The record-union., 1899-02-15

ASSEMBLY MESSAGES.
Assembly messages were received and
read announcing action on bills as FOL
lows A. BIS As, 2O2 3U3-Assembly con-
scurred in Senate amendments; also,
concurred in Senate amendments TO 1ol-
lowing: A. BIS 2S7, 2SS, 243 and lO3;
ALSO passed A BIS $40, 10, II. IL, IL,
,151.
FIRST CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Also refused to concur in the Senate
amendments to A. c. A. q, relative TO.
the exemption from taxation OF
churches and church property, and an
nouncing the appointment of a confer
ence committee on same, consisting OF
Assemblymen johnson, Works ana
Boone. AS a committee to confer with
.the Assembly Conference Committee,
ithe President pro tenn. appointed Sena-
tors Wolfe, Ashe and Gillette.
sRECONSIDERED AND AMENDED.
Mutt called UP his notice of a motion
ito reconsider the vote whereby A. b.
I32 was passed. Reconsideration was
rfor the purpose only of correcting an
error and met with no opposition. The
sbill was amended by special commit
tee of one, and as so amended was or
dered printed
FUNDS FOR SENATE.
Dickinson called up A. B. 551, appro-
priating $4,000 to replenish the con-
stingent fund of the Senate, and an ur-
gency resolution being adopted the bill
was read the second and third time,
and passed by a vote of 26 to D. Title
approved.
s REFUSED RECoNSIDERATIO
Simpson called up his notice of
motion to reconsider the vote whereby
"A. B. 1OS, relating to the State Library,
was passed.
In speaking to his motion to recon-
slider, Simpson thrashed over all the old
straw which had been beaten out when
the clause in the original bill, to place
the library on wheels and allow the
volumes to be peddled about the State,
had been fairly beaten early in the
session He thought it was unfair that
people living in Los Angeles or San
Diego should be obliged to travel 500
miles in order to examine a book of
reference, or go without the knowledge
desired His motion to reconsider was.
he said for the purpose of offering an
amendment allowing the Board of Lii
brary Trustees to devise a plan by
which books might be sent to outlying
sections of the State.
The motion to reconsider was lost by
a vote of Ii to 19.
GOVERNORS RESIDENCE.
Dickinson, for the Finance Commit
tee, reported back A. B. 1876, approprl-
ating S69, 800 for the erection in Capitol
Park of residence for the Governor,
with the unanimous recommendation
that it do pass as amended The
DIM e,,tc Nv ho + fraQ
were published in full in yesterdays
Record Union. The appropriation is
reduced to $4,000, S4O, 600 of which will
be used for the construction of the
building, $6.500 for furniture, and the
remainder for prizes for plans, clerk
hire, contingent expense and supervis-
ion-
ANOTHER REPORT.
Gillette, for the Judiciary Commit
tee, reported back S. B. 401, providing
for the creation of a Board of Public
Charities, with a recommendation that
a substitute do pass.
THESE,BIALS PASSED
The Senate third reading file was
taken up, and S. B. 50, Dickinson, to
provide for the inspection of dairles,
factories of dairy products and of dairy
products as to their sanitary condition,
and as to the health of stock, and TO
prevent the sale of milk and the pro-
ducts of milk drawn from diseased ami
mails to the people of this State. and
TO prevent the spread of infectious anu
contagious diseases common to stock,
and to appropriate money therefor, haV
ing been read the third time, was
passed ~ to 0-title approved.
Davis bill, 421, providing a new
method of publishing constitutional
amendments, and prohibiting the same
from being advertised in newspapers,
came up, and Shortridge said it was
one from which no good could come;
but, he said, he would shed no tears on
that score, for many things would go
out from the Legislature from which
no good would come. He said that to
Eend out such slips as the bill proposed
to voters would be a mere waste of
the peoples money. In speaking of the
object of the bill, he said that if 1T had
not been for the newspapers of the
State none of the Senators on the floor
would ever have been heard of, and
he thought the worst punishment which
could be inflicted on them would be for