The record-union., 1891-03-13
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sembly special file was taken up, and A.
B. 10, relating to the incurring of indebt-
edness by cities of the fifth class, was taken
up and passed.
Substitute for A. B. $50, appropriat-
ing money for the Whittier Reform
School. Passed.
4. B.670, to define the boundary of Levee
District No. 6, in Sutter county. Read
second time.
A. B. 747, appropriating $4,000 for the
relief of Agnes Lynch, widow of Hugh J.
Lynch, who lost his life at San Quentin
while in the service of the State.
On motion of Mr. Voorhies, the bill
was declared a case Of urgency, read three
times and passed.
THE RoCKLIN QUARRY AGAIN.
A. 3. 235, authorizing the Governor and
Surveyor-General to sell and convey the
States interest in certain lands.
Mr.. Fraser offered an amendment eX-
empting a quarter section of land in
Placer County, or giving the occupants
thereof the preference as purchasers.
This tract embraces certain granite quar-
ries, and was returned to the State by the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, and
is the particular property aimed at in
the bill.
The amendment was declared adopted,
and Mr.. Britt moved its Immediate re-
consideration.
discussion, from which it appeared that
the original bill would give TO Mrs.
Quinn, the widow of a former quarry
man, the preference in purchasing the
entire tract. 1t was held by Mr.. Dray
and Mr.. Fraser that the other persons liv-
ing on the land had as equitable rights as
Mrs. Quinn to the land, and that the
amendment would secure her in all her
rights.
Mr.. Langford declared the original bill
to be q fraud upon the State-that there
were from twenty to thirty occupants of
the land, While Mrs. Quinn did not live
there He did not believe the bill was
introduced from honest motives.
Mr.. Britt said he believed the bill to be
Just and righteous one, and that all the
lobbying in regard to it had been done by
its opponents.
Mr.. Campbell ofSolano vigorously sup
ported the motion to reconsider, and de-
clared that Mrs. Quinn was Justly en-
titled to the land by purchase from the
State, she having paid taxes on it for
twenty years.
Mr.. Langford said the land cost the
State S205, 900, and denied that Mrs. Quinn
had paid the taxes thereon, but that they
had been paid by other occupants of the
land.
Mr.. Campbell here sent to the desk a
paper handed him by Mrs. Quinn, being
a copy of certain receipts for taxes paid
by her on portions of the property.
Mr.. Dray said the matter, as it stood,
could safely be left with the Governor
and Surveyor-General to settle. Under
the amendment adopted Mrs. Quinn
would get fully three-tourths of the land,
but other persons having their little
homes in the outskirts of Rocklin would
be protected in their rights.
Mr.. Goucher said that two years ago he
investigated the matter, and became salts
fed that all the equities in the case were
on the side of Mrs. Quinn. During the
course OF his remarks Mr.. Goucher re-
terred TO the illusions that had been
made to lobby influences in connection
with various bills. The papers had
teemed with insinuations that members
votes on most bills were governed by cor
rupting influences. If q member voted
for any certain bin, he was charged with
having been bought, and if he voted the
other way the same charge was made. The
man who allowed himself to be intimi-
dated by these charges was coward.
The motion to reconsider the vote by
which the Fraser amendment was adopted
was lost by vote of Is ayes to 10 noes,
and the bill was ordered reprinted.
SENATE URGENCY FILE.
6 n. 800. for the protection of owners of
hotties and other packages used in the
manufacture of certain beverages. The
object of the bill is to prevent bottles be-
longing to manufacturers from being sold
to j1nE dealers or others. The bill was
corrected and ordered reprinted.
S. B. III. relating to the salaries ano
duties of Clerks of Police Courts in cities
of so. COO and less than l0O,0O0 inhabitants.
Read second time,