Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-27

William 4. Watkins OF Siskiyou, John
! Wheadon OF Yuba, G.. N. Whitman OF
San Bernardino, and George A. Young
of Nevada--32.
(see pages 230, 375, 4ls, 4e5, 4s1, 522,
527, 707, OF Journal Of Assembly, 10th
session, 1882
In the senate the bill, having been
amended, was passed on April 18th by
the following vote:
| (FRIENDs OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;
Ayes: James Anderson and James H.
Baker of Placer,J Berry of klamath
and Siskiyou, B. T. Bradley of Gala
veras and Amador. George w. Dent of
San Joaquin and Contra Costa, A. G. St.
| @. Denver OF El Dorado, Gilbert A. Grant
OF San Francisco, D. s. Gregory of Santa
Cruz and Monterey, Humphrey Griffith
OF Solano, Yolo aud Napa; William Hol-
den of Tuolume and Stanislaus, @. j.
Lansing OF Nevada, Samuel A: Merritt
| of Mariposa, Jasper o. Farrell of Sonoma,
Roumaido Pacheco, jr., of Santa Bar
bara, and G. H. S. Williams of San
Francisco.-15.
FOES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Noes: Isaac Allen of Yuma, s. A.
Ballou of Pumas and Butte, John G.
Burch OF Humboldt and Trinity, E. F.
Burton of Nevada, William B. Dickin-
son of FL Dorado, E. Garter of Shasta,
w. II. Parks OF Sutter and Yuba, s H.
Parker of San Francisco, johnson Price
of Sacramento, R. A. Redmap of Ala
media and Santa Clara, Isaac l.. Titus of
Ell Dorado and E. d. Wheeler of Yuba-
IL.
ON THE FENCE
Declined to vote: L. M. Ketchum OF
Calaveras and Amador, j. M. Mcdonald
of Sacramento, T. G. Phelps of San
Francisco and Cameron E. Thorn of
Los Angeles and San Diego.
The act is found on pages $40 and 3i1
OF the statutes of California, 1859, tenth
legislature, chapter 288, where it may
be read in full. The act was approved
April 18th by Governor j John B. Weller.
1t provided that the consent OF the
legislature is given to the effect that all
that part of the state lying south OF a
line drawn eastward from the west
boundary OF the state along the sixth
standard parallel south of the Mount
Diablo meridian, east to the summit OF
the Coast Range; thence southerly, fol-
! lowing said summit to the seventh
standard PARALLEL thence due east on
said parallel to its intersection with the
| northwest boundary OF Los Angeles
county; thence northeast along said
boundary to the eastern boundary of the
stase, including the counties of San
Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara. Los An
geles, San Diego, San Bernardino and a
part of Buena Vista, be segregated from
the remaining portion of the state. The
part OF Buena Vista, now Kern county.
to be included in the segregated part,
was all the precincts south of the sixth
standard parallel south of Mount Diablo
meridian.
The governor was directed in his pro-
clamation for the next general election
to direct the electors of the counties
and precincts named in the bill to vote
for or against territory, and "in case
two-t thirds Of the whole number OF
voters voting thereon ehall vote for a
change of government, the consent
hereby given shall be deemed coneum-
mated" Until the consent of congress
| is obtained, the connection between the
state and the segregated part of the
state shall continue. A commission is
to be appointed to adjust the finances
betw cen the state and the new govern
ment.
The election was held on the 9TH of
September. 1859 The total vote cast
was 102 S96. Southern California
pro. .er, that is, the then counties of
Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego
and San Bernardino. cast total OF 3435
votes, or little more than per cent.
| of the vote of the entire state. The
vote by counties was as follows: Santa
barbara. 465; Los Angeles, 2ll5; San
Diego, BIT; San Bernardino, 5S7. The
vote OF Los Angeles county stood: For,
| 1407; against, AL. (See files of the
Los Angeles Star. October l, 1859, in the
archives of the Historical Society OF
Southern California.)
Says DR.. J. P. Widney, in the annual
publication of the same society for 1885,
80, on page 2l:
1.-The act, by the order of the legisla-
ture, was put to vote by the people of
the counties in question; it was carried
by an overwhelming vote. The returns,
| together with the act, were certified to
by Governor Latham, and forwarded by
him officially to the United States gov
ernment at Washington. The intense
national excitement over the questions
which led to the civil war delayed ac-
ton, and with the breaking out OF hos
tilities further action for the completion
OF the division WAS postponed. In the
| turmoil OF war and in the settlement of
great national Questions which agitated
the country in the years which followed,
the subject of further action in the mat
ter remained in allegiance. Occasional
illusions in the public print showed,
| however, that it was only slumbering
| Hon. J. L. Gaffey, then member Of
the state board OF equalization, stated
| in the Los Angeles Evening Express of
| December Is, 1888:
when was in Sacramento last year
took the trouble to hunt up the record
hin reference to the election and legal
proceedings in 1859, in connection with
the division OF the state. found the
record of the election, and Governor
Latham's letter transmitting the action
of the general assembly to congress-. It
| explained the entire proceedings in de-
tail. Every legal requirement looking
to division was apparently complied
with"
There was also another element of op-
position in congress to the bill, in the
person of the notorious 'Duke" Gwin
who, in 1859, was again in the United
States senate from California. He had
helped to strangle the protest of 1850 !;
he doubtless assisted in pigeon-holing
the act of 1859, and diverting attention
from it.