The San Francisco call., 1905-01-14

Baker and Louis Holm, committee
clerks at s4 day; Mrs. Al. Porter,
stenographer at So: p. ]. Kennedy, por-
ter at s3 a day; Ed Osborn, gatekeeper
at So day; W. l.. Williams. electrician
at 81 day.
The practice of druggists prescribing
for patients and selling morphine and
other drugs to the users of such will be
stopped if a bin introduced by Cleve-
land of Santa Cruz is passed. 1t pro-
vides that any person other than a
physician who compounds medicines for
or sells any drug to any person except
on a physicians prescription shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Down in Santa Cruz there are some
automobilists who do not understand
the road cars thoroughly and they are
continually soaring horses and running
over roosters and pigs until the prop
erty loss in that respect is becoming
serious. To save human life and pre-
serve the chickens and shoats from de-
struction, Cleveland introduced meas
ure providing that no one shall operate
a motor vehicle on the public highways
of the State until he has passed an ex-
animation showing that he is COM
petent chauffeur and has paid a license
fee of SO.
LABELLING FOODSTUFFS.
Cleveland also introduced a bill that
will bring out the antagonism of many
manufacturers of food products. 1t
provides that all foodstuffs put up in
cans, bottles or packages shall bear
upon the labels a statement of the in
gradients.
Jones OF San Francisco introduced a
constitutional amendment providing
that all property of the Polytechnic
High School of San Francisco shall be
free from taxation.
resolution providing an appropria-
ton of $500 to improve the ventilation
of the Assembly chamber wa adopted.
THE air in this room is vile and un-
healthy" said Stanton. while the i'm
provements to be made with the Small
appropriation may never benefit the
members of the present house, it will
take away some of the discomfort from
our successors.
The $500 asked for Capitol repairs is
only intended to cover the expense o.
employing an expert architect to de-
termine what work is absolutely neces-
sary. 1t is estimated off-hand that sew
eraI thousand dollars will be needed to
put the buildings interior into proper
condition.
PRISON REFORMS.
Assemblyman McKenney at the time
he submitted his report regarding the
States penal institutions introduced
eight bills covering the recommends
tions made in the report. These pro-
vide for the making of a truant school
for young boys and girls of the Whit
tier Reform School; the turning of the
lone School into a reformatory after
the plan of the institution at Elmira,
N Y. the using of San Quentin Prison
for young criminals and those serving
their first terms and Folsom as a place
OF confinement for criminals of the
worst class, and for the transferring of
prisoners from San Quentin to lone
and vice versa.
The bills provide for the intermediate
system of sentencing and for the grad
ing cf prisoners. Those in the first
grade only will be subject to parole. In
order to suppress the vices now prac-
ticed in Folsom and San Quentin q seq
regate system is provided for An ap-
preparation to carry out the segrega-
ticn scheme. which will be expensive
and will necessitate the enlargement of
the prisons, will be introduced later. It
is also provided in the bills that the
monthly payments made by the coun-
ties for each boy sent to the reforma-
tories shall be cut off and the entire
expense shall be borne by the state.
that boys may not at times be sent to
State prison instead of the schools in
order to save expense to the counties.
The following bills were also intro
duced:
OTHER MEASURES.
BY Drew-Nneteen bills codifyine and el,r-
mating old laws that have been repeaIed hnt
still cucumber the statutes.
BY coghlan--A bill designed to abolish
trading stamp firms on the ground that the
trading-stamp system Is gambling device
A rider in the bill makes rafting OF houses
and ranches unlawful.
BY Drew--Giving the Fish Commissioners
the same powers as police officers In search
warrant proceedings.
WASHINGTON, JAN 15.-The CcmptroIler
OF the Currency to-day issued q, call for condi-
tions of national banks at the close OF bt1si-