The record-union., 1895-03-08
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
TcoNr1NUEp FROM FIFTH pAeE.]

been cleaned for several months. The
condition of some of the inmates was a
similar one. 1t is true that no formal
testimony was taken, but he had talked
with enough people to satisfy him OF the
true state Of affairs The committee went
to the home without giving notice to any
one, and had reported the condition OF
affairs as found by them.
Glass said no notice was given to any
one of their coming. There was in
harmony among the directors, and he
thought that they should be discharged
and a new board appointed. He had
been told that one of the directors had
taken inmates out and got them drunk
and brought them back disorderly in or
der to throw discredit on the institution.
He depicted the condition of affairs as
found by the committee. The inmates or
employees said they did not dare to be
seen talking to the committee for fear
they would be discharged.
North said he knew that there was in
harmony among the directors, but the
members knew that men like John L.
Irish and Frank p. Leach would not per-
NIT the institution to be carried on in the
manner described. 1t was unjust to the
directors to place them under such an in
putation.
Bulla said it would be a great injustice
TO the gentlemen who are the directors of
the Home to adopt such report without
giving them an opportunity to be heard.
The meanest criminal in the land has an
opportunity to present his case ana de-
fend himself.
Huber spoke to the same effect as Car
gill and Glass, and said the committee
were careful that no notice should be sent
of their coming.
Ewing said he felt that the language of
the report was too strong. No matter
who are the directors in any institution,
it will always be found that some one is
dissatisfied, and in this case one of the
directors is not in harmony with the rest.
Cargill and Glass asked Ewing if he
did not say in committee that no language
in the report could be too strong to suit
him, and Ewing said that he did not
say SO.
The previous question was called and
the report was adOpted-ayes A, noes 20.
FREE CONFERENCE.
Phelps moved that committee of free
conference on the appropriation bill be
appointed.
The motion was carried, and Messrs.
Phelps, Tomblin and Devine were ap
pointed by the Chair as such committee.
SPECIAL FILE.
The special file was taken up and bills
were disposed of as follows:
a. b. lo1, making an appropriation for
improvements for the Southern CaIifor-
MIA State Asylum for the Insane and
InebriateS, was considered in Committee
of the Whole, amended and recommended
for passage.
a. b. 7g7. to repeal an Act to create and
establish a State Board OF Horticulture,
and to confer certain powers upon the
Regents of the University of California,
and to provide for the protection of the
horticultural interests of the State by the
appointment OF Quarantine Health Off
Ger or officers, and to appropriate money
for the expenses OF the same, was cun.
sidered in Committee of the Whole, read
the second time, amended and recon-
mended TO pass. The report of the COM
mittee was adopted.
4. Is. 10, to provide for the completion
and equipment OF the Deaf. Dumb and
Blind Asylum. and to make an appro-
priation therefor, was passed-ayes 49,
noes 3.
a. B. SIS, making an appropriation to
pay the claims of Ira II. Locey and Henry
Locey against the State OF California, for
expenses occurred and services rendered
by order of the State Board OF Forestry,
was passedayes A, noes 23-and trans
mitted to the Senate.
a. b. 81, to provide tor the payment of
the claim OF c. 5. Merrill tor services as
stenograpner and professional services
performed upon Court of Inquiry, was
passed-ayes IS, noes s.
a. Is. 204, making an appropriation to
pay moneys advanced to the State forestry
stations by the University of California,
was passed-ayes As, noes 5.
a. Is. 6O6, providing for two clerks and
photographic reporter in the office of
the Attorney General, declaring said
clerks and photographic reporter to be
civil executive Otncers, and fixing their
salaries, was passed-ayes 90, noes 2
Dodge in the chair.
a. b. $50, to appropriate S4,750 as COM
pensation to The California Demok rat
Publishing Company" for having pub
lished proposed amendments to the Con-
stitutlOn of the State of California during
the year 1894, was read the second time
and considered in Committee of the
Whole
Bachman called attention to the provi-
sion of the Constitution providing that
all the laws, official documents, ETC., must
be published in the English language.
Powers said the work was properly
done, at the request of the Governor, and
the claim had been cut down to about the
cost of publishing, and it was right that
the bill should be paid.
Bulla said that the bill was an illegal
one, and one of the publishers of these
amendments in foreign language ad-
mitted TO him that he knew at the time
that the publication was illegal.
Reid and Johnson also spoke against
the bill, and the committee reported,
recommending that it do not pass, and
the report was adopted.
Brusie offered an amendment reducing
the amount 10 $1,000, and making it pay
ment in full. Adopted.
a. b. 399 10 provide for the erection of
an additional building for the use of the
Woman's Relief Corps Home Associa-
ton, at their home for soldiers widows
and orphans, aud army nurses. at Ever
green, and making an appropriation
therefor, was passed-ayes "a, noes land
transmitted TO the Senate.
y. b. Sol, appropriating money to pay
the expenses of the Commissioned OF
Public Works and his employees, for the
forty-seventh and forty-eighth fiscal
years, was refused passage-ayes 81, noes
2S.
Laugenour gave notice of motion to
reconsider.
At 1880 P. NJ. the House took recess
till 1880 p. VI.
Afternoon Session.
The Assembly reconvened at I:3O p. NJ,
I.aupaDOur in the chair