The San Francisco call., 1905-02-07
PAY IS SAVED
BY TWO VOTES
Resolution Docking Assem-
blymen Who Stayed Away
From Sessions Is Defeated
WILL WORK AT NIGHT
Legislators to Labor Over
time in Order to Clear
: Files of the Many Bills
WILL WORK AT NIGHT
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. s.-At this
afternoons session of the Assembly
| Mccartney introduced resolution ask
| ing that as the charge had been made
| that the Assembly was far behind In
it's work and had been negligent In the
performance Of the public trust i'm
posed upon it the Committee on Rules
and Regulations be instructed to inves-
| tigate and report at the next legislative
day whether the work was behind as
compared with that of the Senate and
former sessions of the House and If
found to be so how far behind.
The resolution was adopted. 1t is
stated by some members that the lower
house is three weeks behind in COM
parison with the Senate and former
sessions.
There were thirty-seven members of
the Assembly present when the lower
house was called to order at $3.50 this
morning. A call of the house resulted
in the rounding up of five more mem
bers by the sergeant at arms assist
ants. The delinquents were called to
the desk and made to give whatever
explanations they had.
The forty-two being a quorum Drew
of Fresno, one of those who is in favor
of getting through as near the sixty
day limit as possible, introduced reso-
luton that the salaries of those who
had remained away without excuse be
withheld for the time they were absent.
The absentees came within two votes
of losing three days pay, the resolution
i being beaten by a vote of % to 20.
Drew announced that he would bring
the resolution up again tomorrow
morning and try to force its passage.
LINCOLN'S MEMORY.
Goodrich introduced joint resolu-
tion that both houses devote the hour
from II to IL next Saturday morning to
Abraham Lincoln memorial services.
Treadwell's bill. under which those
citizens of San Francisco who paid
without protest their proportion of the
special tax levied for new schoolhouses
and a new hospital, which tax was
afterward declared illegal, may recover
their money. was passed.
Dorsey's child labor bill was passed
without dissenting vote. 1t prohibits
the employment of minors under GER
tain ages and certain illiterate minors.
The bill has passed the Senate, having
been introduced there by Wolfe, and is
now ready to go to the Governor.
Without a dissentips voice being
raised the nine amendments to the
charter of the city of Los Angeles, in
ciuQlnS the famous one lIn1llflS IRAN
! chises to II years, were adopted by the
Assembly.
VACATIONS FOR FIREMEN.
The arguments for and against the
one limiting franchises have produced
| a great deal of commotion in Los An
geles. Charges have been freely made
| there that efforts are being made to
| kill it in the interests of corporations
! Another side of the case is represented
| in the statement that its adoption
would work an injury to the people, as
| it would prevent the building of new
| electric roads and tend to strengthen
! the monopoly of those existing.
| The fight against this particular
amendment will be made in the Sem
| ate, to which the entire nine now go
| fer adoption. The other eight, it is
| held will go down with it if the one
! limiting franchises is defeated.
| McCartney's bill providing vacation