The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-05

| grancy it was usually the business
man who was dragged away from his
business who was punished, and not
the man who had spent the night pre-
vious to his arrest in box car. He
| said the law would strike at the man
who was absolutely of no account, and
could hurt nobody else. He thought
| the bill an excellent one, and one which
ought to be engrafted on the statutes OF
| the State.
| Curtin said he hoped the time would
never come when the business men of
! the country would say they had no time
to sit on juries to try other men who
were not blessed with the worlds goods.
He thought no vagrant expected to al
ways remain vagrant. AS a rule, a
vagrant was a man who stood around
with his hands, but no money, in his
/ pockets, and for that offense was con-
victed and imprisoned. He claimed
1 that Judges who had become hardened
| by tales of woe, were not as apt to give
equitable decisions as jury. He APP
proved the motion to deny the bill en-
grossment and third reading.
| Doty said he had had peculiar ex-
perience with the laboring men of the
State, having worked with them in
| harvest fields and elsewhere for the
past thirty years. His experience had
taught him that most men who carried
their blankets were unfortunate but not
/ dishonest He had paid men S4O0 at
| the end of the season, who in week
! had not one dollar, but who We're honest
| and who loved their country. All
| trampers, he said, were not Migrants,
and he thought it better that twenty
Migrants should go free than that one
| innocent man should suffer. He had
noticed in his study of the political sit
uation that the men the bill would
reach were the men whom Senator'S
| before the day Of election patted on the
back, and whose vote they solicited
He hoped he might never see the day
when the laboring men should come to
| look with fear and hate upon the gov
eminent of the State, for on that day
they would be a worse element than
the communes of France. He said the
country Justices had in the past taken
advantages of the Vagrancy Act. after
the ten days clause had been stricken
out, until Boards of Supervisors had
cried out against their unwarranted ar
proposed would reach the poor unfortu
mates who were without money and too
proud to beg He called attention to
the fact that the proposed law did not
apply to Migrants exclusively, but TO
all men charged with vagrancy, and iii
Elk Grove Chis honey he had known
men to be convicted who were inno-
cent, simply because they had NOT re-
ceived benefit of trial by jury.
Boyce again spoke to the molten Ee
said that summary trials had formerly
been held in England, and that nobody
ever dreamed that such trials were en-
croaching upon established rights of
trial by jury. He replied to Doty, say
ing he was entirely Indifferent 10 what
the latter might think about him, With
respect to his patting Migrants upon
their back to secure their vote.
Doty interjected that the spur had
cut deep, and that the shoe must have
fitted.
Boyce denied that such was the case,
and said that while Doty had intimated
that he in making his canvass had pat
ted the laboring men on the back, he
was willing to be judged by those at
his home who knew him. He thought
it possible that Doty might be deprived
of some of his constituency did the bill
become a law.
Doty said he deemed it an honor to
be held in esteem by the men who had
voted for him, and then stopped. evil
IDENTIFY waiting for Boyce to come
back but Boyce did not come"
Shortridge, who had opened the ce-
ho q in, ttao no
sion. said Boyce had demonstrated the
fact that in England there had at one
time been an inherent power among
crossroads magistrates to deal out
summary punishment to the poor and
unfortunate Boyce. he asserted. had
demonstrated too much, because that
summary power he had dwelt on was in
vogue in the year 1206. and was the
very point which caused the people to
rise and demand of King John the right
of trial by jury. 1t was the father Of
Magma Charta. He said it was not a
rule of common law, but S. 3. 100
which was under discussion, which bill
provides that in cases of vagrancy. dis
turbing the peace and other and SINH
lar offenses, Justices of the Peace are
courts of last resort
That closed the debate, and as it took
twenty-one votes to deny bill third
reading, the motion was lost by vote
of 16 to IA. The Senators lined up as
follows:
Ayes-Bettman, Braunhart, Burnett
Curtin, Davis. Dickinson, Doty. Dwyer,
Feeney, Hail, Hoey, Laird. La Rue.
Leavitt. Shortride and Wolfe-16
Nces-Boyce, Bulla, Chapman. Cut
ter, Flint, Gillette. Jones, Luchsinger.
Mutt. Prisk, Simpson. Smith, Taylor
and Trout-14
ASSEMBLY. MESSAGE.
A message was received from the
Assembly announcing the adoption of
the following joint resolutions: A. J.
r 8, relative to the jetty in San Diego
Bay. A. J. r. =, relative to fixing the
lire between California and Nevada:
A. ]. r. 6. relative to the creation of
the rank of Admiral and the appoint
ment of Rear Admiral Dewey to that
position: also A. B S. 3, ISL, 1872, 366,
373, Al and 261.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Dickinson, for the Finance Commit
tee, reported back the following bills:
A BIS. 2S1, providing for the amount
time and manner of payment and MAX
ing an appropriation to pay the salaries
of Supreme Court officials: 2SS, relative
to appointments of five deputy clerks
and a stenographer for the Supreme
Court; do pass. Also: S. b. DOT, appro-
pr.ating $2S7, 600 to pay the bounty on
coyote scalps committee substitute do
rass. Also: S. B. 300, to provide for
Improvements at the Napa Hospital;
A. B. 243, relating to tax levy for mu-