The record-union., 1895-03-13
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
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Superior Court Judges of the counties,
and fixing the responsibilities from
which commitments are made to the
State for maintenance of the persons
committed therefrom; providing Tor ths
manner of payment thereof, and hxlDg
the responsi pility of the parents to the
counties from which their children are
committed be substituted for A. b. 79I,
to abolish the State Board of Horticult-
ure, as there was so much opposition to
the latter that he thought it could not
pass. The substitution was made. A.
THE WATERFRONT BILL.
The reconsideration of the vote by
which S. B. 709, concerning the water
front of the city and county Of San Fran
cisco. and to confer further powers upon
the Board of State Harbor Commission
ers was passed, was called up, and Reid
smoke in favor of reconsideration, saying
that he had yesterday pointed out the de-
feots in the bill and tried to throw proper
safeguards around the lease of the lands
in question. The bill was clearly uncon-
stitutional, and he hoped it would be re-
considered.
Dwyer wished to know if Reid had not
been consulting with attorneys of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company and
Reid said he had not. but would in re-
turn ask the gentleman If some OF the
value of which would be affected by the
passage of the bill.
Bettman said that he had lots that
would be affected, but they were not for
sale.
Reid said that the gentlemen had better
look to their own records and leave him
to look after his own. They had yielded
to popular clamor and done what within
five years will bring down on their heads
the Indignation of the people OF the State.
He thought a man should be man and
not allow himself to be swayed or
changed from his convictions by popular
clamor.
In two years more another corpora
ton will be asking the Legislature for
similar privileges, and in few years the
State will have lost all control OF the
water front. Men work for their own
interests and put their money where they
can earn money with it. 1t is Idle to say
that any man will invest a half-million
purely for the benefit of the people. He
had never come in contact with men who
were constituted in that way.
The proposition at first was that the
road would be built, and no conditions
were made. Now its projectors try a
bluff and say that it will not be built u D.
less they are given property worth mill
ions. The Constitution says that the State
shall not give aid to corporations. and
this bill Is in violation of that provision.
b g was in favor of the road and hoped it
would be built, and that the use of this
land will be given to it, If it can be done
consttutlonalIy and with proper safe
guards thrown around it. He hoped the
motion to reconsider would prevail.
Brusie said that not twenJy-tour hours
had elapsed since the bill was passed, and
he did not know of any reason why
members should have changed their
minds on the subject in that time. The
House had passed the bill by an over
whelming majority, and it stands as the
deliberate action of the House. While
he was in the minority, he hoped the mo-
ton would not prevail.
The motion was lost-ayes 8, noes 81. -
~ A. B. sol, making an appropriation to
pay the claim of Louise Rienzi for serv-
ices rendered the State Board of Silk
Culture as Secretary, instructress and
silk expert, from Decembe u. 1887, to
April 2, 1887, at SS7 80 per month, was
amended by a committee of one by strik-
ing out 1857 90 per month" and sent to
the printer.
A. b. 694, appropriating money to pay
the claim of the State Agricultural So
ciety, was amended in the enacting clause
and sent to the printer.
Substitute tor s. B. 2, to pay the claim
of D. h. Wyckoff, was considered in
Committee of the Whole and amended
and sent to the printer
Berry moved to reconsider the vote by
which a. 3. SOL, to provide Tor the dis
posal of the Home for the Adult Blind
at Oakland, Alameda County, the transfer
of the inmates to the premises lately oc-
cupled as home for feeble-minded in
Santa Clara, and for the Improvement
OF the same, was passed. The motion was
lost and the bill ordered transmitted to
the Senate.
a. c. a. 49, proposed amendment to
Article XIII. of the Constitution, rela-
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empts SOU worth of personal property
from taxation, was taken up and passed
ayes 56, noes 3.
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.
A. B. 479, relative to registration OF
voters, was read the second time, amended
and ordered to third reading
Spencer asked that a. 3. 751, the pri-
mary election law, be read the second
time, and it was so ordered.
A large number of amendments were
offered by mem bers, the provision allow
ing Boards OF Supervisors in the coun-
ties outside Of San Francisco to appoint
election officers exciting considerab de-
bate.
In his remarks Spencer said that poll
ticlans Of the State had been consulted
among others, and that the committee
had listened to all citizens who wished
to be heard.
Reid asked him to name some of the
politicians, and when Spencer named
Kelly among others, Reid asked if it was
Martin Kelly. Spencer answered that il
was, and Bledsoe jumped up and moved
to strike out the enacting clause.
The motion was lost-ayes II, noes 80.
The discussion was resumed, and mem
bers OF the committee explained that
Kelly came before the committee lust as
other citizens did.
At 1890 P. NJ. the Assembly took a re-
cess till 1:30 P. NJ.