The record-union., 1899-03-20
CALIFORNIA
LEGISLATURE
ADJOURNS.
Closing Scenes Of the Thirty
Third Session.
Governor Cages Appeal for Senator Disre-
garded-Presentati6ns and Bouquets
Galore in the Closing Hours.

The usual presentations and encomi-
ums happened after the small hours
of Sunday morning had arrived.
Speaker Anderson has evidently won
real affection and esteem for himself
personally, aside from the respect 10
which his positions entitled him, SO
when Mead of the minority, with dry
humor. perceptibly tinged with kindly
feeling, offered a resolution of apprecia-
ton it was received and adopted amid
ringing cheers.
To Works of San Diego. who though
not of opposite politics, has belonged TO
a different Senatorial faction from that
+, of the Speaker, was allotted the pleas
ant duty of presenting on behalf OF the
| Assembly a heavy oak chest filled with
solid silver table ware, a valuable and
most fitting testimonial, selected with
admirable taste by Mrs. Dibble, wife
of Assemblyman Dibble.
| The Speakers reply expressed the
kindly feelings he entertained toward
| his fellow members and his thanks to
both majority and minority for the aid
and comfort given him in his official
duties.
Cosper, on behalf of the Judiciary
Con mittee, presented the Chairman OF
that committee, -Assemblyman Johnson,
! with a gold mounted watch guard, in
a speech filled with eulogies of the
ability, energy and legal knowledge of
that gentleman, who responded with
| much feeling.
| Caminetti, of the Ways and Means
| Committee, had the pleasure of eulogiz-
| ing Chairman Valentine and paying
handsome tribute to his work in that
capacity during the session. He pre-
sented, ON behalf of the members Of the
committee a watch guard mounted in
gold.
! Valentine responded in friendly and
appreciative vein.
Speaker pro tenn Dunlap received
from White a warm expression Of the
ward him, as well as a gold-headed
cane.
Dunlap's response was characterized
by his own deliberate and humorously
low members Of the day when he took
the oath of office. At that time he said
to them:
''As long as you behave yourselves,
we'll have no trouble"
"Wen,'' said the Speaker pro TEN,
with a quizzical twinkle of the eye,
you've all been good and we've had
no trouble"
ter known as Billy" was called before
the bar of the House and Judge Dibble
came out and faced him, trying very
hard to look fierce and forbidding, but
it was failure He laid his hands on
Billy's shoulder and told him what the
members thought of him, and presented
him with handsome gift of silver and
set of carvers on behalf Of his fellow
officials and attaches.
Then it was Chief Clerk Kyle's turn.
His fellow clerks at the desk had depu-
tized Assemblyman Knowland to pre-
sent for them a fine diamond stud, and
it's brilliant CLEAN inspired the Major
with one of the best Of those impromptu
bits Of oratory for which he is famous
on the campaign platform
All this went off smoothly and
pleasantly, but the tribute to Dibble
though it took no tangible form, was
one which was evidently most crafty
ing to him. 1t was in the shape of a
resolution of appreciation offered by
Caminetti and seconded heartily by
half a dozen, eulogizing his ability as
a leader, as a parliamentarian, his
fairness and the friendly aid he stood
ready to give his associates. Works
and Dunlap in seconding gave testi-
mony to their appreciation, and on
every hand harmony reigned and all
the small hatchets and tomahawks Of
the session were buried, while the pipe
of peace was smilingly smoked, its in
cense rising into the very dome of the
Capitol
So the night fell and the morning
came, and there were but few hours of
sleep before it was time for the very
last hour. The Sunday supplement-
of the session occurred between 10 and
IL a. m. yesterday. The Assembly
then adjourned sine die.