The record-union., 1897-03-02
Afternoon Session.

Afternoon Session.
The special file of Assembly bills was
taken up and A. B. 139, by Dennery,
relating to fire departments of San
Francisco and fixing the salaries of Of
ftcers thereof, was passed by vote OF
81 to 3-title approved.
a. 3. II, by Treacy, fixing the min
imum rate of compensation for labor
on public works at 81 a day.
Aram stated that as the bill fixed the
minimum rate of wages to be paid by
municipal corporations at ~ day, and
as drainage districts were municipal
corporations, he should vote against
the bill, as labor on such works might
be secured for a less sum than that
named.
Dickinson opposed the bill, and con-
tended that public opinion within mu-
nicipal corporations ought to regulate
the scale of wages. Other people be-
side laborers were interested in the
matter of wages, and the man who
owned a small property and paid taxes
upon the same, while he received but
Isl 80 day for his labor, had
a right to object. He thought
that to legislate in the di-
rection of fixing the price of la
Dor was a mistake, and that while an
Act might pass declaring a horse to
be eighteen feet high, the legislators
would be finally obliged to admit their
mistake and retrench.
Dwyer and Bulla favored the bill, the
contention being that no American
could rear a family upon a less sum
than 50 day.
Jones opposed the bill on the ground
that the men throughout the State who
owned and operated small farms and
paid taxes were not so fortunate as to
receive more than 81 a day for their
labor. f.,
Wolfe and Doty spoke for the bill.
Wilmington also spoke, and the bill
was passed by a vote of 26 to 5-title
approved.
EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS.
A message was received from the
Governor requesting that the Senate
confirm the appointments made by him
since the close Of the thirtyfrst ses-
sion of the Legislature; and further,
that he had on March !, 1897, made the
following nominations, and requested
that they be confirmed:
Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and the
Blind Asylum at Berkeley-John l.
CARRIER of Alameda, vice Warren c. Oh
ney, term expired; w w. Foote of Ala
media, vice w. C. Bartlett, term ex
pired; Henry c. Pierce of San Fran
cisco, vice John K. Mclean, term ex-
pired.
Director of State Prisons-Don Ray
of Sacramento.
Directors of State Insane Asylum at
Stockton-John w. Woods of San Joa
quin, vice II. O. SOuthworth, term ex
pred; John r. Doyle of San Joaquin,
vice Arthur Thornton, term expired;
John D. McDougall of San Joaquin,
to succeed himself, and Archibald Nc
Donald of San Joaquin, also to succeed
himself.
Insurance Commissioners-And J.
Clunie, vice Henry c. Gesford.
No action was taken by the Senate on
the nominations.
A. r. 40, by Sanford, to define the
duties of the Labor Commissioner and
that of District Attorneys in requiring
corporations in the State to pay their
employees at least once in every month,
was read the second time.
SeaweH offered an amendment strik
ing out that clause in Section l of the
bill allowing employees to make con-
tracts with their employers extending
the time of payment.
A long debate followed, with a call
Of the house thrown in for variety,
and the amendment was finally adopt
ed Pending further consideration of
bin the hour for considering the AS
sembly file expired
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
On motion of Smith, the file of ap-
preparation bills was taken up, and the
following bills disposed of:
S. B. 6S4, by Morehouse. appropriat-
ing $4,000 to assist the Woman's Re-
lief Corps Association, was passed by
a vote of 26 to 0-title approved.
S. B. $40, by Mahoney, appropriat-
ing S75, 900 to provide for certain i'm
provements and repairs at the San
Quentin State Prison, was passed by
vote of 26 to 0-title approved.
s. =. G20, by VOORHEES,, appropriating
$4,000 for repairs and construction of
buildings in Yosemite Valley, passed
by a vote of % to 2.
A. 3. 399 by Chapman, appropriating
81 500 for constructing reservoir, etc,
at the Marshall monument, passed by
a vote Of 2S to /.
A. 3. 65. by Guy. appropriating $50
900 to establish a State Normal School
in San Diego, was passed by vote of
2S to 4-title approved.
s 3. 321, by Smith, to establish a
technical school in San Luis Obispo,
and annropriatinc S75 900 for the pur-
pose, was passed-title approved.
s. B. Sc, by Doty, appropriating S25,-
900 for the purchase of additional lands
at Folsom State Prison, was passed by
q vote of 33 to 0-title approved.
At 4:40 o'clock a recess was taken
until p. m.
Evening Session.
Wolfe, for the Committee on Execu-
tive Communications and Nominations