The record-union., 1899-03-09


Commission would never be cured by
adding to it two new members He
held the Republican party did not ad-
vocate the principle that ito the victor
belongs the SPOIL He asked that the
Senators be fair. The proposition to
be examined was not that of spoils, but
of right He called on Republicans to
retain clean politics, and to kill the bill.
Wolfe wanted to know what the
holding aloft the banner and crack
ing the whip," mentioned by Davis. had
to do with the bill. Davis speech, he
said, WAS a good effort at stump ora
tory, but amounted to nothing more,
and did he not know the speaker so
we'll, he would say it was all rot.
The speaker paid his respects to Boyce,
and mentioned bill introduced by the
latter presumably the Child Study
Bureau Btll'D which created new posi-
tons and for which he (Wolfe) had
voted to escape a call of the Senate
late at night, and for which. he said,
he was sorry. Wolfe said that ninety
per cent. of the Republicans in the
State were opposed to civil service reg
ulationS, regardless of the civil service
speech made by the Senator from ANA
dor Davis. He said California's
Governor was one who cared nothing
for the clap-trap of politics, and who
would do the right thing for the State
and for the people. The question was
not civil service, but whether or not
the additional Commissioners were nee
essary and he proposed to vote for the
bill regardless of the crack of Davis
whip"
Shortridge said there was nothing in
the bill which would prohibit the ap-
pointment of one of the Commissioners
from Lake Mono or from the mountain
top. He said there was nothing in the
proposition as he understood it, except
that Ex-Governor Budd had placed all
his friends in office, and as his last
act, got himself in, and he thought that
Davis speech and two others like it
might be put in very small hole. The
object of the bill, SO far as he was con-
cerned, was to place five honest Repub-
icans on the commission and "oust"
Jim Budd from office" He said he
agreed with Dickinson, that the last
Administration was an absolute failure.
Dickinson, in closing, said he had been
struck by the closing sentence of Gov
ernor Budd's farewell message, in
which he congrat ulalted the incoming
Governor on the fact that he would
have a Legislature which would assist
him and which would not be adverse
to his WTRes. He thought it queer
that the exsStovernor should have made
that statement which was intended to
antagonize a Legislature which could
clean out all puddle-holes in politics;
particularly was it strange when the
Legislature of 1897 had never crossed
the Ex-Governor in any reasonable re-
quest He submitted that the Senate
was in the face of a condition of af-
fairs which the majority of the Board
of Harbor Commissioners had allowed
to go on for two years, and which all
of them had allowed to go on for a
year
In referring to Boyce's statement that
he might have drawn a good bill to
meet the situation, Dickinson said that
the former might have drawn q much
better bill, but that he had not drawn
any. He Dickinson had drawn the
bill hurriedly, but it was the best he
could do under the circumstances.
Everybody, he said would admit that
reforms We're needed, and he had at
tempted to evolve a measure which
would give relief.
Prisk CD interrupted the speaker TO
state that while two of the members
of the committee Oemocrats) had
signed the report, they did not agree
with Dickinson on the harbor PROPOSE
ton.
Dickinson said he understood and APP
preciated the statement and that did
he stand where Prisk stood, he, too,
would oppose the bill.
Then Morehouse moved that further
consideration Of the bill be postponed
until Friday. Lost, to %.
Stratton was excused from voting for
the reason that he was an interested
party, and the question being on the
passage of the bill. it was lost by the
following vote:
Aye-Bettman, Bulla, Dickinson.
Flint, Laird, Leavitt, Morehouse, Short
ridge Taylor and Wolfe-1O.
No-Ashe, Boyce, Braunhart, Bur-
nett, Chapman, Curtin, Cutter, Davis.
Doty, Dwyer, Feeney, Hall. Hoey,
Jones, La Rue, Luchsinger Maggard.
Mutt. Pace, Prisk, Rowell, Sims, Smith
and Trout-24.
Thereupon Dickinson charged his vote
from aye to no and gave notice of a
motion to reconsider, and the bill was
declared lost
AT 1915 o'clock the Senate adjourned.