The record-union., 1897-03-14
IN THE SENATE.
Promoters of Good Roads Score a
Victory Yesterday.


| any State department, including def
cheney bills, being first on the file in the
Senate yesterday morning, 259, by Hol-
loway, appropriating 50, 800 for uses of
the State Board of Horticulture, having
previously been read the third time, was
passed by a vote of % to 0-title APP
| proved.
CLAIM BILLS.
S. B. 271, by Smith, appropriating
| 500 80 to pay the claim of the Tribune
Printing Company, was passed by vote
of 20 to 0-title approved.
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
Boyce called up his notice to recon-
slider the vote whereby constitutional
| amendment II, extending the right of
suffrage to women, was refused adop-
ton, and moved that further considera-
| ton be postponed until Tuesday.
Wilmington moved as a substitute
that the consideration be continued until
| II o'clock.
Bulla submitted that the State at
| large, outside Of San Francisco and Ala
media, had given a majority vote for the
suffrage amendment at the last election
| and that it was only justice that the
matter be submitted to the people once
more.
The Lieutenant-G Governor ruled
Bulla's remarks out of order, calling at
tention to the fact that the question was
on Withington's substitute.
Wilmington pressed his motion, con-
| tending that the whole matter was an
airy nothing, and that the Senate ought
to proceed with business instead of fire
works.
The substitute was adopted by vote
of IA to Is, and the question being on
the motion to reconsider, a long wrangle
followed, which resulted in numerous
roll calls and call of the Senate. Fin
ally p votes were drummed up and the
motion to reconsider was carried, ana
Bulla again moved that further consid
Grafton be continued until Tuesday.
Flint raised the point that postpone
ment had been defeated by the action
of the vote on reconsideration.
Bulla asked that the courtesy of a
postponement be allowed the friends of
the measure.
Simpson said that cOurtesies had been
extended almost daily and that about
half of the time of the present session
had been consumed with such courteous
proceedings. He considered it futile to
allow the question a moment of time,
and felt certain that were it again sub
mitted to the people it would be showed
under by a majority of $4,000 votes. He
stated that if Instructions to business
was to be the order, he would see that
ii was extended all along the line.
leo cd crai r1c r
ponement and urged immediate action
Boyce, Morehouse and Bulla spoke for
postonement, and the motion carried by
a vote of 10 to Is. A long hour had been
consumed in the squabble over the ques-
ton, and nothing was accomplished ex-
cept several unnecessary roll-calls,
numerous points of order and much ex-
penditure of euphoniouS elocution, other
than that the friends of the measure
expected that Pedlar would have arrived
by Tuesday to vote with them, and that
Langford's important business would
have been transacted, in order that he
might also enter and complete the circle.
IRRIGATION BILL RECONSTRUCTED.
Simpson called up his notice, given on
Friday, and moved the reconsideration
of the vote whereby A. B. 13O, to pro-
vide for the organization and govern
ment of irrigation districts, and to pro-
vide for the acquisition or construction
thereby of works for the irrigation of
the lands embraced within such dis
| tricts and also to provide for the dis
tribution of water for irrigation pur-
poses, had been refused passage.
| Smith took the floor and spoke for the
| bill He called attention to it's princi-
pal provision that when land was sold
| for irrigation taxes, a title should not
pass from the individual to the district,
or other purchaser. until the full value
of the land, minus the tax unpaid, had
| been paid over to the individual. The
single provision he submitted would of
itself, should the bill pass, be saving
| clause for the thirty-second California
| Legislature. He made strong plea for
reconsideration, and the motion carried
| by a unanimous vote, 20 to 0.
| The question being on the final pass
| age of the bill. it was passed by vote
of 81 to title approved.
CLAIM BILLS.
s. B. $50, by Stratton, appropriating
| 1851 80 to pay the claim of Paris Kill
|
Bank Commissioners, was passed by a
vote of - TO 0-title approved.
| s. B. 600, by VOORHEES,, appropriating
! 81, 600 to pay the claim of J. w. Sibole,
was passed, 20 to 0-title approved.
| s. b. POS, by VOORHEES,, appropriating
$3.50 to pay for advertising the Consti-
/ tutional amendments, was passed, 2t
to o-title approved.
S. b. go, by Henderson, appropriate
! ing $1,000 to pay the claim Of Addie
| McGinnis, whose husband had been
killed in attempting to capture the out
laws, Sontag and Evans, was passed
80 to 2-title approved. Bulla and
] Wilmington voted no.
! Substitute for S. BIS. 326, 153, 81 and
%, appropriating $4,000 to pay the
claims of newspapers for advertising
the Constitutional amendments in for
/ eign languages, was taken up and a
long discussion followed. the contention
of the opponents of the measure being
that under the Constitution no print
| ing for the State might be done other
than in the English language
| On the other hand it was submitted
| that as the work had been performed
under contract with Ex-Governor Mark
ham, the State ought to pay the claims