The record-union., 1899-02-16

sideration Warehouses; bill, $50, which
adds a new section to the Penal Code,
relating to libel. After considerable
discussion it was decided to report the
bill back with a recommendation that
it become a law.
The bill provides that every article,
statement or editorial contained in any
newspaper or other printed publication,
printed or published in this State, which
by writing or printing tends to blacken
the memory of one who is dead, or to
impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue
or reputation, or publish the natural
or alleged defects of one who is alive,
and thereby expose him or her to pub
lie hatred, contempt or ridicule, must
be supplemented by the true name of
the writer of such article, statement or
editorial, signed or printed at the end
thereof
The bill further provides that any
owner, proprietor or publisher of such
publication shall forfeit $1,000 for each
and every article so published without
the signature, and specifies that civil
action may be brought for the recovery
OF such sums, half of which shall go to
the plaintiff and half to the State.
WILL NEVER COME BACK.
Leavitt's bill, 60, to amend the Polit-
ical Code by adding new section, pro-
hibiting the imposing of a license upon
any person soliciting orders for the
sales Of articles manufactured or pro-
duced in this State, which under the
laws of the United States cannot be
legally imposed upon persons soliciting
orders for the sale of like articles man
ufactured in any of the States of the
United States, was also up for consider
alton, and quite a large delegation of
manufacturers from San Francisco and
Oakland were present to urge favora-
bic action Chairman Gillette was cer-
tain that the provisions of such a law
would be unconstitutional, but when
Leavitt, the author of the bill, drew
the Constitution and read the section
bearing on the case, the Chairman
failed to press his claim. The main
argument, and the one which killed the
bill, was to the effect that to allow
manufacturers to take orders for their
wares, Unfortunately, and pay no
tax for the privilege, would be to bring
them in direct competition with local
dealers, who were subjected not only
to rents and State and county taxes,
but also TO business licenses. The re-
suit Of the deliberations was that the
bill never would be reported back
from committee
A digest of scientific horse shoeing
proved to be rather interesting in the
Senate yesterday afternoon, and those
who cared to store away information
respecting corns, bunions, floating
bones, diseased frogs, shrunken heels
and several other oders which arise
from horses feet, due to non-graduate
farriers, were edited AS originally
drawn the provisions of the Act APP
piled only to counties having 81, 900 or
more inhabitants. and the skirmish was
on the motion to appoint "a special COM
mittee Of one to amend, striking out all
reference to localities and making the
law general. The motion was finally
carried and the amendment adopted.
GOVERNORS RESIDENCE.
The Governors residence bill, re-
Gently reported back from committee
! favorably endorsed, was reached in the
Senate yesterday and the committee
amendments. all of which have been
published in the Record Union" were
adopted and the bill sent to the printer.
1t is believed that there will be lit
tie or no opposition to the bill when it
comes UP for final passage.
PACIFIC OCEAN EXPOSITION.
Before the Ways and Means Commit
tee of the Assembly last evening APP
peared delegation of San Franciscans
in the interest of the two bills intro
duced by Cobb of San Francisco, appro-
priating money and making other pro-
vision for the Pacific Coast and Inter-
national Exposition of 1907 to be held
In San Francisco. Several q entlemen
spoke. but there is space here for only
brief resume.
Mayor Phelan spoke first. He said
the matter had been started some eight
months ago. He had appointed the
original committee to exploit the fair:
the newspapers had also pushed it. The
Supervisors of San Francisco would
gladly appropriate money. If the State
would do the same, then other counties
Of the State would follow suit. With
this the Federal Government would
without doubt also appropriate money.
This would make the fair an assured
success, and with it other States and
foreign nations would take the matter
UP and make appropriations for exhib-
its, and of course, from private sources
much money win come In.
With our new possessions in the Pa
cific all eyes are turned to the Pacific
Coast, and with this fair CALIFORNIA;
success will be assured.
The fair will be unique in its features,
and different from anything yet made.