The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-28
The Railroad Commissioners Not
to Be MoleSted.
THE SENATES CONSERVATISM
Vote On the Proposition to Gust the
commissioners.
The CENTRAL PACIFIC'S DEBT.
Another silly Measure Gets a Deserved Re-
buke in the Upper House
BidWeIl County.


sioners are not to be ruthlessly ousted
from the offices the people elected them
to, after all the bowling and threatening
that has been INDUCED in by dema-
gogues.
The Senate demonstrated once more
yesterday its conservatism and DISPOSE
ton not TO be dictated to by popular
prejudices. The consideration of Assem-
bly, joint resolution to GUST the Commits
sioners on the ground of incompetency
and dereIiction was on the programme as
a special order. 1t was expected that
there would be lot of spirited speeches
before vote was taken, and in conse-
quence there was quite a gathering Of
spectators in the lobby and gallery.
But there were no speeches-there sell
dom are any on blue Monday-and when
the Secretary read the pyrotechnical AS
sembly resolution, the President ordered
the roll-call proceeded with without fur
Their delay. Nobody was in humor to
debate the question. The vote was a
close one, but resulted in q votes against
the resolution and Is for it. Ostrom
changed his vote from aye to no in order
TO give his usual notice of motion to re-
consider the matter. 1t is not likely,
though, that the Senate will change its
vote when the matter comes up again.
RAILROAD INDEBTEDNESS.
The Senate also refused yesterday to
"stand inn with the Assembly in de-
mand upon Congress to foreclose the
mortgage held by the Government on the
Central Pacific Railroad.
There was some debate on the proposed
joint resolution, Senator Carpenter being
the main speaker for and against it re-
spectively. Mr.. Carpenter made one of
his usual vigorous speeches, saying that
the resolution was an ill-natured and
ugly proposition, and was against the in
terests Of the people. If Congress should
heed the request the people would lose
half of the taxes they now get from the
Southern Pacific Company. The amount
due the Government would in 1885 be
$75,000,0O0, and it was foregone conclu-
sion that the company could not pay it,
Why, then, he asked, should not the
Government be permitted to refund the
Indebtedness and thus be sure of getting
back its money in the course of time?
What sane business man would foreclose
on an insolvent debtor and get only a
small percentage of what was due him,
when he knew that by waiting he could
get it all?
Ostrom based his argument for the
adoption of the resolution on the alleged
fact that the people desired it.
Mr.. Carpenter denied that such a de-
sire existed. The people were too mind
full of their best interests. According to
some of the Democratic speeches of
Marion Cannon, the Populist Congress-
man, the proposition was to make the
original owners of the road pay the debt
If this were done, Sacramento, San Joa-
quin and some other counties which had
taken heavily of the stock, would have a
lot of trouble. The resolution, he de-
clared, was an uncharitable, unjust and
malicious proposal.
After some further debating the reso-
luton was rejected.
BIDWELL COUNTY.
The Assembly yesterday voted to re-
consider its action of Saturday, when the
Bidwell County bill was refused a second
reading. 4 hard fight was made against
reconsideration, Thomas of Nevada lead
ing the fight. In an eloquent appeal he
explained the circumstances under which
the new county wants to be carved out of
old Butte, claiming the divisionists want
to take the desirable agricultural portion
and leave the mountainous, rugged re-
mainder to support itself. He paid a
fitting tribute to the late E. b. Price. a
representative from Butte County, and
remarked it was the wish of that gentle
man that the bill should never become a
law, and he proposed to use his best en-
deavors to defeat the bill, just as Mr..
Price would have done had he lived to
fulfill his promises to his people. Messrs.
Schlesinger of San Francisco, Bennett OF
Santa Clara, Dodge of Alameda, and
others, also argued why a reconsideration
should not be granted.
The fight tor the divisionists was ably
handled by Miller of Alameda and Taylor
of Marin. They claimed the order for a
second reading was carried on Saturday,
but Mr. Miller inadvertently thought the
motion was lost and changed his vote.
and thereby changed the result Under
such circumstances it was but Just, they
argued. to give the bill second reading
and a similar place to all the other county
division bills. Their arguments had the
desired effect, as the following vote testi-
flies:
For reconsideration Anderson,
Barker. Blakeley, Bledsoe, Boyce, Brett,
Brownie, Buckley, Carlson, Casterline
Chapman, Conway, Curtis, Cusick, Duffy,
burst. Gallagher. Johnson OF Santa Clara
Kennedy, LIE Rue, Luttrlnger, McCauley
NaFStnr Nfii1or
Nrordecai. O'Keefe, O'Nein, Owen
Perkins. Raw, Sargent, Schroebel
Sbanahan. Simpson, Talbot, Taylor
Thomas OF Santa Clara, Vann-4o.
Against Observation-Disclosures Bar
low Bennett of Santa Clara, Bennett O
orange. Bulla, Burke, Dodge, Drees,
Finlayson, Gately, GOdchaux, Hamilton
Hendrickson, Hurley, Jacobs, Jacobsen
johnson of Humboldt, Kahn, kerns