The record-union., 1893-03-13

measure of which I cannot approve, but
not one law has been put on the statute
books TO which objection can be urged.
NO man can put his finger on single
law this session and say il has been
passed for coin. Applause,l l believe
the mem bers have all done their duty.
Il don't believe that any man who has
libel another simply because he happens
10 De member OF the Legislature. These
vllllhed members would have been justi-
ned In going further than they did.
Ihls question at issue involves all the
people of this city have. 1t is the poor
man, and the building and loan associa-
tions that will be injured by what has
peen done, and what is threatened to be
done, and every man here should be
careful 10 do nothing to injure the city of
sacramento. The first duty of Il man is
to his family. and the next is to be cour-
teous and kind to strangers. Even the
ARAB of the desert understands the i'm
portance ofcourteSy and politeness. When
the visitor to the Arabs tent once dips
his fingers in the salt of his host he feels
tnat he is safe. These members of the
Legislature are our guests. They have
ulpped their fingers in our salt; they have
sat at our board; they have given US, as
legislators, all we have asked at their
hands, and have shown their good will
isn't decent nor manly to insult them in
the manner that has been done.
we have repudiated the paper that
dld IL, and we may be called on to go
further. But just now it is not deemed
proper to do more than express our feel
lngs: individuals and organizations may
see mt to take different course and adopt
other modes of punishment. But now
ana here let us stamp our feet on the
hbelers! 1t is a most cowardly thing for
any man to shelter himself behind
newspaper and slander his fellow-men-
TO libel aud slander men, especially, who
are doing so much for our city as these
legislators are doing.
hope this may prove to be the dawn
ing OF new era, and that the time has
come when, beneath an indignant people,
!lbelers and libelous papers will go down
into the dust, never to rise so long as
Sacramento exists" [Applause.l
JUDGE CATLIN's REMARKS.
Judge Catlin being called on said he
would rather be excused from saving
anything more than was expressed in
the resolutions presented by the commit
tee. "The matter before u.s." said he, ''is
one OF serious moment. The Capital was
brought here in 1854 by simple Act of
the Legislature. 1t would be an easy
thing to remove it, even now, although
a vote of two-thirds of each house of the
Legislature is required to start the ball.
The latter has already been done. l said
IN the committee tonight, and l say now,
that II had been member of the Legis-
lature l would have voted as they did. [
would have held the people of Sacramento
responsible tor the libels in last evenings
Bee. On cooler deliberation I would
have changed my vote, and that is what
we are now asking the members of the
Legislature to do. If the matter goes be-
r1l a In 7 ha1iA
this city and San Jose, we will have
hard fight of it."
A LAWYERS VIEWS.
Ex-Attorney-Gen A, l.. Hart re-
sponded to calls from those present. He
said this was not an ordinary occasion.
The matter which those present had been
called on to consider may largely appre-
clate the value of our property. He was
fully convinced that the resolution
adopted by the Legislature was unconsti-
tutional. Section l of Article VIII. pro-
vided for the submission of amendments
to the Constitution ITO the people by
joint resolution of the Legislature. But
Section l of Article XXX. provides that
the removal of the Capital can only be
accomplished by a law.
The purpose of this meeting was not.
however, to discuss the legal points
involved. There are reasons WHY the
Capital should not be removed from Sac
ramento. First, we have the finest Cap
itol building of any State in the Union.
with the finest park surrounding any
State capitol. Ifyou were to remove the
Capital to San Jose Tomorrow and locate
it between Coyote and Guadalupe Creeks.
it would cost three million dollars. Real
estate is perhaps as valuable in San Jose
as here, and outside the two and a half
million dollars the people there say they
will give, it will cost the State O,OOO, 900
to erect a Capitol there to equal the one
here.
There are 10000 people in this city who
do not indorse the sentiments of the Bee
as published last night. The same paper
has interfered with the rights of men on
trial for their lives while their cases were
before the courts. When newspapers get
up cuts that are insidious and insulting
to the tender sensibilities of ladies no no.
tice should be taken of them, and legis- |
lators should be above doing so. IfaDa-
per had anything to say against him he |
wanted 1t to be said against him alone. |
and did not want to have all his friends |
included. When paper yillifies an en- |
tire body like the Legislature the mem |
bers should not notice it. Members of |
the Legislature should consider matter !
of this kind coolly. They should recop- |
nize that a bill is required to be acted on |
10 be read three times, as other bills are |
not to get mad at a newspaper and |
hastily do something that injuriously af-
tects the people of the State. Let them |
do the thing lawfully, and then if the !
people of the State should be against ms |
we will have to submit as gracefully as |
possible.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
Chairman Gregory then announced the
committee to present the resolutions to |