The record-union., 1891-03-24
Evening Session.


The House reassembled at 7:3O, the
Speaker in the chair.
Substitute for S. B. 52S, to pay the claim
OF John Mullan, for his commissions on
money collected by him from the United
States OH account of Indian war claims.
was lost. MIR. Matlock gave notice of a
motion to reconsider.
). B. 326, to provide for compiling and
distributing certain books of State
series OF school textbooks, came up, and
was indefinitely postponed.
The county government bill came up
with its burden of amendments. On mo-
ton Of Brown of Calaveras, the vote by
which the amendments were adopted was
reconsidered, and, on reconsideration, the
amendments were voted down amid
much confusion. Brown declared men,
bers had been given ample notice to get
their amendments in, and had DELAYED
till they had imperilled the safety of the
bill. The question being on the final
passage of the bill, the bill was passed by
ayes 81 noes 7.
The Committee of Conference having
failed to agree on A. B. 81, relating to
revenue and taxation, free conference
committee was appointed.
SENATE MESSAGES.
The.Senate having agreed to the action
OF the free conference committee on the
general appropriation bill, and sent the
bill-A. B. 56l-to the House, that BODY
concurred in the amendments, adopted
the report, and sent the bill, freighted
with so much of genuine labor, useful
and useless debate, to enrolment, and
thence to the Governor, who will doubt
less make it q law.
This was one more important step
toward adjournment. The bill, as finally
adopted, will be found in another column
of this issue.
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Funeral Directors, had been amended to
apply only to cities of over 10000 inhabit-
ants, and came up under special orders
1t was passed and Immediately transmit
ted to the Senate.
s. B. 375, authorizing the Attorney
General to dismiss certain actions pend
ing, in the Superior Court Of the City
and County OF San Francisco, was passed
by vote of ayes 40, noes0.
CLOSING FESTIVITIES.
On motion of Mr.. Dibble the House
took a recess of fifteen minutes, with
Shanahan in the chair.
Gould, Galbraith and Matlock were an
pointed q committee to produce the
Speaker at the bar of the House. Having
appeared, Mr.. Dibble in very pleasant
and cordial speech told the Speaker of the
warmth Of feeling of the members toward
him. Said Mr.. Dibble: 1--WE believe in
you, in your earnestness, your integrity
and your lucky star. We believe your
career is only just begun.' Mr.. Dibble,
on behalf of the House. presented Mr..
Coombs with very handsome gold watch
and chain.
Mr.. Coombs said he did not know if
any poet had ever said that man is by
nature a coward, but it is surely true.
especially when anything deeply affects
him. The speaker reviewed briefly the
two months of his association with the
hnr nd hn,, yaI
cordial cooperation that had helped him
in his arduous labors. He spoke most
feelingly of the tie which bound him to
his associates and thanked them in heart
felt words for the gift which he should
wear as long as he lived.
Messrs. Barnard, Lowe and Robertson
escorted the speaker pro tenn. Hon. Nestor
a. 4oung to the bar, and to him Mr. Mat
lock, in brief, but eloquently expressed
address, told of the high esteem, the re-
spect and the attachment he had inspired
in his associates during the time that he
had occupied the chair. He presented
him with a gold headed cane. Mr..
1oung's response was most happy one
and betrayed the emotion with which the
gift had inspired him.
General Mathews and Mrs. Dibble were
then deputized to bring Mrs. Coombs be-
fore the House. She was received with
applause. With all the grace and elo-
4iChCc "a d CiiNaIOUS General
Mathews presented the lady on behalf of
the House, with an exquisite ornament
for the hair or breast, solitaire diamond
star, with rays of small but very pure
brllllants, the whole set in a crescent of
pearls. Mrs. Dibble placed the sparkling
bit OF beauty in Mrs. Coombs' hair, and
that lady shyly but gracefully sum
moned her husband to respond for her.
This the Speaker did with much feeling.
DIR. Martin found Chief Clerk Mason
and brought him up to receive at the
hands OF his old friend, Mr.. F. II. Gould.
on behalf of the members, a pair of dia-
mond sleeve buttons. Mr.. Gould's little
speech was full of feeling and of appre-
citation for Mr.. Mason's character, and
Mr.. Mason's reply was one of the gems
of the evening. He concluded by sayine,
that when it should be his duty to cali
the hrst roll of the next Legislature, two
years from now, nothing could give him
greater pleasure than to begin as now,
I" Alexander, Ames, Arms" and so on
With the full list down to "Wolfskill.
Young and Mr.. Speaker" with not one
missing. lApplause.l
to Mr.. McKusick, the Sergeant Arms.
handsome gold-headed cane, and the
speeches of both were appropriate and
neat.
S. b. 554, to provide for work upon
streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places and
sidewalks, and for the construction of