Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-02
COUNTY DIVISION.
The Resolution That Was Sent tC
Sacramento.

The Resolution That was Sent to
Sacramento.
The question of the division of the
county, although it does not appear to
receive much attention at the hands
either of the newspapers or the public,
is, nevertheless, an absorbing one for
those who understand what is about to
come to pass. Scarcely any doubt re-
mains that the Edwards bill will pass,
and that, as a consequence, the county
will be cut in two. The city of Anaheim
took a vigorous stand against the propo-
sition as coon as it was broached, and
sent a man north to represent their oppo-
sition. This was true, although Anaheim
is within the boundaries of the proposed
new division.
About month ago, at the same time
that Anaheim WAS making its protest, the
Board of Trade and Chamber of Com
merce held Joint meeting and passed a
resolution which was sent to the repre-
sentatives of the county in the Legisla-
ture. As this has since been referred to
as q fiery and incorporate document, il
is herewith presented to the readers OF
the HERALD for their inspection YER
batim:
Los ANGELES, CAL, Jan. 2Sth, 1889.
To the Honorable, the Senators and Rep
resentatiueS of the State of CdtJor-
ma:
At Joint meeting of the Board OF
Trade and the Chamber of Commerce OF
Los Angeles, held this 2Sth day of Janu-
ary, 1889, it was resolved that it is the
sense of these bodies that we believe our
city and surrounding country are OPP
posed to the bill proposing the division
of Los Angeles county, and we hereby
protest against undue and hasty action
therein, and respectfully but earnestly
request that the matter be given the
most careful attention by your honorable
body, SO that the same may be submit
ted to vote of the whole county that
the will of the people may be deter
mined.
Further action was taken by the
Chamber in the shape of petition
against the division, which was widely
circulated and received the signatures of
thousands of the people of the city, in
Guiding those of all the most prominent
men, almost without exception. Backed
by this vote of confidence from his con-
stituency, Senator White did yeoman
service for the defeat of the bill.
Several days ago, emisaries from Santa
Ana put in an appearance in the city
armed with petition declaring that it is
the wish of the people of Los Angeles to
have the division made. 1t was at first
supposed that no signatures would be
obtained TO this document, as the ground
had been pretty we'll covered by petit
ton of the opposite tenor.
The astonishing instability of human
opinion was we'll illustrated by the fact
that number of names of prominent
men appear on both petitions. Several
hundred merchants, capitalists and
bankers have signed the Santa Ana petit
ton, and put themselves on record as
favoring the division. The excuse offered
is that the 'intemperate" action of the
Chamber is likely to drive the people of
the lower section of the county to boy
colt the business men of Los Angeles.
The impression seems to have gone
abroad that an element of bitterness was
thrown into the contest by the action OF
the Joint bodies referred to above, but it
is certainly not to be found in the reso-
lutions which were passed.