The morning call., 1891-03-28

Monday, the 9th of March, 1891, it was
placed upon its final passage before the full
Assembly and finally passed by an almost
unanimous vote, with, however, one vicious
little amendment intended to seriously inter-
fere with independent nominations for
Office.
THE CHANGE MADE.
''The original bill provided that independ-
ent nominations for office might be made by
petitions signed by per cent of the quail
led voters of the State, county, or district,
for which any officer was TO be elected, pro-
ylded that not more than 1000 Signatures
should be required to nominate a candidate
for any office. The amendment of which I
have spoken requires such petition to be
signed by 8 per cent of the qualified voters,
and strikes out the limitation to 1000 sigma
lures.
ut thus makes IL necessary to have petit
lions for the nomination of State officers
signed by about twelve thousand instead of
one thousand electors and requiring petit
tlons for the nomination of city and county
officers for San Francisco to be signed by
about three thousand instead of one thou
sand electors. But Notwithstanding the OBJ
Jectlonable amendments which have been
made, the bill was passed in fairly perfect
condition and the Governor signed it as
passed.
Before closing it is at least my duty to
mentlon those whose prominent services
have come under my personal observation.
Senator ID. A. Ostrom of Yuba has been for
TWO years an earnest and intelligent worker
Tor the Australian ballot, and Senators
Langford, Britt, Maher and Goucher rem
dered US excellent service. In the Assem-
bly, Shanahan, Bert, Gould, Bledsoe, Arms,
Mccall, Robertson, Beecher, Mordeeai and
others rendered timely service. Among the
many advocates of the bill outside of the
Legislature and outside Of your committee
and the committee of the State Grange, the
font ~, rs III
j. Curry, X-Vice-Presdent OF your council,
deserves mention, as does the invaluable
service of Abbott Kinney of Los Angeles.
in addition to the splendid service rem
dered by the sacramento Record Union, one
OF the oldest advocates of the measure on the
Coast, Messrs. Willis and Woodson, its ed
itors, kindly offered its columns to your COM
mittee ard myself, and thereby enabled US
most etfectually to anticipate and answer
the SpeciouS attacks that were from day to
day being cOyertly made upon the bill and
its advocates. In this last struggle nearly
all of the leading newspapers of the State
with the exception of the San Francisco
Chronicle favored and aided the bill, THE
MORNING CALL OF THIS CITY LEAD
ING ITS CONTEMPORARIES IN THE
WORK. Nearly all of the press representa-
tlves in both Houses were advocates of the
measure and rendered more or less valuable
assistance"
APPLAUDED AND THANKED.
For his address Mr.. Mcguire was loudly
applauded. and the Committee on Resolu-
tions was instructed to engross resolutions
thanking him Tor his earnest and effective
labors.
Journeymen Bakers Union, No. "a, asked
for boycott on William Westerfeld's
bakery and restaurant, Oh Market street.
The matter was referred to the Executive
Committee for investigation.
The resignation of W. J. B. Mackay,
Chairman of the Executive Committee, was
accepted.
Reports were received from the various
unions and committees, and the Executive
Committee reported having at last succeeded
in gaining victory for the horse-snoers by
inducing L. Doyle to unionize his shop.