Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-24

ways expressed that the feebleness with
which the riparian doctrine is attempted to
be argued is becoming pitiable.- WiHto'cs
journal.
No one should be deceived by the news
paper furry over the extra session of the
Legislature. In it there is good deal of
open encouragement to members to forget
their signatures TO the memorial asking
that the session be called, but such inti-
deity is quite improbable. There is also
determination to raise political questions,
and put the election of Federal Senator
foremost, to the exclusion OF the beneficial
objects of the session. Already conspira-
cies cabals and contentious enough
are talked about to furnish raw material
for a score of gunpowder plots, but 1t is
case in which wars and fightings may
come but woe to those by whom they
comes. I. Alta.
The Butte Record condemns the extra
session scheme in part and in whole. 1t IS
evident on the face of the proposition that
it is fraud of the first water, and should
not have been entertained by Governor
SLOVENIAN for a moment. a spe-
cial election is to be provided for, as the
appropriations do not care to wait until the
regular November election. A scheme
that requires the Constitution to be amend
ed in several particulars, laws to be re-
pealed and the Supreme Court to be
changed in its personnel, and special
election for its Endorsement, within sixty
or ninety days of the time of the gen eral
election, should be voted down with a
unaninity heretofore unknown in popular
elections.-Bmte Record.
1t is charged that the extra session of
the Legislature, which has been so sud
denly and Unexpectedly called by Governor
Stoneman, is in the interest of certain Cali
fornia capitalists, who design to secure
MONOPOLY of the water of the State. Mo
nopoly in water will ever prove an incubus
on the industries of this State. Hence
every citizen who values the prosperity OF
California. and the development OF its agrl-
cultural horticultural, mineral and me
chanical industries should give expression
to his sentiments in opposition to any
clique or corporation controlling an ele-
ment that of right belongs solely to the
people. If the Legislature now in session
| plays into the hands of monopolists, there
| is a remedy for the people in the near
| future, and that is to elect new members
who win stand by the people against the
moneyb8gs of monopoly.-S. Z. Monitor.
Rumors of an extra session of the Legis-
ernor SLOVENIAN is giving favorable consid-
Grafton to the proposition. We don't
believe the Governor will make the call.
The man who blows out the gas and sur
wives don't generally repeat the experiment.
Governor SLOVENIAN may not be naturally
overburdened with executive wisdom, but
in this instance he must necessarily have
some of the wisdom of experience. The
Governor once pulled an old, rusty, muz-
zle-loading Legislature down of the shelf,
and. after firing both barrels into space and
pulling his remains together, he found that
the enGTe result of the sanguinary effort
was the kicking of the daylights out of
himself and party. As his Excellency IS
fully aware, the average California Legisla-
ture shoots at both ends, and in monkeying
with the extra session he has learned that
the blamed thing is not only loaded but is
just as likely to be loaded for the fellow
who shoots it off as the object at which 1t
is aimed.-Ffesno Republican.
Resolutions of Temescal and Eden
Oranges in joint session
WHEREAS, The question of irrigation is as
sumIng a magnitude of such immense proper
tions as to induce the Governor of the State to
call an extra session OF the Legislature to solve
the problem, If possible; therefore be it
Resolred, That it is the opinion of this con-
vention that the State should inaugurate gen.
eral system of irrigation, wherever it is neces-
sary and practical within the State, to be
wholly under the control of the state and not
in the interest of either the appropriations or the
riparianists, iut entirely N the interest OF the
irrigator.
ReSolred, That to enable the State to put in
force the above resolution, it may acquire by
purchase or by right OF eminent domain any or
all of the water of the various lakes and rum
| ming streams when necessary for irrigation; pro-
yided that in no case shall water be taken from
sA ms II
| thereof.
Resolyed, That to enable the State to REIN
burse. itself for the Indebtedness incurred in
carrying out these resolutions, the irrigated por
ton OF the State shall be divided into irrigation
| districts, and when the system of works for
| irrigation are completed in district tax may
be levied to keep the works in repair and to pay
sum equal to four per cent. on the cost of said
| irrigation works in said district provided that
at the end of twenty years from the completion
| of the system in district an annual tax may
be levied on lands benefited thereby, to gradu
ally extiDguIsh the debt incurred by the State
in perfecting the system of irrigation.