Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-07
CaptIeI correspondence.

Special correspondence VI thS hbhAGb'l
SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO
March 4, 1889.
Under resolution adopted on Friday
of last week, allowing each Senator, as
his name was reached on a call of the
roll, to withdraw any bill he had on the
file, and substitute any other therefor,
the Orange County bill was ''boosted"
toward the front end of the file by over a
hundred and fifty numbers. On SAtur,,
day night the bill was read the second
time, and to-day itshows up on the third
reading file, number 34 1t will probably
be reached at to-night's session, II not
this afternoon, and passed. AS | stated
in previous letter to the HERALD, the
divisionists have demonstrated on sew
eral recent occasions that they are fully
prepared to overcome any opposition
which may be brought against their
measure, and for this reason, 1t is
thought, it will not be antagonized at
any future stage. By tomorrow it will,
| in all probability, have passed the Sem
ate, and be awaiting approval in the
Governors Office.
DIVISION OF CoLUSA COUNTY.
Similar tactics to those employed to
advance the Orange bill, and many
others on the Senate file, were used III
bringing about an early consideration
| of the Glenn county division bill. For
weeks Senator John Briggs has smiled
| in his sleeve in the happy belief that the
| Glenn bill could never be lifted from its
t'tail end" position on the file OF
| the Senate, and would thus fail of
| passage at the present session. The sub
stitution resolution, therefore, under
which SO many important bills have
been raised, found bitter opponent in
| the Colusa Senator. There were too
many votes against him, however, and
he fell by the wayside. The Glenn bill
has been made special order for to-mor-
row morning, when it will be read the
second time and set for final considera-
| ton on an early day. Some weeks ago
an arrangement was entered into be-
| tween the Glenn county and Orange
county managers whereby each was
bound to aid the other. This added con-
siderable strength to both bills, placing
them almost entirely beyond all fear of
opposition.
| X. f. Kelly, the brains of the Glenn
county faction, is one of the shrewdest
politicians on the coast. Though he is
not so we'll known throughout the State
as the San Francisco bosses, he is con-
ceded, even by many of the most ardent
admirers of Buckley and Higgins, to be
the peer, if not the superior of either of
them in point of political long-headed-
ness and organizing ability. Nothing
has attracted anything like as much at
tention during the past session of the
Legislature as the fight for the division
of Colusa county, and Kelly's victory is
regarded as all the more remarkable
since the Colusa county representatives
in both Houses have been from the
opening day of the session strenuously
and unalterably opposed to division.
The Senator and Assemblyman from any
as indeed they are the author
lied mouth-pieces of the people of
that county, and the strongest argument
against any proposed legislation that it is
possible to urge, is the fact that the rep
opposed to it. Boss Kelly, therefore,
found himself doubly handicapped when
he took lis bearings atthe opening of the
session for Hart, in the Assembly,
swore that the bill should never reach a
| bSCOuQ Lcdulus III L1db Iluub0, anu DOSgS,
in the Senate, vowed and declared that
he would lay all his other business aside,
if need be, and bury the Glenn bill for
ever from the sight of mortal eyes, if by
any hook or crook it ever got into the
| Upper House. During all his political
career the shrewd old Colusan
has never met such crush
ing defeat as the present one.
The shock has been great one, and its
effects are plainly, nay painfully. visible.
A month ago the Senator from Colusa
was one of the liveliest members on the
floor. He was as frisky and as full of
merriment as lamb at play. Chock
full of odd conceits and ticklish fancies
was Boggs, and it was the delight of his
soul to enter into an occasional jocu-
lar clash of tongues with President
White and other Senatorial wits.
Alas great change has come over the
old man; his spirits have been dam
pened, his hitherto brilliant intellect has
been clouded. He is to-day a very
shadow of his former self, and as he
ambles mechanically up and down the
legislative halls, with darkened brow and
eye bent on vacancy, he reminds one of
saloon transparency with the light
blown out. Kelly has knocked him into
the sweet used-to-be, and he will never
be his dear, delightful self again.
E. A. P.