The record-union., 1893-03-14
debtedness thereof, was read third time

The Assembly concurred in amend
ments to the general appropriation bill
and to number of other bills.
Senate Bill No. 10, to pay the claim of
Robert b. Young, was read third time
and finally passed.
Senate Bill No. 729, amendatory of and
supplementary to an Act to define the
boundary and provide for the govern
ment OF Levee District No. of Sutter
County. in relation to the election OF Off
GERS for said district, funding the floating
debt, and refunding the funded debt
thereof, was finally passed by vote of
5S ayes.
The omnibus county and township
government bill was read third time and
finally passed.
Senate Bill No. 155, relating to dealing
Ill options, was read third time.
Mr.. Nann said the bill is known as the
'anti-option" bill. 1t is demanded by all
farmers. Mr.. Jacobs spoke to the same
elect, adding that it prevents the dealing
in futures.
Mr.. Kahn said the question is one
which the United States Congress did not
consider Itself competent to handle, and
ne opposed the passage of the bill.
Messrs. Schlesiuger and Vann also spok e
against the bill.
The roll was called and the bill refused
passage by vote of - ayes to 81 noes.
Recess.
EVENING SESSION.
Senate Bill No. 204, TO provide for GER
tain improvements at the Stockton In
sane Asylum, was read the third time
and finally passed.
Senate Bill No. 2S7, relative to divorces,
was read third time. The bill was
amended and ordered to the printer
Senate Bill No. 100, providing for the
punishment of pools, trusts and con-
splrac1es to control prices, and as to evil
dence and prosecution in such cases, was
read third time and finally passed by a
vote OF A ayes.
Senate Bill No. GA, was made a special
order for to-day at II o'clock.
Senate Bill No. al, to retire aged teach
ers OF the public schools upon partial
pay, was read third time.
Mr.. owen moved to amend so as to in
clude farmers wives who have labored
for thirty years and who have been un-
able to retire. Lost.
Mr.. Afford moved to amend by insert
ing every mother of five children, the
youngest of whom is at least 10 years of
age" Lost.
The bill was refused passage by vote
of 81 ayes to % noes.
Assembly Bill No. 356, to create the
county of Bidwell, was refused passage
by the following vote:
y.
Bledsoe, Bretz, Brownie, Carlson, Caster
line, Conway, Curtis, Cusick, Duck
worth, burst, Gallagher, jacobsen, john
son of Santa Clara, Kennedy, Kerns,
I.aRue, McCauley, McGowan. Marks,
Marston, Miller, O'Keete, O'Neill, Per-
kins, Raw, Schroebel, Shanahan, Simp-
son, Talbot, Taylor-33.
Noes-Adams, Afford, Bennett of Santa
Clara. Bennett of Orange, Bulla, Burke,
Chapman, Dodge, Drees, F'inlayson, Gate
ly, Hendrickson, Hurley, Hutson,
Jacobs, johnson of Humboldt, Kahn,
Luttringer, Lynch, McElroy, Mack,
Mathews of Tehama, Matthews OF San
Benito, Mordecai, Owen, Pendleton,
Pueschel, Schlesinger, Sims, STANDARD,
Santa Clara, Tindall, Vann, Wade, Gould
81.
Senate Bill No. 296, for the relief of
Charles F. Wells, was read first time and
ordered to a second reading.
Senate Bill No. l91, relative to the man
ner OF serving summons and complaint,
was read third time and finally passed.
Mordecai moved to take from the table
the motion to reconsider the vote where
by Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. %, proposing to make San Jose the
Capital City, was adopted.
Bledsoe and others wanted to debate
the question, but Lynch raised the point
Ol OIucE lIdI IDe IDOtIOn was not QeDQLa-
bic, which was sustained.
Bledsoe protested against the hasty, un-
just manner in which the amendment
was rushed through the House.
The motion to take the motion from
the table was refused by the following
vote:
Ayes - Anderson, Barlow, Bledsoe,
Carlson Chapman, Dodge, burst,
Jacobs, johnson OF Humboldt, McElrov.
Matthew'S of IRhanla NnrIaoai
Raw, Sargent, Wade, Gould-l7.
Noes-Adams, Afford, Androus, Ben
nett of Santa Clara, Bennett of Orange,
Blakeley, Boyce Bretz, Brownie, Buck
ley, Bulla, Burke, Casterline, Conway,
Cusick, Drees, Duckworth, Finlayson.
Gallagher, Gately, GodchauN, Hendrick-
son, Hurley. Hutson, jacobsen, johnson
Of santa Clara, Kahn, Kerns, La Rue,
Luttringer. Lynch, McCauley, McGowan,
Marks, Marston, Matthews ofSan Benito,
Miller, O' eefe, O'Neill, Pendleton, Per-
kins, Schlesinger, Schroebel, Simpson,
Sims, Taggart, Talbot, Taylor, Thomas
of Nevada, Thomas of Santa Clara, Tin
dali, Nann-52.
Senate Bill No. 147, providing for the
increase in the annual appropriation for
the Home of the Veterans Association,
was read second time and made special
order for this afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock.
Assembly Bill No. S5i, making an ap-
preparation for the deficiency for the pay
of the officers and clerks of the Assembly,
was declared case of urgency, read
three times and finally passed.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
l6, an Act providing to have submitted to
the people an amendment to Article
XIII. of the Constitution, Section l. in re-
lation to revenue and taxation, was
finally passed by vote of so ayes.
Mr.. Mathews of Tehama moved TO take
up Assembly Bill No. S55, in relation to
the reassessment of property, providing
that counties of the thirty-fourth class
may settle with railroads if they desire.
1t was read second time.
Mr.. Mathews read long speech, tend
ing to show that the Seawell reassess-
ment bill to be bad measure.
Mr.. Duckworth moved to amend the
bill so as to include counties of the tif-
teenth class. Refused by a vote of 30 ayes
TO 50 noes.
Mr.. Lynch offered an amendment so as
to include san Bernardino County. Lost.
Mr.. BullA offered an amendment so as
to include counties of the second class.
but the amendment met the same fate as
the others.
Mr.. Finlayson moved to strike out the
enacting clause of Mr.. Mathews bill,
which was done by the following vote:
Ayes-Adams. Afford, Bennett OF
Orange, Bledsoe, Boyce, Bretz, Brownie,
Buckley, Burke, Casterline, Conway
Cusick, Finlayson, Gallagher, .Gately,
Godchaux, Hendrickson, Hurley. Jacobs,
jacobsen, Johnson of Humboldt, John
son of Santa Clara, Kennedy, Kahn,
kerns, Luttringer, Marks, Marston,
Matthews Of san Benito, Mordecai.
ONeill, Schlesinger, Schroebel, Shana-
han, Sims, Taylor, Thomas of Santa
Clara, Iindall, Vann, Wade, Gould-lO.
Noes-Anderson, Androus, Bennett of
Santa Clara, Blakeley, Bulla, Chipman,
Curtis, Dodge Duck worth, burst, Lynch.
McGowan, Mathews of 1'ehama, Miller,
O'Keeie, owen, Perkins, Raw, Sargent.
Simpson, STANDARD, Taggart, Talbot,