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

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
Crowder, Chairman OF Public Build
ings and Grounds, reported favorably
on four bills as follows:
Kelley's A. B. SO, to pay the direc-
tors of the State Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Institute for the Improvement OF
Waring street in front of lands of the
institute. Referred to Ways and Means.
Radclifrs A. B. ~. to assign blocks
Of State property for the free public
market in San Francisco.
McDonaid's (Alameda) A. B. BAT, to
pay for grading and curbing Warning
street, fronting lands Of State Deaf and
Dumb Institute. Referred to Ways
and Means.
Caminettis A. B. 800, to appropriate
money for the purchase Of tools and
books for Preston School of Industry.
Referred to Ways and Means
|. CLAIMS COMMITTEE.
Mcdonald of Alameda reported for
Claims Committee on the following
bills, with recommendation that they
do pass, and they were passed on to
the Ways and Means Committee, all
calling for appropriations:
Caminetti's A. B. 81, to pay the claim
OF Clement Bennett.
Lardner's A. B. &C. to pay claim OF
Dutch Flat School District
Lardner's "A. B. a, to pay claim OF
Thomas Grace.
Lardner's A. B. 70, to play claim of
Methodist Episcopal Church Of Dutch
Flat.
Lardner's A. B. 70, to pay the claim
of Thomas Flaridon.
Lardner's A. B. SO, to pay the claim
of Mrs. j. sUren.
Lardner's A. B. 81, to pay the claim
of w. p. Sowden.
Lardner's A. B. So, to pay the claim
of Patrick Carroll.
H. W. Miller's A. B. 274, to pay the
claim of l. H. Polk. ~
FELIX'S A. B. 279, to pay the claim of
Major Jose Ramon Pico.
OTHER COMMITTEES.
Roads and Highways. Melick, report
ed back favorably on Blood's A. B. SO,
providing for a free wagon road from
Mono Lake Basin to- connect with Tioga
road As it calls for an appropriation
it was referred to Ways and Means.
Ways and Means, Valentine, reported
back Arnerich's A. B. s159, to pay the
claim of the State Board of Horticult-
ure for money expended in behalf of
the State.
Conrey's A. B. POS, to improve the
civil service Of the State, was amended
in committee, and reported back with
out recommendation.
Johnson's A. B. 275, to improve the
public service of the State, recommend
ed that it do not pass.
Commerce and Navigation, Know
land, reported favorably on Marvin's
A. B. 147, relative to the Board of Har-
Dor Commissioners of the port Of Eu-
reka; also on S. J. R. r. for the i'm
provement of San Pablo Bay.
Swamp and Overlooked Lands, Dun
lap, reported favorably on Cosper's A.
B. 60, to amend the Act regulating the
sale of reclaimed lands.
Also, on Raub's A. B. PSI, relating to
the payment of invalid assessments;
that it do pass.
County and Township Government,
Huber, reported back A. B. 5l6, COM
mittee substitute for Belshaw's A. B.
20, for the government of sanitary dis
tricts, and A. B. ST., committee substi-
tute for Anderson's A B. 225, to pre-
vent the spread of CHAMBERS, etc.; that
they do pass.
ELECTION LAWS.
This committee, Belshaw Chairman,
reported back Belshaw's A. B. 45O, TO
promote the purity of primary elections,
with committee substitute which was
recommended to passage.
Richards A. B. 800, amending the
Political Code, relating to elections.
recommended that it do pass.
Dibble's A. B. $40. amending the
Penal Code, relating to crimes against
the elective franchise; that it do pass.
Richards A. B. 395. amending the
Political Code, regarding elections; that
it do pass.
Johnson's A. B. 43S, authorizing wo-
men to vote at school elections; that it
do pass as amended.
Johnson's A B. II, to promote the
purity of elections, recommended that it
do not pass.
Also, Cosper's A. B. 176, amending the
Act to promote purity of elections; that
it do not pass.
THE NAPA HOSPITAL.
Wade, Chairman of the Committee on
State Hospitals and Asylums, handed in
the following report:
Mr.. Speaker: Your Committee on
State Hospitals and Asylums author
lied to visit the various State Hospitals,
have visited that at Napa and thor
oughly examined the same. They find
it in good condition and we'll admins
tered. We also find that an additional
water supply, asked for by the hospital
much needed. WADE, Chairman.
An additional report from this COM
mittee gave their expenses to Napa as
$50. 40 The report was adopted and a
warrant for the amount ordered drawn.
NO MINORITY CLERK.
Devote offered al resolution calling for
a clerk at So per day to be assigned to
the Democratic minority.
AS the Speaker was in the act of re-
ferring this to the Committee on At
taches, Mead. white with anger, got
recognition, and said:
Mr. Speaker, the Democratic minor
ity demands no such thing This reso-
luton does not represent the minority
| it was not authorized by the minority
and the minority will not stand for it.
1 repudiate it.
Eanley or the san FRANCISCO delega-
| ton, said that he belonged to the mi
nority, and the resolution represented
his ideas. He saw no reason why the
minority should not have a clerk.
| Mead, still very hot, could not see
any joke in the matter, and retorted
that individual Democrats might speak
| for themselves but they could not
| speak for the minority as a body. He
| spoke for that and the minority would
not staEd sponsor for the resolution