The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-03-15
SHOULD IT Be REMOVED?
Opinions of the Press as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of a Change.
Editors Differ on the Proposition to
Desert Sacramento and Make San
for the Golden State.

jose the r future seat OF Government
for the Golden State.
In addition to the press comments pub
lished in the RECORD UNION yesterday
concerning the removal of the State Capt.
tai from Sacramento 10 San Jose, we note
the following expressions:
Views OF Stockton Editors
''The people of San joaquin County,"
said J. l.. Phelps, editor of the Stockton
independent, will never consent 10 the
removal of the Capital. If the matter
| every voter in our county will cast his
/ ballot In opposition to the measure. The
| State is in no condition to remove its
Capital. The proposition is piece of
! folly"
II regard this thing as huge joke"
sald Colonel j. j. human, one of the pro-
| pretors of the Stock ton Mail. III Stock
ton can't secure the Capital, our people,
| by their votes, will not let it be removed
! from Sacramento. | came over here
with a proposition to raise 81, 100000 and
fifteen acres of ground for State Capital
purposes" and Colonel Nunan smiled
| benignly.
[Oroville Mercury.l
! Without regard to right or Justice the
! .'e'Si tSiSsStIIOIl III the Legislature
has voted solidly to cut the county of
Butte in twain. They now have a dose
OF the same medicine in the vote of the
Legislature favoring a change IN the seat
OF government. While we deem it bad
policy to change the Capital, we confess
we don't feel much sympathy for Sacra-
mento, and we would kindly suggest to
that city the propriety of not allowing
this question to be voted on. The mount
am counties have been waiting a good
many years for Il chance to roast Sacra-
mento, the southern end of the State will
vote solidly for San Jose, and the north
ern part is perfectly Indifferent i'll the
matter
Oakland TimeS.1
We are glad that Sacramento is no
| longer the Capital of California, and we
| reJolce that our pretty neigbbor in the
lovely Santa Clara Valley has been
chosen as the seat of government. Per
haps some Legislature of the future,
when Oakland shall have developed SUI
| hclent energy and enterprise to merit the
distinction, VIII vote 10 give us the State
talr. Sacramento has no further use for
State Far. Oakland needs something
OF the sort-a State Fair or a fair show.
LNapa Register
By SacramentanS it was treated as a
Joke. The last moments of the Legisa-
| ture and an attempt ut reconsideration
Will decide whether or not there was a
VEN OF seriousness i'll the business. We
have no desire to harrow up the feelings
OF Sacramento by referring to her water
privileges and her tnird-rate hotel accom-
modations, but this little piece of unso-
| llclted advice to her may not be a misfit:
Mess you want san Jose to get away
! with the Capital you must prevent a sub
mission OF the question to the people.
Red Bluff Sentinel.
BY decided vote in the Senate and AS
sembly Saturday night last a concurrent
resolution was passed submitting to a vote
OF the people at the next general election
the proposition TO remove the State Capi-
tai from Sacramento TO San Jose. It was
wild, reVengeful, foolish scheme. 1t
was simply trenZied freak to get revenge
on the Bee for an article published in that
paper Saturday afternoon, rejecting on
the honor, honesty and moralities of GER
tain legislators. There is too much at
stake 10 even attempt the removal of the
State Capital. And If the matter was sub
mltted to vote, the people would snow
1t under so deep it would never thaw out.
San Diego Sun
The San DiegdH San, the evening paDer
now leading the fight for State division.
says OF the proposition to remove the
State Capital to San Jose: The Deevish
! inconsiderateneSs with which the Legis-
| lature passed the resolution to remove
the State Capital betrays menace to the
! taxpayers of the State sending such
mealy fellows to make our laws in the
! light OF the events of the past two or
three days. The press and people of the
whole State Will experience a sensation
of extreme relief that the Legislature is
| about to adjourn without having wrecked
the Constitution. There will be little
hope for the enactment of sound laws so
long as mental lodgings twitter in halls
built for men. Down with the proposed
| Il .,Ft l.,,f u
fornia. On with State division and the
establishment OF a Capitol for the south
ern Capital.
San Jose Times
1t has always been the popular FEELING
that San Jose is the natural and proper
place for the seat of government. At the
last Constitutional Convention it would
| have been located here had it not been for
the fact that so much money had been in
vested by the State at Sacramento. 1t
was n obedience to this sentiment that
the provision regarding its removal was
inserted in the Constitution. The con-
vention was more than willing that the
Capital should be fixed at San Jose, if
that act could be accomplished without
material loss to the State. The advantages
that this city possessed at the time of the
meeting OF the Monterey convention have
been many times increased of late years.
e [San Jose Record
The Capital was located at Sacramento
through the prostitution of the Supreme
Court by the appointment of man to a
vacancy on the bench especially to re-
verse an honest Interpretation Of the law.
By all the equities OF the case the Capital
should be moved 10 San Jose, which city
was despoiled of her rights by this mon
strous wrong. not only to this city but to
the people OF the whole State. But as a
matter of shrewd and far-seeing states
manship this move should now succeed,
because it viii forever stop the cry and
demand for division of the State, with
another Capital below the Tehachapi di-
vide.
Alameda Argus.
The Bee is now heartily execrated by
the scared Sacramentans, who accuse it of
being the cause of the move so dangerous
to that city. But they take an imperfect
view OF the situation. The Bee was the
fuse OF the explosion, and not the powder
magazine. The feeling has been growing,
and Is almost universally entertained by
those who have to live at Sacramento in
their official capacity or visit that city on
official business, that it is totally insult
able for the State Capital. A State whose
chief boast is its climate has located its
Capital i'll city whose climate at all sea-
sons of the year is insalubrious and
whose sewage has to be pumped away.
The sewage OF the Capitol itself runs into
cesspool. That this state of things
i