Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-31
BOTH SIDES.
Extra Session and rrigation-Expression
of the State Press.

Extra session ana IrrtSatl0n-ENpressio
of the State Press.
No matter how il is looked at the call for
this extra session mus be regarded as a
mistake-Llyo Independent.
The decision has not only attacked prop
| erty rights at the foundation and imperiled
| the public peace, but if it were allowed to
! stand as law it would be the death warrant
| of California's future.-BiggS Independent.
| They have it in their power, at least, to
| lay the foundations for an equitable and
lasting adjustment of the riparian question.
| If they do this the extra session will not
have been called in vain.-Petalu0aa argus.
Governor Stoneman has once more got
| his leg over the trace and kicked up an ex-
| ira session. That it was done to curry fa-
vor with the $4,000 members of irrigation
| clubs throughout the State and pave the
way for his denomination goes without
saying Herald.
We are perfectly clear that it is wise to
move promptly and energetically, and even
in an extraordinary way to plant irrigation
| in the policy of the State, but we are not
so clear upon the proposition to reorganize
| the Supreme Court in this extraordinary
way.-Alameda Reporter.
| If laws are passed in the interest of the
| irrigators, the Legislature will exceed our
| expectations. If, however, reason does pre-
vail, the work can be speedily done, and
| the expense to the State for the extra ses-
sion will be one that the people will cheer
fully meet TuLdre Free Press.
! The opinion is general that nothing to
the peoples interests Will result from this
extra session, and should such prove the
! case, the Republican party will be supplied
| wit n CT a oh of
cratic success, which have every day been
growing brighter.-Shastd Eci,o.
| In discussing the irrigation bills before
| the Assembly Irrigation Committee, the
mining county members have observed
that the irrigationists never mention min
| ing, and appear to ignore it as an interest
| that is any way connected with the pro-
posed appropriation of water.-GrdSS Val
| ley Union.
Ifthe Republican Legislature should fail
in its duty to the people; if the infamous
and destroying principles of riparianism
are sustained by the votes of Republicans,
California will be consigned to the tender
mercies of the Democratic party for many
years to come. Two-thirds of the Legisla-
| ture are pledged to action. The man who
breaks his pledge is politically dead. A
part of the pledge is to reorganize the Su-
the bench step down and out.-KerR County
| Californian.
We implore the Legislature to be immov-
able in its purpose and not permit special
pleading to divert it. Under the laws now
| declared, iniunctions lie against the use of
most of the water that has created the pros
perity of the San Joaquin valley. These
injunctions mean the impOverishment of
the people and the destruction of their
homes. The Legislature may listen to all
the talk which conceals sycsphancy or self
interest, and so let the session 90 by with
out proposing any measure of relief, but
what can its members say if the water is
enjoined of 50 many thousands of acres of
land ?-S. Z. Attu.
1t is not likely that the bills are perfect,
or, if they become laws, that future expert
ence aud changing conditions will not re-
quire their amendment, but they do re-
move from the path of progress the obsta-
Gle of riparianism and secure to the people
the legal right to apply the water to their
lands We believe that they are as just
and equitable and practicable as any meas
ures which it would be possible to adopt at
this time, and if they become the law of
the State that its prosperity and develop
ment will receive an impetus such as we
have never before experienced. = Fresno
Republican.
The late proclamation of Gov. Stoneman
in its general intent receives our hearty in
dorsement but the recommendation by
the State Irrigation Convention is of a suf-
ticient definite import as to require the
most critical consideration. The amend
mentS proposed to the Constitution are of
the right inclination, but the ultimate pri-
ority of ownership to water rights possesses
germs of dissension as unequitable as the
decision of riparian ownership. That a
riparian owner near the mouth of a stream
should be deprived of the use of water ow-
ing to the prior claim of a nen-riparian
owner nearer to its source, is a matter of
Just consideration and equitable decision.
Val0Ts Journal.
Week after week the Patron has given
warning of the audacity of these men who
are willing to subject the country to the
most trying convulsion, and plunge it into
the worst form of revolution, to obtain a
judgment which shall confirm their title
to the public waters. The Supreme Court
in its prophecy of disaster, through the
control of the rivers by these combina-
tons ofaggregated capital could not fore
see that these combinations had already
established themselves in the executive de-
partment of the State government, and had
forged a chain which should master the
Senate and Assembly California Patron
1t is more than week since the procla-
nation was published, and miles of matter
hostile to the objects of the extra session
have been printed, but nowhere has there
been any attempt to dispute the veracty of
the picture of California's danger, as drawn
by the Governor The riparian decision of
the Supreme Court has created the danger,
and while that decision stands as the law
Of the State the danger will remain-and
not only remain, but increases. r. Post
The proposed water company amend
ment to the Constitution, for instance, con-
stitutes cold -bloeded attempt to fasten
irrevocably upon the State an lron-clad,
iron-bound monopoly in its water supply
II would be outrageous to propose such
law, which might be repealed by success
i've Legislature; but to incorporate it into
the Constitution of the State would be
monstrous.-Los Angetes Express