The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-11
Evening SsseiOn.

8 o'clock p. m.
Evening Ssseion.
| Owing to the abrogation of the Joint
rules and to the fact that date had
been fixed for adjournment sine die
new order Of business was necessary
and after considerable discussion an
agreement was reached fixing, by reso-
luton, the order as follows:
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
First-Senate bills making appropria-
tons for any State department, in
Guiding deficiency bills.
| (a) Senate bills providing for the pay
ment of claims against the State
CD Senate constitutional amendments.
| (c), Senate joint resolutions.
To be considered daily Immediately
after the correction of the journal and
until II o'clock, in the order named.
Second-Third reading of Senate bills
| Third-Second reading of Senate bills.
Fourth-Special urgency file of SEN
ate bills, to be made up from time to
time as the Senate may direct and to
be considered every evening
Enthusiastically special file, to be
considered daily from o'clock to $50
O'Clock 2. m. The Assembly bills. con-
stltutlonal amendments and Joint reso-
lutions now on the twelve-day file to be
put on the special Assembly file. after
bills now on the file in the following
| order:
(a) Deficiency bills.
CD Claims bills.
| (c) Constitutional amendments.
Id Joint resolutions.
| All bills received from the Assembly
hereafter shall be placed on the Assem-
bly, file in the order that they are re-
ceived from the Assembly.
SUBSTITUTION AND WITHDRAWAL,
! VOORHEES,, for the Finance Committee.
recommended that Senate bills iden-
teal with Assembly bills now
upon the Senate file be withdrawn.
The recommendation was acted upon.
and identical Senate bills to the num-
Der of forty were withdrawn.
S. 3. CTS, by Toner, relating to seq
ond-class coaches on railroad trains.
was amended by special committee and
ordered re-engrossed
SPECIAL URGENCY FILE.
| 5. b. 294, by Wilmington, appropriate
ing $4,000 for the improvement of San
Diego Harbor, was passed by a vote Of
~ to little approved.
THE VEXATIOUS QUESTION.
A. b. 81, by Bridgford, relating to
Judges, and providing when they shall
not hear cases, was read the second
| and third times.
Gillette called attention to the fact
that the bill was similar to A. B. Oh
which had recently caused so much
trouble in the Legislature, and that
the same objections might be urged
against It's passage as had been offered
against the passage of the latter. The
Governor had only just vetoed the bill
and the speaker proposed to fight it to
| the last ditch, as it seemed to him that
there was a power behind it unseen.
urging It's passage. The Act, if passed
| would undoubtedly work hardships in
counties having only one Superior
Judge.
SeaWell said it mattered nothing 70
MN what forces We're behind the bill
| ne only question with him was. sis the
| OH good one?' He had ATTEMPTED TO
amend "A. b. 213, but his ATTEMPTS
ialied- In A. b. 911 he saw the amend
ments he had desired inserted. and be-
ing inserted, in his opinion. it left the
bill a good one. He argued that if
was but just that litigant might de-
mand a change of Judge if it was an
parent that justice could not be had
lie declared that he had never seen q
more just or equitable measure than
the one under consideration.
The bill finally went over without
| further action
| A. Is. ~ annrOrria Inc
the claim of the Tribune" PuhIieb;ng
company Tor publishing the Constitu-
tionaI amendments, was passed nv n
vote of - TO little approved.
A. B. 224, by Guy. appronriatipe
HI'ool oo 10 pay the claim of Luke Kav-
anagh for reporting. was amended fix
ing the amount of the appropriation at
Son oo, and ordered to engrossment.
ATTORNEYS FEES.
,. Is. oo3, by VOORHEES,, appropriation
of S20OoO to pay the claims Of w w
Foote and r. Y. Hayne, as fees for SER
vices to date. as additional counsel em-
ployed to assist the Attorney General in
the defense of the suit brought in the
| United states Circuit Court by the
southern Pacific Company against the
Board OF Railroad Commissioners. was
read the second and third times.
Simpson offered an amendment reduc-
ing the appropriation from $50 600 IN
$4,000. The motion to amend was lost
by a vote of Is to 10.
Seawell thought the claim was a inst
one and should be allowed.
Simpson said he had stretched his CON
science when he offered the amendment
TO reduce the amount of the appronri-
alton to $4,000 He had been an ar
torney for twenty years of his life and
seldom raised his voice against attor-
ney's fees, but $4,000 was more money
than most men earned in five years. and
he deemed it his duty to the people of
the State to raise his voice against the
passage of the bill The Senate had
thought proper to vote down his amend
ment, and he in his turn would vote to
| kill the bill.
Boyce spoke for the bin and Rul,a on
posed it on the ground that the claims
committee had fixed the amount of the
appropriation at S12.500 and he did NOT
propose to go back of the report of the
committee of which he was Chairman.
BY his action, he aimed to cast no re-