The San Francisco call., 1897-02-13
MUCH RUNCOMBE
IN THE ASSEMBLY,
Useless Campaign Thunder
= From the Lips of
FuSioniSts.
Opposition TO the Request for
=. a Ship to Send Food to
=. India.
. Vain Words That Did Not Prevent
the Passage of the Humane
Resolution.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 12-The
Democratic minority leaders in the AS
sembly appear to have abandoned the
work OF legislation and to have devoted
the whole of their time and attention TO
manufacture political buncombe to be
used as campaign thunder two years
hence. The fusion spectacIes which they
are wearing have confused their ideas of
right and wrong and have fused the good
and the bad into one proposition-'Is it
. Democratic?" with @ capital D. The
only kind OF democracy they know is that
which begins with q capital letter and
carries the word party after It. and
with a capitaI 2.
In pursuance of the narrow policy
which has been carried on by their party
ever since the beginning of the present
session Shanahan and Emmons Jumped
'stif-Iegged upon resolution asking the
= National Government to furnish ship to
: transport to the starving coolies OF India
shlpload OF corn, provisions and cloth
ing donated by charitable persons in the
East.
Emmons OF Bakersfield, the best speaker
and one of the most adroit of the minor
tty, made violent harangue against the
resolution. He told OF thousands OF poor
people in San Francisco looking for work,
. and repeated the tattered and thread bare
saying that charity should begin at
home" He had a big heart for the poor
and did not think that it would be right
for the Government to furnish a ship TO
carry this poor crust TO the parched lips
of the brown Hindoo while there were
poor people and starving people in Cali
iornia.
Populist Shanahan took up the cue. He
has big voice and strong lungs and used
them both to their fullest capacity His
speech breathed of Fenianism ana there
was a strong odor of dynamite about it,
1t would be good sense, he thought, TO let
the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
and Empress of India look after her own
poor. The distress in India was caused
by British rule and Great Britain should
take care OF the tamine-stricken people.
A tramp in the gallery applauded this
eloquent outburst of wind which was to
blow away all help from India, and which
in the same breath was to fill the stom-
achs of the starving poor in California.
North of Alameda cheerfuIly informed
the gentlemen that they did not know
what they had been talking about.
Nothing was asked OF the people of \
California by the resolution. The pro-
visions and clothing had been already
donated by benevolent people and were to
be transported free of charge by the rail-
road com panies to Port Costa. All that
was wanted was for the Government of
the United States to furnish g ship to
carry those gifts TO the famine stricken
country.
Pessimistic socialism. the kind that
complains OF existing conditions without
= Offering a remedy or pointing out way
for a change to better state, vas voiced
by Dryden OF San Diego. He asked why
was it that there were millions of starving
poor in the country when the soil of the
United States could easily support more
than five times its present population?
This question he answered himself by
saying that 1t was owing to the Cursed
system of Distribution
There was applause for the gentleman
from National City, place where it is to
be hoped ''the cursed system of distribu-
tlon" has been supplanted by the blessed
Dryden system with old man DRYDEN
himself as the distributor.
Everything was going on well with the
high priests of buncombe until Leayitt
got the floor and proceeded to pour the
molten lava OF sarcasm down the backs of
the Democrats and Populists who had
III,
to hear 1.-The gentleman from the Jack
rabbit country and the man from the tall
tim bers of the north" talking about char
ity beginning at home when only yester-
day they had voted in lavor of veto that
would throw 1000 people out of employ
ment not oniy in their own State, but IN
this city.
They talked about what big hearts
they had for the DOOR, he added. ''Their
hearts are so small that you would have
to use a microscope to find them"
Before the applause had subsidized Den
merry charged that the opposition to the
resolution was only an effort or the part
OF some OF the minority to make political
capital because the resolution emanated
from a Republican. The people of the
United States were able to take care of
their own poor, and never had been
obliged to ask the assistance of foreign
countries.
They were equally able to help the poor
OF other countries. He was pleased to see,
he said, tnat San Francisco had to go TO
Kern County to learn about its own busl-
ness. California has never had occasion
to 60 outside Tor help in taking care of her
unemployed. He was willing that the
United States should take care OF the poor
all over the world
Mulcrevy said that the whole world
knew mat there were 10, 600 men in San
francisco walking the streets and CRYING
Tor work and bread. Let us be as mac
unanimous TO them as we are to the stary-
= Ing poor OF India" he added.
Emmons and Shanahan found their hold
as leaders was not firm as they thought
when the vote of the passage of the reso-
luton was announced as So aves and 6
noes.
Leavitt started the liveliest scene of tho
day when lie moved that the question of
reconsidering the Governors veto of the
State Printing Office appropriation be
made the special order for next Tuesday
atI1 A. NJ
Bridgford, Toland and Shanahan were
on their feet at once raising the point of
order that the subject-matter was not
subject for considera ton.
Speaker Coombs ruled the point of order
not well taken. and Toland and Caminetti
appealed from the decision of the chair.
The Speakers ruling was sustained by
vote of A ayes to 81 noes, and the special
order was made.
IN ASSEMBLY AND SENATE.
Favorable Report Made on The Prize
Fight Bin.
SACRAMENTO. CAL, Feb. 12-An un-
favorable report was made to the AS