The record-union., 1899-03-14
Evening Session.

| Al the evening session. on motion OF
Morehouse, consideration of the county
government bill, which was a special
order, was continued until this morn
ing
NEWSPAPER CLAIM.
S. B. 654, Currier, appropriating S15C
to pay the Downie Champion for ad-
vertising the Constitutional amend
ments passed, 26 to o.
NOTICE OF RECONSIDERATIO
Gillette gave notice that on the next
| legislative day he would move to re-
consider the vote whereby S. B. 50 was
refused passage. The bill had been
sion. .tsi 81,
| BANKS AND ASSESSORS.
Morehouse called up his notice of a
motion to reconsider the vote whereby
S. B. 450 was refused passage. The
bill amends an Act creating a Board OF
Bank Commissioners, and prescribing
their duties and powers, and making ii
incumbent on banks to furnish Assess
ors with financial statements at noon
on the first Monday in March of each
year.
| There was no debate on the matter
anu the mOllOn 10 reconsider was lost
by vote of to 20.
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
| The Senate special file being in order
S. B. 3O1, by Davis, to amend Section
| 3 of an Act to provide for work upon
streets, etc.yoand for the construction
| of sidewalks in municipalities. cams
up for final action, and called for much
debate. 1t provided that under certain
conditions, Boards of Trustees could
order street work done regardless OF
the protest of property owners.
Davis spoke for the bill, and Gillette
and Dickinson opposed it. The latter
said the title Of the bill ought to be
IAN Act for the relief of street con-
tractors" and that was all there was
to it.
Leavitt and Taylor favored the bill
| Gillette offered an amendment, insert
| ing the six months protest of property
owners, and making that portion coin
eide with the present Vrooman Act.
| Wolfe, Bettman and Sfnortridge fa-
vored the amendment, and Gillette
closed, urging its adoption.
The amendment was adopted and the
bill ordered printed.
Committee substitute for S. BIS 142
159, 204 and 453, prescribing the man
ner of locating mining claims upon the
public domain of the United States, re-
cording notices of location thereof
amending defective locations, and pre-
scribing the effect to be given to re-
cordation of notices of location; passed
2S to l.
| A. B. 542, Raw-To amend Sections /
and of an Act to create the office OF
Lake Tahoe Road Commissioner, de-
fning his duties, and making an appro-
priation of So 900 for the salary and
expenditures provided for and author
| lied by this Act; amended and ordered
printed.
NEW BILLS
| On motion of Dickinson, the Consts.
tuition was suspended to allow him to
introduce a bill providing for an appro-
priation to pay the deficiency for the
support of the School for Adult Blind
at Berkeley.
On motion of Rowell, S. B. 319, 10y
| Stratton, to authorize the insurance OF
all property of the University of Cali
! fornia held for the purpose of income
against damages or loss by fire, was
made a matter of urgency and read the
second time.
Shortridge opposed the bill, holding
that it was a question as to whether
the. State or some insurance company
should gamble against the chance OF
fire.
Rowell, Davis, Currier. Smith and
Stratton spoke for the bill, and Simp-
son. Bettman and Dickinson opposed it.
and it was passed, "a to 9.
A. B. 2S3. Milice-Providing for the
submission of the proposition of the
license and sale, or prohibition of the
sale. of intoxicating liquors, to vote
of the people, by municipal corpora
tions of the fifth and sixth classes, was,
Dn motion of Bulla, taken UP and read
the third time. A long, wearisome de-
bate followed, and final action was
postponed until to-day.
At 1925 O'Clock the Senate ad-
| journed.