The record-union., 1897-01-16

the committee Will question is that Of
Mrs. Sarah Wing, whose husband was
killed in Sacramento by the discharge
Of a rifle held by one of the National
Guardsmen during the strike in 1894 In
case the committee reports adversely on
the matter, it is said exception will be
taken by the Secretary of State, who
will raise the subject as to whether the
actions of the board, as an examining
body, can, under the present law, be
questioned by the committee. The OBJ
lection. which will probably be raised,
will, it is believed, once and for ALL set
tie the relative positions of the Legisla-
ture and the State Board of Examin-
ers.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met
yesterday afternoon and had up for
consideration S. B. Is, by Bert provid-
ing that the wages of sailors and fisher
men shall not be subject to execution.
Owing to the absence of the author,
however, the bill was laid over.
S. B. l, by Androus, was reported
back with recommendation favorable
to its passage. Under the enactment of
1891 Pomona City issued bonds to the
extent of about $40, 900, and made pro-
visions for the redemption of the same.
In 1893 the Act of 1891 was repealed so
far as the redemption or paying of in
terest was concerned, and while the ac-
cumulaed interest on the bonds is now
in the vaults of Pomona's treasury,
there is no authority allowing the same
to be paid out
Senator Androus' bill provides that
the Act of 1893 repeating the Act of
1891, shall not relate to any issue of
bonds made under the la tier Act If
both houses concur with the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee, holders of Pomona
bonds may expect soon to draw down
the interest due them.
A HEATED HOUSE.
The moral temperature of the Assem-
bly, yesterday was even higher than that
recorded by the thermometer, and both
We're at fever heat The resolution of
Thursday, offered by Sanford, request
ing the Governor to appoint day as a
day of Thanksgiving and rejoicing for
the defeat of the funding bill, which was
referred to the Committee on Federal
Relations, was replaced in that commit
tee by a substitute which was what is
popularity known as Dandy While re-
tanning the resolution of thanks to Con-
eress for its decision, the substitute set
forth, with appropriate verbiage, not here
reproduced, that the Governor has a
sees fit without the formality of re-
quest from the Assembly; that if, in his
wisdom he deems it best to appoint hol-
idays for the death of funding bills or
the birth of protective tariff bills on the
Mckinley lines, or any other bills, he
can do it: that the Assem- bly, proposes
ever it believes the best interests of the
people of the State will be subserved by
so doing. After a lengthy wrangle the
substitute was adopted, but the moral
thermometer recorded the boiling point
before that was accomplished.
MORE BITTER TALK.
Members had not cooled down from
this first encounter when Shanahan
threw a bomb into the midst. He called
from the depths of the Committee on
Attaches Dryden's resolution of several
days ago, and demanded that the COM
mittee should report thereon immedi-
ately. This was a resolution calling for
a committee of three to investigate the
charges of extravaganza and worse
which have grown in numbers and bit
terness as the days went by. This mo-
ton Of Shanahan's opened up the whole
quarters of an hour was spent The
temper Of the House is touchy; charges
and counter charges, accusations and
retorts made the atmosphere lurid. The
Speaker announced that he should call
the Grand Jurys attention to the state
of affairs on Monday and invite their in
vestigation, and, although Shanahan's s
motion for an immediate report of the
Committee on Attaches was tabled,
Speaker Coombs called Dibble to the
Chair and from his place on the floor of
the House made an exactly similar mo-
ton, excepting that it called for a re-
port on Monday next. This was carried,
and this action of the House precludes
anything like monotony in next week s
proceedings.
THE COMMITTEE YIELDS.
Malcolm of the Committee on State
Hospitals and Asylums gave members
a pleasant surprise and knocked the
underpinning from Shanahans motion
to reconsider by withdrawing the reso-
| luton by the adoption of which that
&C mmittee had received permission to
visit various institutions. Those who
| had fought the question on Thursday
| seemed to feel a jar somewhere when
| Malcolm quietly executed this flank
movement. MIR. Malcolm explains that
! his committee had no desire to give
| themselves a pleasure trip at the ex-
| psnse of the State. Large appropria-
! tions. he said, had been asked for, and
| he specified to a Record Union rep
| resentative an administration build
| ing for the Mendocino Asylum, for
which $4,000 is asked but which the