The record-union., 1897-03-06

Pending the consideration of the
measure, the House took a recess at ]
o'clock for one hour
AFTER RECESS.
The county fee bill was again dis
cussed for half hour when further
consideration was postponed until to-
day at II.
A LEGISLATIVE LOTTERY.
Cross having moved that A. B. S42
| be made a special order for to-day,
Sims offered the following substitute:
| Resolved, That the Committee on
Rules and Regulations be and it is
hereby instructed to report special
urgency file to contain one bill placed
thereon at the request of each mem
! ber of the House and that such ur-
gency file be considered from and after
$50 o'clock daily, beginning Satur-
cay, March 6, 1897, and continuing un-
til all bills on said file have been con-
sidered. The file shall be arranged by
placing the names of all members in a
| hat, and position on file made by draw
ing therefrom.
| The resolution was adopted and
Chairman Chynoweth at once set to
preparing the hat. 1t was done with
neatness and dispatch and the game
vas made. The dignified Chairman
was ready to act as croupier and rake
the prizes out.
! Meantime Cutter had been called to
| the chair and work had been COM
menced on the regular order, the Sen
ate special file. Gradually Chyno-
| !,
est. He was drawing the names from
the hat and making a list of the lucky
Cnes who came first, and members
crowded around until the rest of the
House was practically deserted Even
| the venerable Dryden drew near, sta
tened himself on the outer edge and
| peered over the shoulders of the 9TH
ers to watch this little game which
he did not understand The tempor-
ary Speaker was, during this time,
making a persistent though futile eff
fort to disperse the crowd and go on
with the business of the House. The
gavel ratified merrily but nobody paid
any attention to it. The Sergeant at
| Arms was appealed to by the Chair
and politely invited the members to be
seated, but it was not until the last
name was drawn that order was re-
stored, and Chynoweth's desk left to
| its owner.
| SENATE SPECIAL FILE.
Mahoneys S. B. 105, the ''pawnbrok-
er's BILL" was up on reconsideration
and was refused passage
The following Senate bills were read
a second time: II, authorizing corpora
/ tjonc ta 1nS
regulating width of wagon tires; 261,
for a portrait of Ex-Governor Mark
ham; 443 amending municipal corpo-
rations' law; 1871, relating to Road
Commissioners; III, ia, 142, go, 116,
33334, 141. s. code amendments. Amended,
| II, fixing tenure of office of San Fran
cisco Police Judges; $40, code amend
ment; 100, amending Act prohibiting
adulteratlon of wine.
| Bettman desired to substitute for
No. 426 on the file Bert's S. B. IA, to
validate the organization and incor-
poration of municipal corporations.
Bettmans motion and the bill as we'll
were violently attacked by Shanahan.
1t appears that the bill fits the case
| of Emoryville, suburb of Oakland,
where a race track is established. and
validates the Incorporation of the town,
which has already taken place Shan
ahan declared that the measure was
vicious and meant the establishment of
a Monte Carlo in California.
The bill was substituted and read the
second time
A STORMY CLOSE.
The second reading and amending of
| tha ranara1 a tinr hill
tinued during the last hour of the af-
| ternoon.
The amendment appropriating S4O.-
600 for an encampment for the Nation
al Guard, which was lost on Wednesday
| afternoon, was offered again yesterday
by Kenyon, and was adopted.
! Dryden then offered an amendment
striking cut the five new companies of
the National Guard, which the bill orig
| inally provides for. The amendment
was carried by a close vote, and there
was considerable feeling among the
! friends of the new companies, and
Leavitt tried to get the encampment
proposition stricken out.
On this Mahoney of the Military
Committee made good speech, ex-
planning that the guard is already
| larger than the State appropriations
can make efficient; in equipment, in
drill, in field practice, the militia is
sadly wanting. The appropriation for
an encampment, Mahoney thought, was
in the line of increased efficiency, as it
afforded needed drill and practice but
he believed the number of companies
should be lessened rather than in
creased.
Leavitt's motion was lost, and the
bill then stood with the encampment
retained and the five new companies
| discarded.
Cutter should have been mentioned
as the author of the amendment raising
the appropriation for the preservation
of fish from $1,000 to S15 900 on Thurs
day afternoon. Credit was inadver-
! tently given to Strain.
The House took a recess until 7:30 p.
| m.
Evening Session.
This opened with notable and pleas
ant episode