The record-union., 1895-01-24
legislative Notns-

Assembiyman Laugenour will to- day
introduce bill for the establishment of
an ice factory at the Folsom State Prison.
Tins is in accordance with the recon-
mendation made by Governor Budd in
his inaugural address.
be VIII also introduce bill removing
the expense OF supporting aged aud indi-
gent persons from the Stale and Leu each
county bear the expense of it's own, be-
HeVIng that economy will result from the
change.
In the joint convention yesterday Sem
ate Chief Clerk Brandon's voice rang
through the Assembly Chamber loud and
clear, and he showed himself master of
all the details of his position. Assembly
Chief Clerk Duckworth, however, did
not suHer Dy comparison. and elected
compliments on the way in which he
conducted his portion of the programme
and the clearneSS of his enunciatiou.
Iho bill providing that the Coroner of
san Francisco be allowed to appoint a
physician, whose duty it shall be to hold
all autopsIes upon bodies at the Morgue
was taken up and discussed at length be-
tore the senate judiciary Committee last
night. The bill provides that the ply
sicIan appointed shall receive a salary of
y, 100 year, payable monthly. 1t was
urged That the present law left the re-
muneratlOn for the services of physicians
holding autopsies entirely in the hands
OF the Board of Supervisors, and that
within the last few years the board had
so cut down fees that in many instances
competent physician could not be Sc
cured to hold autOpsIes, and that in muir
der cases important evidence was tre-
quently lost by this means. 1t was
further explained that fees were allowed
only IN cases Of murder. The committee
reported the bill back with a recon-
meuGatlOn faVDrah IlaSSsUa
,. b. fl was also discussed. It rovides
that IN cases OF contested election the
present law be amended cy inserting the
words name of election precinct in
which the contestant intends to prove the
vote cast was Illegal" so that it shall
read, "a written list of the number OF IL
legal votes, by whom polled and the
name OF the election precinct in which the
votes were cast which the contestant in
tends to prove were illegally polled."
The committee reported back the bill
with recommendation that it do pass.
5. b. 2l5, designed for the protection of
hotel-keepers, WAS also called up. 1t
provides that tho present system, max
ing the hotel-keeper responsible for all
articles left III his place OF business by
guests, be repealed. 1t was determined
TO secure full committee before taking
action OH the measure.
The Senate and Assembly Committees
on ketrenchment met in joint session
yesterday afternoon, with Governor
BUdd, Secretary Of State Brown and At
torney-General Fitzgerald as the State
Board of Examiners, and the generally
needed retrenchment OF public exendi-
lures was discussed at length. They
agreed to meet once week during the
session and general plan OF action was
adopted. The work Of investigation to
be made and the bills to be drawn will
be appOrtiOned among the officials and
committeeman. Several bills are to be
drawn up and introduced. One of them
will give to the State Board OF Examiners
considerably more power than it now
has, in supervising appointments and
liking salaries OF appointees throughout
all the departments of the State Govern
ment.
The Legislature will also be asked to
repeal the law providing for the support
by the State of aged INDECENT persons, and
making them charges upon the counties
where they reside. An attempt will also
be made to dispense with numerous State
Commissioners and Inspectors.
Nearly all the recommendations in the
line OF those made by Governors Mark
ham and Budd will be followed up.
Timothy Guy Phelps, Chairman of the
Assembly Committee on Retrenchment,
states that the retrenchments urged by
the committee viii amount to about
81 900 year.
The Assembly Committee on Labor
and Capital met last night and agreed to
report favorably Bledsoe's bill to make
the hours o. labor in logging camps ten
hours day. They will also probably re-
port tavorably on Santord's bill requiring
corporations to pay their employees in
currency az least once month.
Insurance Commissioner NJ. r. Hig-
gins Is in the city and attended a meeting
OF the Committee on Corporations yester-
opliges the insurance companies known
as Lioyds who wish to Go business in
this State to do business under the laws
of the State, putting up the deposit re-
CURED by law; another, which requires
all foreign insurance companies doing