Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-07-27
SACRAMENTO.
The Progress Of the Extra
Session
THE PETITION AUTHENTIC.


ehc Leg isidtuTc hshou iVf Jho
Special Session.
Especial 10 the Herald bu the Assoctdtcd f7ess
SENATE.
SACRAMENTO. July 2o.Y The senat
met at Q o'clock, President Daggett pre-
siding. Ho announced bs appointmen
Of the following comshittee on oonstitu
tionsl amendments. kellogg, Mcclure
Baldwin. Days, Dbngherty, Whitney
Knight, Wallis, {Drum, johnson o
Sonoma, and Del l6ng.
Geo. F. Tuttle Resigned a. Engrossinl
Clerk and Geo. w. jackson was elected
= bsi 81 sHSSs Tsiis pssss,lssd 4 memorial from
the council Of Los Angeles, protesting
against the adoptipn of the constitutions
nmendment limiting the right of the city
authorities TO hx water rates once il
three years aud interest to be allowed
Of at least seven per Gent. Referred tt
Committee on Constitutional Amend
nnents. ~
Cox prescribed number OF petitions
from Shh Francisco and other cities,
aPIxn7e the Legislature not to enaci
Legislation in the interest of water mo.
nopoly. but to see that the rights Of sll
persons be protected. Also large
number Of petitions signed by persons
who withdrew their names from the ir.
rigaiion petitions heretofore presented,
on the ground that they had signed
under a MISREPRESENTATION, and expressly
dissenting from the attack on the
Supreme Court.
Lynch offered resolution to print all
OF the petitions in the journal with the
number Of names attached. Lost.
The following billswe introduced: By
Cross to provide for the acquiring by the
state Of properties for the purpose Of APP
plying water to irrigation and other
beneficial uses. The bill authorized any
number Of persons to be joined in the
condemnation suits as defendants. No
water right actually applied to beneti.
cial use by it's owner shall be acquired
by the State except by purchase.
By SAKE, an act defining riparian
rights as q right to water flowing past a
riparian proprietor. He may use 1t for
domestic uses, watering OF stock. irriga-
tion when practicable. mechanical pur-
poses when the water is returned to its
channel, and all surplus may be used by
others for the same purposes.
By Days proposing an amendment to
the constitution declaring the water OF
all nnnavigable streams public property
and proviiing for the appointment OF a
State water commission; authorizing the
State to acquire water rights aud pro-
yiding for the distribution of the water
of the State. Adjourned.
ASSEMBLY.
SACRAMENTO, July 26.- The Assembly
met at 2 P. M, Speaker Parks presiding.
Jordan, OF Alameda. introduced an
amendment TO Article XIV Of the Con-
stitution, providing as follows; The
waters Of all natural non-navigable
lakes not situated upon private lands in
one ownership, aud all non-navigable
rivers and brooks passing beyond lands
in one ownership and the surplus waters
Of ali navigable lakes and rivers divert
cd at such times as shall not impair the
navigation thereof are declared the
properly of the State, and no ownership
IN or right to use. appropriate or divert
shall ever be granted TO any person,
company or corporation. The water shall
be subject 10 distribution for municipal,
mechanical, mining and irrigation pur-
poses under the control of the State. In
cases where water rights have already
been appropriated all such rights shall
revert to the State. in the case of cor
pnrations at the expiration of the cor
poration's legal term Of existence, and in
the case Of private persons at the expira-
tion Of twenty years from the commence
msnt Of use. Riparian owners shall be
protected In the use Of the water for
household and stock purposes but not
for irrigation. Cities owning the water
and supplying cities shall not be permit
ted to charge more than seven nor less
than five per cent. on actual cost of
improvements, besides current expenses.
Corporations or persons owning works
by prior appropriation shall be similarly
governed. The State may at any gem
eral election, before the expiration Of a
corporation or personal rights. condemn
all bitches and canals owned. The
English law OF riparian rights is abol-
ished.
McJ unkin Of San Francisco introduced
a bill condem ming the waters Of unnavi-
gable streams and the rights Of persons
living on the banks thereof.
The May appropriation bill Of $40, 500
- --laries and mileage of members and
attaches'of the Legislature and for con-
tingent expenses was read for the third
time and passed by unanimous vote.
Firebaugh introduced concurrent
resolution requesting that California's
Representatives and Senators in Con-
gress should urge the passage of bill
prov ding for the sale Of the pablo lands
80 that the waters thereof may be dedi-
Gated to public use and not be conveyed
with the land to private persons. Or
dered printed.
Carter of Solano offered an amend
ment to Article XIV of the Constitution
declaring the waters OF the unnavigable
streams dedicated to the State by recog.
nizing riparians as prior appropriations.
McJunkin introduced bill making
the water Of unnavigable streams subject
to condemnation by the State, provided
compensation was allowed riparian own
ers.
McJunkin introduced a concurrent
resolution TO request the Governor to
declare August 30 and 4th legal holidays
as compliment to the G. A. r. En-
campment.
Jones Of Sacramento objected. Au.
gust Sd, he said, was the day when the
Legislature would elect a United States
Senator.
McJunkin held that the laws Of the
State provided that in case Of legal
holiday the election could be postponed.
Many thought that so important q
question needed consideration and the
resolution was laid over until tomorrow.
Petitions for prompt actiopon irriga-
tiob questions were submitted as fol-
lows: Jordan, of Alameda, 52l names;
May, 905; Hunt. 2,239; Ashe, 400.
On motion Of Brett the Committee on
Salaries was instructed to present list
OF all attaches of the Assembly, together
with the character Of work each per-
formed Adjourned.
THE PETITION ALL RIGHT.
SACRAMENTO, July 26.--J. DeBarlh
Shorb states in regard to the petition to
the Governor, asking him to call an ex.
ira session; ut is signed by ninety mem.
befs of the Legislature. In every in.
stance the signatures were appended in
the presence Of one or more witne,ses.
and the original can be produced, There
are twenty-four members in attendance
who did not ngn, but of these several
who are actively working for irrigation
measures could not be reached In time. 2
He further said: II don't believe that
any member who signed the memorial
will fail to vote for the specific measures
which were appended to it and which
they stated to the Governor they would
vote for" Mr.. Shorb has improved in
health, but is still confined to his room.
fpRfGATfON coMMrrrEE IN SESSION.