The record-union., 1899-01-15

few of the committees have got down
to work yet, and no bills have been
reported back.
NO SUNDAY SESSION.
Dibble offered A. C. r. -, that when
the Assembly and the Senate adjourn
they do adjourn until 11:3O a. m. Mon
day.
This resolution was intended to dis
pose of the matter of the Sunday ses-
sion, a good many legislators having
expressed the conviction that unless 4
Senator were elected yesterday, joint
ballot would have to be taken to-day.
But Dibble remembered that in 1891.
when the Legislature was balloting for
Senator a Sunday had intervened with
out a ballot; also, the United States
Circuit Court had decided the matter
one or more times; also, Senator Per
kins had wired, on request, that legls-
lators might remain peaceably at home
on Sunday without end9ngering any
body's chances for the Senatorshlp.
Hence Dibble's resolution, which, how
ever, he withdrew on the suggestion or
Belshaw and Valentine, that the con-
templated action should be taken by
the joint convention. This was subse-
quently done, and to-day will be de-
voted, doubtless to rest and reflection
on the part of members.
TC INVESTIGATE COMMISSIONS.
Johnson of Sacramento offered the
following resolution:
That the Committee on Commissions
and Public Expenditures be, and they
are hereby, directed to inquire into the
management of all the State commits
sions, and report to the House, by bill
or otherwise, what. if any, changes are
needed therein, and what, if any, COM
missions could be abolished. and what,
if any, saving can be effected in the
management of said commissions. And
said committee is hereby given the
power to send for persons and papers,
in order to make thorough and COM
plete investigation. Adopted.
A NATTER OF INSTRUCTION.
Assemblyman Blood offered a resolu-
ton for the benefit and instruction of
towns and cities, as follows:
That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly
be instructed to mail to each of the
cities and towns of the State, to the
Clerk thereof, two copies of all bills
herein introduced, as the same shall be
printed, relating to municipal affairs.
Adopted.
COMMITTEE REPORT.
Lundquist, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Attaches and Employees, reported
that the committee requested sugges-
tions from the Chairmen of Committees
as to who they desired for their clerks,
in order that the Attaches Committee
might assign them, pursuant to reso-
luton adopted on Thursday.
The committee also requested that the
stenographers already appointed would
communicate their whereabouts to the
committee, as they had not been able to
loo ate them.
Mead suggested that the gentlemen
who had charge of the payroll could
probably find them. The committee re-
port was adopted.
Works offered a resolution directing
the presence of two pages on the floor
of the House until o'clock p. m. on
days when there was no afternoon ses-
sicn, the pages to take turns at such
service. Adopted.
SAN FRANCISCO CHARTER.
On motion of Cobb of San Francisco,
the San Francisco Charter was made
a special order for Tuesday morning,
after the reading Of the journal.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
BY Bliss-To amend the Political Code
by adding a new section prohibiting the
imposing of license upon any person
soliciting orders for the sale Of any