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


possible to imprison man who does
not pay his butcher and baker This
is right, as the hotel man is protect
| ed in like manner, and it should be
made a. penal offense to owe grocer
or dry goods merchant also. Hanging
| should be the penalty for delinquent
subscribers. All poor men should be
hung anyway, as they would be better
| off.
HAWAIIAN LEGISLATION.
Los Angeles Times: The bill for the
government of the Hawaiian Islands
appears to be hung up in the Senate
with no very good prospect of action
| upon it at this session. This is MOI
as it should be- The Hawaiian Isl
ands are now a part of the United
States, and it is the duty of the legis-
lative branch Of the Government te
provide for the government OF this new
Territory as promptly and as effectively
as possible.
COYOTE CLAIMS.
Amador Dispatch: Some of our ex-
changes are opposing the appropriation
to pay the coyote, scalp claims. Our
wise legislators of the past promised
in an unguarded moment to pay SO
each for such scalps, and California
cannot afford to repudiate the claim
and justify the act by claiming that 1t
amounts to more than was contemplate
ed at the time the law was enacted.
A QUESTION
Amador Dispatch: A bills has been
introduced by Dibble making 1t a felony
for any candidate for United States
Senator to buy or try to buy votes by
contributing to the campaign expenses
of legislative candidates. How would
it do for legislators to refuse to sup
port any candidate who had used mon
ey in such way?
HE MIGHT MANAGE IT.
Oakland Tribune: Here is nice
proposition for a newspaper publisher
to face. Senator Morehouse of Santa
Clara has introduced a bill making
homicide justifable when committed
in the heat of passion by the willful
and malicious publication Of Hbelous
matter of and concerning the slayer, by
the party slain' The point is, how
will the slayer be able to determine that
the libel was "willfully and maliciously
published?''
AN UNSOLvED PROBLEM.
Middletown Independent: The great
unsolved problem in American states
manship is the restoration Of American
ships to the foreign carrying trade. An
attempt to solve it is to be made dur
/ ing the present session of Congress,
through a bill introduced in the Senate
by Senator Hanna, and in the House by
Representative Payne, which proposes
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shall pay to American ships in the for
eign trade an annual sum but little
more than half that paid by France
to her shipping in the foreign trade.
THE WISEST COURSE.
Marysville Appeal: No doubt the
policy of Cancellation inaugurate6 by
the Administration in the Philippines
is the wisest courses to pursue, but there
would be far more satisfaction in lam
basting the insurgents into subnis-
sion, especially after reading the last
proclamation issued by the Filipino
Junta at Hongkong.
" SHOULD BECOME A LAW"
Cadayeras Chronicle: Assemblyman
Works Of San Diego has introduced a
bill to prevent the publication Of por-
traits and caricatures Of people in the
public press.
WATCH THIS BILL.
Los Angeles Express: Assemblyman
Miller Of Los Angeles has introduced
bill providing that every person who
maliciously removes, Injuries or OBJ
structs. or in any manner interferes
with any long distance electrical trans
mission line or telephone line, or any
part of said line, or appurtenance or APP
paratus connected Herewith, or sewers
any wire thereof is punishable by i'm
prisonment in the State Prison not ex-
ceeding two years and a fine not ex-
ceeding $780,
! On it's face such a bill appears to be
all right; it may be fair and reasonable
in fact. But If it Is intended to render
helpless property owners whose shade
trees may be ruined or property tres
passed on by employees of telephone
and telegraph companies in the process
| OF stringing wires, the Legislature
should lose no time in killing the bill.
The people as well as the corporations
are entitled to protection. fragrant
abuses Of the sort indicated occur at
intervals, not only in this State. but
all over the country, and it seems that
| in many instances the property owners
have no recourse.
WHAT MAY BE.
| Fresno Democrat: Should the Phil
| ippines become portion of Uncle Sam s
domain, America will control one of the
greatest natural monopolies on earth.
In the discussion of the Philippine
questions few, probably, have given
thought to the fact that Manila hemp
can be raised in no other portion OF
| the globe, nor has any substitute for il
yet been found in commerce. 1t Is one
Of the chief resources Of the islands.
and during the last ten years this coun-
try has consumed nearly one-half Of
the total product.
TREATING BY CANDIDATES.
| Redding Free Press: That old ia
mi1iar measure, the bill to do away
with treating by candidates, has again
appeared in the Assembly, chaperoned
| by Assemblyman Caminetti The only
effect such measure can have, If it be-
comes a law. is to provide candidates
with am excuse to be- "air tight" as the
saying Is. In no sense win it have q
/ tendency to prevent undesirable candi;
dates from slipping into Office on min
iature tide Of liquor. Men who make
a whisky fight for office earn tht
reputation of being good fellows by
promiscuous treating long before they
are regularly nominated for Office. They
keep it up at all seasons. 1t is doubt
| full If any mans vote is controlled dur
| ling q political campaign by drinks Of
/ by candidates who do not make g. prac-