The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-17

Labor Convention was read requesting
the upper house to vote to submit to the
people Bulla's proposed constitutional
amendment to Article Kill, giving to
the Legislature jurisdiction over taxa
| ton.
Trout offered a resolution providing
| that for and during the remainder of
the session each Senator be allowed to
speak but one time on any one measure
and that speeches be limited to five min
| utes.
Bulla raised the point Of order that
| similar resolution had been previously
| adopted, and so far as could be ascer-
| tanned nobody cared to look up the rec
| ord to fine whether he was right or not
| At any rate the resolution was with
| drawn
| GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Then the general appropriation bill
was taken up and the Senate settled
| down for a long siege.
| The first committee amendment that
| called for difference of opinion was
the item reducing the special contingent
| tApSIiSSS tStCIcl INlSt) III liz 49,
errors office from $4,000 to $1,000. 1t
was adopted after brief skirmish.
NATIONAL GUARD MATTERS.
The amendment providing for an ap-
preparation of $1S500 for five additional
companies of the National Guard, also
met with bitter opposition. Bulla sub
mitted that what was needed was a
! better trained militia, rather than
! large body of men who properly be-
/ longed in the awkward squad. He con-
tended that efficiency and not numbers
was what was desired.
| Wilmington brought politics into the
question submitting that a San Diego
company, commanded by an active Re
| publican, had been disbanded for no
known reason while one commanded by
Democrat had been continued.
| Boyce and Pedlar spoke for the
amendment, but it was lost by rising
vote.
The item appropriating 10000 for en-
| campment purposes for the National
| Guard for the forty-ninth fiscal year,
was amended to read $30, 600.
| STATE SCHOOL BOOKS.
Wilmington offered an amendment
proposing to strike out the appropria-
ton of the $4,000 revolving fund for
STOCK material, etc, used for compiling
| and printing school text books. He
stated that the revolving fund had been
| revolving into the State Printing Office
| every two years since the State had
| been printing its own text books, but
never had revolved back after the pro-
ducts had been sold. He did not suppose
the amendment would be adopted, but
wished to call up the subject.
Besides the $4,000, known as the re-
volving fund, he called attention to the
| fact that an additional appropriation Of
$1,000 was asked for to be used by the
State Board of Education in compiling
| a school history.
| Smith hoped Withington's amendment
would be adopted. He understood that
! the text books printed were sold to par
ents of children who used them, and the
question with him was why that money
| never revolved back into the funds. If
| the department was to be self-support-
! ing, he could see no reason why $4,000
was demanded every two years.
| VOORHEES, explained that the funds de-
| rived from sales were turned into the
] general fund and not into the text book
| fund. and that it must necessarily be re-
| appropriated biennally, as it was the
| capital stock upon which the work was
performed, and by this means be made
what it was intended-a revolving fund.
| Smith started to the library to look up
| the facts connected with the case, and
| the item was not resurrected during the
mornings session.
| Amendments We're also adopted segre-
eating support and salaries in the appro-
priations for the several State inStitu-
lions, though the several appropriations
| as reported from the Assembly re-
NAMED unchanged.
| The appropriation for the care and i'm
| Normal School at San Jose was amended
| to read 5000 instead Of 81 800
STATE UNIVERSITY BILLS.
| An amendment proposing to reduce
| the appropriation for the Department
| of Viticulture in the State University
| from $4,000 to $1,000. was lost.
| The item appropriating $1,000 for use
| Of the State University for forestry sta
| tions, also came up for some caustic re-
| marks. 1t was c0ntended by the oppOn
ents of the appropriation that the
| friends of the University had promised
| that old the | cent tax carry, giving to
the University $4,000 per annum
| extra. no appropriations such as that
under consideration, would be asked for.
An amendment was offered to strike
| out the item. Lost, s to y.
The item appropriating $4,000 for the
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