Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-27
ROTII SIDES.
Extra Session and srigation-EsPressIo
of the state Press.


of the state Press.
Governor Stoneman IS an honest man
He means well, but he Las been impose.
upon.-Rcd Bilg Neirs
If Governor Stoneman had only stopped
to think. But what's the use of talking
about impossibilities? ?-Oaklaiid Enquirer
However it may result, the action Of the
Governor in the premises seems to NEE.
with pretty general favor Ventura Dane
crH.
in calling together in extra session the
Legislature of California, we think Gov
ernor Stoneman has CyeTreached himself
and will fail in attaining the popularity he
may have hoped for.-Sm joaquin FGicg
AFg's.
The farmers are not going TO be caught III
the trap the appropriations set for them, and
as the extra session has caused them to ex-
anime INTO the merits of the water ques-
ton, the call has accomplished some good
after Oakland Times.
We don't see why those irrigators vhr
have vested rights need be frightened about
the late decision of the Supreme Court Nt
law that may be enacted by the State, moi
no change OF the Constitution can disturb
them.-Reddiag Democrat.
The fact that the hydraulic mines are il
league with these irrigationists should ex
cite the suspicious of the valley people ant
make them exert themselves to see that th,
scheme of both these cOnspirators are no
cousum mated WheaHcad Graphic.
To uphold the rinarian decision as lai,
down by the present Supreme Court woull
require force of arms. Americans are will
n n hnnr f,ng. a l,rrf
for an unjust cause, simply because ii la.
been declared to be law. - Santa Orr
C0HierItem.
1t is the duty of the Legislature to pre-
vent such evils by giving the people an Op
portunity TO vote upon the question ofreor
ganiZing the Court which is the only posi-
bic mode of preventing the evils whicl
will flow from the decision in Lux VS.
Haggin.-St0ckfoH MGI.
Had the farmers of California been anx
ious for an extra session for the purpose o
legislsting upon the water question, is i
reasonable to suppose that they approved
the idea of calling il in midsummer, wher
il would be almost impossible for them tc
leave their harvest fields ?-St0cktoR Llde
pendent.
On the other hand, if the doctrine of an.
preparation shall obtain, the people of the
mining counties will have the power to do
just exactly what we outlined a few days
ago. The miners are masters of the situa.
ton in any event, and it is the proper time
TO declare our power and assert our rights
-Neradc Herald.
This extreme haste 10 rush Constitutional
amendments through, when the regular
session of the Legislature is only five
months distant is open to gravest suspi-
cion that this irrigation fight is merely a
struggle between two sets OF monopolists,
the people to be cinched whichever wins
TuoianRe Independent.
We resent as an infamous slander the
charge that the hydraulic mines have any
thing to expect from irrigation legislation.
If man is privileged to take surplus water
from stream for purposes of irrigation, he
is not therefore privileged to put mud,
gravel, sand, silt and hydraulic tailings into
the stream.-W WarysUiRe Democrat.
We are in sympathy with the good peo-
pie who want the waste waters of the rivers
to fructify the soil and make it blossom as
the rose, and we are willing to support all
reasonable measures that will afford them
relief but legislating a Supreme Court out
of office would be establishing dangerous
and revolutionary precedent.-Dixon TriJ-
1de
The recent decision of our Supreme
Judges, or majority of them, has raised a
howl of indignation all over the State. and
we think justly so. That four OF our learned
Supreme Judges should sit in common
eonclaye and apply the common law of
England TO our situation is, to our untu-
tored mind, simply preposterous.-Scoa
Valley Ne,os.
Does any one propose to give any person
an exclusive right to the water? The very
essence Of the measures proposed by the
Irrigation Committee is that water shall be
free to all who will take it and use it for
beneficial purposes, but that he shall cease
to have any right or interest in it the mo-
ment he ceases TO apply it to the develop
ment of productive lndusiries.-,Sdn Fran
cisco Examiner
When some bill has been introduced and
discussed il will be time enough to COM
mence the attack upon the motives of its
proposers. At present it looks as if some
newspapers were inspired to fight against
Nature, and lose sight of the peril of the
State in their overwhelming fear that some
body is to derive benefit in which they
will not have share.-Sda Jose Mercury.
The State must exercise the power of en-
iDent domain over the water as over the
soil. 1t must take absolute control of all
the water and provide for its equitable dis
tribution to the consumers. There should
be no such thing as private or corporate
ownership of water in any section where it
is needed for irrigation; the use only, un-
der proper regulations, should be granted
San Diego Union.
The call is purely political scheme for
the advancement of George Stoneman's in
terests in particular, and the Democratic
party in general. The farmers, in fact the
great majority of the people OF the State,
loudly call for relief from the decision of
the Supreme Court, and the next Legisla-
ture, no matter Of what political com
plexion. would give the irrigationists the
relief asked for.-Sai Leandro Reporter.
We DO not wish to be understood as be-
ing opposed to irrigation or free water. but
one person should not be wronged to favor
another. The fact is, this fight is one land
monopoly against another. One is riparian
owner and the other fellow is not. If the
lands Of both parties were in possession of
actual farmers and settlers in sEsall tracts,