The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-08

The matter of the adjournment of
the Senate yesterday morning involved
q complicated question Of rules, prece-
dents and statutes, and as result OF
it all, that body, or as many of the
members thereof who can be located,
will meet at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing and stand adjournment until Tues
day next.
And all this in the face of resolu-
ton, duly adopted at Thursdays ses-
sion, by and with the consent of every
member, that when the Senate adjourn
on Saturday it do SO until Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock.
But the Scriptural text with refer
ence to the gathering together OF a few
of the chosen ones did not apply in the
upper house of CALIFORNIA; Legislature
yesterday. for when the roll was called
at 800 o'clock only sixteen members
responded.
Then Senator Smith, in view of the
fact of no quorum, and probably IN
view of the fact that none was ex-
pected, moved to adjourn until Tuesday
morning at 10 O'Clock, and the ques-
ton was put by the President pro tenn.
Disregarding the rule that a motion
to adjourn is always in order and is
not debatable, Senator Morehouse
called a halt. He also called attention
that no quorum was present; that, such
being the case, the Senate was not in
session, and that, not being in session,
a motion to adjourn for more than one
legislative day was not in order
Under Warehouses; contention, the
Senate not being in session, an ad-
journment could not be taken until
Tuesday without endangering the life
provides that neither branch of the
Legislature shall adjourn for more than
three days unless such adjournment
be sine die.
resolution adopted at Thursdays ses-
sion providing for an adjournment Sat-
urday until Tuesday, and inquired
whether the sixteen members were to
sit in their seats until a quorum ar
rived before they could adjourn.
Senator Bulla agreed with Smith that
the Senators present had met: that
their proceedings would be entered in
the minutes, and that the resolution
would hold and adjourn the body over
until Tuesday.
The President pro tenn held that, be-
ing no quorum, there was no session.
and declared an adjournment until 10
O'Clock tomorrow (Monday).
There are those who believe that the
action of the Senate in declaring mo
session yesterday will necessitate the
presence of quorum at to-morrow's
session, but they appear to have lost
sight of the old parliamentary usage
that a body may meet and, if no
quorum be present, may adjourn from
day to day without affecting it's organ
ization. At any rate, the Senators who
are in town will get together in one
corner of the Senate chamber to-mor-
row morning and hold another formal
session and then adjourn over until
Tuesday morning.
SENATORIAL SITUATION.
During the week past aspirants for
the position of United States Senator,
to succeed Stephen NJ White, have
been much in evidence, and they and
the friends of each have done some ex-
tensive canvassing among the members
of both houses.
On the first day of the session the
adherents of each aspirant seemed to
feel certain that their candidate would
win hands down, and that feeling seems
to exist at the present time. The lex
tensive canvassing" seems to have been
without result, and if either of the can
didates know to whom the silent vote
will fall he has carefully nursed the in
formation.
A great deal of figuring and much
guessing has been done by the press of
the State, and evidently to the salts
faction of the individual members
thereof; but the probabilities are that