The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-12
SENATE AT WORK.
Standing Committees Appointed and
Bills Galore Flow In.

! SENATE AL WOkk.
Standing Committees Appointed and
Bills Galore Flow In.
President pro tenn. Flint was in the
chair yesterday morning when the Sem
ate was called to order. After Senators
Shippee Wolfe and Henderson had been
excused from attending the morning s
session, the Senate settled down to bust
ness, and few unimportant corrections
We're made in the journal.
| President pro tenn. Flint however,
had not yet completed his list of stand
ing committees, and in order to allow
him further time, at 1910 o'clock, on
motion of VOORHEES, of Amador, recess
was taken until IL: 80 a. m.
RECESS.
Shine offered a resolution author
iZing the Secretary of State to purchase
fortyfive copies of the Code of Califor-
MIA, pocket edition, for use in the Sem
ate. The resolution was adopted.
Jones of Anaheim offered joint res
olution, providing for the suitable pro-
lection by tariff of the sugar beet in
dustry. The resolution was adopted,
| Democrats, with THE exception of
Langford, voting no, and was immedi-
ately transmitted to the Assembly.
A resolution by Mahoney, providing
that on the first day of the introduc-
ton of bills the roll be called and Sem
ators allowed to introduce bills in their
alphabetical order. was adopted.
LIBRARY TRUSTEES
A concurrent resolution by VOORHEES,,
providing that the two houses convene
Jointly at noon, Wednesday, February
Sd, to choose five Trustees of the State
Library, was unanimously adopted
Wilmington for the Temporary Com
mittee on Rules handed in his report,
and asked that it be adopted. The rules
proposed were similar to those already
published in the Record Union" which
were reported by the Temporary Senate
Committee on Rules, and were adopted
without division.
Then Pedlar of Fresno, Chairman of
the committee appointed to segregate
and distribute the Governors message
| handed in his report. 1t showed that
the message had been carefully gone
though, and each section recommended
ITO the proper committees. On motion of
Pedlar the report was adopted, and the
message ordered distributed as rec
| commended.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
| Bert of San Francisco presented the
! following list of committees and moved
that the same be adopted as the stand
ing committees of the Senate:
Agriculture, Horticulture, Vinicult-
ure. Vticulture-Shippe chairman,
Androus, Beard, Shine, Lindner, Luch-
singer, Jones' Langford, LaRue, Doty.
Attaches, Contingent Expenses and
Mileage-HoNoway (Chairman), With
ington, Trout, Feeney Hall.
Banks and Banking-Franck CHAIR
mani, Denison, Bert, Gillette, Lang
! ford. Henderson, LaRue
City, City and County and Town Gov
ernment-Gillette chairman, Bert,
Holloway, Bulla, Morehouse, Stratton,
Feeney. Prisk, Dwyer.
Claims, Retrenchment and Public Ex-
penditures-Bulla (Chairman), Androus,
Smith, DenisOn. Langford, Hail, Doty
| Commerce, Harbors, Rivers and Coast
Defenses-Gleaves (Chairman), Maho-
ney, Denison, Simpson, Aram, Gillette,
Luchsinger, LaRue, Braunhart
Constitutional Amendments - Bert,
! (Chairman), Bulla, VOORHEES,, Hender-
son, Braunhart.
! orations-Dickinson chairman,
MahoDey. Simpson, Aram, Beard, Ship
pee. Smith, Wolfe, Seawell, Henderson,
Braunhart.
Counties and County Boundaries
Under (Chairman), Mahoney, Simp-
son, Boyce, Trout, Gillette, Toner, Doty,
| Hall.
! mt -a~,,v, ,p,,t
Organzation-Smith chairman, Voor-
HES, Wilmington. Shine, Stratton, Dick
| inson, Toner, Prisk, Dwyer.
Education and Public MoraIs-Bovce
/ (Chairman), Pedlar. Mahoney, More
house, Trout, Henderson, Langford.
Elections - Stratton. (Chairman)
| Smith. VOORHEES,, Shippee, Bulla. Sea-
WELL Chapman.
Enrolled and Engrossed Bills-Jones
| (Chairman). Franck, Toner.
Federal Relations and Immigration
Wolfe (Chairman), Beard, Jones, Fee
ney, Dwyer
Finance-Voorhies (Chairman). Lin
! der, t'ranck. Smith, Wolfe, Luch-
singer, Henderson, Langford, LaRue.
/ Forestry, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa
Big Trees and Fish and Game-Luch-
singer (Chairman), Pedlar, Dickinson,
Trout, Chapman Prisk, Braunhart.
| Hospitals-Aram chairman, Pedlar.
Franck, Gleaves. Dwyer, Prisk, Feeney.
| Irrigation and Water Rights-Androus
| chairman, Mahoney, Aram, Shippee,
| Lmder, Pedlar. Bert, Wilmington, Lang
ford, Doty, Hail.
| Judiciary - Simpson chairman.
Aram, Bert, Wilmington, Dickinson.
| Boyce, Bulla, Gillette, Morehouse. STRAIT
| ton, Wolfe, Seawen
! Labor and Capital-Morehouse (Chair-
NAM, Simpson, Bert, Beard, Boyce.
Stratton, Seawell, Henderson, Feeney.
| Mines, Drainage and Mining Debris
| Shine chairman. VOORHEES,, Gleayes.
Boyce, Toner, Prisk, Chapman.
| Military Affairs-Pedlar chairman.
Androus. Dickinson, Trout, Chapman.
Hall, Feeney.
| Buildings Other Than Prison Build
| ings - Denison chairman, Shine,
Morehouse, Voorhees, Androus. Wolfe,
Under, Shippee, Dwyer, Toner La Rue.
/ Public Printing and State Library
Trout chairman, Androus, Jones. Sea-
well. Prisk.
| Public and Swamp and Overlooked
Lands - Aram chairman Gillette,