Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-30
STATE LEGISLATION.
An Arsenal and Gun Factory
PetitiOned for.
GLENN AND ORANGE COUNTIES
The Special Committee on the
Yosemite Investigation Re-
fused in the Assembly.

Yosemite Investigation Re-,
fused in the Assembly.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD
SACRAMENTO, January 29.-The Senate
this morning made the resolution ap-
proving the Stockton Charter the special
order for next Tuesday.
New bills were introduced as follows:
By Langford, providing for appoint
ment of committee and appropriatiDg
money for the reception OF the National
Grange.
By Powers, establishing Pilot Com
missioners and pilot regulations for the
harbor of San Francisco.
By Wilson, to pay the claim of j. W.
Rankin for services in the State Treas
urer's office; also bill to prevent the
mutilation or obllteration of trade marks.
By Spellacy, creating an Inspector of
Canneries to verify the purity of goods;
also bill prohibiting the issuance of
licenses to persons not eligible to
citizenship.
By Briceland, to repeal the act declar-
ing the Klamath river navigable.
BY Caminetti. to enable women to vote
fer all school officers, and to hold school
offices.
By McComas, to provide for the burial
of Union soldiers and sailors who die in
poverty.
By Preston, to establish State Reform
School.
By Goucher, providing for the lessen
ing Of salaries of Mariposa county Off
cials.
Owing to the neglect of the engrossing
clerks in not engrossing bills for the third
reading, this order Of business was de-
ferred.
On motion of Wilson, of San Francisco,
committee, consisting of Murphy, Jones
and Wilson, was appointed to Investigate
the conduct of the enrolling clerks. Re-
cess was taken.
The Senate passed the following bills
this afternoon: Providing punishment
for seduction and repeating the sections
of the Code OF Civil Procedure relating
to the disabilities of married women !;
relating to the cancellation of school dis
trict bonds; fixing the time when infor-
nations are to be filed on indictments
found to amend the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure relating to the duty of the court
in probate cases; to amend the Penal
Code relating to appeals to the Supreme
Court in criminal cases, and relating to
cases where such appeals may be taken !;
to amend the code of civil procedure re-
lating to unlawful detainers; to provide
for the deficiency in the appropriation for
the salary OF the Deputy Reporter of the
decisions of the Supreme Court during
the first eleven months of the thirty.
ninth fiscal wear making an appropria.
tion for the State Board of Forestry for
the thirty-eighth fiscal year.
The Assembly amendment to the Sem
ate concurrent resolution supporting the
Scott Exclusion bill was rejected and
the resolution sent back to the Assem-
bly,. The second reading of bills con-
sumed the time to adjournment.
THE ASSEMBLY.
SACRAMENTO, January 29.-In the As
sembly this morning, the Judiciary Com
mittee presented two reports on the Sem
ate joint resolution approving the Oak
land charter. The majority recommends
the passage of the resolution, and tho
minority, composed of Solomon, Lowe,
Hyde and Tullv, are opposed thereto.
Solomon offered concurrent resolu-
tion calling upon California's represent
atives in Congress, in the light of the
Samoan difficulty and the prospects Of
war, to exert their influence to have a
government arsenal and mandatory for
heavy ordnance established in this State
The resolution was adopted and imme-
diately transmitted to the Senate.
The following bills were passed: Pro-
viding assistants for San Diego District
Attorney; act to amend the Penal Code
concerning orders made by the Superior
Court for special Grand Jury.
When the Assembly reconvened this
afternoon joint resolution providing for
the election of United States Senator
was made the special order for business
tomorrow morning.
A great many bills were read for the
first time in accordance with the notice
given yesterday. Sewell moved to re-
consider the vote whereby it was agreed
that a special committee of four be ap-
pointed to act in conjunction with the
committee on the Yosemite Valley, in
the matter of the investigation Of the
Yosemite Com missioners. Reconsdera-
tion was granted and special committee
was refused. Briefly, of San Francisco,
offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Committee on Cour-
ties and County Boundaries be instructed
to Immediately return to the Clerk of the
Assembly the petitions for the forma-
tion of the county of Glenn and the coun-
ty Of Orange, and that 500 copies of each
be printed for the use of the Assem- bly,.
Adopted.
The remainder of the afternoon was
occupied in reading the bills on the gen.
eral file.
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