The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-25

Green to answer certain questions,
that, too, will be left to the Assembly.
ASSEMBLY ACTIVE.
Business was quite brisk in the House
yesterday. The Senate's daily coming
makes a short break in the business
but, SO far, no break In the vote, and
both houses treat it as matter OF
routine to be gotten through with cell
Gritty.
ATTACHE BILL RESTS.
At last a bill has been built which
seems reasonably satisfactory to the
Senate, the House and the Executive.
1t went through both houses yester-
day, being scarcely three hours Ole
when it attained full stature and was
ready for the last step before going to
the Governor.
WELL DEBATED.
Anderson's bill to preclude the use OF
the product of the rock-crushing plant
country roads has now been thoroughly
debated. Knights of Sacramento, who
offered an amendment extending its
use to city Streets courts and alleys,
was ably supported in his argument by
Brooke of Sacramento, Dunlap of
Stockton and Caminetti of Amador,
while Anderson's fight was assisted by
Dibble.
The matter has now, on Brooke's mo-
ton, been left in the hands of the COM
mittees on Labor and Capital and State
Prisons and Reformatories working as
a joint committee. They Will visit Fol-
som and investigate.
Brooke said to a Record Union rep
resentative that a mass of facts and
figures could be adduced to prove that
the rock crushing plant had greatly
promoted free labor by the improve
ments made possible by the fixed and
reasonable price C35 cents per tom Of
the product. Marysville. Stockton and
Sacramento have been the largest
buyers, as San Francisco is supplied
mainly by private quarries. Dunlap's
figures concerning Stockton given in
the days proceedings) could be match
ed in smaller measure by the other
cities mentioned and the number of men
to whom employment had been given
was as 1000 to 100 when compared with
what would have been done If the plant
had not existed.
RECLAMATION DISTRICTS.
Before the Committee on Swamp and
Overlooked Lands yesterday afternoon
was bill introduced by Caminetti (by
request) proposing to change the meth
cd of voting for the government of
reclamation districts. As the law stands
each dollar of the assessed valuation
OF reclaimed lands represents a vote.
The bill proposes to give the vote to
each acre Of land, instead Assembly
man Brooke, who strongly opposed the
bill in the committee, explains that this
will work an injustice to those owners
who have reclaimed and worked their
lands at great expense OF money and
labor. He instances several districts
where a large acreage of swamp and
water. much OF which is irreclaimable,
occupies the center OF the district, while
on the outside Is a fringe of reclaimed
and improved land, much greater in
volume, but much less in value. The
acreage voting plan would, Brooke
claims, work great injustice to those
who have improved their holdings. as
the larger owners are largely absentees
and are not improving.
Ex-Assemblyman Bridgford repre-
sents the other side. The committee
agreed to report unfavorably on the
bill to-day.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
The bills Of the Grocers Association
and Butchers Union Of San Francisco
legalizing once more the ancient igno-
miny of imprisonment for debt and
making the wife's separate property
liable for the debts incurred for the
living Of the family were introduced
in the Assembly yesterday by Miller
Of San Francisco.