The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-18

to live up to their rule providing for the
opening of daily sessions at $50 A. NJ.
Speaker Lynch called the Assembly to
order right on time and there was almost a
full attendance.
A large number of new bills were intro
duced. Among the bills most likely to
! attract attention was one by Bledsoe fixing
the maximum rate of interest to be charged
by any bank or individual at per cent,
and another by Bledsoe limiting the daily
work in sawmills to ten hours; one by
Ewing providing for the holding of joint
primary elections of all political parties
under the Australian system, and another
by Cutter providing for the election of a
separate Superior Judge for each of the
counties OF Yuba and Sutter. Bledsoe
offered four joint resolutions, one petition
ing Congress for the erection of Govern
ment building at Eureka for the accom-
modation of the Land Office, Customs
Office and Postoffice; another protesting
against the passage of the Reilly funding
bill and demanding a foreclosure of mort
cages against the Pacific railroads.
All members of the Legislature found on
their desks to-day pamphlets, presented
with the compliments of Mayor Sutro.
The pamphlets were entitled Memorial
Against the Refunding of the Claim of the
United States Upon the Central Pacific
Railroad Company for $77 ,0OO." With
the pamphlets were circulars containing
Sutros ''Timely Warning" to citizens of
California, sent out January Ia, also
copy of dispatch received by Sutro, show
+Io4 Ho CA1oro1o T Ill L
adopted resolutions asking that the Cen
trail and Union Pacific railroads be thrown
into the hands of receivers.
Bledsoe's resolution against the ''well"
caused another storm in the Assembly. It
came up with McKelvey's resolution de-
manding an investigation of the Bledsoe
charges that liquor was being sold there.
Dixon sought to squelch the whole mat
ter by moving to lay McKelvey' s resolution
on the table. This motion was defeated by
a vote of 90 to II. Bledsoe voted against
the motion.
Dodge arose to inquire whether Bledsoe
had made any specific charge that liquor
was being sold in the basement of the
Capitol with the knowledge and consent of
the Secretary of State.
bleuSOe TelOTJeQ ludI all the Ola men,
bers of the Legislature, including Dodge,
knew well enough what the ''well'' was
and that liquor was sold there. Bledsoe
declared that it was notorious that A. J.
Rhodes, Republican boss of Sacramento,
was proprietor of this saloon, and that any
claims of it being restaurant were simply
a blind under which the saloon was
operated.
He intimated that the investigation pro-
posed by McKelvey would amount to moth
ing. He said: II have no faith in an or
dinary Republican as chairman of that
committee, and" He was interrupted bv
half dozen points of order and the AS
sembly was thrown into confusion. Bled-
soc retorted that if his coat did not fit no
one need to try to put it on. Bettman
then asked that Bledsoe's words be taken
down by the clerk.
None of the clerks could write what
Bledsoe had said, and finally the member
from Humboldt repeated his words. Con-
tinuing he said: "But on account of all
these foolish objections | was unable to
finish what had to say, which was that I
had no faith in an ordinary Republican as
chairman of that committee, because be-
lieve that should he run across the fact that
A. J. Rhodes, the Republican boss of Sac
ramento, was proprietor of the saloon, he
would get weak in the knees and nothing
would come of it," Bledsoe finally sub
sided, having had his full say.
The resolution to investigate was adopted.
Weyse of Los Angeles is retreneher and
yed