The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16

ruption till the portion relating to fairs
was reached. Then Tomblin wanted to in
troduce an amendment giving certain dis
trict fairs money. The chair ruled that it
would be an amendment to an amendment
and out of order. Before anything could
be done to alter it the bill was passed and
ordered transmitted to the Senate. A
harder fight will be made there for the
State fair appropriation than was made in
the Assembly.
Quite little breeze was raised when the
question of granting Humboldt County
another Superior Judge was considered.
The entire bar of the county, with the ex-
ception of Assemblyman Bledsoe, bankers.
merchants and business men and the Grand
Jury, had signed a petition praying for
affirmative action. Mr.. Bledsoe had peti-
ton asking that the extra Judge be not
allowed. 1t was limited by various speak
ers that Mr.. Bledsoe was disngenuous in
his opposition. But it was not till Reid of
Trinity openly charged the Humboldt AS
emblyman with opposing the bill because
it was introduced by Senator McGowan
that the storm broke. He said that at first
Bledsoe rather favored the bill. "Now he
has prepared a petition to beat it,' he con-
tinued "What has brought about this
change of heart? When Johnson's bill was
before the committee he did not oppose it.
We all know (this with scornful emphasis)
that his purity is so exalted that none of
the rest of us are able to perceive it, but it
remains true that when Senator Nc
Gowan's bill comes up for our approval he
begins to fight it and -"
Bledsoe was on his feet, shouting: II
object to Mr.. Reid's making a personal
assault on me. I'm getting tired of it, and
l won't have il"
Speaker Lynch hammered with his
gavel till the walls echoed, Reid tried to
continue with his address and Bledsoe
tried to drown both the formers voice and
the noise of the gavel. At last Bleds oe
was allowed to explain that he was acting
from conscientious motives and for the
good of his county and economy. He as
serted warmly that he did not oppose the
bill because Senator MCGOWAN had intro
duced it.
~ did not say so,' retorted Reid. "I
say he did not oppose it when Mr.. John
son introduced the bill. Now that Mr..
McGowan's bill is being introduced he
fights it bitterly. You can draw your own
conclusions"
The House voted down an amendment
Bledsoe had tried to introduce to kill the
bill, and then another amendment was
adopted with regard to the time of cleo
ton and the bill went to the engrosser.
Rapid progress was made in the consid-
Grafton of bills for final passage. About
$3.50 O'Clock the House began the second
reading of bills. They had reached No.
20 on the file while Laugenour of Yolo
moved to adjourn. Down at No. 276 on
the file was the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture, purchase, sale or giving away of
cigarettes 1t was feared that the House
would reach that bill and it would be
killed at its second reading, because of the
absence of number of its friends. Lauge-
nour was anxious to delay proceedings in
order to prevent such an occurrence His
motion to adjourn was lost. Several bills
were passed on the file. Then a second
motion to adjourn was made, but the
chair ruled it out of order.
A squabble as to the point of order being
peremptorily closed by the Speakers
gavel, another bill was disposed of. Again
Laugenour had a motion to adjourn. 1t
was seconded by Thomas of Nevada, who
was working with the Yolo Assemblyman.
"Mr. Speaker" shouted ODay of San
Francisco, who was disguised with the
dilatory tactics being employed, II move
that Mr.. Laugenour be granted leave of
absence" He was ruled out of order and
the motion to adjourn was cost after
division had been demanded. Then Lauge-
nour insisted that the next bill be read in
full. This occupied forty minutes, and by
the time it was finished and passed to the
third reading nearly an hour had elapsed
and all present were glad to consent to the
motion to adjourn.