The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-22
NO BILLS TO-DAY.
Blaine Memorial Services
Will Be Held.
THE RAILROAD CONTROVERSY.
ShaRal1an Still Insists Upon the Abol-
ishment of the Useless Board
of Commissioners.
Special to THE MoRN1Se CALL.


SACRAMENTO, Feb 21.-There will be no
session of either branch of the Legislature
tomorrow, but elaborate preparations have
been made for the holding of memorial
services in tie Assembly chamber comment
orative of the death OF James q. Blaine.
Senator Goucher has been chosen TO deliver
the address. The exercises will commence
at 10 O'Clock.
The principal discussion In the Assembly
to-day was Godchaux's constitutional
amendment. which provides for abolishing
the Railroad Commissioners and the intro
duction into the constitution of Leeds
schedule of freights and fares, which has
the Endorsement of the Traffic Association.
The entire afternoon was devoted to a dis
cussion of the measure, and the debate was
still at its height when motion to adjourn
prevailed at nearly o'clock.
Shanahan opened the debate by faVoring
the substitution of his old constitutional
amendment for abolishing the Railroad
Commission in The place of Godchaux's
measure. He scored the Traffic ASsocia-
ton and Leeds for submitting to the Legis-
lature what he considered 10 be an imprac-
ticable scheme He complained of Leeds
not DtIUG mere utCldIcQ budb HG Cbulu
not favor tie Introduction into the constitu-
tion of such proposition as was embodied
in the California distance tariff. He eulo-
giZed his own measure, which he introduced
early in the session, and which calls for do
ing away with the Railroad Commission.
Shanahan found but few supporters. and
was rather savagey attacked by BledsOe,
who tainted him with going back on his
MI I'm Association Thin
made Shanahan mad. and there would have
been another row between the two men if
Speaker Gould had not hammered vigor-
ously with his gRvel and ordered Shanahan
to sit down. The Shastan. however. was
quickly on his feet again to point OF order.
Then he told Bledsoe that lie had signed the
Traffic Association pledge, but it did not
call for the adoption of any such PROPOSE
ton as was suggested by the Godchaux
amendment.
An of the orators In the Assembly-and
there are some forty Of them-hsd to have
a swing at the question. and some Of the
laxative ones like FinlaysOn and Afford
spoke three or four times. Substitutes and
amendments to the original measure rained
in for time, but none Of them were backed
by sufficient number of votes to adopt
them, and at the hour of adjournment God
chaux's amendment-stood just as it did at
the opening of the debate.
1t was ordered sent to the printer for cor
reetiOns, and when it comes back 1t will
undoubtedly pass the Assembly.
An effort was made again to-day TO bring
up The Riverside bill out Of order, but Lynch
was on hand and succeeded in again heading
off the trouble until next Friday morning.
when the battle will surely take place
j. c. Pelton. the old pioneer who estab-
lished the first free school in California and
who may be said TO be the father of the free
school system In this State. is here and is
endeavoring to secure subscriptions to a
book that he has written and Is now having
published. Mr.. Pelton is old and infirm
and is in sore distress financially. A propo-
sition is TO be made to allow Mr. Peton to
appear before the Senate and state the OBJ
jects Of his BOOK. No man in California Is
better deserving OF public attention than
Mr.. Pelton. who took the initiative In
founding the free-school system which has
been of such iucalculabe benefit to the
people of California.
Flnfs Senate game bill came up In the
Assembly to-day, wbereupon Shanahan
moved that the enacting clause be stricken
out He argued at length upon the inequity
of the Emeric bin, and declared against the
passage of any further measures that are
calculated to enslave the people of the
State. Bis motion prevailed, and the bill
was killed.
In the Senate to-day the bill which re-
striets Boards Of Supervisors from opening
streets in cities was amended by Simpson
so as TO apply only to cities of more than
$4,000 inhabitants. This is rather hard on
A. Cohen of Alameda, who was instrumen-
tai in having the bill introduced so as to
save his property from being cut into. The
amendment renders the bin perfectly use
less SO far as he is concerned. The measure
still applies to San Francisco. however, and
notwithstanding that it would make an
excellent law for that city, number of the
San Francisco delegation voted against
Simpsons amendment. thus endangering its
passage. 1t is Cohen, however, that they
are really anxious to protect and not their
constituents in San Francisco. Simpson
declares that if upon third reading there is
a disposition to beat the amendment, the
Senate will turn in and Kill the entire
measure.
Congressman Luttrell Is here and
proposes to have joint resolution intro
duced calling upon the Government to
locate one of the national prisons In Califor.
MIA. There has been an appropriation OF
$500, 600 made for such purpose. and Mr..
LuttrelI thinks that California ought to
have the benefit Of it,