The record-union., 1897-02-13

PefpetuNy.
In this connection it may be men
toned THAT it is claimed there is much
dissatisfaction among Oakland Grand
Army men concerning the bill which
was passed by the House and is now in
the Senate donating the Yountville Vet
Grams Home to the State. 1t seems
the directors named in the bill are not
sa satisfactory to the Oakland contingent,
who Will probably send up an expur-
gated bill to be used as a substitute
This is an echo of the feud at the last
Department Encampment, which re-
suited in the turning down of Lyons
Post of Oakland
FOR CALIFORNIAN YOUTH
A. w. North of Yolo introduced a
measure making the State school series
free to the public school children of the
State
Arnerich's bill, SAT, introduced yes
terday, provides for the transfer of the
girls from the Whittier Industrial
for them at Santa Clara.
MISFIT POLITICS.
The resolution sent to the house from
the Senate to-day giving the hearty
support of California to the Congress
sional measure to charter vessel to
send the donations of the people of the
United States to the famine stricken
people of India, was made the occasion
of bitter Outburst on the part of a
few Papulists who denounced the send
ing of assistance of any sort to the
subjects of the Queen of Great Britain
and Empress of India" Charity, they
said, should begin at home, and they
tunate condition of the unemployed and
the poor of OUT own country, of our
own State, and especially of San Fran
cisco, attributing it to present politi-
cal onditions," and to the prevailing g
system of unequal distribution" 1t
was all very pathetic, but their argu-
the subject In hand that it but served
to make their position ridiculous.
The resolution itself which will be
found in full in another column, was an
innocent measure, calling for not one
dollar from the treasury of California,
taking not one crumb of bread from the
mouths of any of her poor, not even
asking a donation from her wealthy
people. 1t only asked the cheap cour-
tesy of legislative approval of a move
ment to provide means Of transporta-
ton from the national treasury for the
largess of Dakota grain fields, the
spontaneous gifts of clothing and food
which have accumulated and which
Will be brought by the railroads free
of charge to Port Costa, there to be
shipped, Notwithstanding the protests
of these six gentlemen. to the plague
and famine stricken people beyond the
sea.
Yet Messrs. Emmons, Shanahan,
Dryden, Godfrey, Toland and
Landsborough did themselves the in
justice of denouncing and voting
against the simplest possible act of a
common humanity, an act Of sympathy
which Great Britain itself would not
fail to extend to America in case Of
need.
THE PRINTING IMBROGLIO.
The whole subject OF the printing bill
in interest and by far outdoing in mag
nitude the scandal of the attaches. In
the regular account of the days AS
sembly doings will be found the detail
Of Leavitts motion TO reconsider the
vote by which the Governors veto was
sustained, making the reconsideration
a special order for Tuesday at II a. m,
and Shanahan's subsequent effort to
get in bill appropriating $4,000 for
the printing office. 1t was a stormy
hour. but not half as gusty as the
subsequent joint caucus of the Senate
and Assembly Republicans, which end
ed in no definite action at all.
Through the closed caucus doors
there drifts the intimation that
there is a serious conflict between the
two houses. The Assembly Republicans
feel that the Senate people put them
ir a hole" when they cut down the bill
TO S3G. 900, and now complain of them
as weak-knee and shifty From the
Senate side. ii is said came the propo-
sition to divide trouble by introducing
two appropriation bills which should
aggregate the full amount and try to
get them both squeezed through. The
Asse emblymen Indignantly rejected this
and declared their intention to stay
with the $4,000 bill if they and the
Legislature have TO die with it. In
deed. there is said to be pretty definite
talk Of a sire die adjournment with no
general appropriation bill passed
an action which would force an extra
session.
All this uneasiness may be settled on
Tuesday if two-thirds vote can be
had and the Republicans will proba-
bly, not caucus again until the result Of
that days work is known.
STATE HIGHWAYS.
Il Will be good news and a matter of
rejoicing to good roads" people that
the conference between the State High
way Bureau and the Joint Committee
or Roads IS about to bear good fruit
1t seems probable that a satisfactory
agreement on the measures to be sup