The record-union., 1897-02-05
IN THE ASSEMBLY.
Hard Work and Bad Weather Makes
the House TouChy.

The morning work on special orders
began at once yesterday after opening
business.
OF Cutters four constitutional
amendments which stood at the head
of the file, Cutters I, allowing San
Francisco to acquire charter in the
regular way, was indefinitely post
| pOned.
a. C. A. s, providing for special leg
! islation, was amended by Dibble and
! passed to the special file.
A. c. A. 8, providing for a verdict
| by three fourths of the members Of
| jury, was amended TO read five
| sixths. and placed on special file.
| A c. A. 10, relative to the fixing of
! the salaries of county officers by
Boards of Supervisors. was referred to
! the judiciary Committee.
Mead's bill 1916. providing for the
sale of street railway franchises for
a percentage of the gross receipts in
stead of as now for fixed sum, was
, passed yesterday.
| THE COMMISSIONS.
| The Speaker inquired of Melick,
| Chairman of the Committee on Com
missions and Retrenchment, what prog
I
! considera ton of the several commits
sions. Melick reported that they had
agreed to recommend the adjustment
of the commission for the revision of
the Codes. The State Board Of Health
and the Dairy Bureau are under con-
sideration and there is a proposition
to combine the Debris Commission and
the Board of Public Works.
! no Of
ich and North of Yolo for their visit to
| the southern institutions was allowed.
| The Committee on Agriculture re-
ported favorably on Americas 81. TO
pay the claim of Louise Rienzi, and it
was sent to the Ways and Means
| Committee Melick's 60 forbidding
| the adulteration of honey; Emmons'
| warehouse bill and Coombs' 90, to
encourage fiber culture, We're reported
| adversely.
| A favorable report came from the
| Ways and Means Committee on the
| following batch To authorize a sew
age pumping plant at Folsom; to pay
the claim of Clement Bennett; to pay
| the claim of Sarah H Wing; to pay
| the claim of Dennis Jordan: for the re-
| lief of Charles F. Wells. The bill for
| Tic t. L. DdfAtI uiOH uIHGIll was It.
ported adversely Several newspaper
bills for the advertising of the consti-
tutional amendments were reported on
favorably.
| YOSEMITE VALLEY.
Melick's proposition to re-cede Yo-
semitic Valley to the United States
tGovernment, to be included in a ma
| tional park, was reported on favorably
by the Committee on Federal Relations
and Melick moved its adoption SPEAK
| ing to his motion, Melick said the res
! olution was offered in the belief that
| it was the best disposition to make of
! the great attraction. Wherever the
| Federal Government had the owner
ship and care of a park it was thor
| oughly successful. He cited Yellow
! stone Park as a notable example
spoke of its fine macadamized roads
over which the visitor might drive for
| hundreds of miles; of the care and
| preservation of forests, the freedom
| from underground, etc. Melick then
| cited the present condition of YOsem-
lite. The Stoneman House was de-
| stroyed by fire last year and S6U,UOO
would be needed to rebuild, while a
| considerable further appropriation
would be needed for the clearing of the
| valley from masses of underground,
which now menace it with the danger
| of confiagration BY his resolution
| Melick provides that no further ap-
preparation shall be made by the State
pending the negotiations.
! Price, Valentine and Caminetti spoke
in support of the resolution, bur
Caminetti thought as McCandlish OF
| Mariposa was absent it would be more
courteous to delay final action until he
| should appear; the resolution was, ac-
cordingly, made a special order for
Wednesday.
The Committee on Municipal Corpor-
atoms reported favorably on Senate
bill 80, relating to parks outside of cor
poration limits, and also on Goff's 36,
giving preference in the public service
to ex-soldiers, and A. w. North's 81, for
| the disincorporation of high school dis
tricts
Waymire's sol, amending the Act to
organize municipal corporations, was
recommended as amended.
From the Committee ON Corporations
come Wright's 500, providing for re-
ports by railroads to the Commission
ers, favorably reported; Prices 33t,
providing for the sale and granting OF
railroad franchises, adversely, and Cut