The record-union., 1897-02-16
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
VI the State and the Coast on Sub
ieCts of Living and News
Interest.

Colusa Sun: The Senate has passed
bill for the appointment of COmmis-
sioner to a monetary conference, a fact
which William Jennings Bryan may
note with interest because he has
claimed that the Republican plan for a
monetary conference was born Of insin-
cerity, and intimated that we would
hear no more of such conference after
election.-Tulare Register.
The Sun was on the gold side of
that controversy. and it has always re-
garded the CAB about a monetary con-
ference as brat of Insincerity. 1t was
insincere because everybody was and
is in favor of the greatest possible use
OF silver, and if d monetary conference
was likely to lead to a greater euse
everybody was in favor of holding one.
There was no issue on that. 'Oh, ye
of little faith" might be quoted against
some of US, but even those of us who
claimed the smallest possible modicum
of the article that is said to move
mountains We're wiling to try confer
ence, To talk, therefore. about a con-
ference in connection with accomplish
ing anything is insincere.
working" THE NEWSPAPERS.
Marysville Appeal: The man who can
successfully work" the newspapers. no
matter what his scheme is. whether it
be for political place, engineering
land deal managing an actress or a
thousand and one other projects need
ing publicity for their very existence
lras his fortune directly under his head
gear providing his faculty is so well
developed as to conceal his purpose
Great newspapers. the makers of which
are in daily contact with all classes
high and low, rich and pOOr-are sup
posed to be ''up to SNUFF and soon
weed out the employees who permit
themselves to be worked" by every
jay that comes along. No man is so
smart, however that there is not a
smarter one ready to go him turn at
his own game. The San Francisco
newspaper people who surrendered
themselves to the wiles of the gentle
manly aeen of La Loie Fuller should
douce their dicers to his cleverness. If
ever a set of men were used as were
the San Francisco newspaper people
by that extraordinary chap the occa-
sion is not of record or in the annals of
the publishing business.
WOULD IT WORK?
Truckee Republican: The following
bill has been introduced in the Assem-
bly, by Seward of Sierra County: Com
pelHng every person, partnership or
corporation doing business in the State
to set apart a day in each week, or each
month, as pay day, and compelling
them on that day to pay its employees
all the wages then due. The bill further
provides that if the law is not complied
with the overdue wages shall become
lien upon the property of the employ
ers which lien shall take precedence of
all other liens. except only recorded
mortgages and deeds Of trust"
\ DIVIDED SESSION.
Redding Free Press: Mention has
been made of Senator VOORHEES, pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution
providing for a division of the session
of the Legislature so that it shall. dur
ing the first thirty days, devote itself
TO proposals of measures and such 9TH
er matters as 1T can attend to- At the
expiration Of that period the Legisla-
ture is to adjourn until May Of the
same year, when il shall resume its
session and devote its attention to the
closing up of its business, no new meas
ures being then permitted except bycon-
sent of three fourths OF either house.
We presume that the idea is to give
the people and the legislators them
selves an opportunity to study the bills
introduced. 1t is sort Of referendum
proposition. But why a divided ses-
sion? Would not the same results be Sc
cured by introducing a bill providing
that no new legislation shall be intro
duced after the expiration Of thirty
DAYS Of the session? Why wait a full
month at an additional expense Of
mileage for members and attaches? We
have often thought that it would be
better to devote the first twenty days
of a session TO the Introduction OF bills.
devoting the balance of the session to
their consideration than to keep intro
ducing new measures up TO the last
day. and thereby defeating much i'm
portant legislation by reason Of the
shortness Of the session.
UNDERGROUND SYSTEM.
Los Angeles Express: Now that the
underground system has proven 10 be
a success, all the great cities in the
East are requiring the street railroads
10 remove the overhead wires and lay
them in conduits In New York Brook
1vn and Baltimore there are street
railroads operated by underground
W Tres and they not only run smoothly.
but appear to be handled with much
greater facility than the oldfashioned
trolley and with the incompatible ad-
vantage of being frcer from all the cas-
ualties that are concomitant on a live
wire swung in the middle OF a street.
one of the noticeable features of the
underground system is the. ease with
which fires are handled along their
route. The electric wires of street rail-
way companies have been a menace to
the firemen ever since the inauguration
of the trolley system. Some of the big
fires in the Fast, notably those in Phil
adelphia and New York this year. have
been rendered more disastrous owing TO
the difficulty encountered with these
overhead wires. The death Of a fire
men in this city few months ago
accentuates the necessity OF putting
live wires both OF electric street rail
eyays and lighting companies under
ground. In the large Eastern cities
there are certain districts where the
putting of these wires underground is
made. mandatory In suburban districts
where there is some isolation of build
ings the rule is relaxed and the over
head system tolerated
STATE PRINTING OFFICE.
Oakland Enquirer: One of the rea
sons why 1t costs a good deal to run
the State Printing Office is because 1t
is assumed that whenever the State
prints a public document a great many
copies of it are needed. Controller Col
gan states that he has found by eX-