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no reason why he should not offer his
own amendments.
The bill is an important one, provid-
ing that electric railway and similar
franchises which are now sold by mu-
inequalities for a single sum shall be
sold for a percentage on the gross earn
ingS of the corporation. Judge Dibble
explained that he believed that while
the bill might be all right for Los An
geles, it might be necessary to amend il
for San Francisco. Personally he had nc
interest in the bill, but the great city
of San Francisco is interested. Dibble
read a dispatch from Mayor Phelan OF
San Francisco asking TO have the bill
delayed until some amendments now in
preparation could be forwarded. The
dispatch closed, San Francisco deeply
interested
Mead agreed to lay the bill over until
Monday, but gave notice that he would
not countenance a longer postpone
ment.
TOLAND'S SEAT SAFE.
The Committee on Contested Elec-
tions, Kenyon, Chairman, reported on
the contested case of Bennett VS.. To-
land, that Thomas O. Toland who at
present occupies a seat in the Assem-
bly,, is entitled thereto, and the case is
accordingly dismissed
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The Committee on Rules reported fa-
vorably on a resolution that the Ser
geant- Arms be required to post
three notices that visitors should not
occupy the seats of members except on
invitation. The House amended to make
the resolution include attaches and TO
make the Sergeant-at-Arms response
BILE for the enforcement of the order,
and it was adopted as amended.
The Committee on Foreign Relations
reported unfavOrably on a. J. r. ), call
ing for the free coinage of silver. This
was offered by Sanford.
Shanahan's bill, 4S2, to perpetuate the
Board of Supreme Court Commissioners
by the appointment of four Commis-
sioners and a Secretary, was reported
back favorably by the Committee on
Ways and Means.
The same committee reported that
Valentine, author of A. B. 20, providing
for a, California exhibit at the Tennessee
Exposition in 1897, be allowed to with
draw the same, and on his motion it was
done. The bill making an appropriation
for the purchase of a gasoline launch for
the Fish Commission was reported ia
vorably, also those for the claims of
Brtton & Rey and Thomas Hatch.
Cominetti moved that his bills. four
in number, carrying appropriations for
the Preston School of Industry at lone,
which had received approval of the
Committee on Public Buildings, should
be sent to the Ways and Means Commit
tee. Carried.
FIRST AND SECOND FILES.
The first reading file was disposed OF
rapidly, some twenty-six bills being read
and passed to the second reading file.
a good deal was also accomplished on
the second reading file, the hour of ad-
journment being extended for the pur-
pose OF work.
Eighteen bills amending the Code of
Civil Procedure were read and passed to
third reading with very few amend
ments.
Lindenberger's bill regulating the
width of wagon tires was amended to
take effect from and after A. d. 1900.
Hilrs bill, fixing the age of consent at
Is years, was amended to read at 16
years The sentiment of the House SEEM
ed TO be in favor of IS years. but past
experience convinced members that a
measure fixing that age could not be
gotten through and that half loaf of
protection for girlhood and young wo-
manhood was better than none at all,
or better than the pitiful excuse for it
that the law now affords.
Sanford's bill. 45, requiring corpora
tions doing business in this State to pay
their employees, each of them, at least
once in each month the wages earned by
such employe. was subjected to numer-
Gus amendments, one of which provided
that any claim of such employe should
constitute a lien on any property of the
employer to take precedence of all
others except recorded mortgages. and
that no unrecorded deed should stand
as a bar to such lien. The bill. with its
amendments, was made a special order
for next Thursday.
1t was ordered that Cutters Constitu-
tional Amendment No. %, abolishing
the Railroad Commission. should be re-
ported back on Monday morning.
ttNeF OILS lSttl lile StNOiAu SiiIlc Wei {
the following:
A. B. 123. by Waymire, to amend Sec
ton of Political Code in relation to in
surance.
A. b. 12S. by Waymire, to enable any
county. city and county. city, or town
to lease property to associations of ex-
soldiers and sailors.
a. B. 1S2, by Cross. enabling any city
or city and county to take its census be-
tween the times for the Federal census.
4. b 121, by Waymire, providing for
the prevention of blindness in infants
and fixing a penalty for improper ne
glect by midwife or physician.
A. B. 5, by Dibble. providing for the
setting UP of headstones provided by the
United States for deceased sailors, SOL
diers and marines. the expense to be
borne by the county.
A. B. 119. by Wright. authorizing GER
tain corpora tons to loan and invest
money and regulating the same.
abby Dbble, to compel all depos-
itories OF money and commercial banks
TO publish q sworn statement of all un-
claimed deposits.
A petition from the citizens Of Solano
County was offered by Anderson and
ordered printed in the journal. but was
not read The petition was a protest
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