The San Francisco call., 1897-02-24
EIGHTEEN DAYS
MORE OF LIFE
Both Branches of the State
Legislature to Adjourn
March I3
Assemb.yman SANFORD Scores
Millmen Who Abuse Their
Employees.
Not a Dissenting Voice to the Retire.
ment of Chief Crowley on
Pension.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 23.-When
will the Legislature adjourn? is question
that is being anxiously asked by persons
interested in the fate of the fifteen hum
dred and odd bills now pending. The
Senate has passed a concurrent resolution
to adjourn without delay on March T. and
that resolution is now before the Assem-
bly, Committee on Ways and Means. A
large mum ber of Assem- bl 7men were inter-
viewed this morning by CALL correspon.
dent and they said that while the subject
had not been formally discussed, the gen.
elal opinion was that the final adjourn-
ment should be taken on March l3-four
days before the Corbett- Fiizsimmons fight
in Nevada.
AS was announced exclusively in THE
CALL this morning, Assemblyman Sanford
of Mendocino rose 10 a question of privi-
lege in reply to the charges made by GER
tain residents of Mendocino County and
published in last Sundays CALL. His
statement was the same as that in to-day's
issue, but he added concerning w. P. Nc
Faul, one of the protestants:
'Who is this w. P. McFaul? He is an
owner in the Hardy Greek Lum ber Com
pany; he is the Assessor of Mendocino
County, and the experts found that he
was 5000 short In his accounts and his
bondsmen had 10 make IL good. Z. c. Will
Jams, another of those protestants, was
for five years secretary and treasurer of
the Mend ocino Lum Der Company"
Sanford was applaud bv the gallery
and half the mem bers of the Assembly
when he had concluded.
Assem- blymen Ennis and Sims of Sacra-
mento trembled N their cane bottomed
! thrones when Arnerich's Assembly bill
727 came up for consideration this even
ing. The bill is entitled:
An act entitled an act to form agricultural
districts, 10 provide for formation of agricul-
tural associations therein, and for the man.
agement and control of the same by the State,
and 10 repeal ali acts and parts of acts in con-
hict with this act.
1t will be remem bered that at the last
session Governor Budd vetoed many ap-
preparations for agricultural district as
sociations with the result that district
fairs languished, and the fat hog, the
woolly sheep and the bloated pumpkin
wasted their sweetness on the irrigated
field. The pres mt bill was introduced on
behalf OF the agrlculturists of this Sta te
who believe that under proper regulations
agricultural district associations and fairs
may be productive of much good. 1t de-
ere ases the number OF districts 10 thirty
4 six and makes a new apportionment all
around. BY request of the representa-
tives from Sacra mento that county was
left out of the bill, the purpose being to
leave Sacramento at liberty to ask for an
appropriation for State fair purposes.
A country mem ber, shifting the air sus-
piciously, asked for the reason of the
omission of Sacramento County from the
bill. Price of Sonoma, the implacable foe
of the meadow lark, reptied that Sacra-
mento did not want an agricultural dis
trict appropriation.
Melick of Los Angeles informed the As
sembiy that Sacramento did lot ask for
an appropriation for q district fair because
she wanted 10 come in and ask for one for
the State fair.
Belshaw OF Contra Costa seemed to be
wrought up over the matter, and declared