Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-16

Inc speaker said this was another instance OF
| the trouble caused by committee clerks. In the
| good old days, before committee clerks were in
vented, the Legislature got along much more
smoothly. Now the clerks go off on picnic
| and business is disarrapged and delayed.
a BILL.
BY Dobbin-Relating to assignments for the
benefit of creditors. Judiciary.
The special file was taken up and the follow
ing Assembly bills passed
No. 800 for the payment of the deficiency in
the appropriation for the uses of the State
Board OF Horticulture for the thirty eighth fiscal
year.
No. 104, to pay the claims against the State Of
California incurred under an Act entitled An
Act concerning the payment of the expenses
and costs of the trial of persons charged with
the violation of the laws for the preservati n Of
fish in the nayigabe waters of the State
No. 473. to provide for the deficiency in the
appropriation for stationery, fuel and fights. for
the l. gslature and State officers for the iortieth
fiscal year.
No. 474, to provide for the deficiency in the
appropriation for repairs of State Capitol build
ing, and furniture, and purchase of carpets for
the for.ieth fiscal year.
No. SOC, to pay the deficiency in the appropri-
alton for support of the State Printing Office, in
Guiding the pay of employees, FOR the thirty
eighth fiscal year.
alton for the support of the Insane Asylum at
Napa for the thirty-ninth and foItieth fiscal
years
No. sos. TO pay the deficiency in the appropri-
alton for repairs to he State Capitol building,
and furniture, and purchase of carpets for The
thirty seventh, thirty eighth and thirty ninth
fiscal years.
No. 800, TO pay the deficiency in the appropri-
alton for the transportation of insane for the
thirty seventh and thirty eighth fiscal years.
No. $40, to pay the deficiency in the spprnpri-
alton for the transportation of prisoners for the
thir y-seventh fiscal year.
No. Sill, to pay the def iency in the pro-
prietion for water for irrigation, purchase of
hose and implements to be used on the state
Capitol grounds for the thirty eighth fiscal year.
M. 512 to pay the deficiency in the apprcpri-
alton for arresting criminals without the limits
OF the state for the thirty ninth fiscal year.
No. 5l3. to pay the deficiency in the appropri-
alton for a rest and eonvi, ton of highway rob
bers for the tnir,y-eighih fiscal year
No. 5l4, to pay the deficiency in the appropri-
alton for Stationery fuel. lights and so for for
the Legislature and State OF GERS ior the thirt
eighth fiscal yesr.
No SIS. to pay the deficiency in the approrri-
alton for buikheading, sewering AID imp. owing
the grounds az the Branch State Normal School
at Los Angeles for the thirty eighth fiscal year.
No. 5l6, to pay the de6cie cy in the approp'i-
alton for expenses of the supreme Court for the
thirty Dinth fiscal year.
No SIT, to pay the deficiency In the appropri-
alton for use of library of Branch Normal school
at Los angeles for the thirty-eighth fiscal year.
$. B. Ill. to provide fer the deficiency in the
appropriation for the salary of the Deputy
Reporter of the Decisions Of the Sup enns Court
during the first eleven months of the thirty
ninth fiscal year.
READ SECOND TINE AND AMENDED
S B 4. to amend Section 737 of the Political
Code. fixing and providing for the ga aries of
the Judges of the Superior Courts of the city
and county of San Franco, CO. and of the coul-
ties o. Alameda, San joaquin, LIS Angeles
Santa Clara, Santa Cruz. San Mateo guba and
Suffer combined, Sacramento, Butte, Nevada,
Sonoma. Colusa, Monterey, santa Barbara, San
Luis t'bispo, san Diego, Tulare. Fresn' solano,
Alnador, San Bernardino, Kern, Placer, Hum
toldt, Marin. Mendocino. gehama, III Dorado,
Alpine, Stanislaus and Calaveras.
BILLS
By BurweIl- Relating to the collection OF
taxes. Committee on Judiciary.
Also. reisttng 10 roads and highways. Com
mite on Roads and Highways.
By Tully-To provide for the conduc. of cleo
icns. Committee on Election Laws.
At 1910 recess was taken until p NJ.
Afternoon Session.
Met at O'Clock, Speaker Howe in the chair.
PILL III sHANAHAN.
Relative to the sale and use of opium pre-
pared for smoking. Fixes penslty of 81 900 fine
or one year imprisonment, or both.l Commit
tee on Public Morals.
The Committee on Ways and Means reported
back adversely A. b. 49,, appropriating $500
T. the purchase, Of Hilfs painting, " Driving
the Last Spike" Also, A. BIS 800 and $50,
appropriating money for the Paris Exposition.
Cn motion of Dibhle the report of the special
committee oftwo- Hail and Sa'omon--on A. B.
46, declaring . trusts unlawful, was made a
special order for P. NJ Monday.
C-mpbell of Colusa offered the following
RI resolution:
Resoiecd. hat Messrs. Chapman, Adams and
Hall he ded 10 the Standing Committee on
STATE Prisons, and that said committee be au-
thofized to employ a Sergeant-at-Arms, sub
pena witnesses, and do such other things as may
IN their judgment seem best for full investi-
CATION OF the State prisons of this state.
The Speaker remarked that Adams was the
Chairman OF The Standing Committee on State
Prisons.
The resolution was referred 10 the Committee
on Rules and Regulations.
COMMIT EE REroRTs
Reynolds. ON behalf of the Committee ON
silk Culture, presented the following report
3fr. Speaker. Your Committee on silk Cult
uTe, 70 whom was referred resolution in rela-
ton TO the destruction of fixture of the ate
Capitol, have had the same under consideration
and would beg leave to report that after due
and Deliberate consideration OF all circum-
stances connected Herewith we, the commit
tee, EEL that a great injustice has been done TO
one OF our most talented, promising, although
embr5Stic, statesmen with small 81 in the
despoiling of an heirloom In the shape of
tile or "caubeen" handed down from genera
fion 10 generation from the days OF the good
and valiant King Bryan Born; aud we fcther
find that the msereant or miscreants who per
petrated the aforementioned M llicious set were
guilty OF a eriU.e unparalleled In the history ct
our State. and we do further find that in the
commission of said set grstuitous insult has
been offered to one who Is the very soul of
honor, and the personifcatinn of all that is
great ard grand, possessing the front of a Jove
IL
And we co further find that nothing can be
done on an humble apology before the bar OF
the House, or in lieu thereof. to meet as gentle
men ON the field of hoEcr.
1.-THE shield and spar shall never rust
TIL foes shall crumble into Gust"
Further, that the Controller is hereby ordered
to draw his warrant for the sum OF $40. payable
out of The contingent fund set apsT; tor the use
of the Pcundkeeper of the city OF SACRAMENTO.
OMAN. Chairman.
The Speaker said he would refer the forego-
ing report to he Committee on High links.
Mr.. Cstrom, OF the Committee on Corpora
lions, reported bnck favorabiy A. B 4sq. Telat-
ing 20 the assessment ef railro dis operated in
more than one county.
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
message was received from the Governor
announcing that. for the same reasons expressed
in previous communication, he respectfully
declined 10 issue commissions TO r D. Stephens
and Or. u. Gardner as Trustees of the State liz
brary.
sEocSD READING OF ELLIS.
s. BIS. to provide for the funding OF certain
! Indebtedness of the several counties o. this
State. and the issuance of bonds therefor.
A. B. 162, TO repeal sections 1855 and 1881, and
to amend Section ils7 Of the Civil Code.