The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-07

without Directing. North of Alameda,
Bledsoe of Humboldt and Bulla and Bach
man all favored a reduction, and as a re-
suit, the recommendation of the commit
tee was not adopted.
The Senate recommendation, that the
rent allowance of the Railroad Commits
sioner be raised from $1,000 to 5000, was
concurred in by the conference committee,
but the members of the Assembly did not
relish the raise. Members of the confer
ence committee protested against it and it
was voted down.
The Senate's appropriations amounting
to $4,000 for the State Horticultural Soci-
ETY. and another of $500 for the State
Viticultural Society were stricken out by
vote.
An attempt was made to have the House
refuse to concur in the reduction made by
the conference committee in the Senate's
allowance for the militia. The Assembly
fixed the figure at S185,0O0. The Senate
raised it to $225000. The conference COM
mittee took off the $4,000 and the House
concurred in this action.
Most of the other raises of the Senate
were calmly accepted.
Again the House lost its temper at the
evening session. This time it was over the
fish and game law. Dixon of San Fran
cisco was in the chair. He had overlooked
Reid of Trinity, who wanted to introduce
an amendment, and finally ruled him out
of order, when the latter wished to give
notice of an intention to reconsider.
Reid worked himself into passion and
yelled: 81 desire to say this much if the
Speaker of this House don't know the
rules of this House or any other house /"
But what he would do or say was lost in
the changer of the Speakers gavel and the
shouts of the members of Point of order"
Then Bulla of Los Angeles arose and told
the chair that he believed the gentleman
from Trinity had a right to give intention
to reconsider bill even if it had been Or
dered to the Senate. Mr.. Reid's notice
was then entered on the journal.
When the bill was read Powers moved
the appointment Of a committee of one to
amend the bin by striking out the clause
except salt marsh lands from the clause
which protects from trespassers all private
property except when that property is salt
marsh.
Belshaw of Contra Costa, while he was
sorry for the poor hunter, who was barred
from the wealthy mans property, thought
the latter should be protected in his rights.
McKelvey argued that the titles of the
gun clubs were illegal. Bachman also pro-
tested against protecting the preserves of
the wealthy clubs, asserting that it was not
fair to make the farmers of Solano County
feed the geese for these city dudes to
shoot.''
Bassford of Solano County made a strong
appeal for the provision in question. He
said the laws as they stood at present had
never been enforced. The ducks fed on
the grain of the farmers at night and go
back to the marshes in the day time, and
yet in spite of this ii they went on the
thousands of acres of marsh lands to shoot
any of these ducks they were arrested.
But the amendmentwas lost.
Reid of Trinity then tried to. get in an
amendment making it a misdemeanor to
hunt deer with dogs.
The chair ruled him out of order though,
and the bill was passed by vote of 81 to 3.
Then his attempt at reconsideration was
ruled out of order in spite of his efforts at
being heard.
When the session opened the speaker
reminded the members of the House that
there was but one more day for work. The
Assembly buckled down to their labors
and not only cleared up the emergency file
but attended to a number of other bills.
When the matter of the appointment
the San Francisco Board of Health came
up Bachman of Fresno presented an
amendment to have the Governor do the
appointing. This was such an evident at
tempt to give more patronage to the Gov
ernor that it was voted down by vote of
43 to 10.
When the county division bill of Judge
Davis of Tulare was reached, Reid of
Trinity reminded the House that the bill
had been defeated to-day in the Senate, and
the author withdrew it.
Powers bill to enlarge the powers of
Grand Juries was dug up out of the gen
eral file. A number of minor amendments
were added and it was placed on the
| second reading file