The record-union., 1893-02-14
GeSfOrd Gets Himself Into Rather
Deep Water.
COMMISSIONER REA'S CHARGE.
As5emblynan Brownie Thinks He May Have
Marked That Card-Eyidence On
Reputation.
The Washington annexationists have

The Washington annexationists have
won their first skirmish.
The Senate Committee on County
boundaries held an executive session
last evening for the purpose of forming
report upon the bill to annex that portion
of Yolo County comprising the town of
Washington and the land in the immedi-
ate vicinity, to Sacramento County. A
meeting for the same purpose was held
last Friday, but the committee adjourned
without action.
Before going into executive session
delegation from Santa Barbara County,
favoring the formation of the new county
10 be called Santa Ynez, asked that final
action upon that measure be deferred
until to-day in order to hear the evidence
of Judge Adams who will arrive this
morning.
Senator Hart, author OF the bill to an
mex Washington, looked rather solemn
when the committee closeted itself, but
when the doors were thrown open words
cannot express the manner in which the
smiles chased each other over his face,
and it needed no explanation to the
initiated to understand that
\ FAVORABLE REPORT
Had been agreed upon. Senator Mahoney
was the first to carry the news to those
waiting upon the outside. and even he
appeared happy with the hope that
Sacramento would get a slice from the
west side of the river.
The committee was unit in reporting
the bill back with the recommendation
that it do pass.
Jud Brusie was among the walters
upon the outside and to RECORD UNION
reporter said that the people of Wood
land did not want Washington and had
not for years, but that their effort to retain
II at this time arose from mere feeling of
sectional pride. lie stated that when AS
semblyman Adams of Yolo County adj
dressed the committee in opposition to
the bill last Friday evening. the Yoloites
expected to give the bill black eye when
none of its defendants were present, and
that Mr.. Adams had told him as much
the same evening.
BRUsIE WAS THERE.
''At that interesting moment" contin-
ued Mr.. Brusie, the matter of the pro-
posed annexation was being aired before
the Board of Supervisors, and Mr.. Lubin
was before that body, and it was only by
the merest accident that dropped in in
time to answer the argument of Mr.
Adams"
The Assembly Committee on Counties
and County Boundaries has also met in
executive session, having the annexation
proposition under consideration, and
after prolonged sitting decided to report
the bill back favorable to passage. 1t is
understood that a number OF the COM
mittee held out for allowing the people
of the district in question to settle the
matter at the polls, but finally yielded to
the wish of the majority, without lacking
on the proposed amendment.
MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Senator MCGOWAN made a strong argu-
ment for the final passage of his bill au-
thorizing the creation of mutual insur-
ance companies. 1t was a most merito-
rious measure, he argued, being founded
upon the greatest dictates of justice and
appealing to every sense of justice. Ii
was to establish the right, he said, of citi-
ment to insure each other against loss bv
fire. The law now was wrong, he said
as il declared that no two men can sill
down and amicably adjust their differ
enoes-that they cannot agree to reim-
burse each other in case of disaster. The
bill under consideration was to remedy
this defect in the law. 1t was designed
particularly for the benefit of farmers
The old-line insurance companies were
pooh-poohing the proposition, he said
and declaring, without explaining why
that mutual insurance would work in
calculable injury to the people-that al
previous experiments of this kind had
proved disastrous failures. He was salts.
fed that their opposition only arose from
selfish motives and that they WERE
afraid of losing the farmers bust.
ness. If arguments of experience
were wanted, said the Senator, he could
furnish them. The first insur.
ance company was a mutual insurance
company-the Hand in Hand Company
established in England in 1669-and tina
company is still in existence, having
withstood the storms of years and thu
many financial crises that had occurred
during the centuries. Do you want soml
instances nearer home? he asked. If so
he would call attention to the experienc,
of the farmers mutual insurance com
panies for the past nineteen years i'll In
diana; also in Iowa and Minnesota. Their
the practice had been of immeasurahl
benefit to the farmers. The present bill wa
an exact copy of the Minnesota law. II
Iowa there were 1I6 of these companies, al
operated by the farmers themselves. II
conclusion, Mr.. MCGOWAN apologized TO
talking so long, but he felt it was neces
sary because similar bills had met will
disaster at the hands of previous Legis
lstures-at time when the proposition
was not thoroughly understood.
After Senators Ostrom and Bale.
had Endorsed the remarks of tn
Humboldt Senator, and added som
more reasons why the bill should becom
q law, the roll was called and the meas