Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-24
IRRIGATION.
Extra Standardization of Senator-Press
Expression.


converting the Legislature. CdtiStogan.
Irrigation is a necessity, and the fact
that it is SO is universally admitted. There
is no conflict of opinion upon that point
Stockton Independent
The Supreme Court refuses to be classed
as a vassal 1t remains to be seen where
the people of California will range them
selyes.-OakdoIe Graphic.
Governor Stoneman is not an intellectual
giant, but neither is he an idiot, and hence
we apprehend that there is no danger of an
extra session.-Fresno Republican.
We would counsel moderation and pa
thence on both sides and we would protest
against undue haste to secure ny legislation
the total humiliation Of any important in
dustcy Of the State.-Nerada city Herald.
If all that is intended is honest, if no in
terest is to be robbed, if the rights of all
are to be considered and equitably adjusted,
why this haste? The haste alone shows
that fraud is intended.-S. +. Herald Of
TfGde.
We ask caution at the hands of the men,
bers, and, above all, keep the charge of the
water in the hands of the State, and allow
the State only to have the power to regulate
the uses to which they may be applied
Oakland Times.
The action of Governor Stoneman. in
calling the special session of the California
Legislature to consider the question of irri-
CATION versus riparian rights, we must,
upon due reflection, consider well-advised
and timely.-Sd1itG Barbara Independent.
The common law is eminently the peo-
pies law. Il conceals none OF the jobs
that harass and burden the taxpayers of the
country Ii mas d world wide recognition,
and has an Interpretation that appeals to
the love of equity and justice.-Calgorn,a
Patron.
The impression is growing in the popu-
lar mind that this contest is one between
selfish riparianists on the one side and
scheming appropriations on the other and
that all the latter want is the opportunity
to grab all the available water in the State.
Placer Republican.
The attempt to becloud the question to
divert it into a party warfare, or in any
way to avoid the issues as stated in the call
for the extra session, will fail, and the at
tempts themselves are proofs of the weak
ness and desperation OF the opponents of
irrigation.-.SdH jose Mercury.
But now, when the entire soil-tilling in
dustry of the State has been menaced by
the Supreme Courts decision, and nothing
but an amendment to the Constitution can
the Legislature to submit the remedial
amendments is opportune and entirely
proper.-Orovils Mercury.
We fail to see the necessity of this IN
seemly haste; the irrigation question could
very well have been left to the next Legis-
lature, and the putting of the people to the
great expense entailed by the proposed pro-
gramme is unwise, and should rebound
both against the Governor and those who
induced him to enter into it.-4mad0r
Sentinel
Governor Stoneman appears to be the
only man in Sacramento who does not think
the Legislature will elect q United States
Senator. The Constitution and law on the
subject are so plain that it does not require
a lawyer to determine that the Legislature
has the right, and it is its duty to elect,
should it remain in session long enough to
do Solos Angeles Express.
The Supreme Court has committed an
egregious blunder in assailing the principle
which gives life and vitality to the agri-
cultural interests. The Legislature has
been convened to correct this monstrous
error to pass laws forever repudiating the
alien and distinctive doctrine of riparian
rights, aud for restoring to the people the
privilege of using water to fertilize the
land Falejo Chronicle
OF course the Legislature will pay no at
tention to the resolutions of the San Fran
cisco Bar Association against the move
ment to GUST the Supreme Court The
opinion of these lawyers as to whether the
Supreme Court should or should not be re-
organized is no better than the opinion of
the same number of equally intelligent lay
men. %Besides, the Supreme judges can
always get any kind of an Endorsement
they want from the members of the bar
Stockton Nail.
That unless the Governor had convened
the Legislature, and laws are passed pro-
viding precisely the remedies that are pro-
posed, the riparian doctrine under the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, would become
firmly established in the State. Vested
rights would accrue under the decision,
and no subsequent legislative enactment
no power resident in the people-could de-
stroy them and obtain the right for the
people to appropriate water from the pub
lie streams for agricultural uses. These
are self-evident tacts.-Oakldnd Tribune.
We do not dispute that the water should
be appropriated and diverted, but we OPP
pose all appropriation that damages in the
slightest degree the established property of
riparian proprietOrs, unless just compensa-
ton be given for damages inflicted. =
If the people are, as these loud-mouthed
advocates assert, almost unanimously in
favor of the measures they propose, why
do they fear to allow the people an oppor
tunity to elect legislators who are cognizant
of and in consonance with the views of the
people as they would be indicated at the
election PEI Dorado Republican.
The riparian decision cannot stand. The
people in every portion of the State are
showing their determination to bring the
law into harmony with the needs of the
commonwealth. The movement will be
irresistible. Every dry acre and every
wasted gallon of water in the river beds
protests against the application of the ri
parian system to land of arid plains and
capable streams. A majority of one in a
Court of seven is not dam high enough
or strong enough to hold back the waters
of California from the lands which are
thirsting for them.-Trarer Tidings.
The land monopolists who are endeayor-
ing to so direct public sentiment that they
may become water monopolists as well
are paying thousands of dollars to many of
the prominent newspapers of this State to
so befuddle the real issue that the Anti
Riparian Association, which is composed
principally of lawyers, stock brokers and
members of every profession, business and
occupation. except that of farming, and
which is controlled and manipulated in the
interests of the land monopolies referred
2 10, shall appear to be the only true ex-
ponent of irrigation in the State.-Nartine=
GaFette.
The exigeney, taking into the account
the ruin entailed was the greatest an
American Executive ever had to encoun-
ter. 1t is still one of the greatest with
which an American State Legislature has
ever had to deal. But laws for the regula-
ton of water rights will not alone meet the
emergency. Now that the issue has been
raised. the subject must of necessity under
go radical treatment. Laws will have to be
put in train, and constitutional amend
Inents prepared and submitted to the peo-
pie, but the decision which threatens all
the calamities we have described will of
necessity require to be reversed. MarysviNe
Democrat.