The record-union., 1893-03-01
THE OMNIBUS BILL.
WILL II CARLY TIE SHEEP IL
ICENSE TAX?
New County Omcials' Salaries Being
Fixed by Delegates-Other
Affairs.

| The Joint Committee on .County Gov
/ eminent and Township Organization met
last night with a righteous endeavor to
get the Omnibus County Government
| Bill into 4 presentable shape before re-
turning it to the two houses for their
! final action. Many and varied have been
the bills which the committee were re-
| quired to Gull and many individuals
and many individual counties will 10
doubt feel sore over some of the actions
taken by the committee.
/ The delegates Of the different counties
/ interested in Duckworth's Assembly BIZ
No. IA lobbed in every corner of the
room and worked like beavers to get
| their sections into shape. The bill pro-
/ vides for the creation of the Offices
| of Clerk Of the Board OF Super
| visors, Superior Court Bailif, Register of
| Deeds and Transcriber, full account OF
which appeared in yesterdays RECORD
| UNION.
| \ number of counties not mentioned
| yesterday, have since made known their
desire to be included in the bill, among
| which are san Joaquin and Santa Cruz
Senator Langford Of the former took oc-
| caSion to send Il copy of the bill TO the
! Board OF Supervisors OF his county, had
! them mark the salaries they proposed 10
give the new officers, and merely turned
the copy over to the clerk OF the COM
mittee, thus standing from UNDER any
responsibility which may accrue from
the passage OF the bill.
! The reports OF all other counties have
also been handed in or will be to-day, rs
the committee propose to make their re-
| port tomorrow.
/ Assembly Bill No AIS, by Kennedy.
! j.b ia all,. f
| first class and which has been referred TO
| the san Francisco delegation, was re-
turned with request that the bill be in
cOrporated III the Omnibus County Gov
eminent Bill. San Francisco being the
only county interested, ii was so ordered
\ petition was handed IN by Senator
| Ostrom, signed by oyer 800 citizens of
Nuba and Suffer Counties, asking that
any soldier, sailor or marine holding an
honorable discharge from the army or
navy, and who Is physically incapacitated
from making an honorable living be al
lowed to hawk, peddlc or vcnd articles of
merchandise without first procuring a
license for that purpose. The proposition
was considered good one, and was or
dered incorporated in the bill.
That part OF subdivision Of section 1885,
requiring District Attorneys TO keep a
Register OF Actions, was stricken out, as
the requirement merely duplicated the
work Of the County Clerk.
Senator Hart two bills fixing the fees
Of Justices OF the Peace and Conslabes,
10 apply to counties of the fifth class
Sacramento County Only-were embodied
IL The bill, upon recommendation of Dis
trict Attorney Ryan.
Subdivision OF Section D. requiring
any purchase made by county TO be
published IN a newspaper nearest to the
property so bought, was stricken out
n number Of bills before the committee
~ g Of lqa -, -.
county advertising shall be printed was
placed at from zero 10 one year, We're dealt
with summarily, and the law left as it
now stands-that such newspaper shall
have been in existence at least one year.
Lawyer Maxwell of Tuolumne County
next claimed the attention OF the COM
mittee, and called up his sheep bill, for
which he has fought before every COM
mittee posi- bic since the beginning of the
session. Inc principle he wishes EN-
bodied in the bill provides that no county
government shall he empowered to i'm
pose license TAX on sheep driven through
or herded upon its territory.
Since the license tax had been levied
by counties in the State Mr.. Maxwell
stated that the sheep industry had stead
lily decreased, and that in the three years
succeeding the lrst levy, the decrease in
the State had been one-tlird OF the whole
number. The license tax, he declared,
had driven sheep-owners from the
mountain ranges and from the State.
The purpose OF the tax in some counties,
he said, was to keep sheep out of the
county and in others 10 raise revenues,
and that the measure was one which
originated with cattlemen. lie asked
that his bill be tackled onto the omnibus
bill, and SO save the industry.
Senator McGowan OF II humboldt County
answered the argument of Mr.. Maxwell
at some length. He declared it was
wrong TO incorporate the principle in the
county government bill. The measure
had already been defeated in the Assem-
bly,, and it was not policy to endanger
the passage of the bill by making it We
hicle by which to carry in the sheep bill.
He thought the authority to levy the tax
should remain optional to all counties i'll
the State, and that the proposed bill was
simply piece of class legislation. He de-
CONTINUED on EIGHTH PAeE.l