Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04

have been one of the most able and
foreible oratorical efforts of the session,
and the Los Angeles law-maker has not
yet ceased to be the object of general
congratulations.
Senator White informs me to-day that
the action of the Assembly is a virtual
assurance that the bill Will pass, and
tnat In very shert time. To this end
tne Senator will bend all his efforts. The
Dill now occupies position we'll down
on the second reading file OF tho Senate,
put | think it is the intention of Senator
White to substitute it on Monday for
another OF his bills, which he will with
draw.
Ii will be remembered that 5000, 900 is
70 De expended in the building of the
school, and Mr.. Damron says that one
OF the most desirable effects of its pass-
age VIII be the furnishing of employment
to the many unemployed laborers Of Los
Angeles.
THE oRANGE COUNTY BILL.
l have lately noticed a considerable
falling off of the opposition which was so
loudly expressed in the early days of the
session to the division of Los Angeles
county and the creation of the county of
Orange, as proposed by Assemblyman
Edwards bill, which recently passed the
lower house and is now pending in the
Senate. This is easily explained. When
the bill was first introduced there was a
great outcry against it in the city of Los
Angeles, and, indeed, throughout the
whole county of Los Angeles not in
GUIDED within the limits of the proposed
county OF Orange. The press of Los An
geles, believe, without exception, op-
posed the division proposition so strongly
that it was not considered among the
could ever be effected between the con-
tending factions.
The measure was daily discussed at the
capital, in the lobbies. at the hotels and
In many of the newspapers of the State.
Suddenly there was an apparent falling
off OF interest in the question, and subse-
quent investigation showed that num-
Der of Los Angeles people who had at
first most strongly opposed the bill, had
grown lukewarm, or lost interest in the
matter altogether. This revolution (for
it amounts almost to that) in the opin-
ions OF those most nearly interested in
the division of the county, was occa-
stoned, it is thought, by desire which
suddenly seized upon the people of the
City of the Angels for city and county
government. Colonel J. J. Ayers, who
spent several days at the Capital last
week, stated, in a conversation on this
question, that the people of Los Angeles
didn't care how the county was
divided, provided it be left in con-
venient shape for the formation of
city and county government. Oa the
heels OF this statement, from q gentleman
who is certainly to be considered
authority on the prevalent views of the
people of his city, comes telegram from
Los Angeles conveying the intelligence
that petition, signed by between fifty
and sixty of the most prominent business
men, bankers and others of Los Angeles,
has been forwarded TO the managers of
the Orange bill, praying for the division
OF the county as proposed by that
measure. The petition had not arrived
here at late hour tonight, but learn
| from the Orange people that it contains
thesnames of such prominent people as
ex-Mayor E. F. Spence, Hellman, Haas
& Co., Newmark & Co., and others of
like standing. have learned from an
other source, which ought to be rel able,
that the paper coming fn14n Los
Angeles is not in the shape
af a petition, but is simply
document conceding the equity of the
division proposition. 1t this be true,
which seems doubtful, (for it is not
likely that such a paper would be for
warded by men WHO are actually opposed
to the division of the county,, it is diff
cult to find an explanation of it other
than that suggested by certain disin-
terested Senator, who said that perhaps
the Los Angeles people, recognizing the
hopelessness OF their fight against divi-
sion, consider that the most graceful
thing they can do is to make some con-
cessions to the Orange people and thus
preserve peace in the family.
However this may be, the fact re-
mains that the Orange people, who have
been very busy, while their opponents
have been allowing the whole matter to
go by default, have succeeded in forming
combinations and gaining such strength
on the fioer OF the Senate as to success
fully stand off any opposition which
can be brought against them. This is the
situation as it stands to-day. 1t is possi-
BILE, of course, that change in the ex-
isting conditions may be effected before
the bill comes up for final passage.
The bill is now we'll down on the Sec
ond reading file, and it will be toward
the end of next week before it can be
raised under suspension of rules, which
can only be done by two-thirds vote of
the Senate. The particular combination
which gave the Orange people strength
was the joining of their forces with the
Colusa county divisionists. 1t is under
stood that the Glenn and Orange people
will stand in and vote solidly with each
other on all propositions affecting either
bill. They can develope twenty-four
votes in the Senate on full roll call,
more than enough to pass
| bill, but three votes short of
the number requisite to take
a measure up out of its regular order.
Thus, unless they gain new strength,
it will be some time before either bill can
pe taken up and passed. 1t must be
borne in mind that the foregoing is a
plain statement of the case as it now
stands. No man can tell what changes
may be wrought in the conditions later
on. Senator White is worth about half
dozen ordinary Senators when he is
turned loose on the floor of the Senate,
and it is expected that the fur will fly
when he opens up along the works of the
divisionists. If his oratory can crush
down the solid wall of pledged votes
which the opposition will set up as a
target, he will win otherwise the county
is almost certain to be divided. E. AP.