The record-union., 1899-01-26

will probably be several days before
the. committee brings in report.
FIRST JUNKETING TRIP.
Except the little furry over the re-
port of the Committee on Contested
Elections which resulted, however, in
the adoption of the majority report and
the retention in his seat and office of
Assemblyman Wardell, the House
prosed along on routine work yesterday.
During the afternoon the attendance
was slim and bills on final passage had
so hard a time that the third reading
file was abandoned until to-day. Among
the absentees We're the members of the
Joint Committee of Labor and Capital
and States Prisons and Reformatories,
to whom had fallen the distinction of
taking the first junketing trip of the
session. Not very long nor a very
expensive trip-only to Folsom Prison
to interview that rock-crusher, which
is variously stated as the foe and the
friend of free labor and which-whether
foe or friends certainly a bone of
contention. Incidentally the State
Prison Committee will make their Off
cial inspection of the prison and all
will return to-day,
INTERNATIONALLY MANSION.
knights A. B. 1876, making an ap-
preparation of $4,000 was on second
reading yesterday. In the Committee
on Ways and Means the measure had
been amended. The appropriation,
which was reduced to $69, 800, was
made to cover both construction and
furnishing, and another amendment re-
quired that the architectural design
should harmonic with that of the Cap
itol, on some part of the grounds Of
which the new residence will stand.
The committee amendments were
adopted by the House and the bill went
to the third reading file.
WOULD BE LAWS.
Among some of the new bills which
aspire to become laws of the State may
be mentioned the following:
Hoey of San Francisco introduced a
bill to build new State Normal
School in that city, to take the place
of the one recently abolished there, and
to cost $4,000.
Atherton of Marin, in which county is
situated Sausalito, much beset by pool
rooms, has a measure which he be-
lieves will confine poolrooms to race
tracks and thus relieve towns and
cities of their presence His bill pro-
yides that no places for selling pools or
for boofmaking may legally exist ex-
cept at the tracks.
Fairweather of Fresno, introduces a
bill reducing the legal interest on judg-
ments, ETC., from seven to five per cent.
and the legal limit of interest to be
paid by agreement from two to one
and one-half per cent.
NO TREATING AT LECTION.
Caminetti makes a sweeping amend
ment to the Purity of Elections" law
in his A. B. $50, in which he provides
that among other things forbidden and
punishable are the treating of, or Offer
ing to treat, the buying, or Offering to
buy for, or the giving, or Offering to
give to, any person, whether an elector.
or not, by candidate for public office
in the Jurisdiction in which he is nom
mated therefor, any cigar, or any in
toxicating beverage, or any beverage
of a temperance character. at any sa-
loon, or other place, in any quantity
whatever
SCHOOL SUFFRAGE.
Johnson's school suffrage bill is more
modest in its requests than the WELL
remembered Constitutional amendments
which have heretofore been asked for
by women suffragists This measure
Il years. of age, who can read and write
the English language and who have
complied with the laws regulating res
idence and registration, may vote for.
all School Trustees and members. of all
Boards of Education, and shall be elig-
ible to hold the. office of School Trus-
tee or member of the Board of Educa-
ton; also that separate ballot boxes
shall be provided for women voters.
STATEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS.
Assembly Bill 206 by Muenter of San
Joaquin relates to the time in which
banks give in their assessments to the
Assessor, and the statement of their
resources to the Bank Examiners. For
merly these two statements have been
made some time apart. The author
claims that the result has been that
when the statement is given in to the
Bank Examiners it shows the bank
affairs to be in most Furnishing con-
dition, while, when later given to the
Assessor, the same bank will be found
with but few solvent credits, but little
sonal property greatly deprecated in
value. The result is that many million
dollars thus excapes taxation. The
amendment makes the statement to
the Bank Examiners and Assessor ST.
multaneous, and it is claimed that nc-
titious values will not be given, as this
would greatly increase the banks taxa
ftion, while deprecated values cannot
be turned in to the Assessor, for fear Of
impairing the banks credit. The Act
will thus work two ways in giving bank
depositors safer statement of its
condition, and the State its just rate