The morning call., 1895-02-20

as worthy OF CONSIDERATION as the res Olu
ton of the gentlemen from Yuba and San
Francisco. In the Ways and Means Com
mittee the bill of Judge Waymire is the
special order to be acted upon Wednesday
night. This shows that the bills are being
considered
The friends of the resolution insisted
upon its being reported back tomorrow
however, and said they thought that a
majority of the House was in sympathy
with them.
Laugenour at this point dashed their
hopes to nothingness by reminding the
chair that it required two-thirds vote to
force a committee to report bill out Of
order. Even had this rule not been in
existence the motion would not have
passed, as it did not receive even ma
jority of the votes cast.
When the matter of allowing the Mill
tary Committee to visit San Francisco was
brought up for consideration some little
opposition was exhibited. 1t did not have
long to live, however. Speaker Lynch
stated what was wanted, without making
any reference to the fact that there were
eleven members in the committee. Then
he announced. without any pause:
'If there is no objection it will be so or
dered."
A pause; SO slight that the directors had
not even time to rise in their seats, and the
gavel fell with:
$50 ordered"
And the junket was decided upon, while
the would-be projectors blinked at each
other in surprise.
L., 10 I'll IT,
Commissioner $4,000 year for investigat-
ing all fires that the District Attorney of
any county might deem suspicious in their
origin aroused a storm of opposition.
Bulla of Los Angeles said the bill, while
apparently in the interests of the insured,
was really giving the insurance companies
an extra adjuster at the cost of the State.
McKelvey of Orange saw in the new pow
ers of the Commissioner a dangerous ele-
ment. 1t made him dictator. The bill
was defeated, although an attempt may be
made to reconsider the action taken.
Two other insurance bills introduced by
Dinkelspiel, one making foreign insurance
companies deposit 100000 as bond with
the State Treasurer and the other enlarg-
ing the scope of the insurance companies
unanimous vote.
Bachman of Fresno had the bill appro-
priating $4,000 to enable the Board of Ex-
aminers to visit the different State institu-
tons resurrected. The bill, he showed,
would allow these officials to cut out all
unnecessary employees, to supervise work
and expenditures and would, he argued,
result in the reduction of the expenses of
these places. He made quick and con-
vincing argument that brought the House
to his way of thinking, and the bill was
passed, every one of the sixty members
present voting in the affirmative.
Among to-day's bills was one by the
Judiciary Committee making it easier to
convict man of vagrancy, and doubling
and trebling the penalty for succeeding
convictions.
The Committee on Retrenchment intro
duced bill providing that only Superior
Judges should be empowered to commit
child to a State reform school and that the
Judge should order the parents, when the
latter have the ability, to pay $11 month
into the county treasury, to help pay the
expense of supporting the child. The
counties are made to pay $132 year for
each child committed. They then have to
collect from the parents.
According to the rules an hour and
half was spent Immediately after the noon
recess in taking up the Senate bills for their
third reading and a large number We're
passed.
A bill forbidding druggists to give and
to receive commissions on pre-
scriptions was refused a third reading.
Later Laird of Modoc gave notice of his in
tention to reconsider.