The San Francisco call., 1905-01-28
Building and Loan
Official Arouses
the Solons.
Sergeant at Arms of
Senate Is Given
New Duty.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

| SACRAMENTO, Jan. 27.-Sergeant
at Arms of the Senate Lou Martin
will go to San Francisco on Sunday
and return on the first train on Mon
day with William Corbin, secretary
and manager of the Continental Build
| ing and Loan Association. After a
mild storm in the upper house this
morning it voted to issue a warrant for
| CorbinS arrest as provided in a reSolu-
| tion presented by the Committee on
| Commissions and Retrenchments.
/ When the resolution was presented
Bauer of San Francisco protested
| against the issuance of the warrant,
saying that as the question was of such
serious import the Senate should wait
until all of its junketerS have returned
| that a full house might pass upon the
| question as to whether or not a war
rant should issue. Emmons opposed
! Bauer's stand. however, saying that the
! seriousness of the question as relating
| to the arrest of Corbin was not so seri-
! ols as that relating to the dignity Of
! the Senate, which had been offended
! by Corbin when he failed to respond to
summons regularly issued.
| The call for a vote on the resolution
! developed an almost unanimous senti-
ment in it's favor, and the sergeant at
arms was directed to bring Corbin be-
| fore the bar.
The Committee on Commissions and
Retrenchments also filed it's transcript
of testimony taken in the investigation
of the Bardwell- Ford syndicate Of San
! Francisco. The committee made no
/ findings, but will report them later
| They will be against the legitimacy of
the concern.
Senator Rush began the movement
| toward the reclamation of the inun-
l RI tod To- 1<le ft10 Co
! this morning. He introduced a bill
| first establishing reclamation districts
and secondly providing ways and
| means for carrying on the work His
measure provides for the levying of
an ad valorem tax on the State to
raise fund each year sufficient to
balance any sum that may be appro-
priated by the Federal Government for
| the reclamation work, Another bill
aims to appropriate $500OO0 for the
beginning of the work, the same to
remain in the treasury, however, un-
til the Federal Government appropri-
| ates an equal sum, both funds then to
be drawn upon, the ad valorem tax
being intended to keep up the work
until it is completed, at an estimated
cost of $24, ,000, 900.
! Senator Belshaw introduced bill this
morning providing for the establish
ment of State bureau Of criminal iden-
tification, the same to be under the
management of a director to be ap-
pointed by the State Board of Prison
| Directors. The salary of the director
is fixed at $500 a year.
Senator Shortridge tackled the auto
! mobile question with q bill an inch
thick, the purpose of which is to reg
ulate the speed and other questions re-
lating to these machines. A system of
State registry is provided for, but the
unique portion of the bill refers to
speed. 1t provides for the establish
ment of sign posts along county roads
telling wandering autoists what speed
they may maintain and on which side
of the road to keep.
Senator Simpson introduced batch
of bills regulating the National Guard,
one of especial interest having appli-
cation to a southern case in which a
young man lost his position because
he joined the militia and went into
camp with the troops. This bill makes
! it a misdemeanor for any employer to
discriminate against any employe on
the ground that the latter is a men,
Der of the National Guard.