Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-24
LEGIsLATIvE NOTES.

The members of the Senate and Assembly
Educational Committees, who visited the Lick
Obser, atory, 1t being connected with the State
University, report they did moi find their path
way strewn with roses. A telephone message
was sent from San Jose to the observatory, an
nouncing that the committee was coming and
at about D o'clock p. h. on Saturday they ar
rived there. No one was to be found, and
despite the desperate kicking and banging at
the doors, an entrance could not be effected.
At last door was found which yielded to mild
getting inside but the smoke from very poor
fire soon drove the intruders out, and they
sought warmth by forming in procession and
trotting around the building for an hour or
more. At about or clock two or three per-
sons appeared, but there was such an air OF
self-importanee visible that the trembling
statesmen feared 10 approach them, and MOTH
ing Was learned from them. The committee
was allowed to view the nebule of Orion, and
are perhaps in condition to report that it is all
there. The committee believe that their treat
meDt was direct intimation that they were
intruders. They left at about u o. clock at night
for a more congenial cline, arriving i'll San
Jose towards morning. The people of San Jose
report that this is the kind of treatment visitors
always receive from this department of the
State University.
The Assembly Committee on Judiciary had q
| meeting Tuesday evening, for the consideration
of bill No. II, introduced by Mr.. Ostrom, to
amend the Political Code by adding new sec
tion in relation to reassessments of property in
cases where former assessment is invalid. 1t
was decided to refer the bill to subcommittee,
consisting of MesSrs. Damron, Shanahan and
Hall, with instructions 10 report next Monday.
The proposed new section is as follows: 3672112.
Every tax. except polltaX, levied after the year
1879, which is invalid by reason of any error or
| irregularity in the assessment, or in any other
respect, and which has not been fully paid,
shall be relieved and the property affected re
| assessed by the proper officers, or Board of
| Equalization, to the amount to which and upon
| the ests,e, or to the person or corporation to
whom or to which such tax ought at iir,t to
hav laCi iq1 on xa6 r1ah rod zus
ment TO be made by the proper officers ct the
| time and il the manner provided by law for
making assessments on like property the Col
| iectors Of such tax TO allow as credits thereon
any partial payments made on the tax as az
| first levied. In any action brought for the col
| lection of such taxes and re assessments, the
Court shall allow an attorneys fee of fifteen per
cent. on the amount Of any judgment recovered,
which shall be less such partial payme nts.'
The Senate Finance Committee will meet at
o'clock this afternoon in room 81, State Cap
toi, TO consider the bill providing for the Cali
| fornia Home for Feeble-Minded Children. This
| bill has attracted wide attention, and Senator
Murphy who introduced it, is in receipt of nu-
merous letters from all parts of the Stale urging
him to do all he can to secure its passage One
| lady in San Francisco writes "I have a
daughter in that institution, and | can assure
you that the blessings such Home brings upon
the children and their parents must necessarily
extend over the legislators who VIII give to
such Home the full measure of its capabilities
for good" Another letter which shows the
SuhS'shSso VI thS hiitSi La StCi1 iiiiS, lS no
follows:
''SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 1889.
" Hon. P. j. Utrphy,of the Seadte-DEAR SIR:
take the liberty or addressing you upon matter
of great importance, in behalf of the California
Home for the Care and Training of Feeble
minded Children. / am personally interested
in this, as have little son who is so afflicted
and therefore know full well the necessity for
such a Home. / have for years made every eff
fort to educate him, but he made no advance
ment uEtil he was put under said training
under the management of DR.. A. T. Osborne.
1t has proved wonderful, making different
hoy OF him. have often visited the Home and
have witne ssed their improvement, and l ear
nestly beg to plead for those who cannot plead
for themselves, and beg that you will use your
infiuerce in passing those bills which will
secure for those sffiicted children permanent
home, Could you know how much good has
been done, and how much might yet be accom-
rlished, feel assured that you would not hesi-
tate to secure their advancement, and in using
your influence with other members of the Legis-
lature. There is often opposition to such de-
mands not, am sure, because they disregard
the rights of the feeble-minded children, but
because OF their ignorance OF the necessity Of
such Home Not knowing any members of
the Legislature, have selected your name from
the list. Nay l hope that you will communi-
cate this to other members of the legislature
and beg their lnteTcession? And / sincerely
hope that You will forgive me for this lengthy
epistle, but l plead not only for my own SON
but for those poor, afflicted children who have
no mothers Dlead for them