The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-19
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES.


At 1915 the Senate adjourned until
Monday at2 M.
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES.
Speaker Lynch at Last Concludes to As,-
nounce His Selections.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1S.-The Assembly this
forenoon suspended the rules under the
provisions of the constitution and gave the
bill to revise the revenue laws great push.
This bill was reported from the Judiciary
Committee, with recommendation for ac-
ton, and in accordance with the report the
Dill was read the first and second time,
considered by committee of the whole and
will probably pass and go to the Senate to-
morrow or Monday. 1t provides an appro-
prlatlon of $4,000, which constitutional
lawyers ought not to have put IN the bill.
According to the provisions of the measure
three commissioners are to be appointed,
whose compensation shall be $40 day
each, and whose duties are to revise the
revenue laws of the State and report Dill
conforming to the revision, so that 1t may
pass and become a law during the present
session of the Legislature. The measure
meets the approval of the Governor, Con-
troller and State Board of Equalization.
In reply to inquiries as to the reason for so
much haste in this proposed legislation,
Controller Colgan said: Several sections
OF existing revenue laws conflict with each
other and some are in the statutes which
the Supreme Court has declared null and
void. Under the present system there Is
no way to redeem property sold for taxes.
Again, in assessing property county asses
sors cannot employ assistants. There
seems to be no doubt of the necessity Tor
revision and action at this session, but
many people wonder why a commission
should be created at cost OF $4,000 to do
the very work which lawyers are usually
elected to the Legislature to perform. The
Judiciary Committee assumes that its
members will be so thoroughly engaged IN
other work that this special duty, requ1r-
ing great care and attention, should be as
signed to a commission. After this branch
of the work is taken care of another COM
mission, whose term of office may extend
for years, will be required to carefully
codify all the laws"
Speaker Lynch, according to promise,
announces the standing committees OF the
Assembly to-day. The chairmanships
awarded to San Francisco embrace: Dixon,
Commerce and Navigation; Wilkinson,
Engrossed Bills; Bettman, Public Morals;
Boothby, Crimes and Penalties; Dayitt,
Public Printing; Dinkelspiel, Rules.
Powers is chairman of the San Francisco
delegation. Merrill did not get commit
tee Craftsmanship, but he is on Ways and
Means, Banks and Banking and Commerce
and Navigation. If San Francisco did not
get all her prominence as the metropolis
deserves there is cause for elation in the
knowledge that S. NJ. Bettman of the
Fourth District, residence 1866 Post street,
was designated as the chairman of the
Committee on Public Morals. This is
graceful acknowledgment from the
Speaker who halls from Southern Califor-
MIA, that the moral forces of the Legisla-
ture should be guided by San Francisco.
Mr.. Bettman received many congratula-
tons from his fellow-members. He left
Sacramento this afternoon for short
visit to his home III San Francisco, and
will doubtless receive from his constituents
as many expressions of confidence as he
could wish.
The full list of the standing committees
is as follows, the names of the chairmen
coming first:
observation-disclosures, Price, Butler, John
son, Holland and Sanford.
Attaches and Employes-Weyse, Nelson, Car
gill, Davitt and Devine.
Banks and Banking-Wade, Merrill, Keen,
Dixon, Bassford, Belshaw and Dwyer.
Claims-Gay, Kelsey and Zocchi
Constitutional Amendments Waymire,
Thomas Hatfield, Wade, Betman, Huler, Butler
and Coughlin.
Constitutional Observation-Disclosures Wade,
Thomas, Hatfield, Barker and Bachman.
Commerce and Navigation = Dixon, Keen,
Llewellyn, Fassett, Merrill, Price, Stansell,
wilkins and Twigg.
Counties and County Boundaries--Coleman,
Weyse, Spencer, Davis, Dale, Laird, Boothby, |
Stansen and Twigg.
Crimes and Penalties - Boothby, Hudson, |
Glass, Gay, Wilkinson, Laird and Healey.
Contested Elections-Huber Swisler, Thomas,
Pendleton, Zocchi, Bachman and O'Day.
Education-Johnson, Nelson, Rowell, Bel
shaw, Hall, Wade, North, wilkins and Holland. |
Engrossment-Mead,T ibbitts, Kenyon, Nc
Kelvey and Mcdonald.
Fruit and Vine Interests-Rowell, Staley, |
Hall, Johnson, Ash, stansell, Nelson, Robinson
and Langenour.
Fish and Game-Bassford, Llewellyn, Rowell, |
Swisler, Price, North and Sanford.
Federal Relations-Hatfield, Bettman, Weyse, |
Glass, Sanford.
Homestead and Land onopoly-Bennett, |
Ash, Hudson, Keen, Ewing, Bledsoe, Healey.
Manufactures and Internal Improvements
Price, Ash, Tomblin, Zocchi, Twigg.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Dale, Rowell, Pendle-
ton, Richards, Freeman. Waymire, Bachman, |
Robinson.
Judiciary-Bulla, Dodge, Pendleton, Brusie,
Waymire, Spencer, Davis, Dinkelspiel, Hat
field, McKelvey, swisler, Cutter, Freeman |
weyse, Guy, North, Bledsoe, Bachman, Reid |
Powers, Jones'
Mileage-staley, Osborn, Gay, Dunbar, o'Day |
Military Affairs-osborn, Spencer, McKelvey, |
Kenyon, Powers, Laird, Lewis, Healey, |
Coughlin.
Labor and Capital-Jones, Bassford, Berry, |
Belshaw, Merrill, Bledsoe, Ewing, Mccarthy.
Mines and Mining Interests-Thomas, Tib- !
bits, Tomblin Dunbar, Hall, Laird, Coleman, |
Reid, Robinson
Municipal Corporations-Guy, Dinkelspiel,