The record-union., 1897-03-12
In THE SENATE.
Claims and Deficiency Bills Advanced
on the File.

Claims and Deficiency Bills Advanced
on the File.
In the Senate yesterday morning
Simpson called up his notice and NOV
| ed the reconsideration of the vote
whereby A. B. 374, empowering Boards
| of Health to issue subpenas and bring
witnesses before them, was refused
| passage.
A spirited debate followed in which
Simpson, Wilmington, Wolfe and Sea
well took part, and at its conclusion the
motion to reconsider was lost by vote
| of 10 to 10.
EXECUTIVE APPROVAL.
| A message was received from the
| Governor announcing that the follow
| ing Senate bills had been approved:
| No. /, by Androus, to amend an Act
| to enable school districts in cities OF
the fifth class to issue bonds and tC
repeal an Act to enable cities of the
| fifth class to issue bonds for school
purposes.
No. 81, by Doty, to regulate and gov
| ern the operation of the rock hing
plant at the State Prison at Folsom, to
provide for the sale of crushed rock and
the disposition of the revenues derived
therefrom
No. 260, by Simpson, to provide fo1
the purchase of a portrait of ex-Gov-
ernor John McDougal, by the State
Board of Examiners, and to appro-
pirate $500 therefor.
No. 413, by Wolfe, to amend Section
602 of the Civil Code, relating to cor
poration's sole.
TO PROTECT CITRUS FRUITS.
Simpson explained that the fruit tar
iff schedule forwarded to the National
Congress had not met the approval of
the citrus fruit growers of the southern
portion Of the State, so far as that in
dustry was concerned. and by request
of the Citrus Fruit Growers Conven-
ton he offered the following joint reso-
luton:
Resolved, BY the Senate of the State
of California, the Assembly concurring,
that
Whereas, On January 9, 1897, there
was introduced into the Senate by
Senator Langford a joint resolution
No. =, relative to the fruit industry
which resolution duly passed both the
mitted to our Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress, and
Whereas, Said joint resolution con-
tanned various proposed duties on fruit
raised in this State which Congress was
asked to impose as a protection from
foreign competition, and
Whereas, The said proposed duties
have been construed to be the maxi
mum rates desired by the California
fruit producers, whereas, in reality
they are the minimum duties suggested
and are entirely inadequate to protect
California producers from foreign com
petition in several of the kinds OF
fruit and fruit products named. there
fore be il
Resolved, that our Senators be in
structed and our Representatives in
Congress be requested to urge that the
fruit schedule in the new tariff law tc
be submitted to Congress at it's special
session shall contain a duty of not less
than 40 cents per cubic foot on oranges
lemons and lines, laid at a uniform
rate, regardless of the size of the pack
age, and when in bulk, should not be
less than s. per thousand: and a. duty
of not less than 30 cents per cubic foot
of shaddocks, grape fruit and pomelos
or SO per thousand when in bulk. Or
citrict acid there should be a specific
duty of ID cents per pound * cents pei
pound on essential oils of oranges and
lemons; cents per pound on the fin
| ished product of candied orange and
lemon peel and preserved citron: :
cents per pound on citron of commerce
when in pickle or brine; and on con-
centrated lemon and lime Juice. in pro
portion to the amount of citric acid il
contains at the rate of 10 cents De,
pound.
| Resolved. That these resolutions be
printed and duly attested and a copy
be forwarded to each member of the
| Ways and Means Committee of the
House of Representatives. and to each
Senator and Representative in Con
gress from the State of California"
Smith stated that a similar feeling
existed among the raisn growers OF
| Fresno County. and asked that action
| on the resolution be postponed until
| this morning. at which time he desired
to append the schedule recommended.
Simpson agreed TO the ARRANGEMENT
/ anu saw iioNitt litdl ne NOuiu append
to the resolution a clause providing 70,
its transmission by telegraph
CLAIMS AND DEFICIENCIES.
s. b, 90. by Holloway. appropriat
| ing S2,l00 for the use of the Stat,
BOARD of Horticulture, was read tn
second time and amended
The following s. BIS We're also rea,
The second time: 34I. by Androus, t,
pay the deficiency in the appropriation
| for the contingent expenses of the Sen
ate, thirty-first session. 563 by Voor
| heis. appropriating 81 500 to pay tn,
| deficiency in the appropriation for TIL
support Of the Preston School of In
| dustry 1of. by Wilmington, appro
pTiating $500 to pay the claim of A. I.
| Wood for the capture OF Francisco Tor
res; ~, by Langford, appropriatin.
:. 900 for the relief of ]. E. Atkinson
2l3. by VOORHEES,. making an appropria
ten 10 pay the claims Of C. F.. Gun
bingham and W. c, Rodgers for sery
ices as elevator attendants in the Stat,
| Capitol building (refused a secon,
reading); FL, by Smith, to appropriat,
$50 30 to pay the claim of the Tri
bune Printing Company; 4SS, by voor
| heis (by requesO, appropriatins
| SDNI E1.1 TO nav tho couofa r.u,.