The record-union., 1897-02-18
Oakland Sends Citizens After the
State Fair.
Governor Du1d Approves the Bill to Pre-
vent Blindness in Infants.
Bill TO Regulate The Width Of Wagon Tires
Passed by tile Senate--Dary
Inspection.

In the Senate yesterday, Hairs Dill
to regulate the hours of labor of per-
sons employed in bakeries was refused
passage on the ground, as explained
by the committee to which it had been
referred that it was unconstitutional.
Jones bill to regulate the width Of
wagon tires was passed without oppo-
sition, and persons interested in the
good roads movement Will be glad to
know that another step has been taken
in the right direction. The full text Of
ahe bill appears in another column.
Stratton's bill, providing that the
wages of persons in the employ of the
State shall not be exempt from attach
ment was also passed after d brisk
skirmish, and if the Assembly is favor
able and the Governor gracious, the
grocery man may cut down the prices
on coffee, as the risks will be less than
heretofore.
SeawelI, seeing the uselessness of
making another fight for reducing the
salaries Of officials of the Supreme
Court, moved that the amendments
offered by himself lie on the table, and
came near having the bill carried with
them However, the matter was
Strengthened out, and the salaries will
remain as fixed by the original bill.
The members of the Senate had an
other change of heart yesterday and
fill the vacancy created by the resigna-
tion of Lndley. A few days ago
similar resolution was sadly disfigured
and retired after the first round. Yes
terday, however, it proved a winner.
The printing squabble got a foothold
in the Senate late in the afternoon, but
not a firm one. The attempt to draw
the upper house into the vortex was not
taken kindly and it was only after
eliminating the clause providing for
the services of two accountants and
like number of printing experts that
the Senators would consent to any
thing. That action again sends the
resolution to the Assembly, and the
Senate will rest in peace while the AS
sembly continues the wheel"
The Senate Committee on Hospitals
yesterday decided to report back More
houses bin appropriating $4,000 to as
sist the Woman's Relief Corps Home
Association, with a favorable recon-
mendation.
A MERRY WAR.
The battle of the bills came off as
per announcement yesterday and that.
with a contest over the classification
and division of agricultural districts in
A. b. 727, occupied the time of the AS
sembly for the whole day. The results
are given under the regular proceed
fngs and, taken in connection with the
statement of State Printer Johnston,
presented TO the Assembly last evening,
make interesting reading for the peo-
pie.
The Joint Investigating Committee
will probably organize to-day.
During the discussion of the Agricult-
uraI Association bill in the morning.
Sims and Ennis. of Sacramento, rep
resented that this county did not wish
ITO enter into competition with the 9TH
ers for a district appropriation, as the
State Fair and the appropriation there
for were necessarily directly beneficial
to this county and city and they could
not ask for more.
on this Clark of Alameda made a
savage attack on State Fairs in gem
eral, and those held in Sacramento in
particular, and made a strong effort
to get Sacramento Included in the dis
ur-sct appropriations, with a quite ap-
parent purpose OF using that as a ham
die for another argument at a future
I'll me.
The anfmus of Clarks position was
made clear during the evening by the
appearance of two distinguished Oak
1anders on the Assembly floor, Messrs.
Craigie Sharpe, Secretary of the Oak
land Board of Trade, and S. b. Roth
enberg, IA prominent merchant who
have come with the avowed purpose Of
eattfng a transfer of the State Fair
from sacramento to Oakland, and have,
II is claimed, the Oakland Trottng
Park in their pocket to bestow upon the
State as a bonus.