The morning call., 1893-03-14
SAN JOSE WON.
The Assembly Declined to
Reconsider.
SACRAMENTO ROUTED.
A Field Day for the Garden
City.
INTERIOR PRESS COMMENTS
The Newspapers of the State Not All
of One Opinion Upon
the Subject.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

| wild commotion within its walls as has
taken place to-day over the constitutional
| amendment which was introduced on Sat
urday evening for the removal of the capital
from Sacramento to San Jose.
There are 200 of the leading citizens of the
Garden City here, and many of them repre-
sent the solid moueyed interests of that en-
terprsing community. They are not more
keenly alive to the Importance Of the issue
| however, than are the citizens of Sacra.
mento. The latter have not had such a
fright since the big food of '62, when the
turbid waters of the great river rushed in
! upon them and imperiled their lives.
Many of the members voted for the
amendment in a moment of heat and rage
| over the unwarranted attack made upon
| them by the Bee, but after 1t had been
| done such a shout of joy went up
| from the San Jose people, and there was
such enthusiastic handshakiug, such cordial
| tipping over the bars of the various saloons,
and such general and hearty cordality dis
| played toward those who had voted for the
removal. that they seem to have come to the
conclusion that they had done a good thing.
There was another big delegation of San
Jose people arrived this morning to lend
tone and moral support to their adherents
in their battle for the capital. Among
them were B. D. Murphy and ex-MayOr
Sam Rucker James d. Phelan, who has
large interests in the Garden City, and At
torney Russell J. Wilson are also here.
They propose to scan the amendment from
legal standpoint in order TO be sure that
1t is In line with the constitution before 1t
goes before the people.
II was expected that the reconsideration
Of the vote upon which the amendment was
adopted would come up in the Assembly
the first thing after rolleall. but neither
side seemed to be quite sure Of their ground
| and they preferred to wait until the noon
train arrived from San Francisco, bearing a
number of the absent members.
By O'Clock this morning, however the
lobby of the Capitol was literally packed
with people, and San Jose aud Sacramento
were Unfortunately shufIled up together
When the session convened the gallery Of
the Assembly chamber was crowded and
so was all Of the available space down.
stairs. Everybody was more or less ex-
cited, and even when it was known that
the matter would not come up until .
o'clock in the afternoon the crowd re-
NAMED in place, fearing that if they were
to absent themselves the Capitol might by
some superhuman method be carted off to
San Jose. After the noon recess however,
the crush was greater than ever, and it was
almost impossible to get in or out of the
cham ber
The battle was commenced promptly at .
O'clock, and it was opened in very peculiar
way.
On Saturday night. after the amendment
had been adopted. Mordecai changed his
vote from no 10 aye and gave notice that TO-
6oX- ba yyorrld fCr
the vote Consequently he rested quietly
and happily in the belief that the motion
was his special property. What was his
establishment and horror. then, when Lynch
Of San Bsrnardino jumped to his feet and
moved to reconsider the vote on the amend
ment. and then in the same breath moved
that his own motion be laid on the table.
This would, of course bring the question 10
an Issue at once and shut off a debate that
would otherwise have lasted all afternoon.
Mordecai was perfectly frantic at the sud-
den turn affairs had taken and he spoke
bitterly Of the affront that had been offered
him by Lynch.
Gately, in one of the brilliant oratorical
fourishes for which he has distinguished
himself, said that he was in favor Of going
ahead and voting on the proposition at once.
The excitement was intense, but no de-
bate was possible and the Speaker ordered
the roll called.
Anderson of Sacramento wildly cried out
for delay and wanted the matter to go over
until O'Clock tonight, but his protest was
not needed and the voting went on. 1t -e-
suited In the motion being tabled by a vote
of 5S to 16. The vote was as follows:
Ayes-Adams, Afford, Audrous, Bennett
of Santa Clara, Bennett of Orange, Blakely,
Brownlie. Buckley. Bulla. Burke, Casterline,
Conway, Cusick, Drees, Duckworth, Finlay-
son, Gallagher, Gately, GOdchaux, Hamil-
ton, HendricksoU, Hurley, Hutson, Jacob
son, johnson of Santa Clara, Kennedy,
Kahn, Kerns, Larue, Luttringer, Lynch.
McCauieY. McElrOy, McGowan. Mack,
Marks, Marston, Matthews of San Benito,
Miller, O'Keefe, Pendleton, Perkins, Pues-
chel, Schlesinger, Schroeder, Shanahan,
Simpson, Sims. STANDARD, Taggart, Talbot,
Taylor, Thomas of Nevada, Thomas of
Santa Clara, Tindall, Van, Mr. Speaker.
Noes-Barlow. BledsOe, Carlson, Chip
man, Curtis, Dodge. burst, Jacobs, John
son Of Humboldt, Mathews of Tehama,
Mordecai. O'Neill, Owen, Raw, Sargent,
Wade.
When the result was announced by the
Speaker there was wild shout tfrom the
iobbDs anu hhCH WV Oull Oust ClOMu Out III
the corridore heard it they gave three rous-
ing cheers. The noise and confusion was so
great that the Speaker was compelled to or
der the lobby cleared and even the hubbub
of the excited members prevented anything
being heard from the clerks desk.
This virtually settles the question, for
there is little or no hope that the friends
of Sacramento will be able to gather suffi-
cient strength TO lift the motion from the
table, and so the amendment win go before
the people and be voted upon at the next
general election.
The way Sacramento takes the passage
by the Legislature of the resolution to re-
move the capital can only be compared to
the way a man takes the sudden amputa-
tion of an arm and still feels for things
with imaginary fingers. Sacramento does
not realize as yet, so sudden has been the
blow, that four years from now, In all
human probability, the State capital will
be situated at the Garden City of California.
Sacramento is at fever heat. Nothing is
talked OF on the streets or anywhere else In
the city except the adoption of the Seymour
resolution. Every one realizes that the
transfer of The capital to San Jose would
mean great loss to the business interests of
Sacramento to say nothing OF the loss OF
prestige which such move would cause,
With the capital will go the State printing
office, the State Fair and all the State Off
GERS now having headquarters in the State
building, and the realization OF these facts
is causing an air of detection to be notice.
able about the city.
The Bee. to whose door is laid the calami-
ty which has befailen the city, appeared to-
night with the following editorial;
In the Bee of Saturday last appeared
certain unique headlines, expressing thanks
that the session of the Legislature was
drawing to close. and several items ques-
tioning the value of the work done at this
session, as we'll as commenting on the