The record-union., 1897-01-20

of rules. to have the report of the Com
mittee on Joint Rules re-committed, as
there was a conflict with the House
standing rules.
THE STATE PRINTING.
On second reading the BILL No 263.
appropriating $4,000 for the State
Printing Office, came up for amend
ment
Cutter moved that the House go into
Committee of the Whole for considera-
ton Of the bill Carried, and the Clerk
ordered to read the bill in sections
Guy moved an amendment to the sec
ord section, as outlined in yesterday
mornings Record Union by sub
stituting $50 900 for so, 600.
Mcclellan remarked that he would
like to know why this substitution, and
the Speaker asked Guy to explain.
Guy said that although the larger
sum would ultimately and inevitably
be needed, still, in view Of some opposi-
tion, it had been deemed best to ask
for only a part at first
Caminetti declared there was abso-
lutely no explanation from the commit
tee as to why the $4,000 was wanted
they could do with so much less he
would offer an amendment to the
amendment substituting the sum of
5000.
Cutter, Caminetti, Leavitt and others
engaged in a political Wrangle in which
accusations, retorts and charges We're
thickly larded.
The question was finally put on Cam
inettfs amendment and lost.
Guys amendment for $4,000 was
carried
Caminetti then offered an amendment
to insert in Section = a clause provid-
ing that all bills for State printing
should be passed on by the Board of
Examiners and certified to by the State
| printing expert.
This precipitated a worse wrangle
| than the first amendment. Dennery
said that two members of the State
Board of Examiners had approved the
first appropriation Of S15,0 900. The only
one who objected was the Democratic
member the Governor, who seemed to
be opposed to everything the Republi-
can members of the board wished to
do. He hoped the amendment would
not pass.
Leavitt opposed the amendment. 1t
was intended only to give the Governor
another string on the State Printer.
Bridgford rose with a paper full of
figures in his hand, and said if they
were correct the State Printer needed a
rope instead of a string, though he did
not mean that the other end of the
rope should be around a lamp post.
u II "a los
which he claimed were from good au-
thority, to show that the payroll of the
State Printing Office last August
showed a list of siXty-eight employees,
where only seventeen were required to
do the work, and that this list steadily
increased until the time of the Sacra-
mento City election in November, when
it began to decrease. BridgfOrd did not
charge that there was anything Grim
inal in this, but thought it suggested
something needed heavier than a
string.
Caminetti's amendment was put to
vote and lost.
Cutter moved that the Committee
of the Whole rise and report the bill
as amended favorably. Carried. Guys
amendment for 100000 passed, and
the bill ordered to engrossment and to
third reading under special order to-
day.
ON THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Another special order was the con-
sideratiOn of the Senate joint resolu-
ton favoring the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal and supporting the
bill now in consideration before Con-
gress: also Shanahan's substitute the
wording of which was the same as that
of Hudsons A. j. r. >, and specified the
building of the canal, as we'll as its
control, by the Government.
The question being on Shanahan's
substitute, he spoke to it. He said that
he could not support the Mahon bill
now before Congress. 1t contemplated
the farming out of the financial credit
of the United States to the old Mari