The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

vorcees shall not remarry within a year
after their conjugal bonds are severed
Evidently the lawmakers have an idea
that marriage should be made solemn
and tolerably binding contract. The
legislators are right. The latter bill
was among the good laws enacted by
the recent body.
FREE PASS CONTROVERSY.
San Diego Union: The free pass con-
troversy which has agitated the West
ern States more or less during recent
years, is now raging in the Empire
State, and the New York Tribune" is
moved to comment on it in this fash
ion: THE free pass bill dies hard and
comes easily to life again, rising from
its ashes like the fabulous phoenix and
Hopping about the legislative cockpit
with the most indubitable vitality. 1t
would be boon to the public if it could
finally be shelved and no more heard of
it, This may seem a trifie cynical,
but for all that the loss of valuable
legislative time that has been consum-
ed in the various States in wrangling
over this free pass question-and not
settling it's something to cause an
economist to weep.
HAWAII
Alameda Argus: There are on1inous
signs waited UP from Hawaii The Jap
anese, about the strongest single race
on the island, are becoming restless be-
cause of the definite effort that the
Government is making to restrict jap
anese immigration, and there seems
to be danger of race clash. Trouble
with the Japs would loosen all the tur-
bulent elements that have been so long
repressed, including almost the entire
native population. and there would be
such complications that this Govern
ment might find it necessary to inter-
fere. That in turn might start Japan
going, and the chain of results would
reach a long way.
THOSE UNTRIED YOUTHS.
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel: Mr.
Gladstone'S pamphlet on the Cretan
question is marvelously vigorous pro-
duction for a man of the writer's years
It's arrangement of the European con-
cert is unanswerable, and eulogy on
Greece should shame the diplomatic
automatonS who imagine that their
monumental laundering is the perfec-
ton of finesse. But the most sugges-
tive passage of all is this: AT this
moment two great States are under
the Government of two young men,
one wholly without knowledge and
experience, and the other having only
such knowledge and experience in
truth, limited enough, as to have ex-
cited establishment and CONSERVATION
xUh i,oly Of
the world. These, SO far as their SEN
timents are known, are using their
power in the concert to fight steadily
against freedom
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
Mother Lode Magnet: In it's closing
hours the Legislature passed a resolu-
ton putting to popular vote the ques-
ton of calling another Constitutional
Convention. This is an unfortunate
move. and if the people are well ad-
vised they will reject the proposition
for drawing up a new Constitution. The
people of California have already found
much better way to make Constitu-
ton than to put it into the hands of a
convention; they are molding a consti-
tuition to suitethemselves, and doing it
in an eminently, sensible and practical
way by the prevailing system of con-
stitutional amendments At every
election for twelve years there have
been from three to eight constitutional
amendments offered the voters.
GRANTING FRANCHISES.
Kern Echo: .-- Quite a decided de-
parture from the present mode OF