The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-03
BAD FOR JUNkETERS.
Very Close Auditing Of Their
Expense Accounts.
DOUBLE CHARGES DON'T GO.
Important Legislation Now Under
Consideration.
ONE VICTORY FOR WOMAl'S RIGHTS.
The General appropriation Will Be a Mil.
lion Less Than the Estimates Of the
State Controller.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-Another victory
for Woman's rights was scored this after
noon in the Election Laws Committee.
Mr.. Bulla's bill empowering women to
vote at all school elections and making
them eligible for any school Office was
recommended for passage, as was also
second bill by the same gentleman
that every woman citizen of Cali
fornia of the age of 81 and upward
who can read and write the English Ian
guage shall be entitled to vote at munich
pal elections and hold any municipal of
flee. North and Wade will enter a minority
report, dissenting. Spencer, chairman of
the committee, Bennett, Dwyer and Way
mire voted in the affirmative.
The Committee on Mileage, to whom was
referred the claims of the Committees on
Hospitals and Asylums and Public Health
and Quarantine, has wrought havoc with
the expectations OF the trusting members
comprising those iunketing committees.
1t has been decided that an Assembly
resolution has taken from them the power
of allowing the mileage granted by the
statutes; they therefore will return the reso-
4uIIOll dppAOpi4dt4llS PAO' III Il4C CAP ChSOo
of the Committee on Hospitals and Asy
lums, and $1S4 for the Committee on Pub
lie Health without recommendation.
The junketers will then be expected to
ask for their actual expenses in making the
trip to Berkeley, Oakland and Stockton.
Considerable talk was occasioned by the
fact that Messrs. CargilI, Glass and
Huber are on both committees, and
as the two committees visited the same
place at the same time it was thought
that they were charging twice for one trip.
1t has been explained since that they had
sought Mr.. Staley, the chairman of the
Mileage Committee, and had arranged to
receive pay for the work on one committee
only.
Staley's bill exemptlng personal property
to the value of $500 from taxation was re-
commended favorably by the Committee
on Constitutional Amendments. The
Senate Committee on Judiciary this after
noon took up the act making the penalty
for train-wrecking death or imprisonment
for life. This was amended to allow i'm
prisonment for not less than FIVE years.
Another amendment allowed the prisoner
to put in a plea of guilty if he wished.
Another bill that was recommended favor
ably provides that one Grand Jury shall be
drawn each year, and as many more as in
the Judgment of the Superior Court neces-
sity demands.
This bill allows grand juries to bring in
indictments answerable before justices or
police courts. A law of great Importance
to the State which allows Supervisors to
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erty was also recommended for passage.
Fresno bankers are much disturbed about
the present mortgage law. Three bills
that came up before the Assembly Judici-
airy Committee this afternoon show that
money-lenders have some rather shaky
securities in the Southern part of the State
and that if the debtors were dishonest they
might leave half the holders of mortgages
in the lurch.
The present law makes only buildings
erected on brick or stone foundations APP
purtenances of real estate. In Fresno most
of the houses are built on redwood founda-
tions with the first floor above the ground
1t has been learned that in many in
stances men have built houses on lots
mortgaged them and then moved the
no recourse, as the houses were not built
on brick foundations, and the land without
them was worth less than the amount
loaned.
AssembIyman Rowell of Fresno intro
duced three bills to right this state of
affairs. and they were considered in the
Judiciary Committee to-day. The bills
make it larceny to remove buildings of
any sort from property with intent to
defraud. Much discussion ensued and
finally it developed that the committee
was evenly divided.
A few unimportant amendments were
introduced in order that the bill should be
considered at once by the House, and the
main bill was returned with recon-
mendation that it pass as amended. The
other two go back subject to the decision
of the House.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-The Assembly
Committee on Ways and Means has COM
pleted its report as to the general appro-
priation which they will recommend for
the coming two years. The report will be
presented to the Assembly on Monday.
The total appropriation recommended is,
in round numbers, So, 500, 900, or about one
million dollars less than the estimates
made by the State Controller. A general
cut is made in the Controllers estimates in
accordance with the recommendations
made by Governor Budd in his inaugural
message.
NO END TO THE Bills.
Another Big Batch introduced in the
assembly.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9. Many vacant
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