The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-11
IN THE ASSEMBLY.
County Government Bill Amended
One Hundred Times.

thomson Tor the remainder OF the
| week.
FOR THE CHILDREN.
| Theamendments, to Ennis 49S, for the
protection of children, We're so formu-
| lated as to be satisfactory to those who
| had objected to the wording, and the
bill was a once sent to the printer and
kept its place on file. From indications
there will be little or no opposition to
it when it comes up to-day.
| FRATERNAL AND BENEFICIARY.
| Jones' S91, an Act to define and reg
ulate fraternal beneficiary orders, was
explained by the author to be intended
| to put such beneficiary orders on
more certain and business-like basis
and to protect the members from loss
by fraud. The bill was passed
MARCH TWENTIETH.
The Assembly drew a long breath
yesterday morning after it had voted to
adopt Cutters A. c. r. II, providing
| for the adjournment sine die of the
| Legislature at noon on Saturday, March
Goth.
| The resolution was at once trans
mitted to the Senate, by which body it
was adopted little later, as also was
| Tic a. -. Oh cutter dispensing with
| joint rules 40, As and 40
ONE MORE BILL.
The expenses of the joint investiga-
| ton of the office of the State Printer
| now in progress, are provided for in a
bill introduced by unanimous consent of
the House yesterday by Assemblyman
Price. It provides that the sum of
| $4,000 or as much thereof as shall be
necessary, shall be appropriated to pay
the expenses of that investigation. The
bill was read the first time and referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
| The entire morning, with the excep-
ton of the brief procedure recorded
above, was spent on the amendments
tc the county government bill.
| For the county of Sacramento, Sims
offered the following amendments:
! Striking out the salary for Justice of
the Peace of Sacramento county.
Giving the County Surveyor a salary
of 2,40O per annum instead of fees.
| Giving reporters-not to exceed two
in number-a salary of $1,000 per an
mum each, in place of fees, the fees now
paid in civil suits to be paid into the
county treasury. At any time that the
three departments shall need an extra
reporter his compensation must be paid
by the other two.
AT 1870 the House took a recess until
. p. m.
BULLA'S FIVE BLOCK BILL.
The first work Of the afternoon SEES
sion was one of destruction; Bulla's S.
b. 81, amending a section of the Civil
| Code relating to street railways oper-
ated under different arrangements, has
| been known as the five blocks BILL"
and prohibits the use of one companys
| line by another for more than five
| blocks in all. 1t lost its life suddenly
yesterday when Dibble moved to strike
out the eracting clause and the House
at once carried the notion
GONE, BUT NOT REGRETTED.
! The county government bill was
finally amended to the very last line,
| letter and dot yesterday afternoon.
and some time during the dark hours of
the night, when the weary clerks shall
have gotten it in shape, it will be trans
mitted to the printer
COUNTY FEE BILL.
! The county fee bill, North's SO, being
on third reading, was passed and trans
mitted to the Senate.
| THE FILE OF EIGHTY.
Dryden's 647 providing for the estab-
| lishment of a Board of Examiners for
the California Therapeutic Society, was
electrocuted by DR.. Keables in the fash
| ionable n.ethod-its enacting clause was
| stricken out
Mulcrevy's 80, to pay $4,000 to
Charles +. Wells, was passed.
Androus' S. 3. 4, appropriating $50
| OOO for improvements to the Whittier
State School was passed.
| II. I. Powers 553 to provide for the
| survey and construction of a wagon
road from Tallac to McKinleys along
the shore of Lake Tahoe was read in
Committee of the Whole and reported to
the House favorably as amended.
VENTILATING THE CAPITOL.
Henderson's S. B. 419, an Act which
provides 100000 for the purchase and
erection of a complete system of appar-
atus for the proper and perfect ventila-
ton, automatic temperature regulation,
and sanitation of the State Capitol
building. was subjected to amendment
and also to considerable discussion
| 1t was claimed by several members
that the bill, as framed, describes a par
ticular system so infinitely as practi-
cally to exclude all competition. North
| of Alameda, introduced some amend
ments and Cutter offered an amend
ment raising the appropriation to S75,-
| 600.
| North's amendments, as approved by
| the special committee consisting of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Jeter, Senators
Flint and VOORHEES,, so modified the
wording of the bill as to make it general
in its application. AS amended, it pro-
vides the sum of $4,000 be appropri-
ated out of any money in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated to
! be expended by the State Board of Cap
| itol Commissioners to provide ventila-
! ton, automatic temperature regula-
| ton and sanitation of the State Capitol
| building.
| The State Capitol building shall be
| under the control and management of
| the State Board of Capitol Commiss-
| toner's.
| Cutter violently opposed the amend
ment of North, and several members
| supported the opposition.
Cutters own amendment raising the