The record-union., 1899-02-23

Yesterdays proceedings in joint as
sembly brought no change to the SEN
Rtorial situation, and the deadlock still
holds The Democrats, however, held
a caucus yesterday morning and agreed
TO stand by their agreement reached
early in the session, to vote only for
Democrats and allow the Republicans
to settle their own dispute. They also
Rgreed-those who were present-to cast
yesterdays ballot as a compliment to
.Assemblyman ]. K. Burnett of Paso
Robles, which they accordingly did. It
was further agreed to vote to-day for
Nathan Cole, a prominent Silver Re-
publican of Los Angeles.
ALL ABOUT. RULES.
Nothing in the way of legislation was
accomplished at the morning session Of
the Senate. Nearly the entire time was
given over to the discussion of the
rules, which nobody seemed to know
much about Up to, date about as
much Of the Senate's time has been
given over to debating the rules gov
erning the body as to the bills intro
duced, and all the time thus spent,
Judged from the diurnal squabbles over
the rules, been time wasted.
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.
Among the measures passed at the
afternoon session was Smiths bill ap-
propriating 100000 to establish the
California Polytechnic School in San
Luis Obispo County Smith was eager
to have the bill passed on Washington's
birthday, and managed to head off sew
eral amendments which proposed to
cut the appropriation down below par.
In order to keep the way clear he
agreed that the proposed amendments
should be offered when the bill gets be-
fore the Assembly and said they would
meet with no opposition.
RETRACTION.
The evening session was something Of
a mixture. 1t was almost entirely
given over to the discussion of legal
point on which the lawyers were abou.
evenly divided. and the laymen were
at sea. Such a state of affairs was
rather depressing to the laymen. After
the law had been explained, expounded,
declared and refuted for an hour and
a half, Morehouse was cut off in the
midst of his argument, his allowance
of time having been consumed, and
Bulla objected to allowing him an adj
ditional fifteen minutes. The laymen
were awake in an instant. Something
was going forward which they could
understand.
Morehouse thanked Bulla for his OBJ
lection, saying that he would cease,
recognizing that Southern California
need never expect nothing from the
North He intimated that it would be
a long time before. the southern part of
the State need expect assistance from
him.
Subsequently. Morehouse openly apol-
ogized and retracted his words. and
Bulla, after accepting the apology,
seemingly in the spirit in which it was
offered, changed his vote from no to
aye, and hostilities were declared off.
Bulla's vote was the one needed to pass
the bill.
THE PAGES CELEBRATE.
Among the festivities of yesterday not
the least enjoyable and enjoyed was
banquet given by the Junior Legisla
tors" of the Senate and Assembly at
Leiths last evening. The collation. was
a sumptuous one and the toasts. and
speeches most creditable ito these young
citizens of the republic, who are learn
ing lessons in Parliamentary procedure
and in the ways of legislation and legis-
lators that will not be forgotten if some
day they tread the corridors of the
Capitol as members rather than pages.
w. w. Benchley was POSTMASTER, and
under his skillful leadership things
went off well.
. a mr.