The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-05

fees one-half. The committee decided to
report favorably the bill raising the age of
consent to 16 years.
The State Board of Examiners has
adopted the following:
WHEREAS, Various State officials, boards of d.
rectors, trustees and commissioners have hereto
fore subscribed to newspapers and periodicals
and have certified the accounts for the same
to this board for its approval; and whereas,
there is no authority in law for any such ex-
penditure; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this board cannot favorably
audit any account for newspaper or periodical
subscription made by any State official, public
institution or officer thereof.
On Wednesday the Senate Committee on
Elections will discuss the various bills re-
lating to the holding of primaries. On the
same day the suffrage bill will come up in
the Assembly. In anticipation of victory
the advocates of equal suffrage have ar
ranged to have Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn
deliver patriotic recitations in the Assem-
bly, chamber that evening.
E. L. Fitzgerald of Oakland is here. He
has waited on the Governor in reference to
the Labor Bureau, and desires to have that
commission vested with certain powers
granted in some other States, such as
bringing actions in behalf of laborers who
have been defrauded of their pay, and
making the bureau an agency to secure
employment for workingmen.
Fred Cliff, an Oakland Justice of the
Peace, is here looking after the proposed
changes in the city and county government
bills, as they affect Justices.
The county government bill will proba-
bly, be radically changed and simplified.
The proposition to Lexow the State in gen.
eral and San Francisco in particular will
come up on Wednesday. The Republicans
will caucus on the bill tomorrow night.
The Assembly Committee on Banks and
Banking decided tonight to favorably rec
ommend the bill which reduces the salary
of each of the three Bank Commissioners
from $500 to $4,000 year. The committee
also amended the bill by reducing the COM
missions allowance for travelling expenses
to $1,000 year and the salary of its secre-
tary to $3.50 month.
The Committee on Mileage took up the
junketing bills again this afternoon. The
Committee on Commerce and Navigation
put in bill for $16S; they were allowed
$780, or $40 for each member. The Com
mittee on Public Health and Morals asked
for 1854; they were allowed 500. or $40
each; their clerk was allowed his expenses.
The Committee on Hospitals and Asylums
asked for $207; they were granted $3.50, $40
each.
The Judiciary Committee has appointed
a special committee of three-consisting of
Dinkelspiel, Powers and Hatfeld-to frame
a bill containing the valuable features of
proposed amendments to the laws of at
tachment.
A bill of Waymire providing for the
licensing of expert accountants, thus CIV
ing them legal standing, was unfavor-
ably reported.
The committee also passed advers ely
upon Belshaw's bill TO allow lawyers
within the third degree of relationship to
a Judge to issue temporary writs in his
court and to make ex-parte noncontested
orders.
Dinkelspieps bill providing that notice
of the sale of pledged property must be
given to the personal representatives of the
pledger, if the latter be dead, was recon-
mended for passage, as W as Tibbitt's
providing for two substitute jurymen.
The Committee on Ways and Means
voted to recommend the passage of the bill
granting Major Jose Ramon Pico's claim
for SSH 81.