Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-20
of the question was made special order for

liners. and fixing the salaries of the members of
the said Board and is employees, and cefir my
the powers and duties of said Board, and n.sE
ing appropriations for travelling expense 81 came
up again as special order.
Murphy moved to make its con- sse.essoa the
special order for Tuesday next a. O'Clock
The motion prevailed by Vote of 10 ayes to
10 noes
The Senate again took r.p \. B. 2ss and added
to Calninettis amendp ent the following which
was offered by De LoTig: " And provided further,
that switches from said railway track or tracks
may, with the permission of said Board and
under the limitations and conditions of tkss Act,
be constructed by corporations or any person or
persons, leading to any warehouse or place of
S. B. 2e5 to amend Section of an Act con-
corning The water flont of the city and county
OF San Francisco, and 10 confer further powers
was read second time and ordered engrossed.
PooL-sELLNG AND BooK-MAKISG.
| S. B. SIG, providing conditions upon which
/ moneys appropriated out of money in the state
Treasury for aid Of the State Agricultural Soci-
ETY. or of any District Agricultural Society, can
/ be drawn from the state Treasury, came up ON
second reading.
The bill provides that the State Agricultural
| Society and the District Agricultural Societies
shsll not draw the appropriations from the
/ State Treasury until they made an affidavit that
there has been no gambling or poo-seliing at
| the track.
Heacock moved to amend by including
book making" He strongly urged the adop-
| ton of the amendment and the passage of the
bill. He believed in legislation against vice on
| all occasions
MofIitt said that the bill would destroy most
of the Agricultural Fairs in the State.
| Langford said that the societies did not row
draw any money from the State for horse
racing. He did not believe laws would make
| men pious or stop them from betting.
Heacock argued that if there must be pool
| selling it ought to be conducted somewhere else
| than on the track.
Boggs would favor the bill If the pool selling
was left out. he was opposed to gambling and
wanted all the wheels of fortune and other
| games stopped. There was no use in attampt-
| ing TO stop gambling in every form. The Amer
| lean people would bet on horse races in spite of
any laws He moved to amend by striking out
pool selling.
McComas favored the bill and Heacock' S
1 amendment. He was ready to vote against
crime at all times. He did not know what pool
selling was, except that it was gambling, and
| for that reason he was in favor of stopping it.
Sprague spoke against the bill. He said it did
not make poo.-selling crime, but only de-
| stroyed the agricultural societies. Besides it
Disseminated against the societies ia that
| it only attempted to stop pool-selling on the
tracks AID not outside Of the gates.
Conklin, the author of the bill. spoke in favor
| of its passage, and in favor of the amendment
| offered by Heaoock. The question of a loss 10
| the agricultural societies was not worthy of
| building up of true manhood and the suppress
sion OF vice and crime. He referred TO the agri-
cultural soci ties as colleges for the education
ofthe people in the vice and crime of gsmbling'
| He read ct length from the work of DR.. Porter,
President of Yale College, en- the " Elements OF
| Moral Science" and from other works of SINH
| lar character. He pleaded for virtue and public
morality and insisted that the whole safety OF
| the country lay in the enforcement of laws
against vice. Too little attention was being
paid to the passage of such laws and their en-.
torcement. The most important thing in q re-
publican form of government was to have the
young men brought up in purity and free from
the influences of gambling ana kindred vices
Gambling was the twin brother of the great
vice of intemperance.
Mead pointed ON that the bill did not prevent
pool-se.ling at any other place than on the race
track.
Boggs Withdrew his amendment, and said
that, he hoped the good sense of the Senate
would defeat the bill.
| Campbell spoke in favor OF the bill. It was
better to improye,the morals of the people than
to make money TOR the societies.
The Chair asked if the term book making, ,.
| as used in the amendment, would prevent The
| printing of the StRte series of school books
Heacock replied that it was simply used in a
technical sense
Conklin again fspoke at length on the merits
| of the bill.
Heacock's amen dment was lost by vote of 16
| ayes to % noes.
belong moved 10 amend by striking out the
words 4.or any ndeliBg.'i
| Mofitt moved to rike out the enacting
Clause.
Caminetti said that he favored a law that
would prevent games at the fairs, though he
was willing that pool-selliDg be excepted.
| Meany said there was q law now against these
games, and IL WIS not right to cinch the Agri-
cultural Societie ibecause some officer failed TO
do his duty and nforce the existing law
Mead was in ayor of the idea Of the bill, but
this BILL would q u prevent any games being run.
They would simply be run outside of the fair
grounds
| Boggs said if the friends of the bill would
strike out the CfRuse against pool selling he
should not oppNe the bill, as the law already
prohibited all I'd 9other games.
| The amendmei4 wss adopted
Moffitts motion to strike out the enaeting
clause brought n another discussion of the
merits of the blk
At this stage two elegant bouquets were
| brought in by Pages and placed on the desks OF
Senators Campbell and Conklin. Each was ac-
companieG by card bearing the words: with
the CompiimentSiof the Mothers of California -
| Motfitt Withdrew his motion.
| Sprague movedto amend so that the affidavit
should show thA no gambling had been per.
nitted "by the lizard OF Directors
belong mos ectto amend so as to strike out
the provision for On affidavit that no gambling
had been permisted and insert ''if it shall be
proven that the Directors OF the association
have allowed any games prohibited by law
etc.
belongs amendment was lost by vote OF
| ayes to 30 noes.
sprsgue's amendment was lost by vote of Il
| ayes to q noes.
Preston moved to amend by inserting after
| the word permitted the words "withiu anv IA.
vilion or fair ground with the knowlege or coz.
sent of the Directors or officers OF such agricul
tural society"
The amendment was lost by vote of 5 ayes
to 30 noes
White offered substitute for section one
which provides that the affidavit should show
that the aifant verify believes that nc
gambling has been "wilfully'' permitted.
Boggs favored the adoption OF the substitute
Heacock said that under the circumstances he
woald vote for the amendment.
| The substitute was adopted
| AT BIB IaTgl0 moved 10 take q recess until
Pm
Jones moved to adjourn
| The motion to adjourn was lost.
| The Senate then took recess until P.M
Night Session.
The Senate re-assembied q S p. NJ President
pro TEN. White in the chair.
Roll called and % Senators found to be
present.
Leave of absence was granted to Senator,
Bowers, Wilson and Byrnes.
The Senate resumed consideration of S. B. SIG
Conklin moved the bill be passed on the file
in order to give him time TO prepare a substi
tute.
belong objected. He would be willing t,
vote for the bill II 1t was amended so TO tax,
effect in one year atter passage.
CoIklin withdrew his motion.
Heseock moved TO amend by inserting ''pro
rided that no gaming heretofore permitted
shall be deemed within the provision OF thi
Act
/ This amendment was Adopted and the bill
as amended, ordered engrossed.
s. b. is. to add new section TO the Code 0
Civil Procedure. 70 be known and designated a
Section 1865 relating to the partial distribution
of estates of deceased persons, was read tbirC
time, and passed by a vote of p ayes TO noes
STATE IRRIGATION SCHEME.
S. B. 2s9, to provide funds for the erection ant
maintenance of State water works S. b. go, Il
submit to the vote of the people of the State o
California the question OF creating and main
tanning State water works, for irrigation anC
other beneficial uses and s. B. 29l, to create ths
State Board OF Water Commissioners, and pre-
scrihing its duties and powerS-three bills intro
ouced by Camnetti, were read second time.
Camiuett spoke earnestly in favor of his plan
which was that the 5 ate should control The
water supply and sell il to the people OF the
State at reasonable prices.
Murphy moves TO strike out the enactiuS
clause of S. Il. 29l. He said that the bill
crested bonded Indebtedness Of IS. 900. COO end
he did not propose 10 vote 10 have San Fran
cisco pay thiTty-four per cent. of that amount
for the benefit OF those who wanted water fol
irrigation. He would vote for any district Il
have irrigation that wanted to pay for it.
Caminetn said that he only asked that tn,
State loan its ctizeus its credit for IS 600 10
their own benefit.
Mead thought the plan was premature but h,
| believed that II was one which would ulti
mately be adopted. The people were not read,
| for it, but when the question was properly agi
tated II would be taken up and accomplished.
| Greedy said the scheme was a mos remark abb,
l nd los