The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12
Mysteriously Disappeared After
1t Had Been Passed by
the Legislature.
LOST, sTRAYED OR STOLEN.
Enemies of the Resolution Found q
Way to Muzzle the Peoples
Sentiments.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 11.-During
the session of the State Legislature in JAM
uary, 1895, Assemblymen BIedsoe and
Beishaw introduced two resolutions in the
House; known as No. 2 and 3, which were
adopted and sent to the Senate. The up.
per house. however, repudiated them and
adopted a substitute, which was intro
duced by MCGOWAN, and sent it back to
the Assembly, where it was laid on the
table.
These resolutions and the substitute
were IN the nature of protest against the
adoption by Congress of refunding bill
of any sort. When this bill was intro
duced the feeling of the majority of the
people of the State was against funding,
and many members Of both House and
Senate went to the Legislature pledged by
their constituents to take steps toward any
measure which might be introduced in
favor of the Reilly funding bill.
In spite of the fact that they were so
pledged there were many who were ex-
tremely 10th to move against the interests
of the Southern Pacific Company, and
almost insurmountable obstacles were
thrown into the pathway of these resolu-
tions, not but that the ultimate inten ton
claimed that it was thought extremely
polite to withhold it's passage until the
adjournment of Congress, when its utility
would be null and void.
At that time, it is claimed, the lobby
was full of emissaries of the Southern
Pacific Company, who were strainlng
every point in favor of their employerrand
! it is ssid these lobbyists were largely in~
strumentai in delaying the passage Of the
resolution. q
Subsequently Belshaw introduced joint
resolution No. z, which was unani-
mously adopted by a viva voce vote, and
transmitted to the Senate, where it was
adopted by thirty-five ayes and no noes.
This resolution protested against the
Reilly funding bill which was then be-
fore Congress, and recommended mort
gage foreclosure and the collection of rail-
road debt. In the event of failure to do
this, it recommended that the United
States take possession of the road and
operate it. In the regular course of busi-
ness the ergrossing clerk, or one of his
assistants, should have taken this to the
Governor, but this was evidently not done,
or if he did start with it, he lost it on the
road. "a
That the resolution never reached tha
Governors office is an assured fact as the
annals of the office fail to show the slight
est record of it, and it could not possibly
have become lost in the shuttle, for at no
time during the signing of bills did Gov
ernor Budd show the slightest disposition
to favor any measure which was in the in.
terest of this giant corporation. On the
contrary, when Attorney Herrin called
upon the executive and requested the sign
ing of the San Francisco street railway
bill he met with fiat refusal.
What the fate of this resolution has been
it seems impossible o.learn. 1t passed
both houses. was telegraphed to Washing
ton and mysteriously disappeared. Per-
! haps it fluttered from the hand of some
careless messenger on his way through
the Hobbies. AT any rate it has never
been embodied in the annals OF the session.