The San Francisco call., 1899-03-08
DIBBLE JOCKEYS
WITH PLACERYILLE
"CINCH" BILL

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
/ MENTO, March 7.-Except for the state
ment that it was all a mistake Assem-
/ blyman Dibble is finding 1t hard to ex-
plain the latest jockeying that has been
attempted with Assembly bill S3S. Assem-
| blv bill S39 is the measure introduced in
/ the House by Dibble, as agent for Drury
/ Melone the Napa capitalist, and others
who are attempting to cinch the city OF
( Placerville to the tune of $240OO0 by legis-
/ latiVe enactment.
! Dibble's first peculiar work was done
when the bill was in the hands of the Ju-
dietary Committee. The friends OF the
mining town went to him, explained the
. crooked intent of the measure, and he
promised to let them know when 1t was
| to come up for consideration. Instead of
keeping his word he got his bill through
one evening with recommendation that 1t
do pass, and the first notice its opponents
had of ii was when it turned up with
! that recommendation on the special file.
Valentine of Los Angeles and Raw of
! PlacerviIle demanded that he return 1t
to it's proper place on the second read
ing file and then recommlt to the Judi
ciary Committee, and Dibble made warm
promises to do as directed
His second promise proved of as much
value as his first, for, taking advantage
one day of the absence of Valentine and
| Raw he stated from the chair, to which
he had been called, that the opponents OF
the bill were willing it should go to third
reading and final passage and upon MS
| statement the House passed 1t along.
! Valentine openly accused him OF bad
faith next day, and Dibble, seeing he was
caught, finally had the bill sent back to
The opposition spoke against it one
| evening. Drury Melone, whose interests
| Dbble is faVoring, explained his side of
| the proposition on the next. OF the two
stories the committee chose that of the
people of Placervile, and the majority
roo CTl1T1 en- Ga6 a q A
| minority report was turned in with the
recommendation that the bill do pass,
has been made for further manipulation
10 the advantage of the instigators of the
| Judiciary Committees report was rem
| dered yesterday and read from the desk
in the usual way Then 1t was sent over
to the printing office and to-day the AS
sembly history came back with the state
ment that the majority had recommended
| the bill to pass. The misstatement in the
! history was at first laid to inadvertence
on the part of the printer by the oppo-
nents. of the bill, but further investiga-
tion developed that the journal of yester-
day carried the same mistake.
Mr.. Raw Immediately demanded eX-
planation of Dibble. but with a wave of
hand the agent for Melone dismissed fur
ther Interrogation with the simple state
ment that it was mistake. Mr.. John
son, chairman of the judiciary committee
and the other end of the umbiical cord
that binds him TO Dibble, also waved his
hand and said mistake" Then the op-
|
dragged over the minutes of yesterday
to if there had been any interlinea- :
plainly that the recommendation of the
majority was that the bill should not
pass.
Then the matter was called to the at
tention of the Speaker by a motion to
correct both journal and history. The
motion was carried, and the investiga-
ton continued but nothing was developed
to show who had done the fine work at
the printing office. Later Dibble smiled
again and contided to representative of
The Call that it was all mistake and he
was glad 1t was corrected, and Mr.. john
son did the same thing, but the Placer
vile people are not satisfied with the ex-
planation and propose to look further in
to the matter before allowing it to drop.
DibbIe got chance to get back at As
semblyman Raw during the session this
evening. That is, the chance did not
come to him-he created 1t when it came
time to- take up the Ways and Means
unfinished business file. The hour set by
| one of Dibble'S own peculiar rules for the
consideration of Ways and Means busi-
ness IS from to $50 o'clock each evening,
Raw had a bill on file and due for its
third reading and final passage this even
ing that is of the utmost importance to Ell
Dorado County. 1t carries the appropria-
ton for the Lake Tahoe road without
which that magnificent route to the lake
cannot be kept open. Raws bill was due
to pass, and he wanted what was coming
to him. Dibbe went down and talked
to Grove Johnson. and when the hour for
the file came along Johnson moved to take
up Senate messages instead. Dbble
backed him and Raw objected, although
he was willing to let it go if Dibble and
Johnson would agree to give the Ways
and Means file it's full time when they
should come to it. They would not agree,
and kept up their demand for the Senate
messages. and it was granted them, de-
spite that Raw branded their action as
an unfair trick and accused Dibble of
breaking his own rules. When the Ways
and Means file was finally taken up a
| scant three-uuarters of an hour was given
TO it and Raw's bill went into the discard.