The record-union., 1895-03-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.

Prices Baking Powder at the Midwinter
Fair, because it's absolutely pure.
VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions Of some of the Newspapers
of Interior California.
bakersfield Californian
There can be no question as to the
maintenance of the right of free speech i'll
will be upheld by every good American
citizen.
PATCH WORK.
Riverside Press.l
The absurdity of making a State Con-
stltutlon anything more than statement
OF general principles upon which legisla-
ton may be based is shown by the ever
lasting constitution patching INDUCED by
every Legislature. The evil is growing
one.
POSSIBLY.
Stockton independently
A deluging rain that would make the
roads impossible again might cause the
Legislature to pass good road bill.
WHAT? THERE, TOO?
[Chico independently
San Jose has entered into an investi-
cation of the dens of wickedness to be
pecting to see them. This is a good work.
There is no safety to the boasted civiliza-
tion OF America until the corruption of
our cities is made to cease.
HASHED.
santa Rosa Democrat
The proposed uew road law, with many
provisions recommended by the Road
was hashed in the Assem- bly,
on Wednesday. The Road Convention
cost its mem Ders not less than four or
five thousand dollars. not counting time,
and for all the good it did the money
might as we'll have been thrown into the
sea. 1t is truly discouraging; individu-
ally the members seemed to appreciate
the absolute necessity of an improved
road law, but when tney come to act col
lectlvely every remedial feature Of the
bill prepared by the Road Convention is
or so changed as to be in
effective. No wonder the people look
upon the assembling of a State Legisla-
ture as a calamity.
a LESSON.
Oakland Tribune1
There ought to be lesson worth learn.
ing to Oakland in the following para
graph which is going the rounds of the
press:
"Fayette County, KY, has improved
its towns that adjoining counties will be
compelled to improve their roads to save
their trade"
WITH A FEW CORRECTIONS.
alameda Telegram.
1t comes with i'll grace from Tai peace
ofhcerLsI OF Sacramento, who did nothing
to suppress the strikers in July, to ap-
pear in court now and declare that
there was no need of the military
at the Capital, and that it's pres
ence goaded the strikers to acts o.
violence. OF course, the strikers
never interfered with himl in the per-
tormance OF Lhisl duty, because [hel never
attempted to perform his duty and SC
failing gave credence to the general senti-
ment that Lhel was in sympathy with the
strikers.
THE POWERS BILL.
Los Angeles Express
The Powers bill gives all the powers
to Grand jury 1t can possibly need. 1t
lets each community pay the bill of its
own house cleaning. 1t is, therefore,
just and equitable to all parties. 1t al
lows each county to say when it wants
an investigation, and does not force d
community to make a scandal when il
has none, so there will be something tC
Investigate.
AS happy solution of difficult prob
lem the bill should be passed, and Mr.
Powers complilnented tor having sug.
geSted 1t.
THE STATE FAIR.
Bridgeport Chronicle Union
The Assembly has refused by larg,
vote to make appropriations for a State
and District Fairs for the next two years
We expected this much for the Distric
Fairs, but the Assembly went a little too
ia tn -
fused to aid the State Fair. The appro-
priation to that institution goes back tC
the agriculturIst and mechanic in the
shape OF premiums for their fine produc.
tions and mechanical skill and inventions
and is money we'll spent in the interest
OF our State industries. There has been d
hue and cry from San Francisco and some
other parts of the State, but notably from
San Francisco. against the State Fair anC
We believe Notwithstanding the antagon
isms of that city goodly portion of the
appropriations from the State has gone tC
residents OF that city In the matter of pre-
miumS Tor exhibits of merit. Every State
in the Union has an annual State Fair
and no State profits more through such
fairs than California has, by exhibiting
TO the thousands Of tourists who visit ouI
State every summer who gaze upon The
grand exhibit OF the diversified resource:
them.
THE PELTON CLAIM.
Alameda Encinall
The Sacramento Board of Education
has indorsed and is urging the claim o
Professor J. G. Pelton before the Legisla
ture, for the pltiful sum OF 81 500. Its ac.
ton was unsolicited, but was the result
of conviction on the part of the mem Der;
OF the board that California owes this ole
man, in his decline, an honest debt anC
ought to pay it. In that view, the mon
ey. if ordered. will not be in any sense
gratuity nor charity, for Mr.. Pelton ex
pended more than the sum named, anC
mortgaged his home to get it, that the
initial school system of the State ShoulC
not be suspended or delayed in its bene
cence.
REFORM BY GRAND JURY.
Santa Cruz sentinel.
The proposition to enlarge the powers
of the Grand Jury and permit that body
to carry on its Investigations with oper
doors, is worthy of serious consideration
The design OF those who have proposed
the change is to clothe the Grand jury
with the power usually given to commit.
tees appointed to investigate charges o
official corruption and other offense!
difficult to reach by the ordinary lega
processes. In other words, it is proposed
to turn the Grand Jury into a sort of per.
manent "LeXow" inquest.
Without Internationally indorsing the
proposed change, we can perceive in i
some commendable features. For ont
thing the Grand Jury would afford :
means of investigating those vague anc
indefinite rumors and reports of officia
malfeasance which are always floating
about. but which are scarcely ever exam.
ined.
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