The record-union., 1897-02-09


Landsborough, Dolan and Emmons.
PROPERLY ENGROSSED.
The Committee on Engrossment re-
ported the following: 120, 80. 81, -,
191, 324, $50, 39S, 620. 621 as properly
engroSsed.
SOLDIERS GIFT TO THE STATE.
A. B. 622, providing for the accep-
tance of the Soldiers Home at Yount-
vile by the State, was read the second
time and Dibble moved that it be made
a special order for Wednesday,
Caminetti moved as a substitute that
the bill be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means, claiming that it
should be carefully examined as to
the financial aspect of the proposed
transfer. He thought he discovered an
indefinite appropriation in the fu-
ture within the bill.
Dibble affirmed that it had been
through the Judiciary Committee that
the donation of the property, worth
100000, to the State, was in order to
make the perpetuity of the Home more
secure, and no more than the appropria-
ton now granted every term of Legis-
lature in the general bill would be re-
quired.
wavmire opposed Caminetti's substi-
tute motion and explained very clearly
,ne status of the case.
Caminetti's amendment was lost and
Dibble's motion to make the third read
ing special order for Wednesday
morning was carried.
FOR SPECIAL ORDERS.
On motion of Hart North A b. 6S1,
concerning bridges across navigable
streams was taken from its place on
the file, read the second time and made
a special order for Wednesday. North
explained that it related specially to a
bridge across the estuary between Oak
land and Alameda, on which work was
awaiting the success of the bill
The Committee on Enrolment report
ed A. B. 2o3, for a third Superior Judge
for Santa Clara County, correctly en-
rolled and transmitted to the Governor.
Sanford moved that his bill, ii, to es-
tablish a Department OF Labor, be ia
ken from its place on the file, read the
second time and made a special order
for Wednesday, Sanford explained that
laboring men all over the State were
looking anxiously for the passage OF
the measure.
Dibble violently opposed making the
bib a special order. Denied that labor
ing men wanted anything of the kind;
said it was the jawsmiths, not the
blacksmiths, who wanted it.
Dennery hoped the motion would car
ry. The gentleman from San Fran
sico Dibble) had been granted special
orders very frequently; this was the
first one asked for the laboring men and
it was not very gracious in Dibble TO
oppose ii. He said it was the laboring
man who wanted it; he had now pc
tition signed by 10000 laborers asking
for such a department. He hoped the
bill would be made a special order for
Wednesday.
The motion was carried and so or
dered.
FROM THE SENATE.
A message from the Senate an
| nounced the passage by that house OF
A. 3. 2S6, directing the State Prison
Directors to employ at least twenty
prisoners in the construction of roads
| to the San Quentin Prison. 1t was sent
TO enrolment.
The Senate also requested the return
| from the committee of S. B. ST. relat-
| ing to penalties for the sale of liquors
to inebriates and Indians. SO ordered
| The Speaker announced that the
| Torrens Land Act, passed last week
| by the Senate, had been received from
| that body. In his estimation, the
| Speaker said, the Act was an innOva-
| ton, almost a revolution, and he
| deemed it important that the
House sould give it careful consid-
| Grafton. The Judiciary Committee, tC
which it would naturally go, was bur
dened with a plethora of bills and he
| thought it might be wise to appoint a
| special committee for the study of tbs
| measure.
! Hart North said that before any ac-
! ton of that sort was taken he desired
| to consult Senator Bulla who had in
| troduced the Senate bill. The matter
was accordingly temporarily deferred
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The Committee on Roads and High
ways reported a substitute for Me-
| Clellan's 146, giving Supervisors power
to declare bridges public property, and
recommended it to pass. Read first
time and put on second reading file.
| Revision of Codes" reported S. B,
| 1S9 and 334 to be referred to Judiciary
So ordered; also A. IS 700, I01 and
| 102, amending the Code of Civil Pro-
| cedure; A. B. 703. relating to the time
| of forming new school districts, was
referred to the Committee on Educa-
| ton; A E. 81, relating to mortgages
and Cross $780, relating to pawnbrok-
ers, were favorably reported; Elliott $
| 16S, relative to the legal rate of inter
est, and A B. 90, relating to mortgages
| were reported adversely; Treacy'S 34l
relating to organization of the Assem-
| bly,, the author was given leave to
| withdraw but was absent; Substi-
| tute to Bridgford's 2I5, relating to the
payment Of invalid assessments in re-
clamation districts, was favorably re-
ported, was read first time and sent tC
second reading file; the report on S. B
| 179 was that it do not pass, as an AS
sernbly bill embodying the same prop
ositlons had already passed. Several
original bills were introduced from the
| committee, the titles of which are
given under the proper heading.
The Committee on Banks and Bank
| ing reported adversely ON Jones 429
| relating TO savings ana loan corpora
| tions and recommended that Cross
| 625. relating to the management OF
| banking corporations. be withdrawn.
BELSHAW'S BILL.
That bill of many mutations, which
has now reached the number 1913, was
called up by Belshaw under special or
der, and he moved that it be made a
case of urgency. 1t is the bill provid-
| ing for a cheap method of organizing
| the LEGISLATURE, and limiting the num-
Der of attaches, both temporary and
| permanent.
| Shanahan vigorously opposed making