The record-union., 1895-03-11
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
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shall have powerto lease for a period not
exceeding fifty years, at rental not ex-
ceedlng LOCO per anffum, to any railroad
| corporation incorporated in this State
and not having, at the date of the passage
OF this ACT, any terminal facilities in the
! city and county OF San Francisco anv
land belonging to the State, which is
required tor said purposes, which lies
adjacent or contiguous to any public
| street or streets, designated upon the
official map of the city and county of San
Francisco; provided, that but one parcel
OF land shall be leased to any one railroad.
nor shall said parcel exceed in area fifty
| (0O) acres, with access thereto and right of
way through one or more convenient
street or streets, forming, however, but
one continuous right OF way, with double
! track; provided, that a condition shall be
| inserted in said lease that said corpora
| ton or corporations shall proceed within
! six months from the date OF said lease to
| improve said premises for said purposes
and proceed thereafter with reasonable
diligence to construct such improve
ments. and In the event of failure TO i'm
prove the same, or some part thereof, with
in the time specified said lease shall be for
| felted; provided further, that none of said
| leases shall be approved or executed I'M
| less by consent Of a ma jority of said Board
OF State HarpOr Commissioners, and for
/ said purposes last named the Governor Of
county of San Francisco, eX of1icio MEM
bers of said board, are hereby constituted
members thereof; with like powers and
rights as other members of said board"
Powers spoke at length III favor OF his
amendment. During his remarks Cutter
asked ii it did not shut out the Atchison,
| Topeka and Santa t'e road from obtain
! ing terminal facilities. Powers said he
would answer the question, but not on
the floor of the House at present.
North moved that a committee of one
be appointed 10 amend the bill by pro-
! viding that the lease shall not be assigna
BILE. He did not want a road to get privi-
! leges at small cost and then sell out to
some other company.
| Powers said the amendment would be
no safeguard, as ways could be found TO
evade 1t. He would, however, accept the
| amend ment.
Bulla offered an amendment to the
amendment, adding without the written
| consent of the State Board of Harbor
! Commissioners"
The amendments were adopted.
| Cutter moved to recommit to a select
! committee with instructions to amend by
! striking out the provision shutting out
| corporations not incorporated in this
| State.
Reid moved to refer the bill back to
/ the Committee on Commerce and Nayi-
cation for amendment. He said he did
not believe in selling our birthrig ht for
a mess of pottage. 1t was said yesterday
that the amendment to the bill which has
/ been adopted was 10 permit one lease of
special piece OF property. That may be
all right, but he was not IN favor of Civ
| ing the Harbor Commissioners the right
to lease htty acres to dozen parties for
$1,000 a year each. The California cor
poration which gets the lease can go out
four miles and connect with any foreign
| railroad. The bill does not say what i'm
provements are to be made on the land
leased, though it has been argued here
that from $780, 900 to S750, 900 will be ex-
pended on terminal depot. The people
OF the State have given away enough.
/ Don't allow the HarDOr Commissioners
to give away the whole of the waterfront
to a congiomeration OF corporations COM
posed OF the selfSame men. State in the
bill what piece of land is to be leased and
| what improvements are to be made and
he would vote for the bill, but this bill is
a hydra-headed monster.
The people of Oakland are tied down
because their birthright on the water
front was sold for nothing. Before fifty
years from now, when the lease is to ex-
pire, San Francisco will be city of III ore
than ,OOO, 900 inha bitants and some OF it's
best property will be tied up by such
leases for 81, 900 year. What is there to
prevent the men who get the lease from
running a street railroad to the land
leased thus making il a railroad terminal
and using the land for other pur-
poses? Let us vote down this bill even
! If we have to kill the competing railroad.
which he hoped we will not have TO do.
\ Cutters amendment was lost-ayes 2,
I noes 50, and the bill sent to the printer.
4 5. 3. $50, TO appropriate So, coo for re-
pairs and Improvements upon the
grounds of the State Insane Asylum at
Agnews, and 5. b. 129, to appropriate
Lion building for the use and occupancy
of the officers, employees and patients Of
the Mendocino Asylum; to purchase fur
ture and furnish the building so to be
erected by the directors OF said asylum
etc, were considered in Committee OF the
Whole and recommended for passage.
At Laird's request, his motion to re-
consider the vote by which a. B. 2S9 was
refused a second reading. went over till
Monday.
The following bills were read the Sec
ond time, considered in Committee of the
! Whole and recommended for passage:
>. b. l53, to provide for the organiZa-
ton, incorporation and government of
| townships; ). b. 53, relating to assign
ments tor the benefit Of creditors; 5. B.
80. relating to fraudulent instruments
and transfers; S. B. l9i, to appropriate
money for the erection and equipment Of
additional buildings for the accOmmoda
ton School OF Industry at lone, Amador
County.
The following bills were considered in
! Committee of the Whole and recom-
mended for passage, and the report was
adopted:
5. b. 627, relating to the keeping open
and conducting OF barber shops, hair
dressing establishments, and bath
houses on Sundays and legal holidays.
:. B. 1879, an Act authorizing municipal
corporations to dispose of surplus water
along the line of their water supply out
side of their corporate limits; to join
| with other persons, corporations and Irri-
CATION districts in developing water, and
empowering the legislative authority of
such municipal corporations to execute
such powers.
5. b. 30, relating to defrauding pro-
prietors and managers OF hotels, inns,
restaurants, boarding houses and
! lodging houses.
S. b. l03, making an appropriation to
pay the deficiency in the appropriation
for the support OF the State Normal
School at Los Angeles for the forty
sixth fiscal year.
s. b. $50, making an appropriation to
pay the deficiency in the appropriation
for the transportation of insane for the
forty-fourth fiscal year.
5. b. 669, appropriating the sum of
So, 900 for the care and improvement OF
the grounds, library and museum, and
purchase OF books, maps, globes, models
and sloyd tools Tor the use of the State
Normal school at Los Angeles. Cal.
s. b. 647, making an appropriation to
pay the salary OF tho Secretary to the
Debris Commissioner for the remainder
of the forty-sixth fiscal year.
>. b. 64S, making an appropriation to
pay the salary of the Debris Commits
sioner for the remainder of the forty