The record-union., 1897-02-05

day. Resolutions without number have
failed to settle anything and one which
made it obligatory upon all clerks and
other attaches to be present at a , a.
m. roll call each day created quarrel
which wasted a half hour or more OF
the States valuable time.
There could be no more faithful, ca
pable, courteous and untiring set CT
men than those behind the desk OF the
Assembly. 1t is undoubted that there
are just as faithful attaches in other
departments. If there are unfaithful
and unnecessary ones, there should be
less will be, but nothing should be al
lowed to reflect upon those who are do
ing their duty to the State with fidelity.
The duty of Sitting out any perfunctory
employees now lies with the Retrench-
ment Committee and will doubtless be
promptly attended to.
THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
This body held a lengthy executive
session yesterday afternoon; it will con-
vene again at 10 o'clock this morning
and expects to report to the House be-
clusion had been arrived at last even
ing, but the committee will probably
prepare findings according to the teSti-
mony offered and present them to the
L rr-itI, .cl,+
ing with the Assembly itself the final
action upon the testimony. 1t is
thought that the report win find an
unwarranted and illegal excess of APP
pointments and that it will indicate
where and upon whom the responsible
ity lies, as main issues in the case.
HOLDING DOWN PRICES.
Assemblyman Lacy believes the bill
he introduced yesterday afternoon to
prevent discrimination in telephone
charges is a good one. 1t is one de-
manded by outlying districts where
excessive and arbitrary charges are
made.
The substance of Lacy's bill is as fol-
lows:
No individual company or corpora
ton now or hereafter owning, con-
trolling or operating any telephone
line in this State shall be allowed to
charge, collect or receive as rental for
telephones any sum exceeding So per
month where one telephone is rented;
two or more, 81 30 per month.
For converse tions over public tele-
phones the cost shall not exceed ff-
teen cents for the first five minutes and
five cents for each additional five min
utes. The penalty for infraction of the
law shall not be more than 500 nor
| less than SO.
FOR STANFORD, JR.
The Committee on Constitutional
| Amendments will report favorably to-
day on Fontana's A c. A 20, relative
| to revenue and taxation. This is the
measure by which it is proposed to re-
| lieve Stanford University from taxa
ton. There has, however, been an
amendment in the wording of the
| measure, which Assemblyman Elliott,
| who is "a member of the committee and
very friendly to the measure consid-
| ed clause reads:
And property of all universities, col
| leges and corporations organized and
operated exclusively for educational or
scientific purposes and not for profit,
| and which devote their entire net in
come to educational or scientific pur-
poses and without sectarian bias or
control" shall be exempt from taxa
ton.
The words in quotation marks have
been changed to read:
| And all property or endowments of
the Leland Stanford, Dr., University"
Mr.. Elliott states that q bill intro
duced yesterday is intended to protect
counties containing property which is a
resource of the university from suffer-
ing from the loss of revenue.
PRINTING OFFICE MATTERS.
The Retrenchment Committee has in
hand the charges made by Assembly
floor of the House concerning the State
Printing Office. Yesterday these two
| Assemblymen We're subpenaed, and
Governor Budd was also invited to APP
pear. When the committee convened
none of the gentlemen were on hand. 1t
was found that the Governor had de-
parted on the 3 O'Clock train for DE
low" but Bridgford and Caminetti
finally appeared
Caminetti was not sworn and did not
pretend that his knowledge was COM
petent as testimony under oath He
however reiterated some of his main
charges, viz:
That 10000 copies of the State Gram
mar were printed at the office some time
after a positive order had been ISSUED
from the State Board of Education thai
no more should be printed.
That the type from which the Gov
ernor's message was printed was dis
tributed before the Governors quots
had been delivered to him, and tina
when both houses of the Legislature
ordered more it had to be reset.
That after the contract for coal wa:
let to the lowest bidder. the State Prin
ter placed an order for 10 tons witt
the man who lost the contract, payins
therefor the highest bidding price.
That the laws of the legislative SEES
sion of % were ordered printed at al
estimated cost of 500, and when the bill
came before the Examiners it wa: