The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-08
The Former Monday Night, the
Latter Tuesday Noon.
Short Sessions Yesterday-Co Complicated Cues
tons in the Senate-Committee Chat
Some Proposed Laws

no definite expression will be had be-
fore Tuesday next, at which time the
first.ballot will be taken.
The Senatorial battle has shifted to
San Francisco, and will be fought to
conclusion in that city.
ASSEMBLY GOSSIP.
The Assembly standing committees
still remain unannounced, except in the
newspapers. 1t is now promised that
they will be read by the Chief Clerk on
Tuesday. Speaker Wright, after his
earnest labors to perfect the list, found
that on some of the minor committees
the members were dissatisfied and de-
sired to trade This will be al
lowed, but it is understood that the
larger and more important committees
will remain intact.
Valentine of Los Angeles claims that
his Committee on Ways and Means is
the cream of the House-not ornament
ally, though they are a pretty fair lot
in that respect-but as workers. The
reduced number-eleven instead of f1f-
teen-will be, so Valentine thinks, con-
ducive to better work, and less I'M
wieldy than a larger committee, the
members of which never get all to-
gether at the same time. Ways and
Means" never lacks for labor through
the entire session. James ellis of Sac
ramento, who has the advantage of two
terms experience in the same position,
has been appointed clerk of the COM
mittee, and the stenographer and type
writer will be H. F. Bridges of Los
Angeles, who is not only an expert at
shorthand but a lawyer as well.
Belshaw of Contra Costa, Chairman
fesses to a. desire to remodel the Cali
fOrnia election law somewhat after that
of New York. The ballot used in that
State, Whereon the names of the can
printed in a column by themselves, Mr..
Belshaw believes facilitates rapid and
correct voting, and is especially favor
able to the voting of a straight"
ticket, as only one mark need be used
to vote the entire list This plan, or a
similar one, he will endeavor to have
engrafted on the California law.
Grove L. Johnson, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, will lose no time
in calling his nineteen lawyers together.
They will organize on Tuesday and be
ready for work, of which, johnson says,
there is sure to be plenty, the usual
labors of the Judiciary Committee be-
ing augmented by those of the former
Committees on Crimes and Penalties
and Constitutional Amendments. A. J.
Dryer of Sacramento will be clerk of
the Judiciary.
Judge Waymire of Alameda was
shaking hands with friends on the floor
of the House yesterday. 1t is said that
if his country called him to exchange
his overcoat for a toga he would be
willing. Judge Waymire was a mem
Der of the Assembly of '97, and had
similar aspirations at that time.
ON WITH THE DANCE.
What the society columns call IAN
important function" is just what the
inaugural ball promises to be. Legis-
lators have been turned out, to make
way for decorators, desks removed, and
cheesecloth and canvas will conceal
walls, windows and carpets until after
the ball. Speaker pro tenn. Anderson,
before declaring the Assembly adj
journed yesterday, took occasion to re-
mind the members to remove ink or
bottles of other liquids" from their
desks, lest they be spilled. The "other
liquids" created a grand ha-ha. Leg
islative ladies have prepared their love-
lest gowns, and from San Diego to
Siskiyou the tailors and dressmakers
have been churning their brains to
evolve new and original frocks More
over, many member who has been
comfy and happy in his business
sack coat will be forced by circum-
stances-and his wife-to assume a
swallow tailed torture, and have not
even a champagne cocktail to cheer
and comfort him. But then, to have
danced at the Governors ball, that is
recompenSe.