The morning call., 1895-02-07
SEVENTEEN BILLS In THE SENATE.
The San Francisco BARRIERS Ask for a
Sunday.Clesing Act.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 6-Seventeen bills
were introduced in the Senate to-day.
Senator Mathews, who had introduced a
bill to repeal the act for selling franchises
to street railroads, telegraph and telephone
companies, sent up to the clerks desk a
measure intended to take the place of this
bill and to amend the law in conformity
with the desire of Southern California mu-
inequalities.
Senator Orr introduced bill authorizing
the State Library, whenever there is posses
sion in duplicate of lawbooks, to turn
over one copy to the Attorney-General.
A measure by Senator Franck makes a
change OF venue easier to obtain. 1t pro-
vides that where the convenience of wit
| nesses will be better subserved, where the
Judge is a relative of lawyer in the case
and where he is disqualified, trial
may be changed from one county to an
other.
Another bill by the same author gives
the Coroner of San Francisco four assis-
tants with salaries fixed respectively at
$125, 800, $50 and SIS, and astenographer at
a salary of $3.50. The third bill by Senator
Franck permits cemetery corporations to
invest requests in United States, State or
municipal bonds.
Senator Seymour introduced bill which
appropriates $4,000 to be used for the bene-
fit of discharged convicts, and calls for the
appointment of a State agent for the guild
ance to employment of discharged con-
victs.
Senator Fay introduced a bill which
6irpof1v q factc ha cboc of tho
courts of San Francisco. 1t provides that
the County Clerk shall assign clerks and
copyists to the departments of the court as
follows: One register clerk for each three
departments at a salary of $3.50 per month,
one courtroom clerk and one additional
register clerk for each Judge of the Superior
Court, at salaries of SIPS and 500 month
| respectively, one assistant clerk for each
six Judges at salaries of 500 month,
one copyist for each Judge, and one assis-
| tant copyist for each two Judges at salaries
of So day.
A second bill by Senator Seymour pro-
vides that the License Collector, instead of
the Assessor, shall collect poll taxes and
that such taxes shall be collected between
the first Monday in March and the first
Monday in the following January.
Senator Gesford introduced bill which
provides that no city or town lot shall be
leased for longer period than fifty years,
and another bill fixing the limit of leases
on agricultural lands at thirty years.
| A third bill by the same author provides
that County Supervisors, instead of County
Clerks, shall draw the grand and trial
jurors, and that these jurors drawn must
be men of integrity and intelligence.
| Senator McAllister introduced a bill
making it misdemeanor to keep barber
shops open after the noon hour on Sunday.
Three deficiency bills were introduced.
One by Franck calls for $4,000 for heating
and ventilating the Normal School at San
Jose. One by Hart appropriates $427s Sc
for the transportation of the insane. An
other by the same author asks for 1925 26
| for transportation of children to the
! Reform School.
| Senator Burke introduced a bill by which
errors in assessment rolls may be more
readily corrected.