The record-union., 1893-03-14
THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.

resolution would be killed, as three
fourths majority would not be on record,
as VOORHEES, vote had also been changed.
VOORHEES, VOTE.
Mr.. VOORHEES, denied that his vote was
in the nature of change. He had voted
against the proposed amendment, but by
mistake was recorded the other way. 1t
was simply correction. Had his vote
been properly recorded the constitutional
majority would not have been received
and Hart would not have changed his
vote. 1t was this mistake that caused
Mr.. Hart to make the usual change pre-
paratory to giving notice of motion to
reconsider.
carpenter asserted that neither Hart
nor VOORHEES, knew Saturday night that
the mistake had beenmade, SO Mr.. Hart's s
change could not have been based upon it.
That was the reason L changed" de-
eIared Mr. Hart, warmly.
Ostrom said the constitutional amend
ment had been adopted through fraud,
and Mr.. Hart had right to be recorded
according to his views.
Senator Carpenter submitted q substi-
tute for SeawelPs amendment. 1t was
similar to Mathews original motion-that
Mr.. Hart be allowed to put an explana-
tion in the journal, and nothing else.
The roll was ordered called, but Mr..
Hart got the floor and pleaded once more
with the Senators. A great deal of un-
fairness toward him had been exhibited
already, he said, and he hoped that the
Senators would put aside their prejudices
and let their better judgment, their sense
OF justice and humanity prevail.
Wilson said it would be great wrong
an outrage-if Mr.. Hart was not allowed
to have his vote recorded against the Sey-
mour proposition, particularly as he had
not been permitted to give his notice of a
motion to reconsider.
Ostrom agreed with the Tehama Sen
ator, and added that it would not only be
wrong to the Sacramento Senator, but
to the whole State. Senator Hart never
would have changed his vote had not the
Secretary made a mistake in recording
VOORHEES, vote.
SEYMOUR PERSISTS.
Seymour, the author of the sensational
constitutional amendment, was the next
speech maker. His remarks demon
strated that he has not receded from his
position of Saturday night, and that he
was as determined as ever to punish the
people for the misdeeds of one news
paper. He declared that he was thor
oughly in earnest about the proposed re-
moval to San Jose, and he believed that
II the proposition were submitted to the
people 1t would be ratified by an immense
vote. 1t was an outrage that legislators
should be maligned by newspaper of
the city which derives the greatest possi-
bic benefit through them. If Senator
Harris vote was changed the amendment
to the Constitution would be lost, and he
had no doubt that in that case the Senate
would be censured by the people. ''We
would be condemned all over the State"
he concluded, with the exception prob
ably of the swamp and quinine district
that surrounds the Capital"
Senator Seawell altered his position at
this juncture. He had not known that
Mr.. VOORHEES, vote had been changed be-
fore, and having discovered that if Mr..
Hart's vote was changed too the neces-
sary majority would be lacking, he was
not willing now to consent to the change.
Mr.. Goucher said it would be a bad
precedent to grant Mr.. Hart's request.
Mr.. Hart made another appeal to the
Senate not to leave him on record as vot-
ing against his views-against his own
city, but it was evident that there was no
mercy to be shown him.
The roll was ordered called on Carpen-
ter's amendment to allow the Sacramento
Senator to insert his protest in the jour
nal and not change his vote, and e. it car
ried by vote of q ayes against II noes.
BoBBED UP AGAIN.
In che afternoon there was another de-
bate on the subject, growing out of the
bill providing for the purchase of a
fer the Governor in this city.
Senator Simpson said it would not be
polite to buy a mansion in Sacramento
and then move the Capital to San Jose.
Mr.. Seawell would vote for the bill
only on one condition. and that was that
it be amended so as to place the selection
of a site in the hands of. the State Capitol
Commissioners.
Ostrom also thought it ill-advised un-
der the circumstances to make the pur-
chase provided for in the bill, which is to
buy the Steffens property on H street for
$4,000. There was no prospect of the
Assembly reconsidering its concurrence
in the resolution, he said. Besides all
this, he said, very few of the Senators
knew anything about the property, and
he had been told that it was inconvenient
and not what was desired for Govern
or's mansion.
Senator Bailey offered an amendment
to the bill TO the effect that the O'Connor
residence on South Second street, San
Jose, be purchased instead of the Steffens
Senator Hart, who was thoroughly ex-
arose now and protested forci-
bly,. He had been told all along, and
many believed still, that the whole capi-
tal-moving business was joke. But. he
said, it had developed into very serious
joke with him. He had not the remotest
idea, he said, that the Capital was really
going to be moved away from Sac
where the State had ex-
pended so much money already,
to say nothing of the enormous
expense that would be involved in re-
But if they were joking, he
hoped it would go no farther. He asked
the Senators to quit acting like boys on
the last day of school, and conduct them
selves in keeping with their dignifed DO
sitions.
Mr.. Seawell offered an amendment
placing the duty of selecting mansion
into the hands of the Capitol Commits