The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-16
The MUNICIPAL LEAGUERS
RESULTS or THEIR WORK IN
CONVENTION.
They Present Memorial to the
Legislature Regarding Ger
tain Measures.

There was a forenoon session of the
California League of municipalities az
Pioneef Hall yesterday. The session
was devoted entirely to the discussion
of bills now before the Legislature, ana
OF matters affecting the permanent Or
ganixation of the association.
Delegate Kirkbride said he felt sure
that every bill opposed by the league
was defective in essence and wholly VI
tai in principle.
1t was decided to recommend that
the new municipal library bill be SO
amended as to give the legislative bod
les Of municipalities less power than
proposed. It was agreed that the asso-
citation should bend it's energies toward
having a law passed by which all cities
will have power to aid the association,
and to subscribe money for information
nlung the line of the work outlined by
the league.
Mayor Lands recommendations for
the amendment of the Vrooman law
We're Endorsed. The amendments pro-
vide that three-fourths of the property
owners must protest at certain stages
OF street work in order to be needed.
1t was decided to issue report for
the purpose of expressing opinions on
proposed laws, and to send copies of
this report to Senate and Assembly
committees
MEMORIAL TO LAWMAKERS.
To the Legislature of the State of CAL
iforna in Senate and Assembly: The
League of California municipalities As
sembly, in special session at Sacra-
mento February IA and 10, 1899, re-
spectfully submit to your honorable
bodies. the following report and sugges-
tons:
The League of California Municipali-
ties WIS organized in San Francisco
December IA, 1898, for the following
purposes. to wit:
ITO promote systematic collection of
information relating to municipal af-
fairs; to foster the exchange of sugges-
lions between municipalities on mat
tiers of municipal interest; to propose
and, so far as possible, influence legis-
lation necessary to proper municipal
administration and growth, and to gen.
orally interest the public in and advo-
cate all ideas tending to bring munich
palities of California abreast of the
best municipalities of the country.
Already, at the end of sixty days
from the time of it's organization, it
has represented, in it's membership a
majority of the municipalities of Calf
fornia. The league is now engaged in
making arrangements for central head
quarters and bureau of information
in San Francisco, and Will shortly put
upon the road one or more promoters
and organizers, whose business shall be
to further agitate the subject of the
needs of municipalities, and give organ
lied direction to the. rapidly increasing
public interest in such matters. At the
special session at Sacramento just
closed the league made investigation
of all bills introduced in the Assembly
and Senate and referred to the Commit
tee on Municipal Corporations of the
respective houses Of the Legislature.
As to some of these bills, the purposes
of the same Were not clear, and, no
one appearing to explain or advocate
Or oppose them, the league thought it
best not to make any recommendation
thereon, and the silence of the league
in this report with regard to any bill
need not be construed as indicating our
disapproval.
As to other bills, after such discus
sion and investigation as we have been
able to devote to them, the league with
its present light, feels constrained to
eEsphatically approve of some, and
with equal emphasis to disapprove of
others. We. respectfully lay before you
herewith. for your consideration, a list
of bills which we have approved. and
also list of those we have disapproved,
namely:
APPROVED
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
5 and Senate Constitutional Amend
ment IA.
Assembly bill 131 and Senate bill $50.
with an amendment providing for the
appointment of a Marshal.
Assembly bill $50 and Senate bill 493.
amended SO as not to apply to cities
that do not wish to be affected by its
provisions
Assembly bin 43o, amended to provide
for the appointment of the first board
by the Mayor
Also Assembly bills 46, Al, SO, 231,
273, 429, 457, ass and 627; also Senate
bills 6S. 105, 191, 229. 249. $50. 493, 517
and 534
DISAPPROVED.
Assembly bills 4. 213, 312, 449, SO.
537 ard $50, and Senate bills 1S1, 80.
BIO and 541.
II you desire in detail our reasons for