The record-union., 1897-03-14
Female Suffrage Fight Over
Again in The Senate.
County Government Bill Receives
Eighty More Amendments
A Pleasant Episode in The Ways and Means
COmmittee-BilS Passed
Yesterday.

In the Senate yesterday morning the
old, threadbare question of extending
the right of suffrage to persons of the
feminine gender was sprung when
Boyce moved to reconsider the vote
whereby the constitutional amendment
relating to the subject was defeated
The motion to reconsider needed but a
majority vote, and after an hour of
clubbing and call of the Senate the
necessary twenty-one votes were
drummed up and the motion to recon-
slider carried.
Then the suffragist people were in
another quandary. Their full fighting
force was not present, and Pedlar, who
was in Fresno, had not been heard
from. There was no possible chance to
roll up the two-thirds vote necessary to
adopt the amendment, and a motion to
defer further action until Tuesday
caused another skirmish-this time on
rules and points of order, most of
NAiiNAA "NAC htNlhCO ny
Governor Jeter notwithstanding the
protest of President pro tenn. Flint in
favor of the women. Even twenty-one
votes could not be rounded up for a
continuance, and the suffragists had to
be contented with a majority vote of
those present. They expect by Tues
day to have rallied their scattered
forces in sufficient numbers to secure a
victory, which will, it is thought, be
rendered barren by another emphatic
defeat in the lower house.
ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.
Almost the entire afternoon was con-
sumed in considering the four compan-
ion bills commonly known as the "hiGh-
way bills" Throughout the discus
among the opponents of the measure
that legislation toward securing a sys-
tenn of improved highways was neces-
sary, but that the idea as proposed by
the bills in question was impracticable.
The first of the bills, to create a de-
partment of highways and to provide
for the appointment of Commissioners
was at length passed, and a notice of
n motion to reconsider followed. Then
the companion bills We're called for,
but after Smith, Gillette and Shinpee
had announced, that did the motion to
reconsider prove abortive, they would
withdraw all opposition and vote for
the three remaining bills, they were
passed on the file, and their fate will be
determined tomorrow.
GUYS HAPPY DAY.
Assemblyman Guy of San Diego,
Chairman of the Committee on Ways
and Means, was arrested last night by
the committees Sergeant-at-Arms and
brought before the bar of the Ways
and Means Committee room, where he
found awaiting him the Assembly at
taches and clerks from San Diego, with
Hon. Judson c. Brusie as their at
torney.
On his entrance into the room Guy
was ordered by counsel for the plain
tiffs to stand while the charge against
him was delivered.
Guy was told by Brusie. in very
pleasant fashion, how his friends, the
clerks and attaches with whom he had
been associated in committee and AS
sembly for sixty long days and more,
felt deeply the uniform kindness and
courtesy he had shown them. They de-
sired to give some tangible evidence of
a feeling which was based not upon
sordid value, but rather upon the high
regard he had won from them by his
fidelity TO principle and to duty as a
member of the Assembly and as Chair
man of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. Any man of true feeling receiving
a gift from such a source would, Bru-
sic said. cherish 1t for far more than its
intrinsic value. Such a man he lie
leved Guy was. and such a man his
friends and co-workers believed him 20
be- and so. after the gift itself might be
lost to sight, memory would retain the
feeling which prompted it, a feeling o.
that friendship which can never die.
Brusie then uncovered very elegant
silver water set of pitcher and salver-
the design having the chaste and plain
but beautiful lines of the Colonial
times. The inscription on the salvei
was as follows:
HON. w. r. GUY.
From Your Attaches,
California Legislature.
1897.
Guy, though greatly surprised and
moved, spoke his words of thanks quite
eloauently. He could not believe, he
said. that BRUSHES words of praise were
true or deserved. He had, in his owr
simple way, tried to be true to every
trust reposed in him and thoughtful
and courteous to those with whom he
was connected, but he could not fee
that he had earned any such express
ion from them. To say that he ac-
capted their gift with profound graft