The herald., 1897-01-05

| the senate having auJOurneu, tHe gov
: ernor would not present his annual mes
sage until tomorrow.
A resolution was passed that five hur
dred copies of bills, resolutions, Journal
etc, be printed each day by the stat
printer
The following committee on rules wa
appointed by the chair: Dibble. Chey
noweth. McCandish, Mcclellan and tn
speaker.
At 5:55 the assembly adjourned, an
under suspension of the rules 1t WI
meet at IL o'clock tomorrow morning III
stead of $3.50.
A JOINT CAUCUS
The Democratic and Populist member
of the assembly met in caucus Tor IN
first time this morning and elected j
b. Sanford chairman and Fr2pk r. Ms
honey secretary. 1t was deciaed TO cas-
the complimentary vote of the minorit.
of the house for John A. Power of Sal
Francisco. which was subsequent.
done. The following were also selecte,
as candidates for the various statutor.
positions and were voted for with th
full Democratic strength during the day
| Chief clerk, w. ]. GaVigan; sergeant-at
arms, J. B. Stanton: assistant sergeant
at-arms, Col. w. H. Bradley; minut,
| clerk, John e. Yoakum: journal clerk
| William Keppner: enrolling clerk, Chas
I
| postmistress, Mrs. Z. A. Emerson; as
sistant postmistress, Miss L. Reeves
chaplain. r. H. B. Anderson.
| On motion of r. f. Tracy of San Fran
! cisco, it was agreed that the Democrats
and Populists would caucus together
during the session.
THE GREAT QUESTION.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4.-The senato-
rial fight. now that the question of pat
L Il
sorbing topic of conversation about the
headquarters of the lawmakers. If
mems signatures amount to aught then
the fight is all over, and the supporters
Of Perkins have nothing left to do but
the shouting. This afternoon fifty-eight
names had been attached to the petit
tion which was circulated today among
the members of both houses by the Per-
lins forces. and tonight it is claimed
that the necessary three required to
re-elect the senator have been secured,
and that more are coming.
A runlor was in circulation tonight
that the organization of the assembly
had not been perfected for the reason
that the senate had not been notified
of such organization. Not a great deal
of stock is taken in this fine distinction
and the majority Of the lawmakers in
both houses laugh at the contention.
The result. if the foregoing We're true.
would be to delay balloting for one
week. 1t will not delay caucussing.
however, for that Will be accomplished
tomorrow night, when, it is claimed.
sixty-four members will go into secret
convention. Perkins has twenty-five of
the twenty EIGHT Republican senators.
The six who refuse to go into caucus
are Bert, Morehouse, Frank, Mahoney.
Wolfe and Linder. Pedlar and Shine
held out for awhile, put they finally
signed and made the majority for Per-
kinS solid.
In the assembly thirty-eight sigma
lures to the petition to caucus tomor-
row night were secured. Judge Way-
mire is one of the signers. He demurred
at 1rst ana passed the petition to his
neighbor. but he relented and signed.
Tonight it is claimed three more sig
natures were secured, and this makes il
binding.
Sam Shortrdge arrived tonight and
has been in consultation with Col Trum
DO, Charles Shortridge and others inter-
ested in his fight. His brother Charles
claims that number of members who
are going into the caucus are his friends.
Two of the men who signed, Mr.. Short
ridge said, will withdraw their sigma
lures. Mr.. Shortridge says he is will
ing to meet any proposition that comes
from the Perkins side.
Following is the full list of senators
and assemblymen who have signed the
petition to go into caucus for Perkins to-
morrow night:
Senators-Gillett, Gleaves, Shippee,
Aram, Luchsinger, Holloway, Dickinson.
Shine. VOORHEES,, Pedlar, Denison, STRAIT
ton, Beard, Trout, Flint. Smith, Boyce.
Simpson. Bulla, Androus, Jones, With
emblymen-Strain, Hill. Damon.
Seward, Stansell, Butler, A. w. North,
Power, Burnham, Price, Coombs, An
derson, Sims, Ennis, Canavan, Belshaw,
Austin. Fontana. Pohlman. Clarke. Way
mire, Leavitt, Breling, H. H. North,
Wright, Malcolm, Arnerich, Keables.
Hudson. Harris. Melick. Vosberg. Ken
yon. Valentine, Cross, Chynoweth, Lin
denberger, Goff, Guy, Robinson-4O.
The Shortridge forces claim that two
names will be withdrawn from the list
tomorrow Assembyman Pohlman of
san francisco is named as one who will
refuse to go into the caucus
Senator Lirder and Assemblyman
Goodhue promised to join the caucus
tonight, This will give Perkins the
election by majority of one even if
the two members claimed by Shortridge
do withdraw
PROMISED ECONOMY.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. .4-Both branch
es of the legislature have gone in for an
economical administration during the
session and have cut expenses to a con-
siderable extent. The Republicans in
the senate caucused three times before
they could determine on the amount of
patronage to be doled out to each Of the
twenty-eight senators. The last caucus
was convened at 8 o'clock this afternoon
and lasted until $40
The distribution of the loaves and fish
es was checked when the total reached
$500 day. Two years ago the daily ex-
penses of the senate amounted to about
$IS3. The allowance to each senator has
been cut almost in half In the session
of 1895 the patronage in the gift of each
senator amounted to $32 per diem. Now
it will amount to but ST.. There will be
about 100 employees against 10 two
years ago. A resolutions will be intro
duced in the senate to make the caucus
resolution a castiron one and to prevent
the Introduction of any future resolu-
tons having in view the increasing of
the expenses.
The assembly caucus adopted the re-
port of its committee on patronage,
thereby making saving, it is claimed
Of about $197 a day. Each of the forty-
six Republican assemblymen has at his
one SS and one S. per diem posi-
ton.
THE PARIS CARNIVAL