The San Francisco call., 1896-01-16

A. H. Rose called the executive commit
tee to order for the p urpose of arranging
for organization. A. H. Rose was elected
chairman of the comm ittee, j. M. Gleaves
was chosen secretary and w. T. Lawton
OF Sacramento was elected treasurer. 1t
was decided that nine members should
constitute quorum.
Mr.. Green moved to select five delegates
to proceed to Washington. He suggested
that five should be the mum Der, owing to
the diversity of interests requiring repre-
Sentation.
Mr.. Cooper wanted full expression of
opinion to ascertain if five constituted q
sufficient number.
J. NJ. G. Casper of Wheatland thought
three would be sufficient.
John SWEET of Contra Costa believed that
three able men would accomplish the pur-
pose sought. He had confidence that the
men would be broad enough not to 'hog''
the appropriation for their own localities.
DR.. Mclean of Alameda said if the COM
mittee should consist of three there should
be one from the Sacramento, one from
the San Joaquin and one from the bay
region.
Mr.. Conant, who is chairman of the
Board of Supervisors of Shasta, asked Mr..
Green to designate the five interests that
he had in mind.
Mr. Green said the people of the Upper
Sacramento wanted navigation to Red
ding. The Lower Sacramento had another
interest. Then there was the San Joa-
Quin, which made three for the river in
terests, and there should be two for the
bay interests of San Jose. Petaluma, Oak
land and San Francisco.
Mr. Adams of Yolo observed that money
was hard to get hold of. II should
think, however, that five should be the
number"
At this point discussion between Mr..
Adams and Mr.. Johnston came up as to
the amount of money expended by the
Government to save 9olo County from in
undation.
Again came up the vexed question of
the authority of Boards of Supervisors
to appropriate money for the purpose of
sending delegates to Washington. Mr..
Conant of Shasta said his county gave the
money on the opinion of the Attorney
General that each county could lawfully
appropriate $1,000 per annum to encourage
Immigration.
The committee finally voted to send five
representatives to Washington, and the
following nominations were made with
eulogisric speeches:
William Johnston, Sacramento; ]. M.
Gleaves, Shasta; George Ohleyer, Sutter !;
DR.. J. G. Mclean, Alameda; Thomas j.
Geary, Sonoma; H. j. Corcoran, Stock
ton; w. A. Coulter, San Jose; Edward
McGettigan, Vallejo.
Mr.. Rose was placed in nomination, but
declined to accept.
The committee decided to vote by ballot,
the five receiving majority of all the
votes cast to be declared elected. The
ballot resulted as follows: Johnston %,
Gieayes 25, Oheyer 6, Mclean 8, Geary 3,
Corcoran %. Coulter q. McGettigan o.
The chairman declared the election of
Johnston, Gleaves, Corcoran, Coulter and
McGettigan.
A long discussion followed as to the
amount of money that should be appro-
priated. William Johnston, who has had
experience in Washington, said it cost
him obout $40 a day to live there in a
cheap hotel As a lobbyist in behalf of
deep water he had achieved The most sue
cess by taking members down to the
lunchroom.
Some members of the committee thought
each delegate should have 5000. Others
favored higher amount, suggesting
$1,000. It was the sentiment of the COM