The record-union., 1897-03-19
Evening Session.

Evening Session..
| Morehouse took the floor and stated
Sheriff Johnson of Sacramento County.
and Sergeant at Arms Blackburn We're
in receipt of kilograms announcing that
| Lawrence and Levings, recently ad-
| judged guilty of contempt by the Sen
ate, in refusing to answer certain Ques-
tons propounded to them, had been
| released on WritS of habeaS corpus by
| Judge Morrow of the United States
District Court, the writ being made re-
turnable at 10 O'Clock this morning.
| A few days ago, Morehouse said, the
| Attorney General had ably and elo-
quently represented the Senate before
| the Supreme Court, and while it was
not the duty of that official to do SO,
| the speaker offered a resolution pro-
viding that he be requested to appear
before Judge Morrow to-day and rep
resent the Senate in the matter of the
proceeding. The resolution was I'M
animously adopted.
A WAVE OF TROUBLE.
A. B. 151, by Dibble, to provide the
mode of changing grades of public
streets, lanes, alleys, courts and places
| within municipalities, called for con-
| siderable trouble. Boyce discovered
that the Assembly record of the bill
| was irregular, and, on his motion, it
was returned to that body. The AS
sembly adopted a resolution instructing
| the Clerk TO make the necessary cor
| rections and returned the bill to the
Senate. BOyce raised the point that
the Clerk could not be empowered to
| make such corrections in a bill, and
moved that the Senate reconsider the
votes whereby its amendments had
been adopted. The motion prevailed,
and further action was continued until
this morning
SPECIAL URGENCY FILE.
A. B. 942, to provide for auditing the
| claims of soldiers who served in the
Indian wars, and appropriating 1,500
for the purpose, was passed, % to G.
title approved
A. B. 121, by Wright TO create and
regulate in any city or city and county,
State public warehouses, other than
warehouses for the storage of grain or
wool, and to enforce warehouse liens,
was passed, % to 0-title approved.
A. B. 3S4, by Bettman, to amend an
Act to confer certain powers upon cor
porations organized for the purpose of
discovering and preventing fires. and
of saving property and human life from
confiagration, was passed, 26 to 0-title
approved.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
ADOPTED.
5. c. A. A, by Gillette, proposing to
the people of the State an amendment.
| by adding new section to be known
as Section o12, Article VI, thereby pro-
viding for the organization of a court
| to be known as a Court Of Claims. was
adopted, 2S to 0.
a. b. 354, amending the Political
Code relating to elections and conven-
| lions, was refused passage, 10 to IS.
| a. p. pit, by Guy, appropriating
$3.50 80 to pay the claim of the State
Board of Health for travelling expenses.
was passed, % to 2-title approved
a. Il. 1876, by Boone, to provide for
the issue and sale or exchange of fund
ing bonds of irrigation districts, etc,
was passed, 70 to little approved.
Later Simpson discovered mistake and
the vote was reconsidered, the bill
amended and ordered printed
a. b. So, commonly known as the fee
| BILL was taken up, and a motion that if
be made special order for 2:3O o'clock
/ to-day called for heated discussion.
The matter was, however, amicabIy set
| tied and the motion prevailed.
| a. Il. US by Committee on Fruit and
Vine Interests, appropriating $50. 900
for an exhibit of State products at the
! Hamburg Horticultural Exposition. was
passed, 20 to 3-title approved.
a. b. 212, by Guy, appropriating S17j
to pay the claim of Charles Phipps for
services rendered as Assistant Score
tary of the State Board of Examiners
from FEBRUARY 10Th to March y, 1891,
was passed, 81 to 0-title approved
A. y. no, by Guy, appropriating
81 ,440 to pay the claim of James Nc
| CATCHY & Co. for advertising the con-
stitutional amendments, was passed. 26
to O-title approved.
! a. 3. 206, by Guy, appropriating
81 .34S 30 to pay the claim of Britton &,
/ Rey for expenses incurred in lithograph-
/ ing maps for the Commissioner of Pub
lie Works, was passed, "a to 0-title ap-
proved.
A. Is. 20, relative to work to be done
on public highways by unemployed or
needy persons, was passed, % to Title
approved.
Wilmington, for the committee on free
conference, reported back that an agree
ment had been arrived at, and recon-
| mended that the Senate adoDt the re-
port Wilmington stated that the re-
port was agreeable to all parties con-
| cerned, and the report was adopted. 81
| to O.
A. B. 143, relating to volunteer fire de-
partments, was read the second time.
amended and ordered printed
! A. b. 615. by Sanford. appropriatine
| 5000 to pay the claim of A j. Bourne.
was passed, % to 2-title approved.
| S. c. A. 80 by Simpson, relative to the
| judicial department, was adopted. 2S
to /.
A. p. $50, relating to witnesses.
passed, p to O-title approved.
/ A. b. 9S1, relating to road districts
passed. ID to O-title approved.
At 11:4O O'Clock the Senate adjourned
IN THE ASSEMBLY.
Present Status of Three Very Inn