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have certificates before being allowed
to practice their art.
Wolfe and Bettman spoke in favor OF
the motion and amendment, and Snlth
opposed them. The latter SAID thas
the statement to the effect that the
bill was intended to protect the morse
was superlative nonsense. He had been,
he said, bounded by blacksmiths tor
the past two weeks, but when ne
pinned them down they had admitted
that the law was intended to beneft
them and not the horse. He claimed
that the passage of such q bill meant
to create a trust, nothing more, noth-
ing less. The bill, he contended, was
10 keep out the young men of the State
who desired to earn a living. The far-
bers and the plumbers had similar bllls
before the Legislature, and he sup
posed the scavengers would have one
before the end of the session. II such
q special privilege were given to one
set of craftsmen, it would be in oider
to extend similar privileges to others.
BARRIERS and dishwashers were, he SAID
as much entitled to exemption from
competition as blacksmiths
Curtin opposed the amendment he
said that in his county mules were IN
the ascendant. and there was nothing
an the bill about mules. So long as the
rnroposed law was intended to apply 10
certain sections he had no objection TO
1T. but Tuolumne County did not need
aicensed practitioners to shoe it's mules
I. Braunhart opposed the amendment
submitting that paternalism was not
al principle of Democracy, and had peen
advised against by the father OF the
party, Thomas Jefferson
q. Taylor closed the debate, explained
I both the amendment and the provisions
of the bill, and urged the adoption OF the
sDne and the passage of the other. He
isaid that copies of the bill had been
Esent to nearly all of the smiths in the
State. and while 1000 of them were In
favor of the bill none were opposed to
it. He said he considered the proposed
bill only in the interest of the horse
/ and protested that it was not all super
lative nonsense. The speaker delivered
"a learned and logical lecture, taking
for his subject the foot of the horse and
the diseases pertaining thereto from
faulty shoeing, and upon concluding
f. was the recipient of considerable ap-
plause.
The motion to appoint a special COM
mittee to amend was carried, and, the
squestion being on the amendment to
strike out the words go 900 or more
inhabitants," thereby making the bill
apply to all sections of the State, was
adopted by % to ID.
ft,v fIo,. MT allowing
apprentice to apply for a license after
spending two years at his trade, was
also adopted, and the bin was ordered
TO print.
LAWRENCE DUNNIGAN'S CLAIM.
pickirson's bill, lis, appropriating
5000 to pay the claim of Lawrence
Duanisan, who, while in the service of
the State in this city. lost an arm while
firing a salute, also called for debate.
Stratton and Gillette opposed the bill,
holding that the claim was really gift
from the State to an individual, and
that it would, if passed, for that rea-
son be declared unconstitutional
The friends of the measure were le-
gion. and many of the Senators had
theis say. but it remained for Dickin-
son. the author of the bill, and Incl
dsn.ally Chairman of the Finance
Committee, to drive the brad home
and clnch it on the other side.
He protested that the bill was
not in the nature of a gift, and
told how Dunnigan had obeyed the
orders of officers of the State, had been
supplied with a defective gun which
had exploded, thereby causing the loss
ct his arm. The case was, he said, one
for which damages would be allowed by
any court in the land. and which would
undoubtedly be taxed up against the
State if any citizen could bring suit
against the State.
Cutter offered an amendment provid-
ing that So 600 be invested in interest
bearing bonds, and that the accruing
interest be paid to Dunnigan for the
space of his natural life, the bonds
upon his death to revert to the State.
Dickinson said he would rather with
draw the bill than have such humbug
ging machinery applied to it, and the
motion to amend was lost by a viva
yoce vote.
On the final vote the friends of the
measure hopelessly showed under its
opponents by vote of 81 to 4, and, SO
far as the Senate is concerned, Law
renee Dunnigan will receive his money
less than half of the amount origin
ally asked for.
ASSEMBLY MESSAGES.
Assembly messages were taken up
and the Senate concurred in the AS
sembly amendments to S. B. IL, relating
to the Tioga road.
An Assembly message was received
announcing that that body had passed
S. b. 46. for the appointment of five
Supreme Court Commissioners; also
sthat it had concurred in the Senate
amendments to A. B. 151, relating to
the erection of crematories by cemetery
corporations: also that the Assembly
had passed S. B. 551, appropriating
lS1SOOO for the contingent expenses of
the Senate.
At 4:30 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
IN THE ASSEMBLY.