The morning call., 1895-02-14
SENATE DAILY ROUTINE.
The SCALPERs' BILL PASSED BY A
MAJORITY VOTE.


SACRAMENTO, Feb. 13.-The scalpers' bill
passed the Senate finally to-day by vote
of % to II. Burke attacked the bill bit
terly. Back of what he said by his words
was a more forceful meaning. He declared
that the bill was not solely in the interests
of railroad conductors as has been claimed
but it was directly railroad measure.
Under its provisions if a man gave a ticket
which he had purchased to one of his fam
lily he made himself liable to the drastic
measures provided in the bill. The bill is
not what it pretends to be, he declared in
conclusion.
Senator Earl favored the bill. 1t afforded
the railroad company means of carrying
out wise regulations. The scalpers' bill
was passed by the following:
Ayes-Aram, Bert, Denison, Dunn, Earl,
Fay, Flint. Gleaves, Hart, Henderson,
Holloway, Hoyt, Linder, Martin, Meal
lister, MCGOWAN, Mitchell, Orr, Seymour,
Shine, Shippee, Toner, Voorheis-23.
Noes-Beard, Biggy, Burke, Franck, Ges-
ford, Langford, Mathews, Pedlar, Simpson,
Smith, Whitehurst, Withington-12.
The following were either absent or re-
Trained from voting: Arms, Androus, Ford,
Mahoney, Seawell.
Senator Burke changed his vote from no
to aye for the purpose of moving for re-
consideration tomorrow.
At the afternoon session of the Senate a
telegram was read, dated Port Costa from
|. J, Truman, announcing that 125 mem
Der of the Civic Federation were on their
way to urge the Legislature to Lexow San
Francisco. The delegation arrived at
about 80 o'clock.
Senator VOORHEES,, chairman of the FL
nance Committee, introduced a substitute
bill for the newspaper claims for advertis-
ing the constitutional amendments. The
claims, which aggregate $109, ,753 %, are re-
duced in the substitute bill to $4S, ,662. All
the claims of newspapers which published
the constitutional amendments in any
language other than English are dis
allowed, as it is claimed that the cons titu-
ton expressly forbids any such contract.
In scaling down the amounts, the COM
mittee which made up the substitute bill
allowed the morning papers of San Fran
cisco $4,000 each. and the afternoon papers
$2300. The Oakland papers are awarded
$1,000 each, the Los Angeles and San
Jose papers $500, those of Sacramento and
San Diego $1700, those of Fresno, Stock
ton and the Abend Post of San Francisco
$780, those of Marysville and Alameda
$1,000 those of Santa Rosa, Oroville,
Nevada and Grass Valley $3.50, those of
Red Bluff and Santa Cruz $500.
The Los Angeles Mirror and the Oakland
Enquirer were allowed $243 and 1904, re-
spectively. The smaller weeklies through
out the country were allowed sums ranging
from $125 to $3.50.
The Assembly joint resolution favoring
the free coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
was brought up in the Senate. 1t was
substituted and passed in the Assembly for
measure of like import introduced by
Senator VOORHEES, in the Senate, and passed.
The substitute condemns the issuance of
bonds to maintain the single gold standard.
Senator VOORHEES, was anxious to have the
resolution speedily adopted. Senator Ford
declared that he had an amendment to
offer, and Senator Gleaves wanted the free
coinage provision applied only to the
American product. The resolution was
made a special order for tomorrow.
An attempt was made to add another at
tache to the list by giving the Committee
on Judiciary second stenographer. The
vote stood 20 to 10 in favor of giving the
additional stenographer to the committee.
The chair ruled that it took three-ffths
vote to increase the number of attaches
and that the resolution was lost. Senators
Ford and MCGOWAN contended that this
ruling was not correct, and Senator Ford
took an appeal from the decision of the
chair. The chair was sustained by vote
of 26 to Z.
When Senator Langford's bill for the
subdivision of reclamation districts came
to vote the author forgot to vote when
his name was called, SO all the Senators
whose names follow his in alphabetical or
der voted mo- to rouse him from his reve-
rie. The Senator from San Joaquin jumped
to his feet at the conclusion of the rollcall,
and hastily asked to be recorded "aye." !"
''As the Senator has now shown confidence
in his bill by voting for it Iwish to be re-
corded ave." said one of the leaders in the
joke, and then they rose up from all quar-
ters of the room to be recorded in favor of
the bill.
Among the bills introduced to-day in the
Senate was one by Senator Earl, which
prohibits the raising of any foreign flag on
any State building in California.