The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-11-12


copies of which he favored printing for
general distribution and in order that
the statements contained in it be placed
before the members of the Legislature.
Both suggestions were adopted by
unanimous vote.
Senator C. w. Cross moved the adop-
ton of a resolution providing for the
appointment of a committee of three to
confer with the California Debris Com
lNissioners. the State Debris Commits
sion and the AttorneyG General in re-
gard to the debris dams.
Under a suspension of the rules the
resolution was adopted without going
to the Committee on Resolutions.
In the course of his remarks Senator
Cross took occasion to pay high trib-
ute to the California Debris Commits
sion, declaring that its members had
always showed themselves to be truly
the friends of the miners. They real
lied, he said, that what it was desired
they should do was to increase the
yield of gold in California.
At this juncture President Neff took
occasion to say that the committee con-
sisting of Professor Christie, w. c. Raj
ston and E. H. Benjamin, who had had
charge of the State mining exhibit at
the late MidWinter Fair, had never been
thanked for the good service done there,
and the omission was promptly recti-
fed.
c. L. DignoWitz of Utah was, on mo-
ton of Senator Ford, made an honorary
member of the convention.
President Neff at this point noticed
that Governor Budd was in the hall,
and his announcement of this fact was
greeted with hearty applause. He i'm
mediately appointed Robert McMurray
and Senator TREY l.. Ford a committee
to escort the Governor to the rostrum.
In addressing the convention Governor
Budd took occasion to remind his hear
ers that when he first took office, two
years ago, he had promised to look
after the interests of the miners, and
that promise he thought he had carried
out. He pledged himself to pursue the
same line of conduct for the remainder
Of his term.
81 shall not run again." he added.
Governor Budd congratulated the
members of the convention upon the
fact that the existing national and State
Acts, under each of which $3.50, 900 had
been appropriated toward the satisfac
tory settlement of the debris question,
had now been so modified as no longer
TO conflict with each other, and there
was nothing that now need Interfere
with the money appropriated being ex-
pended as it was designed it should be.
The Governor was complimented with
three cheers when he took his seat.
The Committee on Resolutions,
through Chairman Searles, presented a
report including the following recon-
mendations:
That the Legislature be urged to give
all possible support to the State Mining
Bureau as one Of the most important
and worthy of the State Institutions.
That the Professors of mining, geology
and mineralogy at the State University,
the President and Vice-President of the
Mining Bureau and the State Miner
alogist be made honorary members of
the Miners Association.
That means be provided by the State
for the construction of a Typographical
county map of the State on a scale of
200 feet to the inch.
That measures be taken to secure the
repeal of the law forbidding the sale
or purchase Of real property by the Off
GERS of mining companies without the
consent of two-thirds of the owners Of
the stock; also, the revocation of the
law making it necessary for mining
company Secretaries to file monthly
financial statements of the concerns
which they represent
Certain other suggested legislative
Acts or recommendations for changes
and amendments We're referred back in
the report to the body Of the convention
with a suggestion that they be turned
over to the Committee on Legislation.
The report was adopted and the con-
vention then took a recess until =
O'Clock.
At the afternoon session the follow
ton: President, Jacob II. Neff; Vice.
President, Samuel r. Thornton; Treas
urer, w. w. Montague; Secretary, Ju-
liam SOnntag.
An Act providing for the establish
ment of an executive department in the
National Cabinet, to be known as the
Department of Mines and Mining, which
it is proposed shall be presented to the
House of Representatives, was read
and referred to the Committee on Legis-
lation.
A resolution requesting the California
delegates to the Transmissouri Con-
gress to secure the passage OF the Act
mentioned was passed, after which the
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