The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-03

provide Tor the classification of the
roads in the State; .164, by Cutter, to
provide for the acceptance of high
ways of the first class by the State
and the maintenance of the same, and
TO make an appropriation therefor; $40,
by Langford, to repeal an Act to Gre
ate Department of Highways, to de-
fine its powers, to provide for the ap-
pointment of employees thereof. and to
provide for their compensation, ETC.
do not pass: also. 161, by Cutter, re-
lating to road tax and it's apportion-
ment among road districts; 1872, by
Gutter, relating to general road fund
and highway taxes. and 163. relating
to highway taxes to be expended in
Observation-Disclosures to be adopted.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Bills were introduced as follows:
. Davis-Authorizing the Attorney
General to appoint competent person
to compile and index opinions given by
Attorney Generals, and appropriat1ng
money therefor. Finance.
S. J. R., relative to mineral lands Sit
uated within land grants made by the
Government Federal Relations.
Morehouse-To construct a wagon
road from the Mount Hamilton OBJ
servatory to point on the San Joaquin
River, there to connect with a road to
the Yosemite Valley, and making an
appropriation therefor Finance.
angford-Authorfzing the Board of
Managers of the Stockton Insane Asy-
lum to purchase land for dairy pur-
poses, to improve and stock the same,
and to appropriate money therefor. FL
nance.
To appropriate 5000 for a concrete
sidewalk and fences around the asy-
1um at Stockton. Finance.
Notwithstanding Section 2O2l of
the Code of Civil Procedure, relative
to the taking of dispositions. judiciary.
CONSTRUCTING for a commission to
promote prison reforms. to report plans
for combining the vicious criminal ele-
Inent at Folsom, and for the establish
ment of reformatories elsewhere, and
making an appropriation therefor. Edu-
cation and Public Morals.
Trout-To establish fees for county,
township and other officers, and for
jurors and witnesses. Judiciary.
Dickinson-To pay the claim against
the State of the Liverpool, London and
Globe Insurance Company. Finance
LITIGATION EXPENSES.
Braunhart presented a petition signed
by a number of property owners OF
San Francisco requesting the passage
of law to reduce the cost of judicial
proceedings, especially the fees of Pub
lie Administrators and attorneys for
the same.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Dickinson said the special committee
fe1 INV 70
upon the condition of State institutions
had nearly concluded it's labors, and
asked that the matter it had collected
be sent to the printer, and that proof
sheets be made for the committee, so
the report could be segregated and
made ready for presentation to the
Senate So ordered.
Smith, for the Committee on Build
ings Other than Prison Buildings, re-
ported back S. B. 200, appropriating
100000 for the erection of a public
building in San Francisco, recommend
ing that it be referred to the Finance
Committee So referred.
NOTICE TO RECONSIDER WITH
DRAWN
Simpson withdrew his notice, given
during Wednesdays session, to recon
slider the vote whereby Trout's library
bill was amended, striking out the
clause directing the Trustees to loan
out the books in the State Library So
that, so far as the Senate is concerned,
the State Library will not be put on
wheels and peddled about the State.
Leavitt withdrew S. B. 406, for the
relief of Mrs. Emma Kelly.
Resolutions by Smith were adopted
providing that $50 copies of each of
the daily file and the daily history be
printed. instead of 500, as heretofore,
and that $50 extra copies of all bills
and resolutions now in type be printed
and sent to daily newspapers, not to
exceed four in each Senatorial district.
A further resolution that the cost for
mailing the same be paid from the con-
tingent fund of the Senate was referred
TO the Committee on Attaches, Contin-
gent Expenses and Mileage.
At 4:45 O'Clock the Senate adjourned
until this morning.