Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-29
STATE LEGISLATION.
Work of SOlOns Assembled
at the Capital.
THE YOSEMITE COMMISSION
Grave Charges Against the Members
Proposition to Divide Sacra-
mentO County.
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Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
SACRAMENTO, January 2S.-The Senate
Hospital Committee returned majority
and minority reports on the home for fee
bleminded children. The majority favor
de no change of location and recommend
ed that money be appropriated to improve
the present buildings. The minority
was against the present location and de-
clared that the water and drainage are
bad, and that there is not enough land.
Bills were introduced as follows: BY
Goucher to create and provide for State
Board of Insurance; by Wilson author
izing the revision of the records of the
California Volunteers; by McComas
fixing the compensations of county offi-
GERS of the fifth class; by Briceland to
establish a branch of the State Insane
Asylum in Shasta; by Meany to prevent
the use of acids in preparing hermeti-
cally sealed goods; also bill changing
the boundary of irrigation districts and
regulating the distribution OF irrigation
water; by Jones, adding new Sec
ton to tho civil code relating to
assignments for the benefit of creditors f;
by Moffit, of Alameda, providing for the
purchase of statuary for the Capitol ro-
tunda; also, a bill to prevent the catch
ing of salmon in Cache creek; also, a
bill instructing the Fish COMMISSIONS rs
to dispose of the steam launch Governor
Stoneman, and obtain two smaller
launches for patrol boats.
m
ernor announcing that E. F. Delger had
resigned as trustee of the California
Hospital for the Chronic Insane, and
that B. Coch, of Santa Clara, had been
appointed in his place. The Governor
also submitted to the Senate the detailed
cost of the State text books.
The Senate bill to amend the act to
establish and support a Bureau of Labor
Statistics was passed.
The Senate bill to provide for the safety
of persons against danger from machin-
cry, elevators and the neglect of proper
safeguards, was defeated.
The Senate bill providing for the pun
ishment of seduction accompanied by
false representations and pretenses, or
other fraudulent means, was passed.
The Senate bill to add a new section to
the penal code relative to hotels, inns,
restaurants, boarding and lodg-
ing-houses, was also passed.
THE ASSEMBLY.
SACRAMENTO, January 2S.-The AS
sembly met at 2 :39 this afternoon. Hall,
OF Santa Cruz, presented a petition ask
ing for the passage of the bill allowing
Holmes, of San Bernardino, presented a
In nit Af I-
reciting that they had heard with great
ture to prevent Boards of Supervisors
from regulating the matter Of county
licenses. After a number of standing
committees had made their reports, the
special order OF the charges made by
Tully, of San Benito, against the Yo-
semitic Valley Commissioners was taken
up. The charges are twenty-three in
number, and allege dishonesty, incompe-
tepcy, etc. Solomon moved that an in
vestigation be held before special COM
mittee of five and the Yosemite Valley
Commission. The motion prevailed, and
on motion of Briefly, it was decided that
no charge should be investigated until it
had first been sworn 10 by a reputable
citizen. The Speaker appointed Salo-
mon, Tulley, McCarty and Holmes as a
special committee.
The Senate bill to pay the claim for the
expenses of the funeral of the late Gov
ernor Bartlett, was next considered.
The Senate, having refused to
concur in the Assembly amend
ments, adding $500 for pay of the
militia companies which paraded on
the occasion of the funeral, the Assembly
receded from the amendments, and the
bill passed. The Committee on Chinese
immigration reported that they had
visited the Chinese quarters in San Fran
cisco and San Quentin prison. Their
full report will be submitted later.
Among the bills introduced were the
following: To divide Sacramento county
and create the county of Glenn from the
eastern portion thereof; to appropriate
$4,000 for an exhibition of California
products at the Paris Exposition. A
joint resolution approving the Charter of
the city of Stockton was passed. Ad-
journed.
s'Little Pete'' In Luck.
SAN Francisco, January 28.-The Su-