The record-union., 1895-03-15
SENATE.

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the
Senate was called to order by President
pro tenn. Flint
The roil-call showed aquorum present.
Prayer was offered by the Chaplain,
Rev. @. a. Ottmann.
On motion of Senator McAllister. the
reading ofthe journal was dispensed with.
Senator Langford withdrew 5. BIS 262,
@53, l56, -, lOS, 80, 10, 747 and ;. c. Il,
-, all OF which he declared were good
bills, but that the Senate did not seem in
cIned to put through bills of that descrip-
ton,
a resolution by Seymour was adopted,
making all Assembly bills upon the Sem
ate ME cases OF emergency.
SPECIAL ORDERS.
a. B. 669, by Dinkelspiel, prescribing
how judgments. which may be recovered
against any city and county of over lOO.-
600 population, shall be paid, was read
the rrst and second times, amended and
ordered printed. and made a special order
Tor this morning.
Los ANGELES RAILROADS,
s. B. s75, by Mathews, to authorize
counties Of the second class to build rail-
roads, and to lease or operate the same.
was taken up under the motion to recon
slider The vote by which il was passed
McGowan handed in an explanation of
why he should vote no, and asked that it
be spread upon the journal. 1t was so
ordered.
Pending the roll-call, call of the
house was ordered, but dispensed with
lew minutes later, and the Senate recon
sidered the passage OF the bill by a vote
Of 10 TO l6.
\. b. 81, by Brusie, to appropriate the
sum Of 81, 500 to pay the claim of T. Carl
Spelling against the state, was read the
first second and third time and passed
py a vote OF p 10 ,
LABOR BUREAU RETAINED.
s. B. 265, by Langford TO repeal an Act
70 establish and support a Bureau Of
Labor Statistics, and the Act amendatory
thereof, was taken up and read the third
time.
a wearisome debate followed. which
was participated in by nearly half the
mem bers OF the Senate. Nothing new
was adduced, however, and nothing
breezy occurred, except when Mathews
OF Los Angeles denounced The men upon
the floor OF the Senate who advocated
every cinch bill that came up, and op-
pos ed every measure that might benefit
the labOriug man. He desplsed those
men, and he despised their manner of
proceeding, and he should vote to repeal
the oil, knowing that the laboring men
oI MS district would stand by him in his
action upon the matter.
Inc bill was finally refused passage by
vote OF Is TO 23, and so far as the Senate
Is concerned the bureau OF Labor Sta
tistics" will be continued.
); Is. o62, by. Linder, to amend an Act
Authorizing The lncurring of indebted
ness by cities, towns and municipal cor
porations incorporated under the laws of
this State: for the construction OF water
works, sewers aud all necessary public
improvements, or for any purpose what
ever, ana TO repeal an Act to authorize
municipal corporations OF the fifth class,
containing more than 3 200 and less than
10000 Inhabitants, TO obtain water works:
also to repeal an Act authorizing the in
curing of Indebtedness by cities. towns
and municipal corporations INCORPORATED
under the laws of this State, having been
read the third time, was passed by q vote
of 80 to Q.
BARRIER SHOP BILL
On motion of Senator McAllister. the
Senate concurred in the Assembly
amendment to ). Il. 81, relative TO the
closing OF barber shops on Sundays and
holidays.