The San Francisco call., 1905-02-04
'KEANE MAKES
LOSING FIGHT
Efforts to Prevent Passage
of Liquor Bill in Senate
Receive but Little Support
LOCAL DEALERS HURT
Measure Provides for COnfis-
cation of Spirits for a
Violation of State Laws
LOCAL DEALERS HURT
Special Dispatch to The Call.


SACRAMENTO, FEB. S.-Senator
Keane put up strong but futile fight
in the Senate this morning to amend
Broughton's bill that permits of the
confiscation and destruction of liquors
involved in violation of State. county
or municipal regulation. neane said
that he had no objection to the bill if
the words county or municipal were
stricken therefrom. but that if the bill
was passed as written it would stand
as a grave menace to the large inter-
ests of liquor dealers of San Francis
co, who are always more or less sub
ject to assault from first one belligerent
civic body and then another.
If the bill were passed without
amendment in accordance with his
denly find himself stripped of thou
sands of dollars worth of property for
the most trivial breach of some of the
hundreds of municipal regulations.
Keane, however, found little support.
Half dozen Senators took a fling at
the liquor business in San Francisco
and then the motion to amend was
put to a vote. Markey and Nelson of
San Francisco alone voted with sKeane
and the bill will go to the Assembly as
it stands.
The Finance Committee reported to
the Senate this morning in favor of the
bill appropriating 100000 for the con-
struction of a hotel In Yosemite Val
ley. The bill will not be placed on the
file, however, until after the vote has
been taken on the recession measure
and then 1t will be withdrawn in the
event the State is authorized to re-cede
the park to the National Government.
The committee also reported in favor Of
majority of the bills appropriating
funds for the completion of the present
buildings and the construction of new
dormftories at the Glen Ellen Home for
the Feeble Minded; also the bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the purchase from
the heirs of the Cogswell estate Of pic
lures of Abraham Lincoln and William
Mckinley, it being the purpose to place
the pictures in the State Capitol.
A bill was introduced this morning
to grant the right to Lake County to
drain the bed Of Clear Lake and re-
claim the lands. the title to such lands
to thereafter vest in the county. A bill
was also introduced prohibiting the sale
of liquors within one and one-half
miles Of the Veterans, Home at Yount-
Vile
Coggins' bill vesting the Governor
with the right to restore to citizenship
under certain conditions persons who
have been deprived of such right
through cOnVlctlOn or crime was nnally
passed and sent to the Assembly.
The Realty Syndicate of Oakland,
through F. c. Havens. this morning
petitioned the Senate in general session
to order at it's earliest convenience an
investigation by committee of its af-
fairs. The petition recites that in an
swer to subpoena officers of the syndi-
cate, bearing books: and papers, ap-
peared at the rooms of the Committee
on Commissions and Retrenchment last
Monday, but did not secure a hearing
Subsequently these officers went to AS
semblyman Waste and caused him to
introduce a bill providing that corpora
tions whose functions are the same as
those of the Realty SyndicateNbe placed
under the inspection of the Bank Com
mission.
Last evening, the petition continues,
these officers went before the commk-
tee appointed to take up the work that
has been removed from the jurisdic-
tion of the Committee on Commissions
and Retrenchment and was informed
that 1t would have to wait till some fu-
ture day before it could explain the
condition of its affairs.
The petition was ordered printed in
the journal and will be taken up early
next week