The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-25


detention of books and other property
belonging to any public or incorporated
library, reading room, museum or other
educational institutions; read second
time; motion by Shortridge to strike out
the enacting clause on the ground that
present laws regulate the matter, lost
by a close vote, and bill ordered to third
reading.
! A. B. 151, McKeen-Supplement to
an Act to authorize the Incorporation
of rural cemetery associations, author
izing such associations to erect, pur-
chase or lease buildings and furnaces
and other works for cremation of hui
man bodies; also, to erect or lease build
| ings in which shall be entombed only
| the ashes of cremated dead, to make
provision for the care of the burial
places and ashes of the dead; also, to
provide for the cremation of the I'M
claimed dead and bodies liable, if in
| tered, to sfread disease; read second
time and to third reading.
A. B. 257, Raub-An Act to add A
new section to the Political Code re-
! lating to the payment of invalid assess
ments in reclamation districts, and the
crediting of the amount paid to the
| tract of land upon which the same was
assessed upon subsequent assessments;
read second time, amended and ordered
printed.
A. B. 400 Johnson-To add a new
section to the Political Code, to be
known as Section 1 $50, relating to fire
escapes on school buildings; read Sec
/ ond time and to third reading.
DAY SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF.
| Il11yrv JoI fra e
authorizing school districts managed
! by Boards of Education or Directors to
establish and maintain day schools for
the deaf, and authorizing payment
therefor from the State common school
fund, which was ON the special urgency
file, and Rowell opposed it, on the
ground of the additional expense to the
counties. He called attention to the
provision that in any county having
four deaf pupils a teacher should be
employed, and $3.50 for each child
should be set aside annually to pay
the expenses of the tutorage. He adj
vocated economy, particularly where
county matters were concerned.
| Stratton replied at length to RowelIs
argument. and the bill was passed--2o
to /. Title approved.
NEW SPECIAL FILE.
Under a resolution by Smith, adopted
On Wednesday, a special file was made
up, each Senator placing bill thereon.
The new file is not in the line Of an
urgency matter. All bills will be con-
sidered in the regular manner, and the
| idea of making the file was only to
give preference to preferred bills.
/ ALL ABOUT JUNKETS.
! A resolution appropriating $142.50 to
pay the expenses of the members Of the
sub committee of the Finance and Pub
lie Buildings committees which accrued
during their junket to the State Insane
Asylum at Patton, was referred to the
Committee on Contingent Expenses.
| Immediately following this was a res
olution by Luchsinger that five mem
bers each from the Finance and State
Prisons committees be authorized to
visit the State Prison at San Quentin;
and that their travelling expenses be
| allowed.
Then the breeze arose ,Bulla, the
Chairman of the Committee on State
Prisons, said that Luchsinger had
spoken to him about the matter. but
| that he did not care to go, believing
that no goodcould come from it. He
| had made no objection, however. but
could see httle use of five members
from each committee making the trip.
| Shortridge denounced all junkets. He
was emphatic in his statement that it
was time to begin to STOP He was
opposed to heaping up unnecessary ex-
pense when no good could come from it.
Bulla thought that two members from
each committee would be enough to
represent the Senate on the proposed
| junket.
Dickinson was satisfied that two from
/ each committee would prove amply
sufficient, inasmuch as the prison was
already pretty we'll crowded.
Bulla moved as an amendment that
| two members from each committee be
allowed to junket. Lost.
The question being on the adoption Of