The record-union., 1891-03-24

siae'die at IL o'clock a. N. on Wednesday,
was taken up.
Mr.. De Long moved to amend by MAX
ing it midnight on Wednesday, and Mr.
McGowan accepted the amendment
MI kagsdale moved, as a substitute,
that the Legislature adjourn sine die at
midnight on Tuesday. Lost.
Mr.. Heacock moved to amend by max
ing the time2 pm. on Thursday.
The roll was called on the shorter time
(the original resolution, as amended), and
resulted-ayes 26, noes7
FILE RESUMED.
S. B. $50, to pay the claims of S. V.
Treadway and David Kettleman, was
read the third time and passed.
). y. 64S, to promote sericulture in re-
for,natory and charitable institutions.
Lost.
Recess till 1902 NJ.
Evening Session.
When the Senate met in the evening,
with President pro tenn. Fraser in the
the chair, it took up and finally passed
the appropriation bin.
The conference committees ON S. B. 81
(the semi-annual tax levy bill) having
failed to agree, the Chair appointed
committee on free conference and in
doing so reappointed the former commit
tee, composed of Messrs. Carpenter, Gran
dali and Berry.
This action precipitated one of the bit
terest controversies that has taken place
in the Senate since the session began.
Mr.. Maher, who claimed that the people
moved that Senators Hamill and Everett
be added to the committee.
Mr.. Carpenter vigorously opposed the
motion, declaring that the bill was in the
interest of the people of the State, and
maintained that the proposition to place
upon the committee the two bitterest
and most outspoken enemies of
the prerogative to name the men,
bers thereof was most unheard of
and outrageous proceeding. This was
not the first time, he said, that the people
of that city had been forced to appeal to
the members from other counties to be
saved from the effects of misrepresenta-
ton by their own members. The passage
of this bill would, he said, retain ten
million dollars in the hands of taxpayers
for five months in the year, instead of
having it locked up in the treasury
vaults.
Mr.. Campbell of Solano made one of
his Enthusiastically violent speeches in
support of Mr.. Maher's motion. He
claimed that the minority of the Senate
We're entitled to representation on the
committee, and declared that Senator
Carpenter had made misstatement in
saying that the proposed law would keep
ten million dollars in the hands of the
people for five months.
Mr.. Carpenter admitted that he had
made mistake in that respect-that he
should have said five million.
MesSrS. McComas, Seawell Heacock
and Langford also opposed the motion to
have two outSpoken enemies of the bill
added to the committee by motion, and
Messrs. Britt and Hamill spoke in its
favor.
The Chair finally ruled the motion out
of order, as also an amendment thereto
offered by Mr.. Campbell of Solano, pro-
viding for two additional members of the
committee, to be named by the Chair
The bill to pay the claim of Henry
Mailer for experimenting the improve
ment of the Marshall monument grounds
was passed.
S. B. $50, authorizing the Secretary of
State to compile, publish and distribute
blue-book," or official roster, was
passed.
s. B. 5l2, relating to the collection of
assessments in reclamation districts.
Passed.
The Assembly amendments to the
ramIe culture bill were concured in.
y. Il. 208, providing for police relief
health and pension funds in cities.
Passed.
S. B. go, relating to lotteries and pro-
hibiting the same. Passed.
The Assembly, amendments to the fu-
neral directors bill were concurred in.
MIR. Heacock moved to recall the con-
current resolution providing for final adj
journment at midnight ON Wednesday.
He said that both Houses had disposed Of
SO much work during the day that they
could just as easily adjourn on Tuesday
night, and he desired to have the resolu-
ton amended.
The motion was lost-ayes IA, noes II.
S. b. 354, providing for State Board of
Medical Examiners and for the regula-
ton of the practice of medicine.
Several amendments were offered to
the bill, but were all voted down, after
except one offered by Mr.. Goucher, pro-
viding that nothing in the Act should af-
feet the Medicine Man,
This action was, of course, done in Jest,
but the amendment was carried. Mr..
Sprague, who championed the bill, OBJ
jected strenuously to the action of certain
Senators in juggling with an important
measure.
Mr.. Goucher asked that the adoption of
the amendment be reconsidered, as it was
not offered in sincerity. 1t was so or
dered and the amendment withdrawn.
The bill was read the second time.
MIR. Preston offered resolution provid-
ing that the joint committee appointed to
investigate the matter of the scraps of pa
per found in waste basket be continued
as commission after the adjournment of
the Legislature to pursue the inquiry and
report the result to the Governor.
Without action on the resolution the
Senate adjourned.