The record-union., 1899-01-17

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Two assistant enrolling and engross-
ing clerks at So per diem.
One assistant journal clerk at 80 per
diem.
One assistant minute clerk at S. per
diem.
Two bill clerks at $4 per diem each.
One bill filer at 81 per diem.
One assistant history clerk at 50 per
diem.
One rear porter at So per diem.
One jaintress for ladies' cloakroom at
So per diem.
Two press mailing clerks at 81 per
diem.
Total additional per diem, Sl5S.
Also, two statutory assistant enrolling
and engrossing clerks to be appointed
on the thirtieth day at So go per cent.
discount).
One assistant at desk, So.
One messenger to printer, So.
Twenty-six committee clerks at S. per
diem.
La Rue offered several amendments
to the bill, striking out all of the addi-
tions proposed. They We're promptly
voted down, and then Smith got the
floor.
SMITH PREFERS CHARGES.
Smith said he wanted it understood
that the Republicans proposed to be re-
sponsible for passing the bill and pro-
yiding for the additional employees. He
said that plenty Of assistance had been
offered by Democratic members, pro-
yided they received a share of the
patronage. Offers of that kind, he said,
had been made day after day; offers
to give votes toward the necessary
three-fourths majority, provided they
were given a place at the crib. He
did not propose, however, to have the
Republicans take the roasting and the
cussing' and allow the Democrats to
stand up and pose as immaculate in
their purity. The Republicans, he said,
were onto their little game" and pro-
posed to ''go on with their villainy,
shoulder the responsibility, if there was
any, and take the State Treasury with
them
;. SOME COUNTER CHARGES.
: Then La Rue OemocraD had an
inning. He said that offers had been
made, plenty of them, but that they
had come from the Republicans, who
offered to divide the patronage with the
Democrats, provided votes We're forth
coming to help open the Belshaw Act.
Doty (DemocraD said that all the Of
fers had come from the other side. He
had been approached with offers of
patronage for his vote, but had spurned
the offer. Some of the Democrats, he
said, had been offered patronage to the
amount of $15 a day for their sup
port He called on Smith to name any
Democrat who had offered his vote in
return for patronage. He said the peo-
pie of Sacramento County did not ask
for patronage when they elected their
Senators and Assemblymen.
SKIRMISH WARNS UP.
Simpson said that while he had al
ways been a good friend to Sacramento
County, he had noticed that that par
ticular county always managed to get
a good deal of the patronage that was
distributed He called attention to the
session of 1891, when there were thirty
eight committees, and compared it with
the session of 1893, when the Demo-
Gratis and Populists increased the num-
Der to fifty-one, in order to increase the
number of committee clerks and make
place for their constituents. As a mat
ter of fact, he said, the bill provided
for only twenty-six committee clerks,
and he did not understand how the
Democrats expected to gain anything
by offering amendments, as the Re-
publicans had a majority and intended
to pass the bill.
Cutter. said that in all the history of
attaches in the California Legislature
the Republicans had never been able to
equal the action of the Democrats who
in 1889 or 1891 created $5-a-day pos
sition for a man whose sole duty was
to wind the clock.
Braunhart said Smiths remarks had
been rather widespread He stated that
he had never offered his vote to the
Republicans for patronage, and asked
Smith if that was not so.
Smith said he saw no reason why
Braunhart should dodge unless he saw
a rock coming his way.
Langford said he had had several ap-
plications for patronage positions, and
wanted to know whether any of them
would be considered if the bill passed.
Thereupon the Senate laughed. and
Smith Informed Langford that he would
not get so much as the suspicion of
the small end of nothing.
sims (DemOcraD said the Democrats
did not expect any of the patronage,
had never asked for any, and did not
attempt to stand out as being immacu-
lately pure. The only question he cared
to consider was whether or not the
additional attaches demanded were
necessary or not. If they were he
would willingly vote for creating the
positions, but in view OF. the fact that
no good reasons had been advanced
wfiy the places should be created, he
did not care to be told that he would
vote for it if he got little OF the
patronage.
THE BILL PASSED.
Doty, Cutter, La Rue and Shortridge
spoke to the question, and it was finally
passed by vote of p to II, a strict
party vote, The title was approved
and the bin ordered at once transmitted
to the Assembly
Wolfe and Leavitt introduced a bill
each, out of order, both of which were
to regulate the practice of pharmacy
and the sale of poisons
At 5 o'clock the Senate adjourned till
10 O. clock this morning
IN THE ASSEMBLY.
Maktera Of Grave Imuorfance Ar;.a