The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-16

SeHce Oh the dutnOT, simpson gave nOtlCe
Of motion to reconsider
S. B. 315. by VOORHEES,, appropriating
81 300 to pay the claim of w. H. Murray,
State Superintendent of ramie culture,
read third time, passed, % to 5-title
approved.
COUNTY CLAIMS.
S. B. 642, by Morehouse, appropriat-
ing $40 % to pay the claim of Santa
Clara County against the State, read
third time, passed, % to little ap-
proved
S. B. 643, by La Rue, appropriating
SS,219 80 to pay the claim of Napa
County, passed, "A to little approved.
S. B. GA. appropriating 1888 80 to
pay the claim of Tehama County,
passed, 26 to little approved.
S. B. 645. by Flint, appropriating So,
915 - to pay the claim of Monterey
OTHER CLAIMS.
S. B. 691, by VOORHEES,, appropriating
So, 025 81 to pay the claim of the South
ern Pacific Company, was passed by a
vote of 81 to 0-title approved.
S. B. 430, by Dickinson, for the relief
of w. c. Guirey, and appropriating $3.50
therefor. passed, 81 to little approved.
S. B. 394, by Trout, appropriating $40
to pay D. E. O'Keefe for advertising
done for the State in the San Mateo
Journal" passed, - to 0-title ap-
proved
5. b. 423, by DenisOn, appropriating
S1I6 to pay the claim of William Saun
ders for publishing list of delinquent
school lands, passed, % to 0-title ap-
proved.
S. B. 439 by Simpson. appropriating
$500 to pay the claim of Edwin ].
Card, was read the second time and con-
sidered engrossed
S. b. 602. by Wolfe, appropriating
$1,000 to pay the claim of julius Herzog
was read the second time and considered
engrossed.
>. b. 4SI, by Dickinson, appropriating
$1,000 to pay the claim of j. w. New
bert, was read the second time and con-
sidered engrossed.
GOOD ROADS BILLS.
AT this point Bulla moved that Braun
harris notice of a motion to reconsider
the vote whereby A. B. 902, by the Com
mittee on Roads and Highways, had
been passed at Saturdays session, be
taken up. The bill is the first of the
four measures commonly known as the
good roads bills and it's title is as fol-
lows: AN Act to create a department
of highways for the State of California
to define its duties and powers, to pro-
vide for the appointment of officers and
employees thereof, and to provide for the
compensation of said officers and en-
Il i
of said department, and to make an ap
preparation therefor, for the remainder
of the forty-eighth fiscal year"
Braunhart thought he was entirely
capable of calling up his own notice to
reconsider, but Bulla made the point
which was sustained, that any Senator
might call up any notice of a motion to
reconsider
The motion to call up prevailed, and
Mahoney sent a communication to the
desk, which he had received from Mayor
Phelan of San Francisco. urging recon-
sideratiOn, and contending that San
Francisco ought not to be called upon to
furnish $4,000 to construct country
roads, when city streets needed improve
ment and repairs.
against the reading of the communica-
ton, submitting that San Francisco's
Mayor had no right to suggest a line of
action for the Senate to follow. After
considerable jangling the communica-
ton was read
Wilmington called for the previous
question, and Smith took the floor, and
spoke for the motion to reconsider.
There was. however, no question as to
the feeling of the Senate. 1t did not
desire a reconsideration, and the
noes" rolled in until n had been piled
UP. against 16 for, and the motion to
reconsider was declared lost. The first
OF the good roads bills was landed high
and dry, and according to the promises
given by Smith, Gillette and Shippee,
their opposition to the companion bills
would disappear when the latter came
up for consideration, and they would
vote with the proponents Of the meas
ures.
GOVERNOR BUDD MAY CO.
A. c. r. -, granting the Governor
six months leave Of absence. with per-
russion to leave the State, was taken
UP and adopted by a vote of % to O.
I itt ItSOIulAOu pIONiUGS IUdl the Gov
ecnor may at any time within the next
two years, absent himself from the
State, for a period not to exceed six
months.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
5. c. a. ,, by Braunhart, proposing
an amendment to Article XII authoriz-
ing Mayors to veto tax levies, the same
as other ordinances, was read, commit
tee amendment adopted. and the
amendment ordered printed
$. G. A. &, by Braunhart. proposing
an amendment to Article XIII, relat-
ing to revenue and taxation, was taken
up, but Went over owing to the fact
that the committee amendment had
not been embodied in it,
Afternoon Session.