Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-18
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
EXTRA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DAY,
SENATE.

SENATE.
TUESDAY. August II, 1886
| The Senate met at II O'Clock a. NJ, President
Daggett in the chair Roll called, and
quorum present. Prayer by tine Chaplain.
journal OF preceding day read and approved.
ANOTHER APPROPRIATION.
| message was received from the Assembly
announcing the passage by that body of Assem-
bly, Bill No. H. appropriating $4,000 for eXpen-
SEES OF the extra session.
on motion of Del Vale the bill was read the
| first time and ordered on file.
FIREBRAND.
l. Wright said he believed the time had come
| when the Senate should do all in its power to
remedy an act of injustice suffered by an indi-
vidual at its hands. He offered the following
Rcsolrod, That the order excluding the Post
! reporter from the tloor of the Senate be and is
| hereby rescinded.
| Spencer moved to refer the resolution to the
Committee on Contingent Expenses
Kellogg and Reddy spoke in favor of the reso-
| luton The latter believed the Senate had la
bored under mistake and a misapprehension
of the facts i'll eXpelling the Post and its repre-
sentative from the Senate chamber. He had
since given the matter closer attention. and
found that the paper did not make charges
! against members of the Senate, but simply
| quoted flying rumoTs. If he now understood the
matter as he then did he would stand by his
| former act. Since then other papers have
| charged members with taking bribes and as
| they have not replied thereto it was q tacit adj
mission of the act.
Spencer said that if an injustice had been
done it would be only right that the Senate
should now rectify it; but it seemed to him that
| the offering of the resolution at this time was
! premature. He withdrew his former resolution
and moved TO make the resolution the special
order tor the following day at II a. NJ.
Wright could see no reason why the resolu-
| ton should not be adopted at the present time.
| In tbat storehouse where all the precious things
| of life are stored there is one precious Jewel
] a. of no
! ate it would appear that the Post reporter was
| the agency put forth to rob the Senate of that
priceless Jewel. Having carefully read the
article, he regarded it as an open, honest effort
on the reporters part to uphold and sustain-on
behalf of members of the Senate-this priceless
| jewel.
wrong in expelling the Post. II seemed to be
proper at the time, and he knew of nothing to
warrant different conclusion at this time.
| Cross said there are two ways of attacking
mans enthusiastically and by innuendo
The latter was the meaner of the two. If the
| Post now relies for vindcation on the fact that
| it but repeated the ISLANDERS of others, its crime
was greater than if it had openly made the
charges on its own account He did not believe
that the Senators VINO had failed TO rise and de-
nounce these charges tacitly acknowledged
| their truth. The Senator who makes that the
| code of ethics had been himself assaulted by
papers, and he had never known him to rise
| and deny charges thus made against him. Life
was too valuable to the speaker to be spent in
kicking at every cur that barks at his heels.
| The Post has kept on reiterating its innuendos
and charges against Senators, and in so doing
has inflicted irreparable injury upon the irrga-
| ton cause. What was an as9ersion upon the
Senate some weeks ago. is an aspersion still.
The method proposed of eXculpatIng the paper
| is not the act of men who would meet an oppo-
nent openly and manly, but of men who would
stab one i'll the back. For himself, he would
| never vote to admit to the Senate journal that
had malgned that body and had not since
shown any spirit to retract its SANDERS
an
made an eloquent speech on the irrigation ques-
ton, from miners standpoint. He held the
Senate III wrapt attention for nearly two
minutes.
Boone Endorsed the remarks of Senator Cross
He did not think the conduct of the Posi- of late
had been such as to warrant 1t in being restored
TO the privileges of the Senate. II has contin-
ued to abuse Senators because they had voted
10 expel its reporter. He did not consider that
injustice had been done that paper. He
would favor sending the resolution to a commit
tee of five.
Reddy explained his remafE, to which some
Senators seemed to have taken exception. He
had lot referred to anybody's remaining silent
under the Post criticisms. but to events in the
past. He would put his foot upon the allega-
ton that he had submitted silently to any
charges of corruption, and his fa.e against that
of any man that so asserted.
Cross said that. not being a candidate for any
public place, he therefore had no favors to curry
with newspapers When the Past charges Sen
ators with being guilty of bribery, and in the
absence of any evidence of repentance on its
part, il would be coWardly in the Senate to re-
scind its resolution of expulsion He believed
in the liberty of the press, but not in giving it
upbridled license to SANDER honorable men. He
was prepared to sustain the action of the Senate
in eXpelllng the Post, and the Senate should
stamp with ignominy so INSCRIPTIONS an organ.
He would move to indefinitely postpone the
resolution.
Knight was glad to know that the Senator
from Mono had d;sclaimed any imputatiOn en-
the part of those maligned Senators who had
f1lnt tn aTlR ff,fl T1sFs abo no
time the matter was first before the Senate, he
thought it in better taste to allow Senators
whose characters were not attacked to vindi-
cate the honor of the Senate. In his four years
legislative experience he had never eneOunt cred
such vfllany that exhibited by the Post in its
attack upon certain members of the Senate.
He could not understand how any Senator
could construe the article reerred to as any
thing less than a charge of corruption against
certain Senators. lie read the article in the
Post and proceeded to criticse il DIT length. 1t
looked TO him as if the resolution to rescind the
former action of the Senate was the result of
yesterdays vote upon the bill concerning the
ownership, etc, of waters in this State, and was
instgated by desire to theoretically substanIi-
ate the charges referred to.
Taylor agreed with Senator knight, aud spoke
at length against the resolution. He could not
see that the Senate had made any mistake in
expelling the person who had libeled it.
Spencer withdrew his motion TO make the
resolution the special order for the following
day at II A. NJ.
The motion of Cross to indefinitely postpone
was then carried unanimously.
THE SPECIAL ORDER.
The Senate then resumed consideration of the
Del Vale bill " concerning the ownership. APP
propriation diversion and use of waters in this
State"
Knight offered an amendment to Section l,
providing that 1.-THE waters of all natural
streams, referred to in the bill, shall be waters
" in which there is no private ownership"
Taylor offered as a substitute therefor the
n n is
vested in private ownership
knight accepted the substitute in lieu of his
amendment
Pending discussion thereon, the hour of recess