The record-union., 1893-03-09


a competing railroad to come to them,
but they went to the competing railroad,
and such business enterprise did they
display, and such inducements did they
offer, that the whistle of the Santa Fe
locomotive soon broke in upon the Sc
renity of the surprised officials of the
Southern Pacific Company. Look at the
result to-day. Cheap transportation, a
network of competing roads, and a de-
velopment of natural resources unprece-
dented in the history of our country.
UP NORTH, TOO.
Look to the north and see the mag
nificent picture there presented. From
Portland to Vancouver the mighty rush
of commercial activity has brought to
that portion of our country the inestima-
BILE blessings of competing lines of trans
portation with a result that has fairly
startled the prosaic inhabitants of Central
and Northern California. Sir, shall we
be unmindful of the lessons taught US by
our more enterprising brethren? Shall
the great central valleys of California,
with their fertile plains and natural
waterways, be left behind in the onward
Shall San Francisco, with her magnifi-
cent harbor and geographical advantages,
be left to founder among the rocks of
legislative uncertainties? Sir, it is time
that we divorced our commercial needs
from partisan politics and set about like
men to break loose from the letters that
have retarded our financial and CONNER
cial progress. The supreme need of the
present hour is competing line of trans
portation connecting San Francisco Har-
Dor with the trunk lines of the Eastern
States. This done, and the difficulties
that now confront us will vanish into
space. Without it all the legislative wis
dom of the world could not wholly sat
isiy the just demands of an anxious peo-
pie.
Now, Mr.. President, whatever we do
here, we should certainly do nothing that
would tend, in any degree, to repel the
investment of capital in competing lines
of transportation. That by the adoption
Of the proposed amendment we would
effectively close our doors to the further
building of competing railroads is appa-
rent to the merest novice. The San
Francisco and Great Salt Lake Railroad
project was a highly practical, business
proposition, but the fear of unfavorable
legislation has had much to do with its
present apparent failure. Had the mer-
chants of San Francisco, the farmers and
fruit-growers of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin Valleys and the miners and
lumbermen of the mountains been half
as solicitous about the success OF this
commendable enterprise as they seemed
to be about the ante-election pledges of
Legislative candidates, We might not now
be burdened with the ever-increasing
pressure for remedial legislation in the
matter of the regulation of fre1ghts and
fares. l am opposed TO the amendment"
1t was now noon and the Chair de-
clared the Senate at recess. AS numer-
Gus special orders were on the list for the
afternoon, the substitute could not be
reached again, so it was made a special
order for this morning Immediately after
the reading of the journal.
ADMISSION MAY BE REFUSED.
The Assembly yesterday struck out the
enacting clause of Senate Bill No. 43S,
which proposed to make it unlawful to
refuse admission to places of amusement.
The bill was championed by Mr.. Schles-
niger, who said it was aimed especially at
the Bay District Association of San Fran
cisco, which refused admission to races
to two newspaper reporters who criticised
the actions of said directors. He argued
that when a ticket is purchased it is
contract which the seller has no right to
refuse to recognize.
Mr.. LaRue moved to amend the bill
by inserting the words unless "ruled off
for cause" The effect of the amendment
would be to kill the bill, as the directors
of an association would be the Judges of
what should constitute cause. The
amendment was voted down.
The opponents of the bill argued it
was general one, and would apply to all
places of entertainment. Roughs, toughs
and lewd persons could not be excluded
from places of amusement under the pro-
visions of the bill.
Mr.. LaRue moved to strike out the
enacting clause of the bill, which pre-
vailed. Notice of reconsideration was
given by Mr.. Barlow.
WILSON'S BREAK.
Senator Wilson of Tehama caught a
Tartar yesterday.
The Assembly file was being disposed
of, and among the bills read for final
passage was Nann's measure to provide
Tor the transfer of certain moneys from
one county to another, when new county
has been formed. The bill comes from
Glenn County and is aimed at Colusa
County's Treasury. 1t provides that
whenever new county has been formed
within the State it shall be the duty of
the Treasurer of the county or counties
out OF whose territory said new county
shall have been formed. to immediately
cause to be transferred to the County
Treasurer OF the new county thus formed
all moneys standing to the credit of or
belonging to any road or school district.
the territory comprising which has been
segregated from such old county, and
which is included in the boundaries of
such new county" And the final. section
says that This Act shall be held to apply
expressly to counties heretofore divided
Well, the bill was read, and Senator
Wilson, after whispered conversation
with a well-known Glenn County gentle
mana friend of X. E. Kelly's-arose
and offered an amendment to the bill. the
amendment being to the effect that the
transfer must include all other funds
beside the school and road money-a
division of all of the assets.
sEAwELL JUMPED on IT.
This brought Senator Seawell to his
feet with bound. He represents both
! Glenn and Colnsa Counties, and declared
that he was irrevocably opposed to the