The record-union., 1893-01-12
MORE kEW COUNTIES.
Propositions to Cut Tulare Into
Three Pieces.
PUTNAM And BUENA VISTA.
SupernumerarieS' Heads in Serious
Danger.
THE SACRILEGIOUS ASSEMBLYMEN.
Speaker Gould Demands Attention TO the
ChaPlain-PrOposed Legislation
More Bills
THE SACRILEGIOUS ASSEMBLYMEN.

Two more propositions to create new
counties bobbed up in the Senate yester-
day.
Senator Hart introduced the bills and
explained that he did so at the request OF
the friends Of the propositions, he having
no particular interest in them personally.
One of these new counties is, if created,
to be known as Buena Vista County, and
is to be sliced off of the southern portion
of Tulare County, the county seat being
Tulare City. Putnam County is to be the
name of the other proposed new county.
In order to do what the friends of this
project desire the Legislature will have
to order another slice cut off of Tulare
County. 1t is proposed to make Porter
vile the county seat of Putnam.
What Tulare will look like after the
divisionists get through with it is mat
ter of considerable conjecture among the
statesmen.
A LITTLE TOO RAPID.
The Senate started off this session with
great rush, and for once in many years
it was agreed by all hands to push the
work coming before it, SO that there
would be no clogging and disastrous
haste at the close of the session.
The leaders of the two big political par
ties made bluffs at each other-each de-
claring that the others party had always
been to blame for delays and dilatory
tactics at previous sessions, and the re-
suit was nobody has dared to get up and
counsel taking things easy"
So it was when the Committee on Rules
recommended that for the first month the
Senate should convene at II A. NJ, one OF
the reformers promptly offered an amend
ment that the hour be fixed at 10 o'clock,
$50 that something might be accom-
plished before lunch" And, of course,
the amendment prevailed.
But it soon became apparent that the
Senators had started off with too much
steam. Since the first day of bill-intro-
ducing there has been very little for the
Senate to do, and there will not be much
for it to do-that is real hard work-for
awhile yet. After that first rush of bills
the Senate has not had to be in session
more that twenty minutes, morning OF
afternoon. The folly of meeting at IC
o'clock was seen, and on yesterday SEN
ator Seawell gave notice thai he would
to-day move to amend the rules, fixing
the convening time an hour later.
The chorus of "Ahs' that followed this
announcement left little doubt as TO the
repentance of the Senator's colleagues.
MAY BE BOUNCED.
Sorrow may yet come to some of the
many supernumeraries who are tempo
rarily holding positions in the Assembly.
The Committee on Attaches and EN-
ployes held quiet meeting yesterday
and out of twenty appointments made by
resolution in the House necessity for only
four of them was found.
But the committee will further 1nvesti-
gate the matter of appointing the other
sixteen before it is decided to recommend
adversely. The four offices decided as
necessary were Chaplain, History Clerk.
Sergeant-at-Arms to the committees
which meet in the State Library and a
man to attend to the gas.
The Democratic members on the COM
mittee are meek and docile and under the
strong pressure for reform brought on
them by their Republican brethren thev
are inclined to look leedle out" The
committee will probably make a report
to the Assembly to-day or tomorrow.
ONE FOR THE REPUBLICANS.
a sensation of small magnitude was
created in the Assembly when enough
Democrats united with the Republicans
and Populists to politically cut off the
head Of an aspirant for Sergeant-at-Arms
to the Committee on Elections.
Certainly the young gentleman who de-
sired that laborious job is poor button
holer. when places have been provided
where there is less need for them. The
Republicans and Populists have forced
the taking of the ayes and noes on the
creating of nearly every new Office, and
they are very jubilant over their first
victory in defeating the proposition tc
make a new Sergeant
A severe lecture was delivered bv
Speaker Gould yesterday to Che many
members of the Assembly who are not
familiar with church decorum.
The august body represented in Assem-
bly,, said the Speaker, is supposed to rep
resent the better element of society. and
he was surprised that proper attention
was not given while prayer was being
offered by the Chaplain. He demanded
that respectful attention be given in the
future
The Pages and File Clerks also got g
Taking over the Goals, and business is
now better attended to.