The record-union., 1899-02-10

i this committee on the same bill, signed
/ Atherten, recommended that it do not
/ pass.
! Melick Roads and Highways, report
ed favorably on S. B. IL, for the con-
I struction of "a free wagon road from
/ Mono Lake Basin to connect with the
! Tioga road and that it go to Ways and
| Means; Johnson's A. B. $50, amending
the County and Township Government
Act, regarding the levy Of taxes and
issuance of bonds by Boards of Supervi-
sors, was recommended to be with
drawn by the author; substitute for
that bill was recommended to passage
and to the Committee on County and
Township Government Johnson's A.
B. 331, relating to highway taxes, was
reported favorably.
SENATE MESSAGES.
| From the Senate the following Sem
ate bills We're announced as passed and
were referred to House committees as
noted:
S. BIS 30, SO, 95 133 and 379 to Com
mittee on Election Laws; S. B. 1T, to.
Judiciary; s. B. "a, to Corporations. A.
B. 81, Sanford's bill providing that la
borers in lumber mills, logging camps,
| the Senate and goes to the Governor.
PRINTING MATTERS.
! Rickard offered a resolution that the
State Printer be ordered to bind, for
the use of members, all bills and
amendments thereto in volumes of 200
bills each.
The motion to adopt was fought Wig
| orously, especially by Melick and VAL
entine; who agreed in saying that the
carrying out of the order would entail
unnecessary expense, and that the vol
umes could not be ready much before
| the end of the present session.
| Valentine held in his hand a schedule
of the printing already ordered this
session from the State Printers Office.
He called attention to the fact that
there had just been introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 for the expenses
of that Office in addition to the appro-
priation of $4,000 called for by A. B.
| l, the passage of which was about the
first business after the organization of
! the present session. Valentine said
| that the State Printer was obliged to
execute the orders of the House; he
could not refuse, no matter how i'm
prudent or needless such an order
might be. If the Assembly plunged
the State Printing Office into extrava.
gance the State Printer was censured
! by the public, whereas he was obliged
to print not only what the Legislature
| ordered, but all orders of commissions,
etc.
| Rickard explained that his resolution
| did not call for any extra printing, as
LII :.
only needed to be bound, but the House
was too economical for him and voted
his resolution down.
Later in the day Valentine moved to
take up the $4,000 printing bill as 3
matter of urgency, stating that the
first appropriation had been nearly eX-
hausted, the principal outlay being in
the printing of reports of State Off
Gals and commissions which had piled
up during the time the Office was closed.
There would not be enough of the $50
000 left to settle the next pay roll. The
bill was read the second time and will
be on third reading and final passage
to-day.
Cosper offered a resolution on behalf
of the special committee of investiga-
tion calling for the payment of $711.30
to the stenographer, Richardson.
Adopted.
A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
S. C. R. Z, to cable the California
soldiers in Manila the greeting We'll
done, California came over from rhe
Senate and was at once taken up, unan-
imously adopted by the House and or
dered transmitted.
SOUTH CALIFORNIA JUNKET.
On motion of Valentine, a sub-com-
mittee of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, consisting of Sanford, Griffin
and Wardell, were authorized to leave
this morning on a trip of inspection to
the State institutions in Southern Cali
fornia. They were granted indefinite
leave of absence.
The following bills were introduced:
Committee on MISUNDERSTANDING
for A. B. I5, to prevent the sale of raw
material and the manufacture in penal
institutions in the State of California
of any article of commerce other than
jute bags and broken stone and ma
terials for State and county roads only,
and articles consumed in the State IN
stitutions; second reading file.
Committee on Roads and Highways
Substitute for A. B. $50, to amend the
County and Township Government Act,
relating to the general permanent pow
ers of Boards of Supervisors; second
reading file
Notwithstanding an appropriation to
pay the claim of Wells, Fargo & Co.
for express charges contracted by the
commission for the revision of the
codes during the forty-eighth fiscal
year. Claims
To pay the claim of Fred Mason for
towel service furnished the Secretary
of State during the forty-eighth fiscal
year Claims. 4
Committee on Ways and Means
Making an appropriation to pay the
deficiency in the appropriation for re-
pairs of the Capitol building and furni-
ture for the fiftieth fiscal year; second
reading file.
Committee on Ways and Means
Making an appropriation to pay the de-
ficiency in the appropriation for the
purchase of furniture and carpets in
the Capitol building for the fiftieth f1s-
cal year, second reading file.
Committee on Ways and Means
Making an appropriation to pay the de-
flciency for stationery, fuel, lights and
supplies for the Legislature and the
State officers for the fiftieth fiscal year.
Read first time and placed on second