Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-13
From the state Capital.
rsnocial eorresnondence to the HERALD. |

From the state Capital.
Especial correspondence to the HERALD
SACRAMENTO, February 8, 1883.
One of the most important measures
vet introduced in either house relating
to Southern California is Assembly bill
No. 81, introduced by Mr.. Damron Of
Los Angeles. The bill provides for the
establishment and maintenance of q
State Reform School in the county Of
Los Angeles, and prescribes the manner
in which it shall be conducted. An
appropriation of 100000 is asked for,
and, after a careful canvass among the
members of the lower house, Mr.. DAM
ron assures me that the bill will pass
that body almost unanimously. Such
Investigations as l have been able to
make in the Senate since the bill was
introduced, more than justify the hope
that it will meet with similar favor there.
The bill is now on its first reading and
has, therefore, not, as yet, attracted a
great deal of attention. When it comes
up for second reading, at which stage
amendments will be in order, it will
probably be made a special order and
occupy the time of the Assembly for at
least one legislative day.
The bill is very lengthy one, COM
prising, in all, thirty-one sections. Be-
sides setting forth the officers to be
elected and the manner of their election,
it prescribes the duties of each at length.
The name of the institution is to be the
Reform School for Juvenile Offenders
o-J - Sc 70 lo IouoknJ 70 tho oopEpo-
ment, discipline, employment and
reformation of youthful criminals OF
both sexes. The supervision and gov
ernment of the school is to be vested in
q Board of Trustees to be ap-
pointed by the Governor. The
members of the Board are to
hold Office for the respective terms OF
two, four and six years from March 1st,
1889, their successors to be appointed one
at each session of the Legislature. The
Governors appointments to this trustee
ship are to be ratified by the Senate. The
exact location of the institution will de-
pend upon the people of the county
themselves. The bill provides in this
respect that no site shall be selected for
the school by the trustees until thirty
days after their appointment and quail
fcation and until they have thoroughly
examined the different sites offered by
the people of Los Angeles county, and
further that no site shall be decided upon
until a deed in fee simple of the land
selected by the trustees shall have been
made to the State. The site is to con-
tain not less than forty nor more than
one hundred and sixty acres, and, in the
matter of location, other things being
equal, preference will be given to site
that shall be centrally located and easy
of access from all parts of the county and
State.
COUNTY DIVISION.
All is quiet along the line on the
county division proposition, nothing of
having transpired since the
of the bill to engrossment
and third reading on Thursday, when
of Santa Ana, made a speech
in the House in it's favor. He was armed
with large map, which he unfolded be-
fore the assem- bled clans and pointed out
the lines dividing the county proper from
the section proposed to be set off. All
went smoothly until Briefly arose and
declared that the map was incorrect in
that it did not show the lines as they
exist. Edwards denied this,
and in the brief oratorical set-to which
followed, the bill was voted to the third
reading file. If any very stubborn fight
is to be made against the measure in the
Assembly, it must be made at its next
which will probably be
toward the end of next week.
HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNOR.
Any reader of the HERALD who has
had any extended experience as guessor
Of beans in a jar or verdicts of juries, is
invited to come up to the capitol and
guess at Governor Waterman's probable
action on any pending proposition. Any
man who can "call the turn" on His Ex-
cellency, will be paid ten for one. This
is suggested to me by an occurrence of
yesterday. and its sad and deplorable re-
suits. 1t will be remembered that bill
passed the Legislature provid-
ing for the addition OF two judges to the
San Diego Superior Court. On the heels
of the introduction OF the bills there was
a great exodus from the city Of Bay
and Climate, which found its explana-
ton in the fact that about an eighth of
the population turned up in a
few days later at the capi-
tai, each armed with a.
petition to the Governor, begging the ap-
pointment to the judgeship. During the
pendancy of the measure few of the
office. e.seekers event broke" to use a
vulgarism, and fell by the way side. A
regiment remained, however, and at
least score of these would-be judges
have, from time to time, taken me into
their various and several condolences to
the extent of informing me that the mat
ter was "all fixed, )" and the "old rooster
down stairs" couldn't get out of appoint
ing them. Alas for the frailty of human
hope! The old man fooled 'em all by
two attorneys who stayed at
home and made their fight at
long range. There was weeping
and wailing and gnashing of teeth among
the gang, and they left town in bunch
for San Francisco yesterday evening.
I hear that Assemblyman Nestor A.
Young went down into the Governors
office in frenzy as soon as he heard of
the appointments, and showed the Chief
Executive that he had made frightful
mistake in not appointing one of the
favorites. He showed his Excellency
that the Republican party in San Diego
county would be knocked out of the
things that be and into the things that
were, all on account Of the men he had
chosen for the judgeships. Imagine
Young's despair when Waterman re-
piled: SIS that 80! By jeminy! Well,
what's done can't be undone; let 'er go
as she laws |" e, A, p.