The record-union., 1899-03-01

vestigate and report upon State insti-
tutions. be adopted, with the exception
that the item to pay Van Court for
services be reduced to $2125s be
adopted
| Braunhart raised the point of order,
which was ruled out. that the pres
emit Senate had no right to pay from
its contingent fund expenses incurred
by order of any former Senate.
] A motion that further consideration
of the report go over until to-day was
favored by Davis, who held that the
special committee which did the in
vestigatdng and reporting was not the
creature of the present Senate. and
that the way to pay the indebtedness
was not by resolution. but by the in
PRODUCTION of bill. He said bill
could be introduced and by urgency
resolution rushed through both houses
to-day
Dickinson finally agreed to defer ac-
ton, and the whole matter went over.
until to-day.
| Stratton, for the Contested Elections
Committee, offered resolution to pay
to l.. j. Wells $25 for witness fees in
the Dennery- Ashe contest. The item,
he explained, had been overlooked in
making up the bill Of expense. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Contingent
Expenses.
RECESSION.
Taylor, for the conference committee
appointed to meet With like Assembly
committee to consider a plan of deli
mite action on A. B. 366, limiting the
hours of daily services of laborers,
workmen and mechanics employed
upon public works, reported recon-
mending that the Senate recede from
| it's amendments, and that an amend
ment prepared by the conference COM
mittee be adopted. The Senate reced-
ed and adopted, accordingly.
| MINOR MATTERS.
Leavitt offered substitute for s. B.
$780, to transfer from the general fund
to the Oakland harbor improvement
fund the sum of $25OO0O. The orig
inal bill having been reported back
from the Finance Committee with an
adverse recommendation, the substitute
was ordered printed
| Morehouse requested permission to
temporarily withdraw from the desk
the county government bill for correc-
| ton. Granted.
PACIFIC CABLE.
| Wolfe offered joint resolution which
was Endorsed by the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce and the Manu-
facturers' Association, requesting the
Legislature to urge our Congressman to
use their influence to secure the pass
age Of bill for cable from some
point in California to Hawaii. The full
text of the resolution follows:
Whereas, There is now pending in
Congress measures for the laying of a
submarine cable from some point in
| the State of California across the Pa
cific Ocean, and
| Whereas, The construction of the
same will be of great benefit to the
United States and to this State; and
Whereas If the cable is made by
an American company in the United
| States it will favorably advertise our
manufactures abroad and give employ
ment to a great number of our citi-
zens; now, therefore, be it
| Resolved, By the Senate and the
Assembly jointly, that Our Senators in
| Congress be instructed, and our Rep
resentatives therein be requested and
urged to vote for and use all honorable
means to secure the passage of bill
requiring the laying of such a cable
and also requiring that the cable be
made by an American company in the
United States; and be it further
| Resolved, That a copy of this res
olution be forwarded by telegraph to
Hon. George c. Perkins, and that he
be requested to deliver a copy of the
same to each member of the California
delegation in Congress"
| The resolution was adopted by a vote
| to the Assembly.
THAT JOINT RULE.
| Assembly messages were taken up
and the action of the Assembly in ig-
noring the report of the conference
committee appointed on A. B. 1lS,
came in for some sharp criticism
| The bill is commonly known as the
horseshoeing Act, and is intended to
regulate the practice of horseshoeing.
| It will be remembered that as it came
from the Assembly it applied only to
counties having $4,000 or more inhab-
| itants and that the Senate, by amend
ment, eliminated that provision, there
| by making the bill general in its effect.
| The Assembly refused to concur in the
Senate amendment and a committee of
conference was appointed, the report
| of which, when it reached the Assem-
bly,, was by that body indefinitely post
poned. At Mondays session the Sen
ate sent a message to the Assembly
asking that 1t recede from its action
and take up the report, in order that
a committee on free conference, as pro-
vided for by joint rule %. might be
appointed The Assembly declined to
reconsider its action, and on that point
the criticism fell
Bulla protested against allowing the
Assembly to set aside a joint rule
without the sanction of the Senate.
Such an unwarranted assumption of
power he said. would allow that body
to kill any bill on which a conference
was asked. Such plan, he said, could
be adopted by the Senate as well as the
Assembly, and any bill could be killed
when it got to the point of a confer
ence by merely indefinitely postponing
action on the report brought in All
parliamentary bodies. he said. recog-
nized the necessity of the rule, and the
| two houses of the Legislature had rec
ognized its Importance by adopting it.
| He held that joint rule could only be
set aside by a joint action of both
houses and asserted that the Assembly
had overstepped its authority.
| He moved that the Committee on
Rules and Revision be instructed to
meet with the like committee of the
Assembly with a view to arriving at
satisfactory settlement of the dispute.
Carried.