The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-12
TELEPHONE BILL KILLED.
Los Angeles County Bond Bill
Passed, but Will Be Re-
considered.
THE REFORM BILL ATTACKED
Senator Earl Led the Fight Against
1t and Acrimonious Person.
alities Followed.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 1.-THE two
topics of oratory and debate in the Senate
to-day were Mathews bill granting Los
Angeles County the privilege to bond itself
for railway building, and the bill which
gives the State Board of Examiners super
visory power over the boards of State
charitable and penal institutions intended,
as its supporters claim, as q check on ex-
travagance. The County Government bill
occupied nearly the whole of the morning
session.
The exposure which the CALL made of
the Joker by which the Assessor was to
make per cent net on the personal taxes
collected, and which caused the San Fran
cisco delegation to amend the bill so far
as the provision affected the city and
county, caused a storm of country protests
to pour into the Senate this morning, and
nearly half the Senators offered amend
ments to exempt their counties from this
provision. The bill was finally passed and
sent to the Assembly.
The debate of the day was over the bill
fathered by the Assembly Committee on
Retrenchment and Reform which provides
that the Governor, boards of the prisons,
asylums, normal schools and reforma-
tories, and all commissions and persons
employing persons paid for wholly
or partly by State appropriations
or moneys which would otherwise
go to the State, shall report to the State
Board of Examiners the names of the per-
sons SO employed, with their services, their
salaries, and the necessity for their employ
ment. The bill further provides that
the State Board of Examiners shall
inquire as to the necessity for having
each employee, and shall fix the salary at a
rate not higher than would be paid for
private institutional employment of like
character. 1t is also provided that except
| in cases of urgency the local boards shall
employ no one without first reporting to
the State board Of examiners and receiving
| the authorization of that body.
Senator Earl led the attack upon the bill
which he declared would be blow at the
State University and the public schools.
! Senator Burke declared that Earl's argu-
ment was mere subterfuge. The bill did
! not include the university and the public
! schools, and if Senator Earl really feared
that it did he could offer an amendment
| =
Senator Wilmington hit Earl a verbal rap
| by declaring that his argument against the
bill convinced him that it would be wise
to vote for the measure. Senators Orr and
Buggy made speeches in support of the bill.
Senator Langford attacked Senator Earl,
declaring that he had had director of the
Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum sitting
by his side as lobbyist, and that he had
killed bill at that directors instigation.
To this Earl replied: II have seen no
one lobbying more on the floor of this Sen
ate than the directors of the Insane Asylum
in the district of the Senator from San Joa-
quin and to whom he introduced me on
the floor of this Senate. His high sound.
ing expressions had better be modified q
little"
When the vote was taken there was
good deal of lodging and a call of the Sen
ate followed, during which Earl went tc
Boards desk on an unsuccessful mission tc
get him to change his vote, and White
hurst was quite as unsuccessful in his visit
to Shippee's desk in trying to get him tc
vote at all. The bill was carried by the fol
lowing vote:
Ayes-Arms, Beard, Buggy, Burke, Dunn
Fay, Franck, Cleaves, Henderson, Hoyt, Lang
ford Mitchell, Orr, Pedlar, SeaweI, Seymour
Simpson, Toner, Voorhees, Whitehurst, With
| ington-21.
Noes--Aram, Androus, Bert, Denison, Earl
Hart Holloway, Under, Mahoney Martin
Mathews, MCGOWAN, Shine, Smith-14.
Failed to vote-Flint Ford, Shippee-3
Absent-Gessford, McAllister-2.
Earl changed his vote from no to ave
and will move for reconsideration to-mor
row.
After deal of discussion over Senator
Mathews bill, permitting Los Angelo
County to bond itself for railroad con
struction, the Senate voted to reconside
the action by which the bill was passed OF
Saturday. The vote stood "a for reconsid
Grafton to II against. The bill was made
special order for tomorrow.
On motion of Wilmington of San Diego
for the Judiciary Committee the state
ment of population of the various counties
) based on calculation from the guber
Material vote, was stricken out and ar
) arbitrary figure of population inserted
as given by each Senator. Thi
was done to meet Earls objection
urged Saturday evening as to the mode O
classification by population. Under tn
, adopted classification there are fifty-sevel
| classes, each county forming a class; Sal
Francisco first Los Angeles second, Ala
media third, Santa Clara fourth, Sacra
mento fifth, Sonoma, sixth, San Joaquin
seventh, San Diego eighth, Fresno ninth
San Bernardino tenth and so on to Alpin
t fifty-seventh.
Hart of Sacramento caused debate b
proposed amendment, which was lost, t.
have Supervisors in cities of the twenty
fifth class (Kern) name paper for otficia
advertising.
+ Another amendment by Hart carried
giving counties one extra deputy sheriff
and two extra county clerks for each add
3 tional Superior Judge. Amendments wer
r made following in the lead of the amend
ment by Buggy of San Francisco resulte
in giving Tax Collectors or Assessor
no commissions for personal property col
; lections but to make salaries payment i
full. The bill went to the printer and wa
made special order for Wednesday,
A bill was passed appropriating $500
: deficiency for putting in heating and ven
: tilating apparatus for the San Jose Norma