The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-27
STOLEN THUNDER.
The Democrats Deprived Of
Campaign Material.
4 Republican Senator Forces Action on the
Ballot Reform Bill.
E1-Jud6e DibbleS HideOuS Eightmar6-Ya-
cation for Police Officers - The
Drug Measure Amended.
special to THE MoENINe CALI

the Ballot Reform Bill, the bill which
Judge Dibbe of the Assembly calls a con-
sprary He was determined that the Re
pubfTcans should have the credit of forcing
action upon the bill and he succeeded.
There was no opposition 10 the bill, if a
puerile effort ON the part of Campbell of
Solano, :. the workingman's FRIEND" be ex-
cepred. He thought or said he thought the
present system Of voting the best OF all
possible systems, and he would therefore
vote against the Australian bill He kept
his VOID. @but induced no one to follow his
example. The vote on the bill resulted,
ayes 50, no. !. The absentees were: Brod-
erick, Crandall, De Long, Fraser, Langford,
Streeter. NeQrhjes, G. Il. Williams, Wilson.
The bill was ordered to be transmitted to
the Assembly at once, but the news OF its
passage preceded il. and the creStfallen
friends of the measure began to be hopeful
again. while the Democrats saw their chance
Of charging the defeat Of ballot reform upon
tile Republicans rapidly growing less.
Dibble, 10 the surprise of all, and the
democrats in particular, moved that the
Senate message be taken up, and that ii and the
Assembly ballot bill be made 4 special order for
T. Monday al IL O'clock, aid The motion was car
Tied -"
THE DRUG BILL AMENDED.
-. TIE Assembly recoHsldered the bill defeated
yesterday. requiring all dealers tn drugs TO pass
, an examination before board Of pharmacists,
and passed IL after amending it so that any one
outside Of tile large cities Of tie State may sell
drugs, but none but licensed pharmacists may
coinmHnd physicians prescriptions
r. Tile Senate passed the bill creating Glenn
C.f,4
County, Dy a vote OF 20 TO IL. The bill now goes
d: 10 tne3G oteTnOr.
: The Assembly passed the bill authorizing
Boards Of Supervisors 10 give an annual vaca-
t{Gn=to members Of the police force also Makers
2 bill creating a Board OF Arbitration for the
settlement of disputes between labOrers and en-
: pioyefs.
70 .Ihe Senate passed as matter of urgency
:, Bill for The organization and government of
.leyee Districts for Tie protection of land from
t!e overflow Of uunaygable running streams,
and 10 connne such streams TO fixed chanlel.
Ehe passage OF such an act was rendered i'm
peraiive by the recent floods in Los Angeles
County.
- A majority of the members OF the Senate aud
Assembly nave signed petition to the President
asking him TO appoint w. W. Morrow Judge Of
The United States Circuit Court. ----'-'''
COST OF AN GNVEsTIG ALTON.
The Assembly investigation of the Doodle
charges. in spite OF public opinion 10 the con-
tray, was OF some importance to the State
S63S 20 woytn Of lmportance-as the following
p bill of expenses exhibits: Fremont Older George
p ID. Squters Fred W. SIowell and larry L. West
each 81 20 for witness fees. Two days and mile
age, Que mIei john Cholce witness fees, three
days aud mileage, TWO miles, Sc 40; John r.
Giascock, witness fees, TWO Gays, 81,
and mileage from Oakland, SIS 2o-S22 2Oi
W. W. Cannon, witness fees, four days,
S.. and mileage from Oakland twice
E4b 4tl-S44 i West Martin fees
two days "a, aud mileage from Oakland, SIS 20;
ditto Tor j. Z. McAy0y, Charles II. SVedr ana
seIgeant-ai-arms, serving subpenas, ana mile
age, SOS So; George L. Sbluu, Assistant ser
Reantat-arlns, serving subpenas 81, mileage 80
cents, service by teleg:duu 81, Tour nights at
tendance on committee IS, total Sl3 50; Luxe
kSanaHgh' [epcItns aGd tLa1 1s . es 81
Gents, Sl25; total 1891 20.
A NEW vAGRANT ACT.
- DE Longs VagTant act, which has passed the
Senate, was read second lime IN he Assembly
to-day. lutte effort was made TO strike OUT
tile euactInG Clause. Tie bill Will probably be-
come law. II provides every person except q
California Iudiam without Visible means Of
living who Is able 10 work and does not seek EN-
plOyueGt nor labor When employment Is offered
him, every healthy beggar who sOlicIiS aims a.
business; every tramp, every Idle or dlssolute
person or associate OF thieves VINO wanders
about the stree at late or unusual hours OF the
night, OF who lodges In any barn, shed. shop,
outhouse, vessel place other than such as
kept iOf lodging purposes, Without perm issIon OF
The owned; every leWd and dlssolute per- on W no
lives in aud about houses OF ill-fame and every
prostitute ana common drunkaTd IS a YagranI,
and punishable by Imprisonment in the County
jail not exceeding ninety days.
REGISTERING CHINESE.
. The bill providing Tor the exclusion. reg istra-
lion aud deportation OF Chinese WIS read Tor the
secUnd Tine IN lie Assembly tonight.
DIbble's BIN, making The publication Of adver-
. tlsemeats TO procure dIYOTEe a mlsdemeanor,
has been passed by both houses
The Senate la>sed The bill authorizing Peter
Connolly 10 Sue the city OF San Francisco tor
Sl67 l3l so, the principal of the amount due
. him fTomlhe city for opening and grading Mar
q. ket street from Valencia to Seventeenth.
The hill ior providing work for The unemployed
Senate tonight.
The Assembly passed the Senatorial and
Legislature appointment bills Tonight.
DIBBLE's DREAM
Boss Dibble-he says be is boss, and he ought
to kuoW-had an awful. a hideOus, terroI-
inspiring dream last night. He had The dream
about an hour after lie made the 81 eech that VIII
be printed IN big and ugly letters, aud stuck by
democratic suckers on every fence aud wall in
the Site Just before the next election; the
speech III which lie said the advocates of ballot
reform Qou-hfths OF the inhabitants of Cali
foTnial were fOreigneEs, cunspirators, anarchists
and dynamiters; the neyer-to be- forgotten speech
iR-wb.ch, with The hot b. cath Of hale, lie Dissed
defiance 10 the face of labor, and declared that
h., the paid servant Of the People, would oppose
and defeat his masters Will. He WAS sitting in
his big and comfortable mchair, placldly
blinking at the ire and going over in his mind
the great speech, when Morpheus entered and
chOked him of, just as HE ftiends Of ballot Te-
form are chOked of when they hit up their
voices In the Assembly OF California.
lie found himself lying, bound hand aud foot
on road that had neither beginning nor end
On either side great ellis lowered upward. and
near tneir lofty summit held suspended above
bis head huge bowldeT That swayed and trem =
bled a. II Impatient TO Te.-ase itself from the
grasp oil the gray walls aud huTl Itself upon the
while upturned face OF the prisoner below. A
great tear fell upon him, binding his soul TO
despair The cnains bound his body to the
hlniy rock. Something tolo him that The rock
was gong 10 fail, and lie struggled Hereby TO
be Tree; but as lie struggled lie saw that the rock
struggled also, and he gasped with horror and
WAS still
HORROR UPON HORROR.
Then there came TO his ears Tie sound OF ad-
Vancing feet, the low monoIonOIs tramp, tramp
OF a coming army that would pass over him and
crush him In o the earth. In moment the van
guard appeared, aud the march over his body
commenced. BE saw 10 his SUI prise that there
were farmers and clergymen, doctors and law
yeis, ia6oreTs and mechanics In tile thrOng. lie
recognized men OF noble mind and pure hearts.
be saw honest merchants and intelligent
mechanics, and lie Tell their feet He observed
that every breast bore the red regalla OF the com
mpDe. and that every mouth beloved for ballot
reform. Then there came legion OF The veterans
OF the Grand Army of the Republic, but they
had lie faces OF foreigners, and they swung their
clutches and Haunted their empty sleeves above
him, aud some OF item saBg The songs OF old Ire
land, and some sang tie songs OF tile Rhine, and
some Shouted the e. cat anthem that free france
sang as the Bastile tOltered aud fell. Pm afraid
mdue ulislahc, biButu Tile QfedInert Lnese
foreigners that / put beneath me fought and
bled for land OF their adoption, while l only
fouehl for the land Of my forefathers. Am 1
better than they2'
When the gr at army had passed away he saw
Win lnhuite terror that the rock on which the
words public OPINION" blazed out was descend
Ing upon him. His body was agltated with 4
fhudder ana lie aWoke.
"a funny dream, that" be muttered, "but
not veiy funny dream. 1 wonder whether this
char Ia siufed With electric volts, or what's the
matter, anyway?
Then in the cold, gray light OF common sense
he went over his great speech again, and began
70 Wish that some one else had spoken it-a Dem
oerat. for instance.
GoULD's MOTION DEFEATED.
The hrst thing this morning Gould moved that
unfinished business be taken up.
:" What's the unfinished business?" asked
Dibble.
why, the motion made last night that the
Bailot-reform bills be taken up"
elf you do that I'll have consideration of the
bills Indefinitely postponed" replied Dlbble
But Gould did IL, and just as soon as he did 1t
motion was passed that his motion be tabled.
Ayss-Alexander, Barnard, Barnett of San
francisco. Barnett Of Sonoma, Baughman,
Brown, Bruner, Bryant. Cargill, Carter. Cofey,