The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-05

on Hoey's A. B. 92S. for the continu-
ance of the San Francisco Normal
School; and Caminetti's A. B. 1913. pro-
viding for a Bureau of Child Study,
was amended and reported back with
out recommendation.
| Conrey, for Commissions and Public
Expenditures. reported adversely on
Raub's A. B. 466, to increase the
membership of the Auditing Board to
the Commissioner of Public Works. and
E. D. Sullivan's A B. 54S, to regulate
the practice of architecture.
| Wade, for State Hospitals and Asy-
lums, reported back Raub's A. B. 506,
amending the Act establishing a State
Lunacy Commission that it do pass as
anne nded.
NEW AMENDMENTS
The Committee on Free Conference
on Hoey's A. B. 366, limiting the hours
of daily service of laborers on public
works, reported that they had agreed
upon an amendment to the title which
should make it agree with an amend
ment to the bill which provides that
nothing in the bill shall be so construed
as to make the State or any political
subdivision thereof liable for the pen
alties. Senators Taylor, Chapman and
Leavitt and Assemblymen Hoey and
Johnson. The amendments were
adopted, and the bill ordered to print
and final passage.
A NEW LAW.
The Governor communicated to the
Assembly his approval of Stewards A.
B. 247, prohibiting the payment of
money by the State to counties for the
collection of taxes
ON SPECIAL FILE.
Meads Assembly Constitutional
Amendment Is, relative to poll tax,
was the first number on the file. Mead
explained that it provides that any
voter exercising the franchise at a gen.
eral election shall be exempt from pay
ing poll tax for two years succeeding.
This, to a citizen who does his duty in
the matter of voting, means a perpet-
ual exemption from the poll tax which
is left operative only upon Cinnamon,
unnaturalized citizens and citizens too
lazy or too negligent to exercise the
right of franchise
The A C. A. was adopted.
SOME DEBATE.
Mead's A. C. A 10, proposing to
amend the Constitution so as to exempt
mortgages from taxation was not
adopted without opposition. Mead ex-
planned that it was in the interest of
the borrower; that where the lender
paid a tax on the mortgage he newt
ably made the rate to the borrower
large enough not only to cover the tax,
but, as tax rates are variable, enough
larger to protect himself; that when
the borrower paid his own property tax
he then got net interest rate from the
lender and saved money
Wade strongly opposed the amend
ment He said that no matter how
well theory and reasoning might sound,
the facts show that the tax on mort
cages is in the interest of the Dor
rover, especially the farmer. 1t was
that clause which was mainly instru-
| mental in the adoption of the new Con-
stitution, and for more than ten years
the working had been satisfactory, and
rates of interest had steadily reduced.
Dibble supported the amendment, and
was surprised to find man in the
State who was in favor of the law as
it stands. He said its defects were
we'll known and had become unbearable
to borrowers.
1t required a call of the House to set
the requisite number, but the amend
ment was finally adopted.
FOR EARLY RISING.
E. d. Sullivan moved to amend Rule
1 of the Standing Rules by fixing the
hour of converting in the morning at .
o'clock instead of $3.50. Referred TO
Committee on Rules.