Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-14

ana the afflicted families of our State provision
should te made at this session for the accom-
mediation of at least 800 persons of this class.
After careful consideration of the needs OF
this work. do, therefore. urgently recommend
that the Board OF Trustees be authorized 10 dis
pose of the present property, and TO select q new
one of not less than 800 acres all in Santa Clara
county, keeping in mind the half centuy's ex-
perience of the kindred American institutions
IN this work whereby elevation, drainage,
water supply accessibility, and yet moderate
isolation, and abundant acreage have been
found essential"
White said he took different view of the
situation from any of the Others. He did not
think a removal of the Home was necessary.
He eulogized the efforts and actions of the la
dies of the institution in eloquent terms No
words of commendation were too high, nor
could any praise that any one could utter be
thrown away. He described the land OF which
the Home was located. He repeated the aTgu-
ment of Bowers, that if it were true that this
place was not healthy, then no place in Santa
Clara valley was fit to live in. This he did not
believe.
Mr.. Whites speech was interrupted for the
motion given notice of yesterday by Murphy on
the mutual insurance bili.
Murphy moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the Senate yesterday passed S. B. 154,
authorizing the formation of county mutual in
Of their business. and defining the duties of the
officers thereof
The motion was lost by vote of Is ayes to %
noes.
peeC0 Ill IdNOT Oh the SUD.
stitute. If be had been locating the institution
in the frat place he would have tried TO locate
it at some place where there was plenty of good
water He thought, however that the location
was good one. he thought tome additional
land should be purchased.
Campbell said that ne had no idea of saying
anything further on the subjec,, but when il
was asserted that those who favored removal
wished to increase taxation thereby he must
reply. He referred to the figures given by him
yesterday 10 show that money would be
saved by the removal to Solano county.
As a last resort substitute had
been presented which on its face only called
for small appropriation, but was simply plsnt-
ing nest-egg which would in the future call
The testimony against the present site came
from the very people who knew most about it,
and had done most for it. He spoke highly of
the ladies of the Home and denounced Conk-
lin for assailing Mrs. Walters.
Motiitt said that the statements of Bowers and
White-that if the present site was not good
then Santa Clara valley was not fit to live in
were not correct. There were good places in
that county. He recited the testimony before
the committee, showing the absolute necessity
for removing the Home.
Roth said he thought the institution should
be moved. because he thought il could be run
cheaper If it was located where more land and
better water could be had. He did not believe
In much farming, but pasture land was neces-
sary, as the principle diet of the children was
milk. He thought the Institution should be To-
Gated outside OF city, as it was built foi all
time.
DeLong said that it was in testimony before
the committee that there was fall OF sixteen
feet from the Home to the Santa Clara sewer,
and there was suit pending to prevent the
i'll ther empiying OF the sewerage of San Jose
IN Guadaloupe creek, its present outlet. The
only other place for an outlet for the sewage
was at tide water, seven miles away. If that
suit was deci5ed against the city then the
Home could have no possible sewerage.
Crandall said that they had the opini IN of
q af 40 iuhf fn inf
that creek was unqu sticned. Re sid further
that the suit referred to did not affect this
sewer.
Brice' and spoke in favor of the substitute
He said that in the location of the Home for
Chronic Insane at Agnew the Commissioners
had looked all over the southern portion of the
State and could not. find place where there
was proper supply OF water. Santa Clara was
in the artesian belt and there was plenty of
water to be had. He specially favored detached
wooden buildings.
On motion of Greedy the previous question on
the substitute was ordered.
Senators Spellacy and Flint were brought in
under call of the Senate.
Spellacy gave as an excuse for being absent
that he WAS down stalls talking with some peo-
p C from Santa Clara county, trying to get some
information in regard to the bill on which he
could base an intelligent opinion OF its merits
Both Senator'S were excused.
Langford was brought in and filed 81.
Further proceedings under the call were dis
pensed with.
The Chair announced that TOR the benefit of
the feedle-minded senators the Secretary would
again read the substitute.
The substitute was lost by vote of 20 ayes to
20 noes
president pro TEN. in the chair
THE EXAMINER DENOUNCED.
Senator Goucher arose TO question OF priv
ilege and said:
Mr. President ! notice that on the front page
of the Examiner of this date in what p1rpoIts
he 81 rppQrt of evidence faEnn the
Committee on Forestry, Yosemite Valley and
Mariposa Big Tree Grove, in The course Of the
investigation OF certain charges against the
Yosemite Commissioners, for mismanagernent
that the ,ollowing occurs: Chairman Meany
then said he supposed he was one OF the men
referred to ana asked for yindication. Mr.
Meany took the opportunity to deny that he
had spoken 20 any witness and also to remark
that newspapers never told the Truth. The
alacrity with which these two gentlemen put
the cap ON their own heads was significant" /
also wish to .call the attention OF the Senate TO
an editorial in the fret column of the editorial
page The eiticle is headed Yosemite Ex
posure, and call attention to the last para
graph in that article which is in the folloa ing
yesti. alton has been done in spite of Official re-
sistance. Soucher and his man Meany, and
the G mmissioners generally, have been con
stantly working 10 browbeat witnesses and
silence them in all other possible ways. A fair
Investigation would have startled the State,
and even such an inquiry as Senator Meany has
been mismanaging has failed 10 suppress the
truth.
The members of the Committee on Forestry,
Yosemite Valley ana Marip0sa Big Tree Grove
are follows: Meany tChairmap), Boggs,
Byrnes Wilson, Roth, Hamill and Fraser. Now,
Mr.. President ana Senators, understand per-
fectly well the danger that an individual risks
in taking to fight great newspaper. | undSr-
stand that this newspaper can come back and
maign and attack me, day after day-for years,
if il will. | understand that protest against q
lie that is given out may be made the ground
work for an attack, unending and uncompro-
missing, upon me in public ana in private life
but want TO say TO this Senete now, that while
l have been advised By my friends TO ignore the
charges that reflect upon me, because of the
danger it would invite to me. that l would not
crlnge or stoop II 1t would end my life q mo-
ment after the utterance of these words because
If any danger OF that kind. l admit that pub
lie man is open 10 criticism. | understand per
fecty well that it is the right of the press to
criticise: but after the San francisco Erumine
had spent seven or eight months in attack
ing the management of the Yosemite val
ley ana attacking members of the Commission
its management permitted three weeks OF this
session of the Legislature TO expire wi hout
causing one word u be said or done for the pur.
pose of bringing about sn investigation ana i!
remained for member If the Yosemite Gem.
attack. d, to rise here a'd present re oiutions
comp, Ling that committee to investigate these
charges. 1t remained for the Commission to
throw down the gauntlet I, this VIGOROUSLY sen.
sational journal, aud ask them TO back up the
statements 1t had made; and when its editor is
placed upon the stand, bought here under the
compu sion of a subpoena sent at The expense OF
the state, he says that he knows no. hing about
the ehaiEes further than that certain mand-
scripts had come to his Office, further than wbai
the public had seen in the publication of these
things. Notwithstanding the fact that he swears
to that before the investigating committee, he
10 cay says that = Goucher and his man Mean :,
and the Commissioners generally, have been
constantly working to browbeat witnesses and
silence them in ali other WAYS possible"
Now, say that the editor who wrote that
knew that he was lying when he wrote it.
say that deliberately, coolly. and after mature
reflection, because it sQuarely contradicts what
he swore 10. He either perjured himself when
he was on the witness stand before the
committee, or he lies now in this editorial
There is no other horn of the dilemma. IL is
one of the two things. Now, ! know. and
want to explain to the Senate. why this is pub
lished. The ExaHineT few days ago said that
q certain Commissioner and certain ex-Com
that might account for the fact that some of the
witnesses did not swear as strongly as ii was ex
pected they would swear. Well | do not know
who u had reference TO, but, if it WAS n fact,
wanted 10 know IT, aud, therefore, | asked Q
lady, who was before the committee, if any o.
the Commissioners had interviewed her regard
ing her evidence. She said no. Now, so far as
the evidence goes, then-an the evidence be
fore the committee so far-no Comm ssioner ha.
interviewed any witness brought here. No VIII
ness named by the Examiner people, no witnes:
named by anybody; no witness who has eiJhel
been sworn up 10 this time, or not sworn,
mittee, has ever sworn or admitted that they
HAD baap anprfachpl 10 % n hy anc nom