The record-union., 1897-03-19
Afternoon Session.

| The special file of Assembly bills was
| taken up, and 80, by Damon, appro
priating $4,000 to improve Salt River,
Humboldt County, by removing bars
and other instructions to navigation,
| was passed by vote of 80 to little ap
proved.
CIVIL PENSION LIST
A. B. 633, by Jones, to amend an Act
| to create and administer public school
teachers annuity and retirement fund,
called for a debate along the old familiar
lines, in which number of members ex-
pressed personal opinions. Smith, in
particular, opposed any civil pension list,
particularly among school-teachers, and
submitted that if this pension list were
allowed to become a law there would be
no halt until the people were ground
down beneath the heel OF taxation to an
extent hitherto unknown. He con-
tended that while the pension in ques-
| ton was to be drawn from the wages
of teachers, it was but step until they
would be tapping a the public till. He
had for many years been teacher, and
during that time he would have spat in
| the face of the man who proposed to
| give him a pension. Teachers, he said,
were we'll paid, and could easily make
savings from their wages. He thought
| the entire scheme of a civil pension list
ought to be stamped out of existence
while in embryo.
| Morehouse submitted that 500 teach
ers throughout the State had asked that
| the bill be passed. Salaries of teachers,
he said, remained unchanged, and there
| was no reward for proficiency or long
| service as was the case in other pro-
| fessions.
Braunhart opposed the bill, Beard
and Boyce spoke for it, and it was
passed by a vote of 80 to title ap-
proved.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AP-
POINTED.
An Assembly message was received,
announcing that that body had refused
| to concur in the Senate amendments to
A. B. 937, commonly known as the
general appropriation bill.
| On motion of VOORHEES, the Senate re-
| fused to recede from it's amendments,
and requested the Assembly to appoint
| a conference committee to meet a like
Senate committee, relative to the adj
justment of points in dispute. AS such
committee the President pro tenn ap-
| pointed VOORHEES,. Aram and Prisk.
| A b. So, by Chynoweth. to provide
a system of drainage for agricultural
swamp. and over1owed lands, was
passed. ~ To 0-title approved.
APPEAL FROM THE CHAIR
| Rraunhart brought up his notice Civ
| en- ct Wednesdays session, and moved
to reconsider the vote whereby substi-
tute for s b. 166. relating to life,
| health. accident, and annuity or en-
dowment insurance on the assessment
plan. had been refused passage The
motion prevailed. and Braunhart called
for vote on the final passage.
wilmington raised the point that
under the concurrent resolution adopt
ed the evening before. no Senate bills
could be considered after 12:30 D. m
President pro tenn Flint. who was in
the chair, ruled the point not well
taken
wilmington appealed from the decis-
ion Of the ruling OF the chair and the
appeal had the poor distinction of be-
| ing the first taken during the session.
RULING SUSTAINED.
1t proved a sorry attempt on the part
| of the San Diegan. the ruling of the
chair being sustained by a vote of 80
to T.
| wilmington. after having pitted his
| knowledge of the rules against those
of the President pro tenn. and failed
miserably. spoke against the bill, and
it was refused passage by a vote of 10
to %
| FILE WORK.
| nrlvo Z
| $1,000 for the erection of a sewage
| pumping plant at the Folsom State
! Prison, was read the second time
A. Is. 1S0 by Cross, relating to pawn
brokers. was, after brief skirmish re-
! fused passage by a vote of Is to 20.
A. B. 81, by Moultrie, relating to
deeds of trust, was, on motion of Dick
inson, refused a second reading
/ Seawell moved to reconsider the vote
Carried.
The bill was read the second time and
| ordered printed.