The record-union., 1897-01-30

was first put in the Capitol, was cut
down from $50 to 5000, and reported
favorable as amended.
The contest over the Senatorial seat
in the Twenty-third District came to
an end last night. Various gains and
losses had been made by Hall and the
contestants, but in the end Hall won by
the ten votes the original count had
given him.
TRYING AGAIN.
Constitutional amendments for
woman suffrage have now been intro
duced in both houses, Judge Waymire
having introduced it in the House
Thursday. In the Senate Committee it
was reported favorably by a vote of 3
to ,. In the House it has not yet been
reported on. Madame Sorbier who has
been here in the interest of the amend
ment, and also in the Interest of a bill
introduced into the House by Emmons,
calling for the cleaning of public build
lngs by contract, goes to San Francisco
bier and her friends hope by means of
the measure for letting the cleaning of
public buildings by contract, if it should
pass, to get such contracts for women,
believing that the work would be bet
ter done and women laborers greatly
benefited.
STATE VETERANS HOME.
Dibble introduced into the Assembly
yesterday a bill for the transfer of the
entire property of the Soldiers Home at
YOuntville, Napa County, to the State,
a move which those interested think will
be conducive to its perpetuity. The
main provisions of the measure are
given in Section as follows:
Section ,. Said property shall continue
to be used as a home for aged and in
digent United States ex-soldiers sail
ors and marines. The home shall be a
State home under the exclusive manage
ment and control of the State by a board
Of eleven directors, composed of two
veterans of the Mexican war and nine
Union veterans, or such persons as may
be recommended by the Grand Army of
the Republic of the State of California
and Associated Veterans of the Mexican
war, a corporation.
The following named persons shall
the first Board of Directors
under this Act: For four years, S. ].
| q yate w
c. H. Blinn, S. Cahen, j. H. Garrett, G..
w. Stroll, all Union veterans For two
years, j. d. Barnett, j. c. Currie, G.. w.
Arbuckle, w. j. Ruddick, Union vet
Grams; w. l.. Duncan, a Mexican vet
eran.
TWO GOOD MEASURES.
Ennis of Sacramento had his A. B.
133 authorizing the State Prison Di-
rectors to purchase additional machin-
cry for the rock-crushing plant at Fol-
som, reported back favorably yesterday
from the Committee on Ways and
Means.
Sims Of Sacramento introduced A. B.
6332, providing for county fire insurance
measure in which farmers
in general and the order of the State
Grange are interested
PUBLIC WELFARE.
A couple of paragraps CLEANED indis-
from measures glanced at
in the hurry of routine, having some
special features of sociological, interest,
are given below:
From Malcolms A. B. 603:
When any minor who Is poor. home
less, chargeable TO the county, or an out
cast, has no visible means of obtaining
an honest livelihood, the Superior Court
of the county where he is found shall
have power to bind him as an appren-
until. if a male. he arrives at the age of
21 years, and if a female, she arrives at
the age of IL.
Another bill thus defines 'willful ne
glect:"
Willful neglect is the neglect of the
husband to provide for his wife the COM
mon necessaries Of life. he having the
ability to do so; or it is the failure to
do so by reason of idleness, profigacy or
dissipation. In no case shall the fact
that the wife earns her own living af-
feet the question of willful neglect on his
part Of the husband
Dibble has introduced a bill prohibit
ing the desecration of the American flag
by any printing or advertisement