The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-05
The First Notes of Spring.

| ish his office and the vault connected
Herewith; also, Johnson's A. b. 49l,
! to paw the claim of Cunningham ana
Rogers for services as elevator attend
ants in the Capitol; that they do not
pass.
The same committee reported back
William McDonald's A. B. 341, to pay
for the grading of Waring street IN
front of the property of the State Deal
Dumb and Blind Asylum; that J. DO
pass.
| The author of A B. 81, Caminettl,
was permitted to withdraw II, as It's
object, the appropriation OF money TOT
the support of Preston School OF In
Gustry. is attained in the general ap-
| preparation bill
| Crowder. from Public Buildings and
| Grounds. reported back Knights A. %.
| 500, providing for the maintenance o.
a mansion for the Governor OF the
State: that it do pass as amended ana
that it go to- the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
| Dunlap. from Swamp and Overlooked
Lands. reported back Raub's A. d. 20o,
amending the Act appointing an audit
ing board to the Commissioner OF Pup-
lie Works, with a substitute, Wnlch
was recommended to passage.
Melick of Roads and Highways re-
ported Fairweather's A. B. 2zi. relat-
ing to malicious injuries to highways,
with a committee substitute, recon-
mended to passage.
MeHck also, as Chairman Pro- Tenn
of County and Township Governments,
o., S
A. B. 1O1, for the punishment of State
and county officers for Withholding or
hindering the payment of money de-
rived from taxes or fees collected for
the State government; also Cobb's A.
B. 119, to regulate the practice of bar
bering; also, H. w. Miller's A. b. AUS,
to provide three additional Judges of
the Superior Court of San Francisco;
that they be referred to the Commit
tee on judiciary. That Valentines A.
B. 435, enabling counties to levy spe-
cial tax for the purpose of displaying
the products and industries of the
county at any domestic or foreign eX-
position; do pass.
A message from the Senate announc
ed the passage by that house of S. B.
81. to prevent the sophistication and
adulteration of wine; also S. B. f24, pro-
viding for the issuance of bonds for
the San Francisco harbor seawaIl.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILL.
Melick, for the Committee on County
and Township Government, announced
that the committee was now lahoring
over the county government bill, and he
hoped that all the members would pre-
pare and hand in at once the amend
ments they desired, so that they might
be incorporated in the main bill.
Caminetti thought it would be much
better to amend the existing Act than
to formulate a new BILL He claimed
that the counties were literally torn up
every two years by the passage of a
new bill.
I Dibble said it would be worse yet to
put each amendment in the form of
separate bill. The confusion would be
greater He moved that it was the
sense of the Assembly that all desired
amendments should be Incorporated in
one bill.
Johnson made it a point of order that
such a motion was improper; you could
not coerce the House, and any member
might present any bill he saw fit.
The Speaker ruled the point of order
not we'll taken, and Dibble explained
that the motion was in no sense bind
ing. 1t was carried
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced:
Wright-To add three new sections to