Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-23
EXTRA SESSION.
PRESS AND OTHER EXPRESSION
ON TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The Matter of Irrigation-COnsti
tional Amendments-Actio
of the Governor.

of the Governor.
| Governor Stoneman had good chance
to secure the Democratic nomination before
this, but it is now gone.-jS. Helena Times.
| When Senator Hearst read Stoneman's
proclamation calling an extra session he
probably prayed heaven to save him from
his friends.-Los angeles Express.
/ We believe that the proposed legislation
will be of advantage to the mining coun-
/ ties. At any rate it cannot make matters
worse than they now are.-Nevdda City
| Herald.
The assembling of the Legislature to re-
deem the State from the slough of riparian
! folly into which the Supreme Court has
plunged it was the only alternative means
of escaping practical anarchy Yolo Nail.
He thinks the State is now ripe for the
irrigation question, and he has tried to fall
on the popular side But we greatly miss
our guess if Stoneman is not serving his
last fern as Governor of California.-Sun
Buendrentra Free Press
The public no doubt has right to the
use of the waters of all streams, but the dis
tribution of them must be in accord with
all private rights and claims, both legal and
equitable. Let justice and honor rule all
the States proceedings Pacific.
The irrigationists, hydraulic miners and
the Senatorial manipulators by politicians
may triumph for the day, but terrible
reaction will surely come and overwhelm
| the conspirators Honesty is the best
policy" and Governor Stoneman will
/ learn in due time the full force of this
maxim.-lfaysuiRe appeal.
| 1t is perfectly natural that the riparian
| lists should raise a clamor of opposition
should denounce the movement and at
! tempt to defeat its object. 1t is their inter
est to do SO. They thrive upon the public
misfortune. But the people see the motive
and understand the meaning OF the cry of
the enraged riparian monopolists.- Oakland
| Tribune.
| There must be irrigation, and there must
| be irrigation without water monopoly
That is the problem the Legislature has to
work out If it sat down with a sincere
desire to solve that problem it would &C
complish its purpose with very little diff
Guilty. Individuals arrange, every day,
matters more complicated and difficult
S. f. Report.
| Should the Legislature fail to accomplish
| anything, Stoneman may as well prepare
to retire amid the maledictions of his party
| The Democratic party is e-eminently
party of expedients, waited about by every
breeze of popular will that promises tenn
porary success, and this act of Stonemans
! is in harmony with the party's record in
| the past.-Russian RiUer Fldy.
A conscientious legislator will not allow
himself to be made tool to confer mo-
nopoly of water upon the schemers whose
present puppet is Governor Stoneman but
no man who has any care for his political
| future will allow himself to be placed on
record as opposed to free water, or in favor
| of the absolute and nonsensical doctrine of
| riparian Rights. f. Chronicle.
| If the appropriations of water may recon-
struct the Supreme Court in their interest,
why may not the friends of hydraulicmin-
| ing demand the reconstruction of Court
! which declares hydraulic mining, with its
natural consequences, unlawful? The Su-
preme Court will thus become the sport of
any powerful interest that may choose to
feel aggrieved by any of its decisions.-S
f. Call
Riparianists, enraged at this unexpected
turn at the wheel OF fortune, will attempt
their usual policy of insinuation and abuse
The riparianist would have the people be-
lieve that this was the fight of few rich
landholders. The people, sixty thousand
strong, signed anti-riparian pledges and
allied themselves into great State associa-
ton to make effective their opinions and
interests.-Odkiand Tribune.
In converting the Legislature to rescue
the State from the dangers with which the
riparian decision of the Supreme Court has
surrounded it, the Governor practically ap-
peals to the Republican party TO pilot the
people out of their difficulties. The Legis-
lature is in Republican hands. Republi-
cans control it, and such legislation as this
exigency evokes must come from the Re-
publican party Vallejo Chronicle.
We desire to enter our protest against
the calling of an extra session of the Legis-
lature at this time. We are of opinion
| that no such emergency as the Constitution
contemplates has arisen which could prop
| erly warrant Governor Stoneman in entail
| ing upon the State an extra expense of $75,-
600 or maybe 100000. We protest against
any Legislature being convened to carry
out cut-and-dried plan.-AldHeda Argus.
| The position of the Democrat on the sub
| iect of irrigation is well understood. 1t is
| in favor of establishing upon a firm foun-
datiOn the right of appropriation. But it
confesses to feeling of uneasiness lest in
| the hurry of an extra session hastily called
| to consider so important a subject without
consultation with, or instruction from, the
people, the work accomplished will not
meet with the requirements of the CASE
| Santa Rosa Democrat.
| The calling of an extra session by Gov
ernor Stoneman just at this time, when the
anti-riparian agitators have gotten the peo-
! pie of the State stirred up to a white heat
on the subject, looks little peculiar, and
| to a person who is used to watching the
moves of political tricksters it would at
once seem like a trick put up by expert
enced manipulators to carry their point be-
| fore the people could have an opportunity
of becoming thoroughly aroused as to their
| true intentions or aims.-C0lton Semi
Tropic.
Is it reasonable to expect anything like
deliberate and wise legislation at such a
time and under such circumstances 1t is
| impossible to escape the conclusion that
the Governor has been moved to spring
this sudden proclamation for reasons not
set forth in his proclamation The long
preamble is obviously written for political
effect-to make a point" The facts
stated were as true two months age as they
are to-day, and if the exigency demanded
| an extra session, it should have been called
then.-San Diego Union.
The present session opens in response to
a popu ar call, q universal beseeching, for
| fair hearing and bestowal of justice in be-
half of one of the dearest rights that an
enterprlsing people can either hope, pray
or fight for. The opponents of the irriga-
tionis's, come they from whatever quarter
they may, must be totally disarmed, when
they appreciate not only the array of
names of parties enlisted in the cause of
the people, but also the political and social
standing of those who beseech the Legisla- !
| ture for Justices. r. Examiner
The Democratic party of this State will
have no right to complain if Senator is
elected. The present Legislature and the
State are Republican in politics. The
Democratic managers doubtless were actu-
| ated by partisan motives in calling the
special session. If they did not look far
enough ahead to see that the session might
kick back when it was fired off, and knock
the men over who pulled the trigger, that |
simply shows that the managers aforesaid |
were not very smart.-Santd Cruz Sentinel. !
There is not an intelligent person in the
State Of California ~ 80 IN ov ofi