The record-union., 1899-02-03
IN SENATE.
Upper House Wrest1es With the
Second Reading File.

SECOND fkea01nS Z 11es
| In the Senate yesterday morning
Cutter offered a resolution instructing
the Controller to draw his warrant for
the sum of $4335O to pay porters,
clerks, ETC., for services performed.
prior to the election of attaches under
the recently passed attache bill. The
rules were suspended and the resolution
adopted.
The following committee reports were
handed in:
| Gillette, for the Judiciary Committee
IS. BIS 104, by Stratton. relating to at
tachments; Ill, by Stratton, relating
to executions; $50, by Doty, relating to
executors; 342,. by Wolfe, relating to
the filing and service and affidavits Of
bills of cost and motion to retax same:
$50, Dickinson, relating toundertakings
in actions in libel; 147, by Braunhart,
| relating to obligations Of employers
do pass. S. B. 1856, by Burnett, relat-
ing to letters of administration; do not
pass. S. B. 326. by Stratton. providing
for paying interest on outstanding
bonds ETC.; do pass, and be referred to
Finance Committee. S. B. Alp, by Bur-
nett, relating to appointment Of special
administrators of estates of deceased
persons; do pass as amended, and 100,
by Stratton, relating to arrests; with
out recommendation
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Bills were introduced and referred as
follows:
Smith-Amending Section ITO of the
Penal Code. relating to indictments.
challenges. etc. Judiciary
| To protect domestic livestock from
contagious and infectious diseases, pro-
vide for the appointment and duties of
officials to carry into effect the provi-
sions of the Act, and appropriating
$4,000 therefor. Farming, Dairying
and Manufa curing.
| Boyce-Relating to physical examina-
| ton of children by Boards of Educa-
ton, and for the establishment of a
Bureau of Child's Study. Education
and Public Morals.
Langford-To pay the claim of w. H.
Murray. Claims.
| Dickinson-Regardi the organize
tons and officers of the National Guard
called into the service of the United
States during the war with Spain. Mil
itary.
| Luchsinger - Constitutional amend
ment, relating to revenue and taxation.
judiciary.
FILE WORK.
| The daily file was taken up and bills
were considered as follows:
S. B. 65, by Sims to add a new sec
ton to the Political Code. relating to
| Notaries Public. Read second time and
ordered on third reading file.
s. B. Sc, by Smith, to amend Section
S44 of the Code of Civil Procedure, re-
lating to summons, answers, judgments.
Read second time and to third reading.
| S. B. 81, by Ashe, to amend Section
500 of the Civil Code, relating to be-
nevolent corporations. Read second
time, amended by inserting an enact
ing clause and ordered printed.
S. B. 81, by Morehouse, to amend Sec
ton 427 of the Civil Code, in relation to
! be invested. Read second time, amend
ed and to printer.
CAR FENDER BILL.
| s. B. ~, by Braunhart, to promote
the safety of employees and passengers
upon street railways by compelling
equipment of cars and dummies with
tenders and brakes, and to prescribe
penalties was read the third time.
Shortridge moved that the enacting
clause be stricken out.
| Cutter seconded the motion, and said
there was no need for the passage of
such a law, and If there were, the bill
] in question was so clumsily drawn and
so uncertain in it's wording as to be
| imperative did it become a law.
| Shortridge spoke to the motion, hold
| ing that Boards of Supervisors already
had power to adopt tenders for cars
| if they deemed that course necessary.
! Morehouse favored the motion to
strike out, contending that there was
no logical reason why such an Act
should be spread upon the statutes.
Braunhart protested against the mo-
| ton, claiming that the lives of the
men, women and children which were
in daily danger Of being crushed out
by fenderless cars. were paramount to
the interests Of any corporation. lie
said that while the bill might be of
minor Importance, the action on it
would show whether or not the Senate
was owned by the corporations of the
State.
| Smith protested against the unusual
method of killing the bill by striking
out it's enacting clause. He said that
in all his experience he had seen such
an action taken but once. He demand
ed that the bill be fairly met, and if
debated at all. that it be defeated on
| it's final passage.
| President Pro Tenn. Flint being APP
pealed to, stated that during the six
years he had acted as President Pro
Tenn Of the Senate the method OF kill