The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-28

noes.
The committee amendment increasing
the appropriation for the expenses of the
National Guard from SI65.000 to S200,0
was adopted.
TARGET PRACTICE.
Senator MCGOWAN created sensation
by offering an amendment to strike out
the appropriation allowing 5000 tor tar
get practice for the National Guard In
defense of the amendment, he stated that
the guard were of no earthly use for any
thing but ornament. He feared that if
given this amount of money for target
practice they might shoot themselves.
The guard had proved themselves entirely
worthless as State police force, and the
only casualties that had occurred during
the late strike had arisen from some
clumsy guardsman dropping his gun and
killing a citizen. He did not believe the
money should be given to the guard to
shoot at target that not one out OF 900
Of them could hit with q club. Such
practice, he said, was usually held on
Sundays, and those who participated
were usually loaded themselves.
Senators Wilmington, Mathews and Ped
lar spoke against the amendment, and in
sisted that target practice was absolutely
necessary to make the force of the guard
efficient for active service. They each
depored the ridicule heaped upon the
guard by Senator MCGOWAN, but were
willing to let ridicule go for what it was
worth.
The roll was called and the amendment
lost by vote OF ayes, % noes.
STATE SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS.
On the amendment to raise the amount
for printing school teXt-b books from So
900 to $40, eco, Senator Orr hoped the
amendment would not be adopted, as the
books III question were written by in
competent persons and forced upon the
people Of the State regardless of their
wishes, and was q crime committed
against the children Of the State. The
same position was taken by Senator
Wilmington.
Senators VOORHEES, and Smith thought
the present no time to attack the system
Of State school textbooks, and as long as
law remained upon the statute books
requiring the State Printer to print such
BOOKS, he should be given the funds
necessary for the purpose.
The roll was called and the amendment
making the increase was adopted by j
vote OF II to II.
The appropriation for the care of the
yosemite Valley, which the Ways and
Means Committee had recommended
placed at $4,000, carried a committee
amendment raising the amount TO S20,-
600. The roll was called and the amend
ment adopted by q vote OF % to II.
Senator McAuister offered an amend
ment striking out the appropriation of
IS, 600 to pay the salary of the Secretary of
the Commissioner OF Public " orks.
Senator Hart opposed the amendment,
stating that the Secretary of the Com
missioner Of Public Works had a great
deal of work to, and ii the office Of
| Commissioner OF Public Works was
to be pernetuated it was necessary that a
secretary be employed. The Senate re-
| fused TO adopt the amendment.
Senator Bert in the:chair.
Senator Seawell offered an amendment
increasing the appropriation for the sup
port OF the Nendociuo Asylum from
latter amount would be necessary for the
maintenance of the institution. The
amendment was adopted.
The committee amendment reducing
| the appropriation for the Whittier State
School from S250,00G to 100000, was
adopted.
| An amendment by Senator Y hitehurst,
increasing the amount for purchasing
furniture for the San jose Normal
I'SchoOI from 81, 800 10 s., 900, was adopted
President pro tenn. Flint in the chair.
ON motion of Senator Seaweli, the
! special order for + o'clock, being the con-
! sideration of the bill to regulate the hours
OF labor in logging camps, was made the
! special order for next Friday al o'clock.
Ike
Senator Hart offered an amendment
| providing for the appropriation of SO, 900
tor the ala Of the State Agricultural So
/ ciety, providing that the society shall
| gather and distribute statistics of the ag-
ricultural products Of the State.
In support of his amendment Senator
Hart.stated that the Agricultural Society
| had done more for the State than had any
other institution. The location OF the
society in Sacramento did not influence
/ HIM III the least, and he should be IL.
! favor OF such adequate appropriation
/ were the society located in the southern
/ portion OF the State. Ii the appropria-
ton was made any less than $40. 900 it
would SO cripple the society that the State
/ Fair would virtually amount 10 nothing.
! Senator Mathews agreed to everything
| said by Senator Hart, except thai $4,000
( be appropriated for the maintenance OF
| the state Fair at Sacramento and nothing
/ for other sections OF the State.
| On the amendment the roll vas called.
/ ana resulted III its adoption by a vote Of
! 70 to Is.
! Senator Gleaves changed his vote from
I no TO aye and moved that the vote nv
! which the amendment was adOutad he
reconSiuereu. The motion TO reconsider
/ was lost by vote OF IL ayes to 10 noes,
ON motion of Senator Gleavss. all spe-
clai oruers OF the day We're made the
| The clause appropriating $4,000 for the
inmates OF the eterans' Home at Yount-
! vile, providing that none OF SiIch mOnev
| ShalI DE used Tor maintaining an office at
any other place than NOuntyiIle. caused q
/ hot debate, in which Senators seymour.
| Oesiord ana McGowan took part. The
/ prOvlsO which was embOdied in an
/ amendment by Gesford, was finally
! passed, which completed the reading OF
! that section OF the bill carrying appro-
/ prlations.
Senator Hart moved a recess until 1870
p. NJ, but withdrew the motion to allow a
! number OF committee reports to be pre-
! senled.
| Senator Simpson offered resolution
! providing that IL. Clark and +. Cowan be
! appointed porters to the Ssrgeant-at-
/ Arms room at q per diem of ~ the same
to DO deducted propOrtiona'eIy from the
| pay OF each member and ,ttache of the
senate Inc resolution was referred TO
! the Committee on Attaches.
| y resolution by Senator Hart rrovi,7inr
that +. ). Brandon be allowed Sl3 40 for
! stamps and typewriting was referred to
| the Committee on Attaches
| a resolution by Hart providing that II.
| Clark, who had been gerformino the
| duties OF porter since January 18th. and
VINO hau received no pay for the same, be
aLoWed wages 1T the rate of S4adav from
/ that time, and that the Controller he di-
rected to draw his warrant for the same.
was also referred to the Committee on At
/ taches.
Senator Mathews introduced a concur
rent resolution, which was referred to the
committee on Federal Relations, relative
| 20 the invitation recently extended to the
! Governor and his STAFF to be present at
! the dedication Of the National Park at
| Chickamauga and Chattanooga, in the
State of Tennessee.
on motion, of Senator VOORHEES,. the
further consideration Of the general APP
preparation bill was made the special
order for O'Clock to-day,
| a l.5l n; tT,, .