Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-16

passed.
The vote by which the State Printer
bill was passed over the Governors veto
was reconsidered, and the bill was passed
again by vote of SO to Is.
Brierly's constitutional amendment,
making the Lieutenant-Go TO take
the place of the Board of Examiners and
putting his salary at 81 900, was carried
by 67 votes. Damron's amendment,
relative to to the taxation of mortgages,
received 46 ayes and 20 noes.
When the House reconvened this af-
ternoon, Shanahan presented mass OF
testimony taken before the Ways and
Means Committee in the State Prison
Investigation. The committee find that
the books at the San Quentin prison are
Improperly kept that the accounts of the
jute mills are irregularly kept, a part Of
the day output being credited to the
night output, with a view to bolstering
up the latter; that Warden Nc
Comb does not confine himself
to the amount to which he is
restricted for household expenses; that
drunkenness, gambling and tratficking in
liquors are INDUCED in by the guards
and officers; that prisoners have been
allowed to leave the prison to labor upon
the officers private possessions; that the
supplies are inferior to what the contracts
call for and that partisanship is factor
in the management of the prison; that
the expenses have greatly increased over
those of previous administrations that
the officers are arrogant and overbearing
10 those under them, and that the War
den is negleetful in inspecting the prison !;
that many letters written by Warden
McComb, and acknowledged to be genu-
inc, are entirely devoid of any ex-
pressions of anxiety for the betterment
of the condition of the prisoners
or the best interest of the prison; that
they disclose arevengefrd disposition and
tho committee condemns their author as
unworthy of public trust, and that the
letter alleged to have been written by
John McGomb, Jr., is not in his hand
writing The committee sum up: That
the past management of San Quentin has
been unreservedly bad, and that the adj
ness for the position he occupies. The
committee deems it marvel that the
bad management should have remained
30 long concealed. Its present condition
is reflection upon the commercial hon.
esty of the authorities that permit it, and
unless the powers which have sustained
Warden McComb are brought to bear to
secure his prompt dismissal, in the
minds of an offended people they will
share in the odium which attaches itself
to his management of great public
trust. The report is signed by Shana-
han, White, Hurst, Storke, Ostrom and
Mathews.
AT the evening session the Assembly
passed bills as follows: Assembly bill,
relating tn the reclamation of certain
lands, applicable to certain lands within
municipalities; Senate bill, relating to
preferred purchasers for lands sold to the
State for taxes; Senate bill, making ap-
preparation for the payment of discount
on warrants for water supplied to the
State Prison at San Quentin by the Mar
in County Water Company for three
years; Senate bill, to appropriate money
for the survey, location and construction
of free wagon road from the town of
Mariposa to the Yosemite Valley; Senate
bill, TO authorize the Board of State Har-
bcr Commissioners to construct railroads
over q State lands and lands within
their jurisdiction along the water front
line of the city and county of San
Francisco and to regulate the use of the
same Senate bill to provide for compil-
ing, illustrating, electrotyping, printing,
binding, copy-writing and distributing an
elementary book on civil Governmentfo for
the State series Of school text books; Sen
ate bill relating to the settlement of the
accounts of the trustees after the distri-
button of the estates and to the compen-
sation of the trustees. For the remuner-
alton of the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation Company for merchandise lost in
the Bay of San Francisco by the falling
through of the rotten wharf under con-
troll Of the State Harbor Commissioners;
Senate bill in relation to property ac-
quired after marrisge Senate bill
to amend the Act entitled an act to pro-
vide system of irrigation to promote
rapid drainage and improve the naviga-
tion of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers.
The bill making telegraph companies
common carriers, which passed in the
Senate, and the verbal amendments
were concurred in by the Assembly.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 10, concurrent resolution amending
Sections Is and 10, Article ", OF the
Constitution, we're unanimously adopted
the Senate bill to provide for the altera-
ton of the boundaries OF, and for the
annexation of territory to incorporate
towns and cities and for incorporation of
such annexed territory, was passed.
Shanahan, of Shasta, introduced the
tax levy bill in the Assembly this even
ing, calling for something over 81, 500 900.
The action taken to-day makes ad-
journment tomorrow probable. By call
ing in the assistance of outside printing
offices, the necessary work of printing
engrossed and enrolled bills can be done.
Three or four Assemblymen left town to-
day, and other mem bers of both Houses
are getting restless. Many say they will
not come back next week.
Commissioners Appointed.
SACRAMENTO, March l5.-The Cover
nor to-day appointed Harvey Lindley, j.
L. Lowe and Josiah Sims a commission