Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-13
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
xxvIIlrH IlrHsEssIoN-THIRrY-sEvENrHDA DAY.
SENATE.

! The Senate met at 10 A. NJ, President pro tenn.
| in the chair.
Roll called and quorum present.
| Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. A. c. Bane.
| Journal of yesterday read and approved.
Nj. Wilson in the chair.
Mofitt reported from the Committee on City,
| City and County and Town Governments sub |
stitute for the so-called Vrooman Act.
Heaeook presented petition signed by 6,770 |
| persons asking for the passage of Sunday law. |
IRRIGATION BILLS
The special order for the hour was the follow |
| ing amendments TO the so-called Wright irriga |
| ton law:
| A b. 335, amendatory and supplemental to an I
| Act to provide for the organization and govern
ment OF irrigation districts and to provide for |
the acquisition of water and other pro perty, and
for the distribution of water thereby for irriga-
| ton purposes, providing for the exclusion of |
| certain lands within any such district.
| A. B. $40, amendatory and supplemental to an |
! Act to provide for the organization and govern
ment of irrigation districts and to provide for |
the acquisition OF water and other property, and
| for the distribution of water thereby for irrga-
| ton purposes, and providing for change of |
the boundaries of irrigation districts by includ-
| ing other lands therein.
| Substitute for A. B. l3O, to amend Sections 10.
| % and 27 of an Act TO provide for the organiza-
tion and government OF irrigation districts, and
| to provide for the acquisition of water and |
| other property and for the distribution of water
thereby for irrigation purposes, relating 10 ap-
| pointment to office in case of vacancies and to
assessments of real property, and to the collec-
| ton of such assessments.
Caninetti presented a report from the Com
mittee on Irrigation, stating that ON Friday |
evening last. pursuant TO notice, the committee
| held joint meeting with the Assembly Com
mittee ON Irrigation, and heard arguments on |
the merits of the bills with the result that they
unanimously recommend the passage of the |
bills without amendment
| The bills were read a third time and passed.
Pres dent pro TEN. in the chair.
| Numerous bills were reported back from COM |
| miItees and placed on the file.
| Ihe committee on Corporations reported back |
| fayorably the bill to ''cinch" the cable roads |
| in San Francisco.
The Commit e on Judiciary reported sub |
stitute for Csminetti's bill to raise the pay of |
| clerk in the State Treasurers office, which |
was reported adversely from the same COM
| mittee.
S. B. 4l6 providing for the assessment of all |
real property in the name OF the owner, as |
| shown by the records of deeds and transfers in |
! the several counties motion of its |
| author Bowers. re-committed to the Judiciary |
| Committee.
SCOTT EXCLUSION ACT.
| The Senate took up and passed the following |
concurrent resolutions, which were reported by |
the Committee of Conference of the two houses |
as a substitute for S. G. K. 4
Resolred, by the Senate of the State of Califor |
MIA, the Assembly concurring, That we fully in |
dorse the action of Congress and of the Presi- |
| dent in the enactment of the measure known as |
the colt Exclusion Bill. That in behalf of the |
parties, we ask the Government of the United |
States, in all of its branches to rightly enforce
| the provisions of said law.
| Resotred, That we respectfully memoTialize |
Congress and the President of the United states
to concur in the enactment of such additional |
| legislation as will make said Restriction Act |
| Chinese into the United States over the Ca |
| madam and Mexican borders. To this end we |
| respectfully but earnestly recommend that, if |
necessary, treaties be entered into between our
| Government and the Governments of Mexico |
ana Great Britain to prevent the violation of the
| sal / restriction law by the transit of Chinese |
| through Mexico ana Canada into the United
| States.
ResoEUed, That au experience of forty years has
| proven that the concession to the people of
| China of the rights and privileges OF the most
| favored nations was mistake and that the re-
ception within our borders of non-assimilat
ing class is an evil unmltigated by a single real
| benefit 10 the citizens of the Republic.
| Resotred, That our Senators in Congress be in
structed and our Representatives requested to
present this concurrent resolution to the Senate
aud House of Representatives OF the United
| States.
Resolred, That his Excellency, the Governor,
be requested to immediately forward by tele
graph, a copy of this resolution to each of our
Senators and Representatives in Congress.
ASSEMBLY MESSAGES.
The Assembly messages were taken up and
| bills referred to the proper committees
| =. b. 10, providing for the appointment
| of five Supreme Court Commissioners, had
been amended in the Assembly by making
| their term of office four years instead Of
! two. Although the two year limit had been
put in the biil after long debate in the Senate,
without objection. The senators who had so
| loudly demanded that the limit be placed in
the bill were all silent.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
Bills were introduced, read by title and re
| ferred as follows:
| By Byrnes-To readjust the salaries of County
Superintendent of Schools, and more fully de-
fine their duties. Committee on Education.
BY Langford-To provide for a Board of State
| Drainage Commissioners, and for the orgauza-
ton OF drainage and reclamation districts.
| Committee on Swamp Lands
By Boggs-To pay the claim of w. +. Beyal,
for expenses incurred in the extradition of W.
| s. Yelling. Committee on Claims.
| BY Hinshaw-To provide for the ieyying and
collection OF taxes in all school districts except
ing in cities of the first second. third and fourth
classes Committee on Judiciary.
BY Dixon (by requsstl-To authorize the Com
missioners to manage the Yosemite Valley and
Mariposa Big Trees to lay out and cause the
const uctiop of a road to connect Yosemite
valley with Mono Lake. Committee on Yo
semile.
BY Pinder-To amend the Civil Code, in rela-
ton to assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Judiciary Committee.
BY Caminetti--To wi hdraw from entry and
sale the State school lands in every township in
California. Committee Jn Forestry.
| Also making appropriation for the salary
of the book-keeper of the State Treasurer
Judiciary Committee
Also, to amend Section CSC of the Political
Code, relating 10 the salary of the book-keeper
OF the State Treasurer. Judiciary Committee.
| by Dray-Io amend Section loo OF the county
government bill. providing for the payment of
the travelling expenses of the County Superin-
tendent of Schools. Committee on Counties,
1
| TONS
BY wilson-To provide for the appointment of
a Boarl of commissioners of penal and charita-
Bile institute )ns, defining their duties and pow
ers ana prescribing their compensation. Com
mittee on STATE Prisons
| BY Preston 10y reQnest)-To amend the Act
authorizing the incurring of Indebtedness by
municipal corporations. judiciary Committed.
Meany was permitted to withdraw the peti-
tion ior the repeal of the Wright irrigation
| bill.
The matter of the same bill being passed in
both houses came up again, it being aseer.
tanned that the Assembly had gone on and
passed Assembly bills when ii had in its pos
session Senate bills which were identical.
BILLS PASSED.
The third reading of the fle~was taken up
snd the following bills passed:
B. IS, TO add new section to the Penal
Code to be numbered Section sos, relating to
barbed wire fences on public highways
| 5 d. l52 to amend lode of Civil Procedure
and TO add new section thereto to be known
as Section l65i relative TO the rendering, filing,
| hearing, and settling final accounts of deceased
| executors and adm Illustrators
5. B. zS3 to pay the claim of J. J. Lynch.
| ). =. 24 TO pay the claim of c. ". Bumbalgh.
:, b. 20, to pay the claim of James Touhey.
Afternoon Session.
The Senate re assembled at 1:s0 p NJ, Presi.
cent pro TEN. in the chair.
GALLAGHER's cLAIu
s: B. $50, to appropriate money 10 pay the
claim OF E NJ. Gallagher for painting and
1
which work was performed on said asylum
nnder written contract, came up on motion of
Wilson to reconsider the vote by which the
Senate yesterday refused TO pass the bill. At
his requestth the motion to reconsider was made
the special order for Thursday Immediately
after the reading of the journal.
Il BILLS PASSED.
The following bills were read third time and
| passed
| 5. B. ?se, to reimburse the Japanese Govern
ment for money expended in the capture and
extradition of Calvin Pratt, a fugitive from
justice OF this State
5. 3. 2Ss 10 pay the claim Of John A. Cole
3 Is, 2Se, to pay the claim of Charles L.
| Hughes. -
$. 2i0, 10 pay the claims for draping the
State Capitol on the occasion of the death Of the
| late Governor Bartlett
5. B. l6l, 70 provide for the payment of the
controller OF states warrants which have been
lost or destroyed previous TO payment by the
State Treasurer.
8: b. 2z6. 70 amend Section 49i Of the Penal
Code Of me state OF California, relating to dogs
| and the larceny thereof
:; B. :,oi, to amend Section l64 of the Civil
marriage.