Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-04
THE REFORMERS.
PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY OF THE
CITIZENS ORGANIZATION.
Mayor Hazard Makes an Address ON
City and County Consolida-
tion Committees
Appointed.

Another meeting of the Citizens Re-
form associasion was held in Judge
Silent's office, yesterday afternoon, and
this time something more than talking
was done, several resolutions being
passed, The committee seems to be
determined to give itself ample time to
view the pro and con of every little mat
ter. The majority of the meetings have
resulted in no definite step that they
have allowed to become public. Several
of the committees have made their re-
ports, but as that of the law committee is
to be changed in slight measure the
worthy gentlemen refused to give any OF
these reports for publication, but defer
that treat until some time this week.
AT the meeting yesterday there were
present Judge Silent, H. o. Collins,
Abbot Kinney, J. l.. Murphy, w. H.
Workman, j. G.. Griffith, George w.
Knox, J. S. Slauson and Mr.. Lawrence.
Mayor Hazard was present by request,
and addressed the committee on the
project OF consolidating with the
city of Los Angeles the outlying
towns and districts, all to be
made only municipal government.
n. Hazard is much in earnest in regard
i 70 this measure, and spoke at some
length. He favors incorpor ating Pasa-
dena, San Pedro, Santa Monica and
other towns with the city of Los An.
geles, much after the annexation plan
of Chicago.
A general state law or amendment to
the constitution would have to be passed
in order that the project could be car
ried out. He had talked with Mayor
Lukens of Pasadena, and he was in
favor of this measure. And he (the
speaker) thought that after the matter
had been explained to the people in the
outside towns they would agree to it.
Judge Silent offered motion that was
carried, to the effect that the committee
opposed all dismemberment of Los An
geles county, and that steps be taken to
oppose the present attempts to do so.
Mr.. Knox moved for the adoption of
bill by the next Legislature providing
for a general law for county division,
the principal feature of which will be
that no county can be divided without
majority vote of the whole county.
| Carried.
Mr.. Murphy stated that he had just
talked with lawyer from Pomona, who
had said that if the people of this city
could arrange to give the Pomona people
the privilege of paying their taxes and
having court assemble in Pomona part
of the year at least, ne thought that the
project OF Pomona forming new county
would be given up.
| Mr.. Kinney moved that committee
OF three be appointed by the chair to
confer with the Pomona people, which
was carried, and Mr.. Kinney, MIR. Muir
ply and Mr.. Griffith were appointed.
1t was moved by Mr.. Murphy and
carried that it was the sense of the
meeting that the code of civil procedure
be amended so as to provide for the hold
ing Of courts in outlying cities, the board
OF supervisors to have charge OF the
circuits.
Mr.. Workman moved that a commit
tee OF five be appointed to
look into the project of re-
duction of the number of Judges,
and to report at the next meeting.
Measrs. Kinney, Griffith, Workman and
Lawrence, with Mayor Hazard as an
honorary member, were appointed.
The committee of three who waited
on each of the three newspapers of the
city to ask that a member from each
one be appointed vice president of the
reform movement, reported that Mr..
Joseph ID. Lynch of the HERALD, Col.
Otis of the Times and H. Il. Osborn
of the Express had accepted,
The meeting adjourned until next
Tuesday at pm. in the same place.