The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-11

of-door employment for the men in the
stone quarries, which would be a vast inn
provemeut over the jute mill. Then there
is an opportunity for prison reform, and
the segregation of young men and boys
from the old and hardened criminals.
This is matter of some magnitude and
has been recommended by the Board OF
Prison Directors"
Senator McAllister says he proposes to
make fight, not from partisan point. but
as a business ropositioD, to reduce the
expenses of the Legislature a1d 10 cut
down the number of attaches and clerks.
Assemblyman Frank Powers has been in
conference for as much time as the general
excitement will permit with Spencer, who
expects to be chairman of the Assembly
Committee on Military Affairs. They are
cooking military bill that Is calculated TO
overturn the whole National Guard system
and strip the gold trappings from many a
State military figure. 1t contenplates the
reduction Of the guard to the very fewest
number possible within the limits OF
an effective force, meaning about one
regiment of infantry for San Fran
cisco and three or four for the
entire State. and looping off the re-
dundant list of. decorative and useless
officers. This done, it means to provide
for an appropriation for this body, sup
plying 1t with the very best equipment to
be secured, and providing for compulsory
drill service and discipline not now known
to the service. A special innovation, which
Powers suggests, will be a civilian check
upon the military, which is likely to cause
more opposition from the epanletted gen.
tlemen than any other. Powers theory is
that the militia, being subservient to the
civil authorities and the great body polite
paying the expenses, there should be some
means established of knowing whether
the colonies earn their money other than
simply taking their own word Tor H..
Hence. some qualified officer of county
will be required to make it so much OF his
business that he will be able 10 swear that
any certain company drilled certain
number Of hours each month, with re-
port OF the number of men present and
all that. OF course, there will be light
on that OF the bitterest kind.
Mr.. Powers has also TWO other bills
amending the code in such manner that
hopes may be entertained of securing con-
viction In very ugly class of crime. 1t
Is proposed to define as manslaughter the
treatment of any women with view OF
securing miscarriage. and which treat
ment, either by medicines or otherwise,
results III her death. Powers says all a.
tempts at securing conviction upon charges
IF murder in such cases have been 80 futile
that the law as it stands is nothing less
than a safeguard to such malefactors.
Ex-Supervlsor P. F. Dunbar Is here with
another boiler-insp ection bill, which he
says is relieved of all the Objectionable
features that have brought about the de-
feat OF lis many predecessors. He pre-
sen,s il as chairman of the uniform Stats
inspection laws at the convention Of the
American Boiler Assoeia-
ton" held in ST. Louis. The bill requires
the same certificate of rigid Inspection for
all Eastern and foreign boilers brought
into the State as is required for the home
manufactured article.