The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-05

furnish the office of the Clerk of the
Supreme Court; do pass as amended.
Smith, for Buildings other than
Prison Buildings. B. 22S, appropriat-
ing $4,000 to complete and equip the
Normal School at San Diego; be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee, and
do pass as amended.
Eoyce, for Education and Public
Morals-S. BIS II, relative to County
Boards of Education: 81, relative to
City Boards of Education substitutes
be adopted; 262, for the more effective
prevention of cruelty to animals; lO6,
relative to cruelty to animals; do pass
as amended; SO, relative to kindergar-
| tels-do pass; 1874, relative to estab-
fishing a day school for the deaf; COM
niittee substitute do pass; 325, provid-
| ing for improvements at the affiliated
! Z 'feges of the State University; com
ttee substitute do pass; 36, relating
- public schools; committee substitute
do pass.
Trout, for Printing and State Library
is. B. 395, relating to the mutilation
and injury of books and other property
deposited in libraries, ETC.; 3394, relat-
! ing to the detention of books and other
property belonging to any public or
incorporated library, ETC.; do pass; 5Si,
regulating the use of the label OF the
International Typographical Union OIL
North America upon printed matter
furnished by the State; substitute DO
pass.
Flint, for Attaches-Resolution that
printer be instructed to print 100 extra
copies of all bills for distribution TO
newspapers; be adopted. Adopted
LIBEL AND RETRACTION.
The following bill, introduced by Sen
ator Shortridge, will prove of great In
terest to newspapers throughout the
State. The full text follows:
1.-TWO new sections are hereby added
| to the Civil Code to be known as Sec
lions 3295 and 1896 thereof, and to read
as follows:
/ Section $685. No exemplary or
| punitive damages shall be recovered IN
! any action brought for publication OF
libel in any newspaper in this State
unless the plaintiff shall, before bring
ing suit, give notice in writing to the
defendant to publish a retraction or
correction of the libel, and before
bringing suit allow the defendant
reasonable time in which to publish
such retraction or correction. Proof OF
publication of such retraction or cor
rection shall be admissible in mitiga-
ticn of damages, provided that the re-
traction or correction shall be pub
/ lished in conspicuous place IN such
newspaper as was the libel.
| Section 1896. In any action brought
for the publication of a libel in any
newspaper in this State, the plaintiff
oofI1
if shall appear at trial Of such action
that said publication was made IN gooo
| faith and without actual malice or i'll
will, and that there was reasonable
grounds for believing that the state
merits set forth in such publication were
substantially true, and that retrdc-
ton or correction was made as pro-
vided in the foregoing section OF thls
code"
OTHER BILLS.
Other bills were introduced as 1ol-
lows:
Gillette-Relative to cancellation or
sale of State lands sold for delinquent
taxes Public Lands
CONSERVATIVE to duties of the Con-
troller as to warrants. and how they
shall be drawn. Judiciary.
Cutter-Providing for sweeping and
cleaning streets, etc., in municipalities.
Municipal Corporations
CAR FENDER BILL LOST.
The third reading file was taken up,
and S. B. -, by Braunhart, to promote
the safety of employees and passengers
upon street railroads, by compelling
equipment of cars and dummies with
brakes, and to prescribe penalties, came
up for final passage, it having been
read the third. time at previous ses-
sion. Only fifteen members could be;
found willing to vote for the bill, while
fourteen were recorded against it, and
a call of the Senate was ordered by
like vote-17 to IA.
After doing nothing in particular for
ten minutes, on motion of Shortridge,
the doors were opened, and the bill was
lost by a vote of II to 10. Braunhart
changed his vote from aye to no, and
gave notice of a motion to reconsider
the vote whereby the bill was lost.
ON TO WASHINGTON.
A resolution by Luchsinger, instruct
ing the Secretary of the Senate to
transmit to our Congressman S. ]. r.
-, relative to dredging San Pablo Bay,
was adopted.
JUDGES SALARIES.
S. B. 81, by Curtin, to amend Section
737 of the Political Code. relating to
salaries of Justices of the Supreme
Court and Superior Judges and officers
connected with the Supreme Court was
read the third time.
Cutter offered an amendment, fixing
the salaries of Superior Judges of San
Francisco at $4,000 instead of 5000
per annum.
Wolfe opposed the amendment but
said he desired to make no speech, in
asmuch as the straw had been thor
oughly threshed over at a previous ses-
sion.
Leavitt asserted that Superior
Judge in Siskiyou County was entitled
to as much salary as one in San Fran
cisco, and said If the amendment were
adopted he would offer another to in
crease the salaries of. Judges in Ala
media and Los Angeles Counties.
The motion to appoint committee to
amend the bill was carried by a vote
of 16 to II. after which the amendment
was adopted and the bill ordered print
ed and to final passage
THIS ONE PASSED.
S. B. 127, by Dickinson. repeating an
Act authorizing the allowance, settle
ment and payment of claims of counties
against the State, approved March g.
1893, was passed by a vote of % to O.
Title approved
THE DAIRY BUREAU BILL.
S. B. 80, by Dickinson. to provide for
the inspection of dairies factories of