The record-union., 1899-02-07
IN SENATE YESTERDAY.
Matters Of More or Less Import.
ance Under confederation.

In the Senate yesterday morning SEN
ator Bulla rose to question of per
sonal privilege, and sent to the desk
the following statement and requested
that it be published in the journal: :,
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Senate: During the three sessions of
which I have been a member of the
Legislature of this State, I have not
heretofore risen to a question sof per-
sonal privilege on account of a news
paper publication, not because 1 have
not been ridiculed or criticised, but be-
cause such statements being simply
the personal opinion of the writer or
of the prOprietors of the newspaper /
did not consider them of sufficient i'm
portance to demand notice or attention.
/ desire at this time, however, to call
the attention of this body to a publ
cation made in San Francisco paper
on last Saturday in which my character
and the motives actuating me as a
member of this body are called in ques-
ton.
I'm that publication statement Is
made that 1 was personally responsible
newspaper in question evidently con-
sidered desirable legislation.
Without discussing the character Of
the measure referred to, I believe it to
be my duty to expose the falsity of the
allegation that the defeat of the bill
was due to my efforts. The record con-
clusively proves otherwise. The bill in
question was one proposing to appro-
pirate from the public moneys of this
State $4,000 to pay an accountant for
exporting the books of the Southern
Pacific Company in furtherance of liti-
cation then pending. The bill was in
PRODUCED in both Houses-in the Assem-
bly, as 800. in the Senate as 329. The
Assembly bill was at first defeated, then
reconsidered and finally passed. 1t was
sent to the Senate and there substituted
for Senate bill 329. Believing that the
amount of the proposed appropriation
was greater than necessary, I made a
motion, upon the second reading of the
bill, reducing the appropriation to $15
600. This amendment was carried by
vote of twenty-three to eight, after
full consideration and discussion of the
amendment and the bill itself. Upon
bill was defeated by a, vote of twenty
two to twelve I myself voting for the
bill. 1t, therefore, becomes perfectly
apparent that, if the measure could not
pass when carrying an appropriation of
. 81 900, it would have had no possible
opportunity of becoming a law without
, the amendment offered by myself
Il make this statement not only to
+. refute the charges contained in the ar
ticle referred to, but also to expose the
attempt of the writer to mislead the
public by falsifying the records of the
Legislature"
LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ROOM.
Boyce offered a. concurrent resolution
instructing the Secretary of State to
fit UP a room for the exclusive use Of
the Lieutenant Governor. and to see
i that ii is used for no other purposes
during the. time between sessions. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
NO MONEY YET.
There is heaps of trouble on the
minds of those additional attaches APP
pointed prior to January 31st, when
, the Belshaw Act was in force. That
, particular Act provided that any ad-
ditional employee could be appointed
only by a vote of four-fifths of the
members of the Senate, while as a mat
ter of fact those appointed prior to
+, January 31st were so appointed by a
three-fourths vote.
| So it happened that Cutter offered a
resolution providing for the resembling
! of the resolution of appointment, and
| followed it by another, reappointing the