The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-09
IN THE SENATE
The Matter Of Adjournment Bobs Up Very
Serenely


Sacramento, March 8.-The question of
the time the Legislature shall adjourn
sine die was made special order for
Monday next. Dr. Martin of Placer urged
immediate adjournment, contending that
legislation after the sixtieth day is illegal
Under suspension of the constitutional
provisions four bills were introduced pro-
viding for the purchase for state institu-
tons of supplies other than those pro-
duced by alien labor.
By Earl, creating an additional court
for Berkeley.
BY Voorhees,, appropriating 500 900 for
the Board of horticulture; also $4,000 for
the improvement of the Yosemite.
The swoman suffrage bill came up and
promptly met disaster. On Gesiord S
motion an amendment was adopted in
sorting the word male" and changing
the bill. The vote, after a call of the
house he'd been taken, was % to -. A
motion to reconsider provoked long
debate.
The battle for woman suffrage before the
present Legislature has been fought and
lost. After getting an enactment extend
ing the right Of elective franchise to
women safely through the Assembly, it
was killed today by an amendment by
Gesford, Democrat of Napa, inserting the
word male and by thus specifying
the sex of electors, multiplying the bill so
far as women voters are concerned. When
the bill came up for third reading Nc
Gowan, Republican of Humboldt, cham
poned it's passage. A large number of
women were in attendance and standing
room in the lobby was at premium.
After few speeches Gesford's amend
against IL nays. MCGOWAN promptly
moved to reconsider. He expressed sur
prised at the action of the Republicans
and urged them to return to the path of
duty. In the name of Garfield, of Lin
coin and other great party leaders he
the fold and obey the dictates of the party
platform. In honor and conscience Sena-
tors are bound to vote for the pending
bill and against the amendment
Pedlar, Republican of Fresno, spoke for
the bill, and Gesford and McAllister,
called attention to the fact that MCGOWAN,
as chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
had decided the bill to be unconstitu-
tional. Gesford favored considering the
matter by constitutional amendment
rather than by enactment. Gleaves Re-
publican of Shasta, favored passing the
bill and letting the Supreme Court settle
its constitutionality. Earl, Republican of
Alameda, thought woman suffrage I'M
wise, but said he would be bound by the
dictates OF his party so far as to vote tor
an amendment to the constitution, but he
declined to vote for an unconstitutional
bill. To do so he felt he would defeat
the educational qualification demanded
by popular vote at the last election.
Simpson, Republican of Pasadena;
Aram Republican of Yolo and Withing-
ton, Republican of San Diego, took the
ground that no unconstitutional bill
should have their vote. Martin, Democrat
OF Placer, made humorous talk in the
course of which he said no married man
would favor suffrage for women. He
Hoped the vexed question was so dead it
would never hear Gabrel's horn.
Mathews, Democrat Of Los Angeles, made
i vigorous speech against the bill, and
Fhen MCGOWAN again took up the cudgels
OF the women in an eloquent speech.
The Senate refused to reconsider the
amendment by the following vote:
Ayes17Bert Buggy, Earl. Ford, Frank ,::Gleaves,
reda mDy shins
Hoes-Aram, Arms, Androus, Beard, Burke,
enison, Dunn. Fay, Flint Gesiord. Hender-
Mister. Mitchell. seawel, shippee. Simpson,
1oner, Whitehurst, Withington.-23.
Excused-Voorheis- l.
Women showered McGowan's desk with
elaborate floral tributes in consideration
Of his championship of their cause.
Seawells motion to reconsider the vote
by which the bill liking the hours of labor
in logging camps was lost.
Langford's bill amending the Penal
Code prohibiting able-boded persons
from banding together and gaining sub
sisence by aims and directed against sin
dustrial army movements was passed.
Also passed McGowan's bill authorizing
the formation of county mutual insur-
ance companies; requiring foreign insur-
ance companies to make deposit with
the State Treasurer and amending public
school laws.
The consideration of the Governor s
message favoring State Board of Chart
ties was made special order for Monday
The report of the conference committee
was adopted, fixing the National Guard
appropriation at 5000, 600; Mendocino