The record-union., 1899-02-11

will be found I'M full in another column.
The message was referred to the Com
mittee on Executive Communications.
WIDE TIRES.
Laird called up his notice Of q mo-
| ton to reconsider the vote whereby
S. B. 476, commonly known as the wide
tire bill, was passed, and motion to
reconsider the vote was passed, and on
motion of Dickinson the further con-
sideration of the matter was made q
special order for Tuesday morning after
4 the reading of the journal
/ Subsequently Laird introduced new
"wide-t1re'' bill, the third of the ses-
sion, excluding the committee substi-
the present law shall go into effect
March /, 1908.
THIRD READING FILE
The third reading file was taken up,
and s. B. 50, by Dickinson, to provide
for inspection of dairies, factories OF
dairy products as to their sanitary con-
dition and the products of milk drawn
from diseased animals to the people OF
the State; amended by special commit
tee and ordered printed.
1 EObAlSf1lXNG + AMG<lNOAE4N4 L ..
s. B. 421, by Davis, relating to the
publication of proposed constitutional
amendments. called for much debate.
and succeeded in materially extending
the length of the session.
/ The bill was read, and Davis, by spe-
cial committee offered a resolution
making it conform to Wade's Assembly
bill on a like proposition. The amend
l 1A6 l,of
State should cause to be printed at the
State Printing Office one and one-half
times as many copies of the proposed
amendment as there were voters in the
State, and that the County Clerk of
each county should be furnished with
one and one-half times as many copies
as there were voters in his county, and
should cause the same to be distributed
to said voters thirty days before the
election at which they were to be voted
upon
Shortridge said he felt that the bill
was cheap way of hitting the news
papers. He hoped the matter would
not be rushed through without due con-
sideration.
Cutter said the adoption of the pro-
posed amendment would save about
t$6O,COO annually for the State.
Davis said he held the newspapers
in the State too highly to think that
they would cruelty the bill, when it
| had been introduced in the interest OF
the meeting, and in the cause of good
government. He said it was not in
any sense a fling at the newspapers.
but was intended to save to the people
$50, COO a year. and give them better
system of advertising than they now
enjoy.
Shortridge ssid he could see: no OBJ
lection to the BILL If In addition to ad-
vertising the amendments in the pa
pers, copies were sent to each voter
He said the bill was one which tended
to criticise the newspapers. He further
said if the newspapers of the State
were blotted out, it would set Califor-
MIA back fully fifty years. He thought
it would be better taste to offer some
thing that would help the newspapers
instead of taking Away what little pat
ronage they had. He submitted that
| if $4,000 had been paid to the news
papers it was because they had earned
it, and If there was anything wrong
about the payment the fault lay with
the law and not with the newspapers.
/ Davis said again that no fling at the
newspapers was intended The bill was
along the line Of Governor Cages in
augural address, and in keeping with
the message which had few minutes
before been read from the desk
| Smith said Davis was a well-meaning
man, but was never farther from his
bearing In his life. The measure, even
/ with Wade's amendment, would not
materially reduce the expense of adver-
tising. He. said that in 1894 Governor
Markham had looked kindly upon the
country press and gave them good fat
slices, and ever since that time they
had been trying to get more, but as a
rule they got very little He said that,
as a matter of fact, there was little use
of advertising the amendments at al
inasmuch as the newspapers promul-
gated the constitutional amendments
before they We're advertised, and for
the further reason that most people
were willing to take the word of the
newspaper. and vote accordingly. He
said he noticed that a State officer
could hang around the Senate for two
weeks and get any extra number Of
deputies he wanted, and he had also
noticed that the same State officer got
$1,000 to furnish his office, and he
could not help but notice also that
when the question came up allowing
a little patronage to country newspa-
uers that virtue overlook many Sena-
tors and they became extremely eco
nomical. Such spasmodic departures
from and return to economy seemed
just little strange.
Bulla favored the amendment, holding
that if copies of the amendments were
cent TO Individual voters the amend
ments would be much more intelligent
ly voted upon than by inserting them
in newspaper, down in one corner In
small type. Few people, he said, read
advertisements, anyway. He did not
care a fig for the newspapers, he said,
| and he submitted that they should not
have injected themselves into the con-
sideration of the bill. The only thing
ihe thought of was to better the inter-
este of the people, BY giving them bet
| ter service.
A motion to make the further con-
| sideration of the matter special or
der for Tuesday next, after the read
ing of the journal was lost by vote
of IS to IA. A motion to adjourn was
lost. Smith offered a substitute for
the amendment presented by the special
committee of one, which was ruled out
of order.
The question being on the amend
ment, Shortridge spoke to it. He was
followed by Smith, after which the
amendment was adopted and the bill
ordered printed.
| At 5:15 o'clock the Senate ad-
| journed.
| TN rur AssEMRIY.