Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14

sanguine of the success of his present
efforts for the benefit of the supernumer.
ary policemen Of the State.
The order of business was reached in
both Houses to-day, and when the intro
duction of bills was called for nearly
every member sprang to his feet and
offered from one to ten bills. All these
have been assigned to the proper COM
mittees, though, strange as it may seem,
these committees are only in prospective,
as they have not yet been appointed
Thus, as soon as the committees are
formed, they will find an abundance of
business on their hands.
The first bill to be passed by the
Senate will be that proposed by Senator
White for the appropriation of 1880. 80
for the payment of the funeral expenses
of the late Governor Bartlett. 1t will
not go to any committee, but will pass
by common consent.
SACRAMENTO, January 12, 1889.
As has already been intimated in these
letters, the people of the southern sec.
ton of the State may be justly proud of
their representatives in the present
Legislature. Not only is it strictly true
that the Los Angeles and San Diego del
egations are rated first in point of legis-
lative ability, but they have already
taken the front rank as the busiest men,
bers on the floor of either House. Your
correspondent found a condition of things
at the Capitol late last night which 30
happily illustrates this latter fact, that a
brief description of it may not be amiss.
At the hour of adjournment yesterday
at least six-tenths of the members of both
Houses had their grips packed ready to
take the afternoon trains for their various
homes or other points where they might
spend the time between now and the
reassembling of the Legislature on Mon
day afternoon more pleasantly than at
Sacramento. Of the four-tenths of the
peoples servants who remained in the
city great many spent their evening at
the Metropolitan Theatre others worked
the free list and witnessed nose-smash-
ing exhibition between two pugilistic
thugs at K street variety dive; few
others put in portion of the night at a
downtown faro bank, and others still
were scattered about on various missions
of pleasure at the States expense.
Learning these things, the first
question which confronted the cores
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are the members of the Citrus Belt delega-
ton" With view of satisfying him
self on this head, search was made
Diego was found at the Golden Eagle
Hotel, busily engaged on legislative mat
ters of his own and offering suggestions to
brother member from northern county
relative to the proper wording of bill.
/ Aco
trailed to his lodging house, where he
was engaged in debating to shorthand
clerk, (paid by himselD, replies to a
uents, and at the same time going
through a bundle of thirteen bills with a
blue pencil, after the style of city
Briefly was brought to light in the
ing to post himself on the merits and
demerits of the forthcoming measure for
| the taxation of the migratory bands of
sheep. Senator McComas and Assem-
blyman Damron we're both found discus
sing the interests of their constituents
and outlining their course on prospective
Stephen M. White stubbsrnly re.
fused to be discovered" At
last, however, and late at night,
when the reporter had about made up his
mind to have the river dragged for him, he
was found in No. 20, an out-of.the-way
place in an equally out.of- the-way corner
of the capitol building. Answering the
reporters knock the Senator appeared at
the door, hatless and coatless, his dis
heveled hair and beard giving him even
fercer look than that which character
ICES him when he is standing Off an
applicant for clerkship. at long
table, which was literally covered with
bills and petitions and resolutions and
memorials, and everything else in the
line of legislative documents, sat q for
lorn looking clerk. who seemed to be
wavering between the hope that the re-
porter was the bearer of a message call
ing the Senator away and the despair of
living to see the work before him cleared
up.
1t has come to be thoroughly known
among the committe clerks that clerk
snip under the Los Angeles Senator is by
no means a sinecure. "You needn't
look for anything soft on Whites COM
mittees," they say, "he'll make you earn
your salary!" And they speak the
truth. An incessant and wireless worker
himself, and an uucomprOmising sticlker
for the utmost fidelity to every trust and
obligation, he applies to others the un-
varying rule by which he governs him.
self; and as he is regared an authority on
all matters legal and parliamentary, and
as veritable master among hisf fellows
in the Senate as the teacher is master of
the pupils under his care. his rule will
be found later on to apply as stringently
to the most dignified Senator on the
floor, as it does to the most unimportant
attache under his control.
As far as the Republican leadership in
the Senate goes (and it must be con.
fessed that it doesn't go very far) it is
difficult to determine to whom it is likely
to be conceded. Thus far, it would
seem to be about "stand off, between
Heacock, Bowers and Wilson. The
first named of this Republican trio is
already termed the Great Objector, and
very appropriately, too, for since the
opening Of the session he has done little
but find fault with the manner in which
the patronage has been distributed. It
is said that at the beginning OF the ses-
sion Heacock thought himself capable of
demonstrating to the majority that the |
vaDquished we're entitled to slice of the |
spoils. 1t is needless to add that he has
not as yet made any very serious inroads
upon the old established political prin-
ciple that the victors only are entitled to |
the reward.
Bowers and Wilson, on the contrary,