The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22

shall be .takensup and considered in
consecutive order to the end. This file
is not for consideration at evening ses-
sions. Referred to Committee on Rules
and Regulations,
SUSTAINING THE GOVERNOR.
Under the order Of unfinished BUSH
ness, the consideration of the Govern
or,s disapproval effA B. 243, the bill
for municipal hospitals, came up. On
roll call the Governors veto was sus-
tanned by the House.
The Senate amendments to Browns
A. B. 3OS, providing for improvements
to the State Library, We're concurred
in by the Assembly, and the bin sent
| to enrolment.
BILLS PASSED.
The following bills were passed on
| the special file:
A. B. 322, Rickard-To amend the Po-
litical Code, relating to elections.
This bill provides that the officers of
| election shall be taken from the two
| leading parties, but has been so amend
ed that it is operative only in general
! elections At municipal elections the
officers are to be taken from all parties
which at the previous general election
polled per cent of the vote.
Johnson objected to the bill because
of the restriction limiting the election
officers to the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, claiming that it was not
| fair Richard explained that it was
only going back to the old law which
| had worked we'll The bill had been
drawn because of the difficulties en-
countered by reason of the fusion of
Democrats with other parties. The D
per cent. or 10 per cent. plan in such
cases often resulted in giving Demo-
Gratis a decided majority on election
boards, andl that was what they wished
/ to escape
A. B. 353, Dibble-To amend the Act
to appropriate money for the support
of aged persons in INDECENT circum-
stances residing in the Home of the
Veterans Home Association, reducing
the amount of such appropriation per
capita
A. B. GIT, neutrality-suspicious. the
Secretary of State to bore a well, fur
nish and set stand pipes, tanks. filter
and lay pipes in the Capitol grounds.
and appropriating 81 800 therefor.
A. B. $40, by Dibble-To amend the
Penal Code relative to crimes against
the elective franchise.
This is the bill drawn by Dibble, in
spired by the Senatorial situation and
making it a felony for a candidate for
United States Senator to give or prom
Use money in return for a vote prom
ised or implied. ,a rs
FOLSOM SEWAGE PLANT.
Johnson's A. B. $40, for the estab-
fishing and maintenance of a sewage
plant at Folsom State Prison, has never
seen and will never see the Assembly
files. 1t left the nursery of the Ways
and Means Committee yesterday morn
ing with a favorable recomme ndation to
launch it upon the world, and was i'm
mediately taken in hand by the author
of its being, Johnson, and, with the
aid and countenance of the Assembly,
forced from infancy through the sec
ond reading, the consideration and ap-
prevail of the Committee of the Whole,
the third reading and the final passage
1.-The Constitution having been sus-
lpended to do all this. The bill which
passed the Assembly yesterday is sup
posed to be drawn in such way that
proved in the original bill last week
have been eliminated, and no trouble is
anticipated in its becoming a law.
RECESS.
The joint Senatorial ballot and the
noon Assembly recess happened just as
usual and the House reconvened at 2
p m.
ON THE FILES.
On the Senate Special File STATIONS
s. B. 30. concerning elections and pro-
viding for the election Of delegates to
nominating conventions of political
parties at elections known and desig-
mated as. primary elections, was
passed.
Braunhart's S. B. 81, for the COM
pletion of the seawan and thoroughfare
of the Harbor of San Francisco was
amended by Caminetti to require the
simultaneous completion of what is
known as the BELT Line Railroad"
] ROCK CRUSHER BILL PASSED.
A. B. SOL, a substitute for Anderson s
A. B. IS, which latter was an effort
to restrict the sale of rock crushed at
Folsom State Prison to State and coun-
try roads, came up on the third read
1
has been a burning question prolific of
continued and repeated debates and the
committee substitute included the pro-
vision which has stirred up SO much
strife-that the rock shall also be sold
for city streets, lanes. alleys and
courts. One party professed to find in
this a menace to free labor, while the
opposition stroye to prove that free la
Dor would be benefited by the unre-
stricted sale of the products of the
prison rock crusher. Yesterday the
substitute passed the House with very
little debate, the only incident being a
fruitless attempt of Hoey to tack on
an amendment providing that the
crushed rock should be sold to cities
on the grounds at Folsom for forty
cents per ton. This was lost, the bill
passed and the title was amended to
suit the bill, which was sent to re-
epgrossment.
Other bills passed were the follow
ing:
i A. B. 416. by Caminetti-To add two
new sections to the Political Code, re-
lating to the committees of the respec-
tive houses of Legislature, and to the
duties of the Judiciary Committees
thereof.
& A. B. 2O6, by Muenter-To amend the
Act creating a Board of Bank Commits
sioners, relating to the powers and
duties Of such Bank Commissioners.
A. B. 651, by Johnson-To authorize
the Governor to appoint agents to col
lect from the United States the money
advanced by the State of California for