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The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
SENATE AMENDS THE
ELECTION LAW

CALL HEADQUARTERS SACRA-
MENTO, March 9.-Anotfler g. election law,
passed v tre Assembly, was passed by
the Senate this afternoon. 1t was com
mittee substitute for Assembly Bill 911.
and provided for the forming of commit
tees to petition for a place on the pri-
mary ballot. The Stratton law requires
that each political party which at the
previous election polled per cent of the
vote shall petition for a place on the pri.
mary ballot through their governing COM
mittee. There is no provision in the Law
which allows them to petition except
through their committees, so to give a
chance to any party which may not have
a committee, Assembly bill GIL was in
troduced. 1t provides that in case there
is no committee, twenty-five of the elect
ors belonging to that party may form a
committee for the purpose of making
petition.
In the Senate this evening Braunhart' s
constitutional amendment allowing char
ters to be adopted by ma ajority of the
votes cast on the charter instead of a ma
iority of those cast at the election was
Withdrawn. as the author saw no chance
for it's passage. The principal objection
to the bill as expressed by those who
spoke on it was that it also contained a
provision compelling governing bodies to
submit to the people charters or amend
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
DICKINSON FIGHTS HARD
FOR HARB0R COMMISSION

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 9.-Dickinson's bill to re-
organize the Harbor Commission of San
Francisco came up before the Senate this
evening on Dickinson's motion to recon
slider the vote that had been so disastrous
to it last night. He made his motion to
reconsider and then when it had been put
he moved to postpone the consideration
of it until half-past 8 Saturday afternoon.
He did so, he said, because he wished to
have a full attendance when the measure
came up again
Davis objected to the postponement. He
said they could take the matter up at
once and, as for attendance, 1t was pet
ter right then than it would be on Sat
urday afternoon, when experience had
shown the attendance was always poor.
Dickinson insisted that he had right to
expect that the Senate would do him that
courtesy and he amended his motion in
compliance with Davis objection so that
motion to reconsider should come up
tomorrow Davis withdrew his obJec-
tionS for reasons of Senatorial courtesy
and Boyce demanded that an hour should
be set for its consideration tomorrow.
Again Dickinson quoted Senatorial coQr-
teSy and finally his motion TO reconsider
took the course he wished IL to take. II
was postponed till tomorrow, when 1t
will come up for action. 1t will hardly
fare any better than it did last evening,
however for the Democrats Will all sup
port il again and every Republican eX-
cept one who voted against ii last night,
says he will do so again tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
BILLS THAT RECEIVED
THE GOVERNORS SANCTION

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 9.-The following Assem-
bly, bills were made laws to-day by the
approval of the Governor:
Bill $40, an act to create a department
in the State University for an investiga-
ton into the rainfall and water supply of
the State and TO make an appropriation
therefor.
Bill 222. an act to amend section 1142
of the Political. Code relating 10 elec-
tions.
Bill 3e5, also in regard to elections
Bill 611 an act to provide for the re-
demption of certain Indebtedness TO the
city of Sacramento.
Bill 1901, making it a misdemeanor 10
use any bottle, cask, keg, vessel or 81 sij
phon which has been formerly used ana
labeled, and bill 1902, which relates TO the
issuance of a search warrant,
Assembly bill "A was vetoed by the Gov
ernor and the ground given for lts qui--
etus by the executive head was that ~ II
was found by looking the. case up IN ..1 t9e
previous Senate journals 1t haq reac W ao
not pass" The recommendation LOT ltS
non-passage was evidently. made by
committee which had the bill IN cQnsld-
Grafton and his gubernatorial highnesS5
evidently thought that sufhc1ent gfouHu
for a veto.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
Legislators AStoniShed by the Sudden Change
Of Heart in the Green Case.
HIS HENCHMEN BEG FOR FAVORS
The Tide Now Sets Strongly Toward General Barnes and
Looks as if He Would Get the Required
Number Of YOteS

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA
Dan Burns campaign for the Senator
ship have put in their time to-day in
a vain effort to retrieve the loss of
prestige caused by the blunders of yes
terday.
All the declarations so solemnly made
by them yesterday that the dismissal
of the proceedings against Milton j.
Green would cast stain on the honor
of the Legislature were taken back,
and the Burns following voted not only
to set Green free but to- discharge the
investigating committee from further
service. Members of the Legislature
were astounded. rumor was started
that an alliance of the Burns and Grant
forces had been effected, but inquiry at
Grants headquarters brought forth
prompt and sweeping denial of the re-
port.
Tonight the Grant men are as firm
as ever in their purpose to resist every
open or secret effort to secure the cleo
tfon of Burns. The Grant column VIII
stand unbroken as long as danger or
Burns election exists.
Burns fight for the Senatorship is
utterly lost unless the railroad comes
of it, The instant the Doodle is en-
plOyed to capture an outsider some
shrewd medicine" man will convey
hint Of the transaction, and demand
for enough to go around Will at once
be made and pressed. The best judges
of the political situation have reached
the conclusion that money in small
sums cannot be used effectively in this
Senatorial struggle. The conflicting
forces are so firmly set and resolutely
pledged that money, except 1t be used
in very large sums, cannot change the
alignment.
The opinion is by no means universal
that Burns fight is utterly lost, but
many judges entertain the view that his
camp is on the verge of decentralization.
Others suspect a wary and adrolt
scheme to lure the Barnes and Grant
men into q caucus by feigning OF
wea kness. For that reason no chances
will be taken. No propositions for
caucus will be entertained. Having
fought the fight so far in the open,
where the people of the State could
daily see how their representatives
voted, there is an increasing sentiment
in favor of fighting it out on that line.
Burns may resolve to adjourn the Leg
islature without an election, but he may
fail to carry out his resolution.
The events of the past tWenty-four
hours have demonstrated beyond a
doubt that Burns cannot control the
LEGISLATURE Early in the session his
followers assumed an air of defiance
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
COYOTE SCALP BILL
CAUSES DISSENSlON

CALL HEADQUARTERS SACRA-
MENTO March 9-The coyote scalp bill
may make music IN the Assembly before
the measure Is finally passed. The claim
ants under the act are not working in
harmony, as the following circular indi-
Gates:
SACRAMENTO March 8, 1899
Dear Sir: The Kelsey amendment to SUB
stitute appropriation to pay coyote scalp
claimants is to be changed and the amount
reduced from S2S7,615 TO $500. GOO The latter
sum will pay every honest claim. Under the
Kelsey amendment they can establish the1r
claims without cost, but they must all come
into one court, and the big claims based on
fraud and forgery will not dare material1ze
If presented they will be exposed and deteated
under the pla1 of cross pleading allowed IN the
suit of interpleader
We nave Indirectly heard that the money
sharks and spectators are trying to patch up
the Senate substitute (the sGeculators pill)
ami then get that dishonest measure through
the Assembly. The seductive amendment as
to Justices Courts and the duties OF District
Attorneys would throW wide open the HOOD
gates of fraud against the State without heip-
ing the bona flde claimants. who have held Oh
to their claims.
holder of false and bogus claim to travel
from county to county and get dozen or
hundred judgments against the state on one
and the same County Clerks certificate
II is Of course, prepOsterous to suppose any
District Attorney would or could atend 10
thousands of actions brought before Justices,
at the same time any more than the Attorney
General could. But even II they dld they coulo
do nothing under the circumstances.
The Controller is expected to disburse enor-
nous sums OF money on judgments certlned oy
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

ments to, charters on petition of 10 per
cent of the voters who voted at the last
election. An attempt was made to raise
this TO 80 per cent, but when TINS
amendment was killed with evident pur-
pose of doing the same trick to the mea-
evitable.
During the day the Senate passed the
following bills:
Assembly bill 662, making an appropria-
tion TO pay the salaries OF the employees
of the Commissioner of Public Works
Assembly bill 81. amending he Polltl-
cal Code by adding q new section thereto
No. 1862 relating to the organization OF
committees to represent political parties
at primary elections
Assembly bill $50, creating State Board
of Charities and Corrections. prescribing
its duties and powers. and approprlatinS
money therefor. -, o.o
amending sections 633. 634. 63o 63b, b3l, o5s
639 64o, Gal. 642, 643. GA, 645, 646 and 647 OF
the Civil Code and repeating section t4S
of the Civil Code relating to mutual build
ing and loan association and other similar
corporations.
Assembly bill 376, providing for free
employment department to be maintained
in connection with the Bureau OF Labor
Statistics.
Assembly constitutional amendment IA,
which was refused passage the first time
it was considered in the Senate, came up
on reconsideration and was adopted This
amendment is intended to exempt the
property of the Lick School from taxa
ton.
The Senate refused to pass Assembly
bill 249 which provided for the regulation
of the sale of commercial fertilizers.
The Senate spent its forenoon session in
considering newspaper claims.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

,7o,,, Yesterday afternoon and break all
Tho furniture 1 want to say that that
amt right. 1 was bit worked up put
God bless you, I want to be frlends with
all of you I've always been q Iriehu Oh
tho Sneaker and always will be. L want 10
(oTne hack here two years from now, and
7 don't want people pointing me out ana
eayinp Look out for that fellow; he's
terror and don't wear no suspenders.
wouldn't do anybody any harm. .r,:,,,
II move" said BelshaW, that Bill De
declared harmless" and 1t was SO or
The general appropriation bill came up
on its third reading and passage lnine5
been considered, and it passed on 10 the
Senate without further amendment:
Burnett of San Luis Obispo oHered "a
resolution to adjourn sine dle ne at rnferagne
to the Ways and Means COMMITTEE: BEL
shaw's resolution to adjourn sine die on
March II was laid on the table, o,,vr tho
johnson withdrew his bill repeating @ @tnat
section of the purity of election laws
which limits the amount d canuiaaig I'd :
NAV spend for election expenses. he sala
he never heard of any one oheylng IL, out
DihbIe said he had and BelshaW SAID ne
had and in Difference to two OF the most
remarkable candidates OF poitlcdl ms
tory Johnson said he would Withdraw the
Oi1ic Governor Gage sent in word that he had
sipned Assembly bill GIL abolshlng the
funded dent
Tbe hill goes into effect on the first day OF
January 1900 this being the result OF a
oomnron1ise between those of the CITY
trustees who wanted the commission
aboiished forthwith and certain cltlzens
Who thought the voluntary services Oh tne
men. who they said had served SO Wen
and long, should not be reWaroeea e py eiso 99se-
inp them so unceremoniously from once.
Tho Governor also signed Assembly DliiS
o4o and 3e5. The first of these amends the
election laws relating 10 crimes a agil5l amendl
the franchise. The other IS an diIleHu-
ment 10 the Political Code.
Rroun's Assembly bill 916, the stanford
hill went through on third reading and
passage without opposIt1on. Inc IleaauLe S ~ :
Conveys TO Stanford University the right
Use wherever situated. The bill is es-
neciallv designed to enable the university
10 accent the SIS, 600 900 endowment which
Thomas Stanford Of Australia intends be-
slowing. -
eight hours shall constitute days labor
on all public works, was also passed.
The following bills were passed during
the day.
amending an act relative to foreign cor
porations. approved April 1, 1872.
Assembly bill 916 introduced by Brown,
amending the law relative to institutions
Of learning. by granting additional pow
ers to the founders and trustees OF such
Assembly bill 9Os introduced by John
son, amending section 1880 of the Code of
civil Procedure. relating to witnesses.
Assembly bill 366. introduced by Hoey.
limiting the hours of labor of those en-
ployed on public works.
Senate bill %, creating a harbor at Oak
land and a Board of Harbor Commission
ers. was finally passed.
The appropriation file was the matter of
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
MEXICAN DAN: "ITS A LONG TINE BETWEEN KILLS"

Justices of the Peace. 1t is safe to predict
that judgments would be certified aggregat-
ing a million dollars.
What and whence the opposition to the Kel-
sey amendment which affords every protection
to the State and to every honest claim? Nc
objection has been discovered. You may be
told that the Governor will not sign, etc,
which is SANDER on his Excellency. No one
knows what the Governor will do but it is
safe to presume that he will prefer a bill
which saves $S7 615 to the State, saves cost to
the lftigants. bars out bogus and fictitious
claims and methodcally winds the whole thing
up in one interpleader suit
The fact that the amount appropriated is
materially less than the aggregate of Clerk S
certificates viii cause every one to strive to
prevent and expose fraudulent claims in the
interpleader suit which affords that opportu-
nifty This is the secret of the opposition to the
Kelsey amendment.
Our association, of course, contains but a
small percentage of all the claimants, but we
represent all who still hold their claims and
keep all posted They know, and shall con-
tinue to know what is being done. They prefer
no bill at all to one which robs the taxpayers
and paves the way for struggle at the doors
of the treasury, in which knaves would come
off the victors. Respectfully,
2. L. DILLINGHAM;,
JOHN CHESTER.
ELISHA BURCHARD,
Executive Committee Claimants Association.
The Senate substitute is supposed to
have the support of a high-toned lobby,
but the chief among the lobbyists seldom
appears in the Capitol building.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

iEt sprinkliRg R,ja and pumping plant in the Yo-
Bill 642, by Beecher. to appropriate $500
to pay the claim of Theodore Pliesch for
money due and owing him from the State.
Bill TAI, by Johnson creating the office
of State Game Warden and appropriating
$4,000 for the maintenance of the office and
defining the duties and powers of said
official and also defining the punishment
for the violation of the game laws of this
State.
Bill S78, a substitute for bill 700, act
to provide for the survey. location and
construction of public wagon road from
Bill 36S. by Caminetti, providing for the
purchase of lumber and fencing for the
Preston School of Industry.
Bill 905, introduced by Clark, making
an appropria ton of $4,000 for the purpose
of sinking gas we'll on the grounds of
the Agnews State Hospital.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

! Now they plead and petition for legis-
lative faVors.
There are many people here who 'ig-
ure that General Barnes may get suf-
ficient number of votes to capture the
Senatorial prize. The number of letters
and kilograms coming from every Sec
ton of the State urging members to
vote for Barnes is surprising. Refer
ence is frequently made in the letters
to the gallant fight which Barnes made
for Henry T. Gage and the whole Re
publican ticket. When the so-called
leaders" were smoking cigars with
Nose Gunst in cozy clubrOoms of San
Francisco General Barnes was at the
front bearing the burden of assault
from every Democratic newspaper and
orator in the State
In order to impress the gudgeOns with
an idea of Colonel Burns prestige it
was planned early in the Senatorial
campaign that the colonel himself or
some tout in chief should daily be seen
at Governor Cages elbow. The spec
tacIe was designed to impress the COM
mon herd with the notion that the State
patronage was being held out for the
exclusive use of the Burns followers.
a little change in the programme has
now been devised. The new wrinkle is
to have q chief among the touts in close
conversation with leading men of the
Grant forces. Colonel Burns and Her
Vey Llndley have Deen very sweet on
Grant and his managers to-day The
impression is to be conveyed that the
colonel and the San Diego statesman
are to join hands and elect a United
States Senator. The Grant men have
caught on to the curves of Lindley.
The political managers in Dams serv-
ice are not very bright. They were
dull enough to believe that the defeat
of the Harbor Commission reorganiza-
ton in the Senate yesterday was de-
signed as punishment of the Burns
men for voting against the resolution
to dismiss the Green case. The fact is
that the Grant people some weeks ago
suspected that the scheme to reorganize
the board was devised to make places
to be promised to men who would line
up for Burns and accordingly they
voted against it.
It is given out tonight that to-mor-
rows Senatorial ballot will show sew
eraI changes in favor of General
Barnes The accessions to his ranks
will, if what is said be true, come
from the fold of Irving NJ. Scott. Sena-
tor Flint and Rowell and Assembly
men La Baree and Dunlap are the leg
islators who are scheduled to leave
Scott and vote for Barnes. Assembly
man Cosper and Senator Davis declare
their intention to continue to vote for
the builder of the Oregon for the bal
ance of the week. They dined with
their chief this evening at downtown
restaurant
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
GOVERNOR GAGE
IS FACETIOUS
OVER ANIMALS
A Jocular Message VetOing the
Humane Society
Bill.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, sACRA-
MENTO, March By the following mes
sage from the Governor which was re-
cefved by the Assembly this evening it
would appear that when it was written
his gubernatorial highness was in par
ticularly jocular mood, so much so that
he apparently did not realize the import
ance of the measure which he so ruthless
ly hit with an ak.
The bill was an act for the protection
of dumb beasts, and provided for the
killing of the same when they had become
useless through abuse. sickness or in
other ways. 1t provided for the appoint
ment of officers TO enforce a law to compel
the owners of such animals to kill them
and made 1t punishable by a fine or i'm
prisonment when the law was not com
piled with. The bill virtually enforced
the law under which the humane socie-
ties of the different cities are acting.
The following is the Governors message:
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
BANKERS ESCAPE BY
JUST ONE VOTE

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 9.-One of the hardest
parliamentary skirmishes the Senate has
seen this session was fought out to-day
over the reconsideration of the vote on the
bill introduced in the Assembly by Muen-
ter of San Joaquin, relating to statements
from banks.
Muenter's bill provided that the state
ment of the banks to the Bank Commits
sioners and to the Assessor should be
made on the same date. At present the
one to the Bank Commissioners is made
on the first Monday in June and that TO
the Assessor On the first Monday in
March. The first is always high, the Sec
ond low, and the bill was for the purpose
of making them equal and having the
bank assessed at what it considered it was
worth before the commission. The bill
GRAFTON of today Jared the same way, but
II was by but one vote and only after
By motion of BJrnett the question was
put on the reconsideration of the vote
and there was Il 8all of the Senate before
there We're enough to let the reconsidera-
Boyce was thet first to support the bill.
a duty he attended to with evident pleas
| banks before he sat down. They were the
hrst to demand protection in case of dam
ger, he said, and the first to escape taxa
ton whenever a. loophole in the law al
Simpson was against the bill. and so was
Gillette There was law enough on the
subject II the Assessor only did his duty
they said There was more talk of the
same sort from various Senator's and then
the roll was called. The first result was
Ayes-Ashe, Boyce, Braunhart. Bur-
nett. Curtin. Davis, Dwyer. Doty, Hall.
la Rue, Leavitt, ,Luchsinger, Maggard,
Noes-Bettman, Blllla. Chapman. Dick
inson, Gillette. Jones, Laird, Morehouse.
Shortridge, Sims. Trout, Feeney Flint,
Simpson, Snajth-I5.
a call of the Senate was demanded and
ordered, and after diligent search the
sergeant at arms rounded UP Senator
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
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consideration before the Assembly this
evening and the following bills We're
Bill 525, introduced by crowder,s appro-
priating $500 to pay the claim of A. l..
Wood for the arrest and conviction of
Bill S. by Meserve. providing, for i'm
provements of the Southern California
State hospitals.
Bill 449. by Eugene Sullivan, providing
for the creation and maintenance of a
Veteran Volunteer Fireman's Association
of California.
Bill. introduced by Griffin. No $50, an
act to appropriate the sum of Sl7 900 for
the purpose of establishing q water
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

Wolfe. who voted --aye" after the doors
had been opened.
changed from mo- to "aye," and seeing
some hope in that the short maiority, Sc.
cured another call of the Senate. ms
time Langfords was rounded up, and after
he had been argued with by nearly every
one for or against the bill, he voted
the friends of the measure demanded a
call of the house and this time they
caught Cutter, who came in and voted
no and then the fight was given up,
AS it finally stood it was 20 to s. or just
one vote short of passing the bill.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
DECLARES "BILL"
M'D0NALD TO BE HARMLESS

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 9, Big Bill' McDon-
aid of Alameda got up in the Assembly
chamber this afternoon to discredit the
inference in the morning papers that he
was going around with pistol eye cooked
at Speaker Anderson and a brace of six
Founders stuck in each boot.
The papers this morning say I wanted
to chuck Speaker Anderson out of the
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
No Lien for Horseshoers.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 9.-Senate bill 32I, the
measure upon which Senator Charles M:
Shortridge staked his craftsmanship ana
which was passed through the Senate
during fit of good humor on the part 9f
that body, came TO an ignominious end N IN
second reading. Shortridge's bill pro,
vided that shoers should have liens on al
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10

rant the enormous annual expenditure OF
s1O2 900 to be paid by the taxpayers OF the
HENRY T. GAGE.
Governor of the State of California"
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-10
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NEITHER CHANGE NOR
RUMORS OF CHANGE.

, CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC
= RAMENTO, March 9.-La Baree
came out from behind his Call this
: morning and for the first time IN
; several days cast his vote for lrv-
: ing NJ. Scott Otherwise the one
, ballot of the day went off as is its
custom-without change.
: The atmosphere has been cleared
: of the rumors of change with
which 1t has been charged for
: days past and the crowd in the
: lobbies has dwindled to the scant
handful of loungers always found
. at the Capitol because of the want
! of a better place to idle away the
= day.