The morning call., 1895-01-26
was ample time to pass the resolution on

was ample time to pass the resolution on
Tuesday, Senator Mathews said:
"The funding bill is apt to come up to-
day, tomorrow or Monday in Congress.
We cannot pass this resolution, if the de-
lay is granted, before noon on Tuesday.
The relays at San Francisco, Chicago and
elsewhere will consume an hour, at least,
in wiring this resolution to Washington.
The difference in time is four hours, so
that 4 P. NJ. is the earliest hour the resolu-
ton could reach Washington if passed
here at II o'clock noon of Tuesday. And,
then, to do this we would have to have the
Governor work like telegraph instrument
in sending it on to Washington. If it gets
there at 6 o'clock it will make good time.
The phraseology of this resolution does not
matter. / am willing to make the resolu-
ton as short as possible. We do not need
to make it contain the earth Just say the
Senate disapproves of the Reilly funding
bill.'
Senator McAllister called attention to the
fact that the Assembly had adjourned. 1t
had already passed an anti-funding reso-
luton. Why could not the Senate concur
in that resolution now?
Senator Aram favored the MCGOWAN
resolution, and thought time should be
given to its consideration.
The resolution was made special order
for Tuesday by the following vote:
Ayes-Aram, Androus, Beard, Bert,
Denison, Dunn, Ford, Franck, Hart, Hoyt,
Linder, Mahoney, Martin, MCGOWAN,
Mitchell, Orr, Seymour, Shine, Shippee,
Simpson, Smith, Toner, Withington-23.
Noes-Arms, Biggy, Burke, Earl, Fay,
Gesford, Holloway, Matthews, McAllister,
Pedlar, Seawell, VOORHEES,, Whitehurst-13.
A resolution by Senator VOORHEES, was
adopted requesting the Inaugural Ball
Committee to give each page a ticket to
the ball for himself and lady.
resolution was introduced allowing
the Committee on Public Buildings other
than prisons to visit the State institutions
in Southern California. This brought SEN
ator Burke to his feet, who said:
SIT looks like junketing expedition. 1t
is charged by the people of the State and it
is held over our heads by the press of the
State that these trips are junketing expedi-
tions. do not speak as a Democrat but as
a member of the Senate when | say that
would like to see the Republican party get
the glory of stopping these trips. will
give the majority in this body my support. y
The resolution went over until Tuesday
Senator Orr introduced resolution that
the committees which went on these trips
should be allowed no mileage but Just their
actual expenses, and this brought about
spirited argument. Senator Martin made
one of his characteristic talks asking, if
this resolution was adopted, whether he
would have to file an itemized statement OF
what his drinks, his breakfasts and his
dinners cost. Senator Seymour declared
himself in accord with Senator Orr. The
committeeman are wined and dined by the
people of the State. When Senator Martin
went to Southern California two years ago
the expenses of the committee were be-
tween $500 and 500. Sand when we tried
to find out what had been accomplished, -
continued Senator Seymour, 1--WE had
Senator Martin S word for it that after they
got 100 miles from the city they were in no
condition to make any report. am op-
posed to junketing trips"
This statement was resented by Senator
Mathews, who declared that much good
had been accomplished by the committee
which went to Whittier. 81 do not want
it to go out to the people of California that
the committee was in a muddled condition
from the excessive use of liquor" said Sen
ator Mathews. ''It is not truen
After a somewhat exhausting speech by
Senator Martin, who praised the ladies of
Southern California, but who added that if
it were not for them he would be perfectly
willing to let such men as came from the
south, set up government for themselves.
Senator Ford took the floor and denounced
the insinuations made against the COM
mittee.
The committee could only make proper
reports by visiting the State institutions.
To deny them this right was to save at the
spigot while wasting elsewhere. A few
hundred dollars might be saved in this