The morning call., 1891-01-29

made in the House this session pleaded the
tOilers' cause. Judge pibble. Shanahan:
Gould and Doty reminded those who would
kill the bill that they we're paying men now
on public work So per day for doing moth
ing. The hit was applauded. StaDler spoke
in opposition to the bill. He did not think
the State should fix wages. Dennis. the
humble mechanic who introduced the bill,
had little eloquence to offer up in its behalf,
but when he said that the men who came
there and asked $4,000 to buy bug and OBJ
jected to paying the poor laborers OF the
State enough to live upon did so with
very i'll grace, be struck the popular key.
Mordecai withdrew his motion and an
amendment to include corporations enjoying
State franchises, made by Renfro, was
passed unanimously and the bill was ordered
to third reading.
Byrnes has introduced bill in the Senate
for the creation OF the county of Riverside,
formed out of parts of San Diego and San
Bernardin0 counties.
Bailey has brought in the Senate bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the remuneration of
Bartolo Sepulveda, who was unlawfully i'm
pTisOned for two years.
DEALINGS IN FUTURES.
Senator Wilson. in the interest OF the
Farmers Alliance and against the interest
of certain gentry, who will say upon hearing
of it, "a plague onyour alliances, has intro
duced bill the purpose of which is made
manifest in the following section: 1t
shall be unlawful for any corpoi alton, So
ciety or association, person or persons to
keep within this State store, Office or other
place wherein is conducted or permitted the
pretended buying or selling Of grain, pork,
lard or any mercantile. agricultural product
or bonds or shares of stock of corporations
on margins without the Intention OF future
delivery"
SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH.
Senator Henry Clay Wilson. the grizzled
granger representing CuluSa and Tehama,
made speech this afternoon that never will
be forgotten by those who heard it. 1t was
on the resolutions calling on Congress to
adont Stanford's loan schemes, both of
which went through AS it was intended they
would, and the speech went through with
the double accompaniment Of laughter and
applause. Alter telling in trembling tones
OF the wrongs the farmer bears on account
of the existing financial system lie said: {" Is
this not shameful? AMI the men who did
this great wrong are such men as John
Sherman and Grover Cleveland. 1 arralgn
here to-day both the Democratic leaders and
the Republican leaders for the past quarter
of a century as being false TO the people and
as the tools of the RothSchildS. There are
exceptions, like that grand old man Thur
man of Ohio, who ought to have been nGmi-
mated for President in 1854; and now be-
cause Leland Stanf0rd-seeing this dis
tresSed condition of the people and know
ing from experience and participation III
the benefit of Government aid, rich and
Opulent by the viii and power OF the peo-
pie, ripe in years and DESTROYS TO leave a
name that will be blessed rather than
curSed-comeS to the front and advocates
the loaning of producers money direct on
their lands and products, we hear the cry
go up from subsidized papers and the
threats CT the packs of hounds these legal
lied bodies always keep to run down all
who oppose them that This is only rail-
road schemep that No good can come
from Nazareth! and so on to the end
WEIGHS PILOT BILL.
The Committee on Commerce and Navi-
CATION recommended Welch's bill providing
that all decisions of the Pilot Commissioners
touching the revocation of the licenses of
pilots and Tefusals to appoint pilot are
are tnal, and without the right of review or
appeal to any court Of law, but the board,
in its discretion, may grant a rehearlng.
Welch's bill reducing pflotage fees and lim-
iting to $50 for tOwage TO and from any port
on the bay was also recommended.
The House Committee on Claims recon-
mended the passage of an act appropriating
S1645 to pay the claim of William Guten-
berger for the loss of tools and property at
Folsom Prison. The committee will report
adversely on the claim of the heirs of Mi
chael Curran TO be relieved from the pay
ment OF bond to the State, conditional for
tile faithful performance of the duties of
the office OF Clerk OF the Supreme Court by
J. W. Mccarthy.
a delegation from the advocates of the
creation of Glenn County appeared with
the opponents Of the scheme before the
County Government Committee, which
heard the advocates aud will hear the oppo-
nents tomorrow.
A joint meeting of tie Irrigation commit
tees will recommend the act creating a State
Association of Irrigation Districts and a
State Board of Irrigation Commissioners to
control them.
PUBLISHING DELINQUENT TAX LISTS.
A bill will be introduced in both Houses
providing that if assessments are not made
In any year they may be made thereafter
with like effect, and that instead of publis H.
ing the entire list of delinquents Of a dis.
trict the list may be published in any county
and need only contain such property may
be III that county, thereby saving much ex-
penSe.
The Senate Election COMMITTEES took up
the several balloI-reform laws tonight and
with the assistance of ex-Judge Mcguire be-
gan to evolve from them one that would
have all the best features of the Australian
law, with such additions as the States using
that law have found advisable. The COM
mittee will meet nightly until the work is
accom- lished.
THE EAKLE-CAMBELI. CONTEST.
The Eakle-Cambell contest was continued
before the Election COMMITTEES of the
Assembly this evening. An effort was
uldue ny al attorney lOf Edktl 10 snow Tn I
money had been used by CanptelPs men for
the purchase of votes, but the introduction
OF such testimony was strongly opposed by
the other side. Clarke of YOlo said that il
looked to him as if both men had perp4-
trated fraud and If such was the case he
had not much sympathy for either Of them.
The committee Is expected to report to-mor-
row.
The Senate Boundary Committee met this
evening to consider the Coiusl County
division. Tbs same old testimony was gone
over with as brought out in the previous
fight.
TILE FIRE DEPARTMENT REORGANIZATION
Colonel Dan Burns. whose button holes
are showing signs of wear, was here to-day,
and it is said plum tree Will soon be
shaken. The bill to extinguiSh Buckley S
Fire Department did not come back from
the committee to-day, and leading member
OF the San francisco delegation says that
when it does come it will be recommitted
and possibly reconstructed, and this another
member of the delegation intimates means
thst the question of supremacy between thu
20 oneI and Crimmins is to receive its qui-
etus. But this last authority is of the opin-
ion that Little Phil isn't in it, and there are
others who think likewise.
Campbell, whose appointment by Water.
man Markham withdrew, is in town Oh
strictly private" business, The Prison
Directors are TO meet here on Friday and it i:
iuhioiOu tiio dA VIII oWiuS III DOtn PRISONS.
Assemblyman Galbraith will introduce a
resolution tomorrow 10 appoint committee
to investigate the manufacture anu sale of
school-books.
The Committee on Rules of the House will
report uDfavorabiy on the rule to limit
speeches to five minutes.
The Senate.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 28.-1he Senate met
this morning at IL o'clock
The Committee on Public Morals fayora.
bly, recommended the bill prohibiting the
letting of property for immoral purposes.
AT the afternoon session of the Senate the
bill authorizing school districts to provide
free school textbooks was finally passed
Senator Wilson's resolution nemorialz.
ing Congress to pass law authorizing the
Government u loan money to farmers on
land was taken up. His argument was the