The San Francisco call., 1905-01-21
MORE "PLUMS'
FOR FAITHFUL
Members of Lower House
Add Few Names to Long
List of Party Workers
VIGOROUS OPPOSITION
Deylin of SOlano Fathers
Bill for Relief of Leach,
Superintendent of the Mint
VIGOROUS OPPOSITION
Special Dispatch to The Call

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SACRAMENTO. Jan. 2o-Thirteen
more attaches, including porters. COM
mittee clerks and stenographers. with
salaries ranging from So to S. a day.
were added to the Assembly payroll
this morning after a debate that be-
came heated, call of the House and a
ballot that carried the resolution by but
one vote. under the two-third rule.
Directly after placing this new bunch
of attaches on the roll the Assembly
turned down with a thud resolution
to still further increase the number of
attaches, and it seems likely that the
last person who is to fatten off the
public treasury this session. as far as
the lower house is concerned. has been
appointed. Men who have steadily
voted for such attaches said after ad-
journment that a limit had been
reached, and that no threats of oppo-
sition to bills and no pleas would in
duce them to vote aye for any more
patronage resolutions.
Waste Of Alameda led the opposition
and was supported by Olmsted, Drew
and Coyle. There was an exchange of
fiery verbal shots between Coghlan of
! San Francisco and Waste of Berkeley.
Waste talked of "foisting useless en-
ployes on the House." and said such
action was an imposition on the mi
nority, which had agreed upon $40 a
day as the limit of patronage.
Coghlan said that the Berkeley rep
resentative had no right to impeach
the honesty of the majority. It rep
resented the people in their desire to be
well served and represented the Assem-
bly, in it's desire to serve the people.
California is rich State, Coghlan said.
and there was no reason why every
member of the Assembly should not
have all the help he needed.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
The first ballot developed that the
resolution lacked two votes of the
necessary two-thirds. A call of the
House was demanded and few alb
sentees gathered in, with the result
that the resolution was adopted by a
vote Of 4S to %.
Right on top of this Pfaeffie of San
Francisco introduced a resolution call
ing for the appointment of more hired
men. The Speaker said if there was no
objection it would go to the Committee
on Attaches.
Il move, Mr.. Speaker. said Stanton.
with some warmth, that We postpone
action on this resolution indefinitely.
taches in the past, but l give notice
that l am done and that no future res
olution of this sort shall receive my
vote. We have enough attaches now"
No one had the nerve to stand for the
resolution and it was indefinitely post
poned as suggested. Other members
who had voted for the previous one
arose and said they would stand for
no more of that nature, and 1t looks
as if the Jig was up for the remaining
aspirants for easy jobs in the Assem-
bly,.
1t took fight to adjourn the Assem-
bly, over from to-day until Monday. but
it was finally accomplished after 1t
had been practically beaten. but with
the understanding that hereafter Sat
urday sessions would be held. Atxin-'
sons motion to adjourn till Monday
was opposed by Houser, who said that
the Assembly was now week behind
in it's work.
DEVIIN BEFRIENDS LEACH.
Devlin of Solano introduced a joint
resolution calling upon the California
delegation in Congress to use every ef-
fort to have passed bill now in the
national legislature appropriating $685.
600 for the relief of Frank A. Leach,
Superintendent of the San Francisco
Mint, who had to sacrifice his home in
OdkldDu u USlp IAdhC SOOQ lnC Stcd1-
ings of Dimmick, the late cashier of the
Mint. The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Coghlan introduced a resolution pro-
viding for junket of the Charities and
Corrections Committee to the various
institutions under it's jurisdiction. The
resolution was referred to the Commit
tee on Rules.
The Committee on Public Lands and
Il l. - u
recession of the Yosemite Valley with
a recommendation that it pass. One
member, Jones of Tuolumne, filed a mi
nority report opposing the bill.
Among the interesting bills intro
duced to-day was one by Pryor for the
protection of oil producers. 1t is de-
signed to compel railroad companies to
supply tank cars when required.
Waste submitted bill providing for
the putting under bonds of all compa-
MES and corporations selling invest
tracts, and MCGOWAN introduced still
another measure to regulate debenture
and tontine companies. 1t provides that
all such companies shall deposit with
the State Treasurer sum equal TO the
alleged value of all the bonds they
issue.
Slavin took the initial step toward es-
tablishing asprofitable industry by in
PRODUCING bounty of 81 on coyote
scalps.
1t was announced that the Commit
tee on Public Buildings and Grounds
would start Monday on its trip of in
vestigation, taking in San Jose, Santa
Cruz, Los Angeles and San Diego. It
will be gone about week. The Com
mittee on Commerce and Navigation
will start tomorrow for San Pedro.
A resolution of sympathy for Assem-
blyman Weyand, whose mother died
yesterday morning. was adopted and