consider
| ing a question OF such deep moment,
which affects one of the greatest States in
I the Union Modesto Ne,cs.
This whole proceeding as outlined is an
astounding one. 1t is declaration on the
part of the conspirators and revolutionists
that they are afraid to trust a new Legisla-
ton fresh from the people. but that by adj
roit manipulation of members of an old
Legislature about to expire by limitation,
| they will depose the Supreme Court and can
carry their plan of revolution. Never IN the
| history of California has there been such q
| bold aud audacious scheme as the one Just
now sprung upon the public. If the plan
were a good one, why not consult the pub
| lie? Who, outside of ring, knew. four
days ago. that an extra session of the Legis-
lature was to be called? Who, outside of
The ring. knew that the Governor was be-
! ing manipulated for that purpose2 Who
knew that all the legislation to be brought
about was cut and dried IN few bills
which had been prepared in the office of
the water monopolists Of this city, Even
! if all these plans and projects were really
good ones, more dangerous precedent has
never been known in the history Of the
State.--S. r. Bulletin.