The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-28
FOUND A FRIEND.
Rea Has a Champion i'm
DuCkWOrti1.
HIS EFFORTS UNAVAILING.
The Attempt 10 Reconsider the Rail-
road Commission Resolution in
the Assembly Fails.
lis EFFORTS UNAVAILING.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

the resolution which passed the Assembly
Yesterday ousting the Railroad Commits
sioners from office. After the vote had been
taken yesterday Duck worth, who seems tC
he a strong champion Of Rea, Lilehfield &
Co., stated that he would move for recon.
siderati0n this morning. He did so, and a:
soon as his motion had been made and see.
onded some one quietly jumped in with a
motion to lay it on the table. This was
carried. As soon as the result was an.
nounced Duckworth arose with radiant
smile and with confden. air declared that
tabling the motion tabled the resolution.
Miller OF Alameda. who says he never
reads newspaper reports, laughed aloud, and
his face glowsd with pleasure at this master
stroke, and Anderson chuckled with joy.
Their happiness was shortlived, however.
for Mathews of Tehama. who was in the
chair, ruled against the brilliant point, and
Duck worth promptly appealed from the
ruling of the chair.
Schiesinger rose to say that when the
Speaker was in the chair he had ruled the
other way. Mathews replied that Gould did
not happen to be in the chair just then. The
result of this little passage at arms was that
the resolution wentto the Senate.
There is considerable speculation here
now as TO how the Senate will act when this
resolution comes before them. IL will re-
quire twenty-seven votes TO pass it, and
Rea's friends declare that they have liked
a sufficient number of Senators to insure its
defeat. Rea is not trusting to his friends
altogether. however, for he is expected to
be on the ground tomorrow.
Rea depends on such well known railroad
men as Mahoney, Msher, BrOderck. VII
liams, Carpenter, DennisOD, Simpson and
Streeter to stay with him. There is no
doubt but that they can be relied upon to
vote TO defeat the wishes of the people.
The resolution will probably be made a
special order for Monday, when it is ex-
pected that all Of the Senators will be pres
emit
Several DAYS ago Mathews of Tehama in
troduced resolution in the Assembly pro-
yIdng for the payment of s. a day TO the
electrician who attends to the Lighting Of the
chamber.
Speaker Gould announced from the chair
that be understood this man already drew
one salary from the State. and he did not
approve of any one receiving two salaries.
Mr.. Gould spoke very earnestly and feel
ingly about the matter. and his remarks
were applauded by those members vino
were in accord with his views
1t was reported in the Assembly chamber
to-day. however. that Speaker Gould had
undertaken to draw SIS a day from the
State treasury for his per diem. The Polit-
zeal Code provides that all mem bers of the
Legislature shall receive IS per diem. and
that the Speaker shall receive $40. Gould
-, lie l.. 4
dlaw two salaries-0ne as a member of the
Assembly and the other as Speaker.
Controller COlgan told your correspond
ent this afteinoo that the Speaker came to
him and told him that he was entitled to
draw SIS day. Il told him." said Colgan,
that such might be his view Of the case,
but speaking for myself | would not sign
any such warrant. l would give him his
warrant for SIS a day and another for 81 a
day. as has been the regular custom. Gould
would not have it that way and went off
and submitted the case to the Attorney
General"
The Controller then explained that there
are two payTolls, one for the members and
the other for the constitutional officers of
the Assembly. The Speaker heads the list
on the latter roll. The first week the ser
geant-at-arms made it out for s. for the
Speaker. The next week, however, Gould
instructed him to change it to $40 day.
This was done and has been done ever
since, Gould signing the roll.
This same question arose when Parks of
Yuba was Speaker. in 1881. The Controller
at that time made out the two warrants,
one for SO and the other for SIS, but Parks
paid the latter sum back into the treasury.
Attorney General Hart is absent in Los
Angeles. but his assistant Oregon Sanders,
told your correspondent to-day that he
would give 1t as his opinion that the Speaker
was only entitled to SO day That was
the sum fixed by the trainers of the new
constitution.
Al Cohen, son of A. a. Cohen, the dead
millionaire who was So prominently .denti-
fed with the Southern Pacific Railroad
during lis lifetime, was in Sacramento the
other day. He was spending money in
rather a lavish manner and 1t was some
little time before it became known what be
was here for. AT last, however, he was
found before the Committee on Municipal
Corporations, which had under discussion
the bill relating to street extensions. If
this bill! ever becomes a law it will stop the
wholesale extension of streets that has been
going on in San Francisco recently. Cohen
is interested In that bill for the reason that
he owns large tract of land right In the
suburbs Of Alameda, and he doesn't want it
cut up by streets at present
This was what brought Cohen to Saera-
mento. lie did not stay long, however, for
be found that it would cost him consider
able money to get the bill through. Senator
II f,,4 a. 1.
anxious to have it go through, but he told
Cohen that there was more or less expense
attached to the Passage of such measure,
and it would be necessary for him to secure
the cooperation of Senators Broderlck aud
Maher, as they were influential mem bers,
and their aid and support would be essen
tial.
Cohen refused to have anything more 10
do with it and fled to his home in Alameda.
When Senator Buggy introduced the bill
which gives the Harbor Commissioners the
power to let out to the highest bidder the
right to usa the belt railroad. which is to be
built on the seawaIl in San Francisco. he
did so In good faith. He was told that
Barry Baldwin and other prominent citizens
were in favor of IT. He has found oul
since, however, that they had nothing
whatever to do with il. but that the scheme
was being engineered by Harbor Commits
sioner Alexander, Attorney Henry C. Nc
Pike and man named Diedrick.
These men waited until Biggy's bill was
printed, when they,ook a copy Of il to Burke
in the Assembly, told him that 1t was one OF
Biggy's bills and told him TO introduce it In
the Assembly.
As soon as Biggy found that he had been
'jobbed" he pulled the bill out Of the COM
mittee where it had been referred and
withdrew it from the Senate. Burke did
likewise. The jobbers, however, managed
to get 1t again introduced in the Assent bly,
to-day, and Conway Of San Francisco was
the man who did the work. OF course
there is no chance for the scheme to ever
go any further than the committees.
Thomas V. Gator, who was a Populisi
candidate for United States Senator. has