The San Francisco call., 1905-01-22
STANDARD OIL
IS INTERESTED

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 21-It looks as
IL one Of the biggest battles of this
session of the Legislature will come
UP on the bill introduced in the Senate
by Emmons and in the Lower House
by Dorsey. providing that all pipe lines
for the purpose Of conveying crude
petroleum shall be deemed common
carriers. Standard Oil influences will
be here to defeat the bill If possible.
Three agents of that corporation are
now on their way from New York to
make the fight against the bill. which
will be begun in committee.
Senator Greenwell, chairman of the
Committee on Manufacturers and Oil
Industry, received letter from ID. G.
Scofield, vice president of the Pacific
Coast Oil Company, asking that
hearing be given the opponents of the
bill. Some evening next week viii be
set aside for this hearing by the COM
mittee. 1t may be a lengthy one, as
both sides will have MANY arguments
to make and much statistical matter to
introduce.
The selection of a site for the pro-
posed hospital for the convict insane
of the State, which will be In fact a
prison. was considered at a meeting
of the Assembly Committee on State
Prisons and Reformatory Institutions
yesterday. Superintendent Hatch of the
various State hospitals for the insane
appeared before the committee and
urged that the prison for the insane be
located on the grounds Of the Folsom
prison.
No bill has been introduced provid-
ing for such an institution, but one
framed by the committee will be pre-
sented soon. There are about sixty
five insane convicts scattered about
through the asylums of the State. OBJ
jections are made by people having
relatives in the asylums that they do
not want convicts kept in those institu-
tions with them and besides 1t is
deemed that the convicts who may be
feigning insanity are not safely held in
these places.
Another argument in favor of placing
the proposed prison for the criminal in
sane at Folsom is that it will stop the
feigning of insanity, as there will be no
object in prisoners trying to be trans
ferred to an asylum that gives them no
more chance to escape than the one
they were in.
Prison Directors Wilkins and FELTON,
were in consultation with the Cow
ernor to-day in regard to the proposed
hospital. The Prison Directors said
they did not object to it being con-
structed on the Folsom grounds but
lHey diQ not care 10 nave control of III
A bill designed to stop the scalping
of theater tickets is being prepared in
San Francisco and will be introduced
In the Legislature by Assent bIvman n
Jones of that city. 1t will make II =
misdemeanor for any one to sell !
theater ticket at an advance over +be
advertised price or for any mana gar
or proprietor of a theater to give ont
tickets to be so sold
The bill introduced by Assemb,vna =
Johnstone of San Dimas makinc Il .
misdemeanor to sell to any one . wins
cutting, tree or plant that Is anything
! but what it is represented has haes
reported favorably by the Committes
on Fruit and Vine interests. Grsat
damage has been done many farmers
and orchardists of the State thro,,vh
the sale to them Of vines and trees tha,
proved 70 De OF different varieties from
what they thought they were getting
The mistake Is usually discovered after
three or four years OF expensive c.,,si
vation, which goes for naught nn,ia,
these circumstances. uei
&. inc one trouble with Johnstone's bin