The record-union., 1891-03-18
LEGISLATURE -29FH SESSION.
Yesterdays Ballot Fails to Determine
the Senatorial Struggle.
Teachers Pension Bill Likely to Pass
Opposition to Items in the
Appropriation Bill.
SENATE.

SACRAMENTO, March II, 1891.
The Senate met at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Reddick in the
chair. Roll called and quorum present.
Prayer by the Chaplain. Reading of the
journal dispensed with.
Mr.. Heacock was granted leave to in
troduce bill providing for the appoint
ment of a person to take charge of the
archives in the custody of the Secretary
of State, and appropriating S5S3 SO to pay
the salary of such officer for the remain
der of the fiscal year.
The first special order was s. 3. 65S, re-
lating to official publications. [This is
the bill requiring that legal notices shall
not be published in any paper that has
not been in existence more than three
months.l The bill was passed-ayes %.
noes 0.
S. B. 345, to pay the claim of David
Kettlernan and S. V. Treadway, assign
ees of Mary Treadway and others, for
moneys Illegally paid to the State. Read
first time.
S. b. 666, relating to the printing and
use of State school books. Read second
time
S. B. 243, to pay the claim of Mrs. Mary
III Springer widow of e. A. Springer,
State Printer.
The bill was amended by Mr. Broderick
so as to strike out all relating to interest,
reducing the sum asked for from SIS, ,765
TO $S,532 80, and was then ordered re-
printed
S. B. go, relating to the cost of appeals
in certain eases. Passed.
s. b. 34S, to pay the claim of William
Darby. Passed.
S. B. 256, relative to the appointment of
State Sanitary Inspector. Passed-ayes
%, noes |.
Mr.. Fraser in the chairl
3. b. Cos, to pension school teachers,
gave rise to a long discussion. and the
character of some of the speeches made
against the bill seemed to indicate that
all the school teachers had been pen
stoned half a century ago and perma-
nently retired from service.
Mr. Mahoney moved to amend Section
of the bill by inserting the following:
W henever any attorney or counselor
at law shall become incapacitated from
pursuing his avocation, he shall likewise,
upon his application, be placed upon the
retired list, and shall be paid such an
amount of money as will equal the fees
and retainers he may have earned for the
year previous to his application to be
placed upon the retired list.''
Declared out of order.
Some slight amendments We're made to
tae bill, and it was ordered reprinted.
;. B. $50, to encourage cooperation and
to provide for the promotion of associa-
tioHs for the purpose of conducting busi-
ness and dividing the profits among the
members thereof, was refused considera-
ton under the urgency clause.
S. b. 199, to regulate the licensing.
and powers of detectives. Laid over till
Tomorrow
JOINT CONVENTION.
The Senate then went into joint con-
ventlon with the Assembly. to ballot for
United States Senator, and on returning
to the chamber took. a recess until 2:30
p. N.
Afternoon Session.
The Senate reassemDleCi at $50 p. NJ.
the President in the chair, and took up
for consideration the appropriation bill
On motion of Mr.. Dray the bill, together
with several small deficiency bills, were
made cases of urgency.
The Senate Finance Committee offered
fifty-three amendments to the bill, gem
orally increasing the sums allowed in the
original bill. The amendments were
nearly all adopted, and each involved
more or less explanation and discussion
When the clauses making various APP
preparations for the Bureau of Labor
Statlstlcs-aggregating some S15,000-
were reached, Mr.. Ostrom moved to
strike them all out, on the ground that
the cause of labor had never received any
benefit from that department
The motion was opposed by Messrs.
Crandall, simpson and Britt. The latter
asserted that the labor organizations of
the State understood the value of the
Labor Bureau and were in favor of it's
maintenance. 1t could not be msrin-
tanned without the appropriation ofmoney
therefore by the State.
The amendment was adopted
Mr.. Carpenter attacked the amendment
increasing the appropriation for the State
Board of Niticultpre from $40, 900 to $50 600.
He said that he had been informed by
prominent wine-makers that the board
was maintained in the interest of few
persons.
Mr.. DeLong explained that the COM
mission could not get along with less
than the usual sum, $4,000, and that
the Assembly reduction to $40 900 was too
little.
The amendment was adopted-ayes Is,
noes II.
A similar attack was made upon the
proposed appropriation of $4,000 for the
uses of the Forestry Commission, and an
amendment was offered to reduce the
sum to $40, 600, and it was lost.
The committee amendment to the Min
ing Bureau amendment proposed an in
crease from 600 to $4,000, and pro-
vided that so per cent. of the sum should
be expended for geological field work and
scientific research.
Mr. Ostrom moved to amend by reduc-
ing the sum from $4,000 TO $4,000.
Mr. Campbell of Siskiyou held that
there was no necessity for the proposed
geological research. as the sum allowed
was so small as to make the thing farce
1t would require 100000 to do any good
in that line. His district had been en-
tirely ignored in the matter
Mr.. Preston read petitions from promi-
nent miners of Nevada County asking
that the Mining Bureau be fostered, and
Mr.. Mead also spoke in its behalf.
Mr. IST.{y said the committee djSp0v-
cred that if the Mining Bureau was to be
continued at all, it could not be efficiently
maintained for less than S50,0o0 The
operations of the Forestry and other
commissions had been severely eriti-
cised, and he did not know but that it
would be best to abolish some of them
Still, until they were abolished, they
should be enabled TO accomplish some
thing of moment.
Mr.. Preston said it would be better
that the bureau be wiped out at one
stroke, rather than be slowly strangled
60 death.
After long debate the amendment Of
fered by MIR. Ostrom was lost by a vote
8 ayes to 26 noes.
Mr.. Campbell of Siskiyou then offered
to amend by making the appropriation
81, 600.
The Chair put the question on the adop-
ton of the committee amendment $50.
COO and it was adopted.
The item according to the committee
amendmentl appropriating 0,000 for the
State Agricultural Society, provoked con-
siderable discussion, and Mr. Carpenter
moved to make the sum S35, 600 fThe
assembly allowed S59, ,000.l
Mr.. DeLong, who is a member OF the
State Board of Agriculture, explained to