The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-29

tigation Committee, the schedule was
not carried out. Many of the members
were absent, and the feeling was strong
that every man should go on record.
Before the hour set for the considera-
ton arrived, Cosper, Chairman Of the
report, eliminating that portion Of the
. original report which referred to an
alleged promise made by Wright over
year ago, that if he were elected to
the Assembly, he would vote for Bulla
for United States Senator, provided the
latter were a candidate.
. Dibble was on his feet in an instant
with a motion that the supplemental
report be printed III the Journal, and
that the consideration of the whole
matter go over until 2:3O tomorrow
(Monday), and despite the efforts made
, by tie members of the Investigation
Committee, and a few others, to pro-
coed with the special order, the motion
was carried and a breathing spell was
taken before the final grapple
All of which seems to indicate that
the serious work of electing United
States Senator to succeed the Hon.
day next, at II o'clock, meridian.
sharp. Everybody who claims to know
anything about the matter. insists that
on Tuesday, or Wednesday, at the lat
OCT nj o.
shsells. and that u change of front will
be in order. The wiseacres of both
houses assert that the Grant contin-
gent will break away, but whether
they will go solidly for any particular
candidate, or whether they will lose
their individuality as an organization
and spread out, each voting as his con-
science dictates, is a much mooted
question.
1t is but just to state that the Grant
men show no inclination of weakening,
and at yesterdays session they voted
for their candidate with as much sang
froid as at any previous day of the
session.
Very few men have anything to say
of Speaker Wright, either good or bad.
They evidently prefer to wait until the
report comes up for consideration and
then let their votes speak While the
question of greatest import is who
Will be SENATOR" there are many who
follow the fortunes of Speaker Wright
with much interest, and whether he is
blotted out or continues to shine in a
halo of political glory is, with them,
paramount to everything else.
ASHE RETAINS HIS SEAT.
The Dennery-Ashe contest came to
an abrupt termination yesterday morn
ing, when Senator Stratton, Chairman
of the Elections Committee, handed in
a unanimous report to the effect that
Dennery had failed to sustain his claim
that he and not Ashe, was chosen Sen
ator for the Twenty second Senatorial
District, in San Francisco. The Sen
ate adopted the report of the commit
tee without question, and for the next
four years r. Porter Ashe will repre-
sent the Twenty-second District in the
State Senate.
STRATTON ON PRIMARIES.
Senator Stratton would probably Sc
cure fame as an author by publishing a
book entitled 'tStratton on Primary
Elections" He was the author of the
law over which the Supreme Court puz-
t,tv
year ago, and the latest creature of his
fancy is now before the Senate. 1t is |
believed by Stratton, and many of his |
fellow Senators, that the experience
gained two yeas ago, will enable them |
to pass an ironelad primary law that |
Will stand fire and meet all the require |
ments. Over a half hundred amend |
ments to the bill, adj of minor import |
ance, were adopted at yesterdays ses-
sion, while others of greater import |
were ordered printed in the journal and |
will come up for adoption or rejection |
at tomorrow session.
LITTLE WORK DONE.
With four weeks of the session gone, |
the Senate makes but a sorry showing, |
the making or unmaking of |
laws. Less than dozen bills have been |
passed, while on yesterdays file only |
five measures, two of which were pass
ed on the file, We're in the third reading |
column, while just two bills on the sec |
ond reading file were considered. and |
one of them went over to retain its
place.
THE ASSEMBLY RESTS.
A sigh of relief went up from Assem-
blymen, attaches and newspaper people |
when the motion to adjourn until Mon
day was carried yesterday directly after
the adjournment of the joint session.
The sensation, if it is to be one, at
tendant upon the consideration of the
report of the Investigating Committee,
failed to transpire and the session was
save for the bits of elo-
quence vainly expended in the effort to
reconsider the vote by which the anti
cartoon bill passed the House on Fri !
day. The bill now goes to the Senate
with the Assembly's cachet.
NO SLOT MACHINES.
Huber of Pomona was to the fore yes
terday with a carefully worded bill /
making 1t unlawful in California for !!
any person to manufacture, sell. buy.