The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-16
SOME LOCAL BILLS.

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SOME LOCAL BILLS.
Assen,bEynsGm Dale Has Some Ideas
1bout the Use of Hdterpower.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 15.-In the line of new
bills to be introduced at the present ses-
sion Assemblyman Dale of Kern County
has an important measure under consider
alton. 1t contemplates the seizure by the
State of the available waterpower in the
State for the heating, lighting and supply
ing with power of State institutions and
otherwise.
The idea is somewhat Bellamic for good
Republican, but he says there is money
enough in it to pay the expenses of run
ming the State. He gets his idea from the
State work at Folsom, performed by con-
Wet labor, and which will soon result in
the lighting of Sacramento by the power
from the dam. He says it is the best in
vestment the State ever made, but 900
horsepower is going to waste daily in Kern
River canyon alone, and which lies ready
to be utilized 1t is to employ this to run
factories that his bill will be directed.
Dale has another of these unpopular
measures for cutting salaries Of county Of
ticials-unpopular with the officials. The
Legislature was jobbed some years ago into
loading the taxpayers of Kern County with
salaries two and three times higher than
is paid to officials of counties having twice
the population, and it is his purpose to
have them cut down. He has another bill,
which viii probably be incorporated in
a general county government bill, which
fixes a maximum to fees to be granted to
Justices of the Peace and Constables and
which is intended to stop the wholesale ar
rests that are made of poor men travelling
the road and who are preyed upon, arrested
and rearrested, and even imported for the
81 So fee that is in it for Constable and
Judge.
Assemblyman Boothby of San Francisco
has a bill lifting the salaries of bailiffs of
Police courts to the same figure as those of
Superior courts, $3.50 month, and another
allowing the Justices of the Peace to ap-
point bailiffs. Another will put SANDER in
the category with libel and another will
make boxing contests legal if it becomes a
law.
Assemblyman Stanford OF Mendocino
will go in pursuit of the store order with a
bill requiring the big lumber operators of
Mendocino, Humboldt and Sonoma coun-
ties to pay their men in gold coin every
month. He says the business of the COM
munities mentioned is terribly handi-
capped for lack of money, as the men have
none and all traffic is carried on through
these orders. He has another bill allow
ing two teachers to communities having a
census of so pupils.
Judge Waymire will have several bills of
more than ordinary interest. One of them
will provide that the curriculem of the
public schools be fixed and regulated by
the Regents of the State University as
head of the educational department of the
State, and thus secure uniformity through
out all the counties, and put the pupils on
an equal footing in their progress toward
the university itself. Another of his bills
will provide for there being always GER
tain percentage of holdovers among the
trustees of high schools, so that at no time
will those institutions find themselves in
the hands of wholly new and untried set
of trustees, as is so often the case now.
Still another measure is directed toward
the good of the public schools. 1t is the
owned by the State amounting to about
million acres, and their improvement
and subsequent sale for the benefit of the
public-school fund. Several plans for the
irrigation and improvement of the land are
suggested, but that is a matter of detail
and will follow in due course. 1t is rather
remarkable how much interest is being
manifested in the public schools and how
many members have bills looking to some
correction or addition to the system.
Assemblyman O'Day of San Francisco
has a bill which will require that in all
readers used in schools above the eighth
grade the constitution of the United States
and the Declaration of Independence and
constitution of California shall be printed.
Just 200 bills were introduced in the
Senate to-day, which is one of the heaviest
records ever made by legislative house
on the first day devoted to embryo legisla-
ton. Many of these bills have old familiar
faces with ears cropped by suggestive legis-
lations.
There is everything in the nature of a
bill, from measure to prevent the sale
and manufacture of cigarettes to those ap-
propriating hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for State institutions. There is the old
Conlin bill, appropriating between $4,000
and $4,000 for private claim; Jordan's
relief bill, which has come up at every
session and narrowly escaped passage al
several, and claims varying in amounts
from $175 upward. Quite number Of
these measures have been outlined in de.
tail in the last few days.
In addition to the bills there are num-
Der of proposed constitutional amendments
and several Joint resolutions memorable
ing Congress upon various topics. Senator
Aram introduced the first bill. Senator
MCGOWAN posed as the ladies' champion
with bakers dozen of measures which
propose to confer suffrage upon women
! Two are his own measures. The rest Were
introduced at the request of various advo
Gates of equal suffrage. Just seventy-twt
bills were introduced before the noon re
cess, the remainder came with a rush il
the afternoon.
Senator Simpson of Los Angeles claims
the record for legislative multiplicity, witt
some fifty and odd bills. The Senator