The record-union., 1897-03-03

appropriating money for support or
orphans and abandoned children with
drawn by Malcolm, the author; S. B.
$50, 246. 523 and 537, amending codes,
favorably; S. B. 2S5, favorably, as
amended
Educational B. 664, relating to kim
dergartens favorably, as amended.
Claims--A. B. 561, to pay Francis
Williams S70S2, without recommends
ton, and referred to Ways and Means;
924, to reimburse Captain Ramon Pico,
adversely.
SENATE MESSAGES.
The Senate announced to the Assem-
bly, the passage of the following bills:
S. b. 559, for repairs at San Quen-
tin; 620, for erection of new buildings
and improvements in Yosemite Valley;
399, for piping water to the Marshall
monument; A. B. 65, for the Normal
School at San Diego Ito enrolment
and the GCvernor); substitute for S. B..
321, for a new State building at San
Luis Obispo; S. B. 56, for additional
lands for Folsom State Prison; S. b..
GAO, for the refurnishfng of the State
Treasurer's office and vault; S. B. 3!}S,
for water, light and fuel at the Stock
ton Insane Asylum; a substitute for
S. BIS 341 342 343 and J64 for the
Preston Industrial School; substitute
for s. BIS 351, 35S, 800 and 81, provid-
ing for the Home for Feeble Minded
Children; S. B. 80, for Improvements
to Southern California Insane Asylum,
read first time and placed on special
Senate file; S B. 292, for Evergreen
L
phans of veterans; S. B. 3S, for i'm
provements to State Normal School,
Los Angeles S. 3. "a, for State Hos
pital; S B. 700, for improvement of
Suffers Fort S B. 4S, for the Deaf.
Dumb and Blind Asylum; S. B. 6S4 for
relief of w r. c.
CONTEST EXPENSES.
Kenyon called up the expense account
in the case of Kelsey VS. McLaurin,
and moved the adoption of the report.
Price offered an amendment cutting
down the account over 5000 After
considerable wrangling the amendment
and report We're, on motion of Emmons,
referred to the Committee on Judiciary
for an opinion on the legality Of the
items stricken out by the amendment.
KELSkY'S RIGHTS.
Guy called up the resolution award
ing Kelsey, the newly elected member,
his per diem from January 4th, SO
contingent expenses and SO mileage
and moved it's immediate adoption
Caminetti objected and offered as an
amendment that the matter be referred
to the Judiciary Committee for an
opinion as to the legality of the award
Caminetti showed an ardent determina-
ton to deprive Kelsey of his pay. He
stood alone, however, being strongly
opposed by Emmons, who asserted
that Kelsey had been given a seat and
was squarely a member of the House
and as such entitled to the same pay
as other members. The amendment
was voted down and the resolution
adopted
a SENATE MESSAGE
Soward's A. B. 1872 was reported back
from the Senate. That body had re-
ceded from its amendment striking out
the position of Secretary to the Debris
Commissioner, but had refused to re-
cede from the reduction made in the
Commissioners salary. The Senate had
appointed as a conference committee
Senators Voorhees, Price and Chapman
On motion of Seward the Speaker ap-
pointed as a joint committee Seward,
Cutter and Caminetti.
North of Alameda offered a lengthy
resolution of welcome to the Interna-
tional Christian Endeavor, which was
ordered printed in the journal without
reading.
The House took a recess until = D. m
THE TORRENS ACT.
After recess the regular order of
Senate special file was attacked, and
Bulla's SO, otherwise known as the
Torrens Land Act, came up on final
passage.
Shanahan rose to oppose the bill. If
he was convinced that every member
had read the thirty-nine pages of the
bill understandingly he would feel
more safe about it. but he believed
members too prone to take things for
granted, and he was convinced there
were things in the bill which were OBJ
jectionable.
Shanahan contended that there was
no real complaint against the present
system
This bill, said Shanahan may in a
few cases, establish titles for all time,
but there is no call from the great
mass of the people for such measure
This law virtually says that notwith-
standing you have a title to your home,
still you must go out to a lawyer and
get another title; it establishes a dou-
bic system of land titles. The loaner
w 10 "a tct
go and get another title under the Tor
rens Act and the landholder is landed
into an ocean of uncertainty
Shananan claimed that Illinois had
enacted a similar law, but the Su-
preme Court had thrown it out as
unconstitutional, and in other States it
had been thrown out. The railroad IT,
ties and the Spanish land grants
which had formerly made trouble in
this State were now the speaker con-
tended, virtually settled, and no new
experiments were needed.
Valentine supported the bill in a
clear and comprehensive speech, in
which he took up the leading sections
of the bill and set forth their purpose
and provisions.
Valentine took up Shanahans first
point against the bill, viz: that ii is
experimental. He said if anything
can be more experimental than the
present condition Of titles in California
he would like to konw what it is. There
is not a single title in the State that is
settled beyond a peradventure. What
we need is a simple, comprehensive
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