The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-28
sTANn1NG RIFLES


made special order for this morning
after the reading of the journal
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolutions by Stratton, authorizing
the Election Committee to draw on the
Secretary of State for stationery and
supplies to be used in the Dennery-
Ashe contest, and instructing the judi
ciary Committee to report at the
earliest possible moment, on the con-
of the bill recently intro.
duced, providing for an increase OF
clerks in county offices, were adopted
ASSEMBLY MESSAGES.
A message was received from the
Assembly announcing the passage by
that body of the following Assembly
bills: AZ, 145, 50, 113. 1853, 265, SO, 6S
and 2. A. B. 2 appropriates $4,000 for
the construction of a sewage plant at
the Folsom Prison, to prevent the villa
ton of the waters of the American and
Sacramento Rivers.
PROCESS BUTTER BILL PASSED.
The daily file was taken up, and ).
B. 81, by Dickinson, to prevent decep-
ton in the sale of process or reno
waited butter, being No. / on the file,
was taken up and without debate was
to O.. The full text of the
bill follows:
Section 1. No person or persons.
firms or corporation, shall sell, or offer
for sale, or have in his or their pos
session for sale, any butter manufac-
tured by boiling. melting, deodorlzlng,
or renovating, which is the product OF
stale rancid, or decomposed butter, or
by any other process whereby stale.
rancid. or decomposed butter is manu-
featured to resemble or appear like
creamery or dairy butter, unless the
same is plainly stenciled or branded
upon each and every package, barrel,
firkin, tub, pail, square, or roll, in let
tiers not less than one-half inch in
length. process butter" or renovated
butter in such a manner as the pur-
chaser will be advised of the real char
acter of such process" or renovated
butter.
Section 2. Whoever shall violate any
of the provisions or sections of this
Act shall be deemed guilty of INSIDE
meanor.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of the
District Attorney of each and every
county of this State, upon application,
to attend to the prosecution in the
name of the State of any action
brought for the violation of any of the
provisions of this Act within his dis
trict.
Section f. The State Dairy Bureau,
by it's agent and assistant agents, is
hereby authorized and directed to en-
force all of the provisions of this Act.
q 20, 1a wiz q tinn
of this Act shall be paid to the agent
or assistant agents of the State Dairy
Bureau, and by said bureau paid to the
State Treasurer.
Section ). All Acts and parts of
Acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act are hereby repealed.
Section 6. This Act shall take eff
feet on and after it's passage.
BUDD'S PORTRAIT.
S. B. 100, by Langford, appropriating
$500 or so much thereof as may be
necessary to purchase a portrait of the
late Governor James H. Budd, was
passed, 26 to 0-Title approved.
S. B. 10, by Laird, to repeal the
Wide-tire Act, was passed on file to
retain it's place, pending the presenta-
ton of an amendment, which is in pro-
cess of preparation.
READING DENIED.
S. B. 1, by Ashe. to amend Section
1880 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
relating to witnesses. having been re-
turned by the Judiciary Committee
bearing an adverse recommendation,
was, on motion of Dickinson, denied
second reading.
SUBSTITUTE ADOPTED.
Substitute for S. B. 2T7, by Dickin-
son. to ascertain and pay armory rents,
armorers wages and other expenses
arising out of the mastering into the
United States volunteer service of the
National Guard, was read.
Dickinson explained that the bill was
intended only to allow the settlement OF
the rents, ETC., which had been passed
over merely because there was no ma
chinery to put in force the provisions
Of the Act passed two years ago. the
money for paying the bills, he said'
had been appropriated two years ago,
but could not be disbursed without the
passage of the bill under consideration.
The substitute was adopted, and the
bill ordered on file.
SHORTRIDGE OBJECTS.
At this point a clerk from the Assem-
bly, injected himself into the proceed
ings with long string of bills which
had been passed by that body, and
after he had sung his song, Senator
Shortridge. inquired of some of the
three or four termers'' how that pro-
ceeding could be dispensed with He
suggested that Assembly messages
- fI,e for
taken up at the leisure of the Senate.
He called on Brother Smith to ex-
plain.
Brother Smith had been talking
business with Senator Burnett, and
had not heard, but Shortridge said II
was not his habit to repeat his artistic
speeches." President Neff said he knew
of no plan by which the courtesy OF
listening to the reading of Assembly
messages by officers of that body could
be avoided, and Shortridge subsidized.
HARBOR BONDS.
Braunhart's bill, No. "a, to provide
for the issuance and sale of State
bonds to create a fund for the con-
struction and extension by the Board
of State Harbor Commissioners of the
seawall and rhoroughfare of the har-
Dor of San Francisco, which had been
under discussion at Thursdays session
at which time it was numerousiy
amended, was again taken up.
BULLA AMENDS.
Bulla offered an amendment reduc-
ing the rate of interest on the bonds
in question from 4 per cent
to 81 per cent. per annum
The amendment was adopted, where
upon he offered another to Section 4
providing the State of California
shall be preferred purchaser at par OF
the whole or any portion of any issue