The record-union., 1897-01-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression OF
Journals
Or the State and the Coast on Sup-
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Times: If Chief Clerk Duck
worth Of the Assembly had had
a private contract similar to the
organizing of the Assembly, and
had paid the expenses out OF
his own pocket it is quite likely
that an outlay of not to exceed Sloo
would have been made instead or one
of $4 230, chargeable to the state. Inc
people expect of this session OF the Leg
islature the enactment of laws winch
will prevent such abuses hereafter.
THE TREATY.
San lose Mercury: The treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States is a good thing, as 1t recognizes
and encourages the principle OF arpltra-
ton, and to that extent brings the ldea
of war into disrepute. Ihefe are OIL
course. some things which no independ-
emit nation could submit to arbltratlon
without a betrayal Of coward1ce but
in these days of advanced civilization
there is scarcely a question that arises
between nations which cannot be satls-
factorily, or at least equitably, adjusted
without the parties to the controversy
going to the extreme of war
A COMPLIMENT.
Santa, Rosa Republican: There is a
good deal of sturdy manhood and in
tegrity in the present California Legs
iature. and there is an indication that
better work than usual will be done
this winter.
RIGID INSPECTION.
Chico Chronicle Record: The ship
ments to this market of mandarin or
hnoionfno =
cite the fears of California orchardists.
1t seems that a recent consignment of
thirty boxes carried two kinds of fruit
pest, one unknown to this country and
the other only too we'll in Florida A
rigid inspection of all mandarin oranges
Brought here is demanded by the Call
fornia growers, and should be made
hereafter by the authorities. Probably
the State, which inspects all incoming
plants, trees and shrubs, has jurisdic-
tion.
SANTA BARBARA.
Santa Barbara News: The general
business showing of Santa Barbara
County, both in local and transconti-
mental business, makes a very satlSfac-
tory exhibit and our railroad people
declare that, as compared with other
counties, of equal tillable acreage, we
rank a close second. The oil industry
is coming to the front and grows stead
fly in output and Importance. Summer
land is at present shipping thirty car
loads per month.
A COMMENDED REPORT.
Santa Barbara Press: The report of
the State Bureau of Highways is a
little volume we'll worth careful perusal.
The commissioners, after an outline OF
road legislation and history in this
country, note the change for the better
in public opinion and point out the
remedy for excessive taxation in better
roads constructed at a higher first
cost. Nowhere can this be more clear
" shown" the report reads, than in
California. Every industry Of the State
finds its heaviest burdens incident to
bad roads,
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
San Diego Union:- Efforts are being
made in the East to send a shipload Of
corn to the famine-stricken people Of
Western States are willing to contribute
India. The farmers of Illinois and other
literally from their enormous corn crop,
and it is thought the railway conIpa-
York free or at very low rates. Funds
are being raised to charter a ship, and
the British Government will no doubt
forward the corn from the Indian port
where it arrives to the interior. This
will not be the first time that this coun-
try has afforded substantial aid to the
victims of famine abroad. 1t is a
noble project. Still it is worthy of note
that with the tidings of this proposed
corn ship. comes news that starvation
is not wholly unknown even in this
favored dand. 1t is only a few days
since a press dispatch from Altoona,
Pa, told of a woman who starved to
death in a tenement house in that city.
BY the side of the corpse lay her hus-
band, half-crazed and dying for lack of
food, and the dispatch added that there
were in the same city sixty-fve fami-
lies numbering 800 persons, utterly des-
titute.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Fresno Expositor: The application
of civil service rules to subordinates in
Federal positions, which was so popu-
lar at first, is being justly attacked by
man, T1nr-es of all rtiar in, halls af