The record-union., 1893-03-07
Both Houses Have Commenced
to Rush Things.
BURKE FIXES Up HIS RECORD.
A Debate On Short Weight Rolls Of
Butter.
DEATH OF An USURY MATTER.
OsrOn'8 Folsom Jute Bill Under Discussion
An Effort 10 XIII it Fails
johnson Investigation

The Senate has evidently awakened to
the fact that the end of the session is
near at hand, for not a second was wasted
yesterday.
All of the Assembly bills on the special
file were disposed of before the special
order for their consideration had eX-
pired and the Senators had over quar-
ter of a. hour to put in resolutions, peti-
tious, reports, and the like, before the
next special busiuess-the urgency file
was in order. The latter was then rushed
along until supper time, and business
which al other times has consumed days
was disposed OF With one or Two days
OF this kind of work the files can be
cleared up and adjournment taken before
the end of the week.
In the Assembly the same disposition
was evinced, but the same success was
not met with owing to the intervention
OF the volumiuous minority reports Gil
the Johnson investigation, which the
Humboldt bantam managed to have
read. The Assemblymen declare that
they are going to do some tall rustling"
1r ON now on.
BURKE FIXES HIS RECORD.
Senator Burke asked permission to
have the journal corrected yesterday with
reference to his vote on the reassessment
substitute last Saturday. 1t will be re-
membered that after fighting the meas
ure bitterly and realizing that there We're
too many votes against him, he changed
his vote from no to aye, just before the
announcement of the ballot, in order
that he might legally give notice of mo-
ton to reconsider. But before he could
get his motion in, a motion to adjourn
was put and carried and Burke was
LETT on record as having voted for the sub
stitule. Ofcourse he didn't want this to
stand and wanted the record changed.
The Chair asked il there was any objec-
ton to the request and hearing no re-
Spouse right away gave his customary
$50 ordered" But Senator Carpenter
had an objection to make and rose to do
so. He was telling the Senate how
Burke had deliberately changed his vote
from no to aye, when the Chair inter-
rupted him, saying that the objection
came to late as the $50 ordered" had been
recorded.
The Assembly bill which proposed to
readjust rates OF interest met an ignOmin-
ious death in the Senate yesterday. On
motion of Senator Whitehurst the enact
ing clause was stricken out. Senator
Wilson, who considers himself phenom-
enon on ali financial questions, made one
OF his usual sputtering arguments in
favor OF the measure, but collapsed when
Senator Carpenter informed him that the
bill conhicted with one of his own bills
the celebrated Wilson usury bill.
srUNTED BUTTER ROLLS.
The Assembly bill making it a misde
meanor to sell short-weight rolls of butter
had close shave in the Senate. Senator
Simpson opposed its passage strongly
and moved that the enacting clause bt
stricken out He told how the poor far
mer might become a criminal through tn,
melting OF an ounce Oft of each roll of hi
butter while enroute to market on
sultry day, and advanced other argu
ments.
Senator MCGOWAN defended the bill ol
the ground that it was harmless, an(
might do some good. The retailer coul,
not be convicted under it because i
could not be shown that he had an.
guilty knowledge OF the weight of tn
rolls he sold.
Simpson argued that the bill should b
killed for the very reasons Mr.. McGowa1
favored it on.
The Humboldt Senator thought tn
Alameda man meant it ought to be kille
because he favored it, and demanded a
explanation.
Mr.. simpson apologized blandly an
assured his young friend that nothing wa
further from his thoughts.
Both bowed low and saluted, then too
their seats.
The motion to strike out the enactin
clause was defeated, and then the bi
slid along to engrossment without furthe
annoyance.
JOHNSON INVESTIGATION.
The end of the Johnson investigation
finally at hand. The Assembly hS
adopted the majority report of the con
mittee. which says that the charges pr,
ferred by Railroad Commissioner Re
AGAINST Assemblyman Johnson, that
offered to sell his vote for 500, were NJ
nroved conclusively so as TO relieve a
doubt in the minds of the committee.
When the special order for the consiC
file Yesterday, Mr.. Mordecai, Chairma
Of the investigating committee, move
the adoption OF the majority report.
doing so he spoke at length about Il
findings of the committee, which in h
indictment were warranted from the ev
dence taken. The testimony for tt
Drosecution, he concluded, was not stroI
enough to remove all doubt from Il
minds of the committee.
Bledsoe wanted his minority repol
which holds johnson guilty, substitute
for the majority report. He also want'
it printed in the journal, and further co
alteration made a special order for IL
afternoon. His motion was declared o
of order, inasmuch as the Assembly hi
previously refused to have the testlmoi
printed.