The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-25

the wearing of insignia by persons not
entitled to wear them,g with recon-
mendation that the author be permit
ted to Withdraw; withdrawn
Also O'Brien's A B. 313, amending
the law of marriage and divorce by
reducing the period of time which must
elapse between divorce and subse-
Quent marriage from one year to, six
months, with recomme ndation that 1t
do not pass minority report amend
ing the bill by supplying an enacting
clause, and recommending it's passage
as amended, was signed by OBrlen,
Boone, Johnson and Conrey.
Dairy and Dairy Products, LIE Bar
ron. reported Atherton's Il. b. IA, TO
provide for the inspection of diaries,
amended in committee and recommend
ed to pass as amended.
| Contested Elections, Wade, acting
| Chairman, reported on the contest OF
Leon E. Jones VS. Justus S. Warden,
| Assemblyman from the Thirty ninth
District, San Francisco, that the com
mittee found that Jones had received
| LAG votes and Wardell 1,4S2 votes;
| that J. s. Wardell, having received a
plurality of six votes. is entitled to
retain his seat and Office as Assembly
man. Wade moved that the report be
printed in the journal, and be made a
special order for this morning after
| the reading of the journal. So or
/ dered.
| aCosper offered a minority report on
| the same contest, signed by himself,
finding that Jones had a plurality of
| four votes. Ordered printed in journal.
County and County Boundaries,
Arnerich, reported favorably on San
fords A. B. So, to establish the bound
airy line between Mendocino and Trim
/ ity.
/ Also Clark's A. B. 800, amending the
| Act for the improvement of unnavi-
gable streams and water courses.
Ways and Means. Valentine, reported
back Dunlap's A B. 1O5, appropriating
! $4,000 for the relief of agricultural
district societies, with recommendation
| that it do not pass.
Also Johnson's A. B. 264, making an
| appropriation for cleaning the outer
surface of the granite composing the
lower story of the Capitol; that it do
| not pass.
| Corporations, Anderson, reported
/ Dunlap's A. B. 1O4, regulating the
granting of telephone, electric light and
other franchises, favorably.
Also Meads A. B. 1876, with the same
| title, that it do pass.
Also Mead's A. B. 23O, relating to
mutual building and loan associations,
that it do pass.
MOTION TO RECONSIDER
| Belshaw moved to reconsider the
vote by which Meserves A. B. 81, to
| reduce the number of Judges of the Su-
perior Court of San Bernardino County
to one, was passed on Monday. 1t will
| be remembered that, by an oversight of
/ the House, the bill was placed on final
passage before it had been reported
back from the Engrossing Committee.
| Belshaw's motion to reconsider was
carried, the bill was ordered to Com
mittee on ENDORSEMENT and to the third
reading file.
The Judiciary Committee offered a
report out of order, with substitute
! for Works A B. 30 amending the
Act establishing the Board of State
Harbor Commissioners for the bay OF
| San Diego, and recommending that the
substitute do pass.
All bills reported back from commit
tees. save one that was withdrawn anL
Ways and Means to the Judiciary Com
Imittee, went to the second reading file.
RESOLUTIONS AND MOTIONS.
Anderson's resolution calling for the
printing of 500 copies of the Vallejo
City charter was lost.
Caminetti offered resolution di-
recting the Sergeant alarms to keep
the elevator in motion from $50 a. m.
m nv do of 10
sion, excepting Sunday. Adopted.
TO JOINT COMMITTEE.
Under the head of unfinished bust
ness came UP Anderson's A B. 10, to
prevent the sale of raw material and
the manufacture in penal institutions
of the State of any article of commerce,
other than jute bags and broken stone
and materials for country roads only,
and articles consumed in the State pc
nal institutions.
On Monday, as reported in the Rec
ord Union" there had been an extended
debate on the bill, and Knights of Sac
ramento had offered an amendment
adding city streets, lanes, alleys and
courts to the clause, except broken
stone and material for use on country
roads,
Dibble offered an amendment to the
amendment striking out all after the
word except" and inserting the fol-
lowing: Broken stone on country roads
and jute bags, provided that convicts
may be employed in the manufacture
of articles used in the prison in which
they are serving
Dibble spoke to his amendment. as he
said the subject was not new. An
effort had been made to get such a
measure enacted at the last term He
contended that the principle involved
was whether convict labor is to be put
in competition with free labor. He was
against such competition now and al
ways. He believed convicts should be
employed for no other purpose than
their own sustenance AS for the jute
bags manufactured at San Quentin,
there being no plant for their manu-
facture in the State, there was no harm
done, but as for the Folsom rock crush
s ing plant, he claimed that there had
been a strong effort made to get the
product sold all over the State, and
that this was driving out the industry
of quarrying and throwing hundreds Of
men out of employment.