Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-30

ments and may be said to fairly rep
resent the feeling of the assemblage.
1t was not arrived at, however, with
out considerable discussion, although
in the main those who took part ap-
peared to be virtually unanimous in
wishing for more light upon what they
considered a most important and far
reaching project.
The resolution as given here was
adopted without a single dissenting
vote out of a gathering numbering
close to 500 and representing large dele
cations from Long Beach, South Pasa-
dona and Alhambra in addition to the
citizens of Pasadena.
1t was half past before A. ]. Ber-
tonneau, vice president of the board of
trade, called the meeting to order and
briefly sta ted the object of the call.
By vote Of the crowd, Rev. DIR. e. L.
Conger was made chairman and ]. A.
Miller of Long Beach secretary.
Hahn Defends Himself
Senator Ben Hahn was the first
speaker and gave in some detail the
history of the appointment of the Los
Angeles committee ON consolidation, re-
ferring to it's members as among the
very best citizens of the Angel City.
He then proceeded to explain his own
connection with the discussion, deny
ing that he had been in any active sense
"knocker' at Sacramento before the
legislative committee.
Then followed a vigorous defense Of
Governor Pardee's attitude toward the
desires of the Los Angeles committee.
Senator Hahn read dispatches from
Governor Pardee denying that he had
ever promised the Los Angeles commit
tee that he would put in the call the
suggested plan for consolidation. The
dispatch stated that the session would
be called for the adopting of measures
of relief for San Francisco and that
in his own opinion only such measures
should have its attention. In another
telegram Governor Pardee stated that
the legal holidays would cease on Sun
day and the special session convene on
Saturday of this week.
Assemblyman Goodrich was the sec
ond speaker and told of the meeting
with the Los Angeles consolidation
committee on Friday night. He also
read the constitutional amendments
proposed by his committee relating to
metropolitan water districts and the
unifcation of tax collecting and as
sessing machinery. The most i'm
portant of these, the former one, is as
given in The Herald.
OtHCTS arc OP Suo9Slo
City Attorney Daily of Long Beach,
J. A. Miller of Long Beach, City At
torney Carson of South Pasadena, Mr..
Thompson of Alhambra and Judge
Northrup of Alhambra took up the
cudgels for their respective localities
and variously indicated their belief that
the Los Angeles committee had been
too hasty in it's action on Friday night.
The Long Beach representatives told
eloquently of the growth of the beach
city and of it's abundant supply of
water from the Bxby wells and insist
ed that they were not inclined to take
Los Angeles seriously in the matter
of annexation.
Mr.. Miller said that Los Angeles
might call the Beach City knockers"
if she wished, but that would not annoy
them. They believed he said. that 7
was better to head off trouble than to
wait for it, and when it came to them
from what they considered a reliable
source that Los Angeles was trying to
get a plan adopted by which Long
Beach could be forced to come into a
consolidation whether it would or no,
they made effort to stop the scheme.
Names Committee
At length committee was appointed
to draft resolutions expressing what
appeared 10 ne tne sentiment OIL tne
meeting. This committee consisted of
j. A. Goodrich, Judge j. Perry Wood
and Editor Lon F. Chaplin of Pasa-
dena, Mr.. Smith and G. l.. Day of
Long Beach, Messrs. Porter and Stew
ems of South Pasadena and Mr.. Thomp-
son and Judge Northrup of Alhambra.
Some one sung out for this commit
tee TO read the resolutions at once with
out retiring but the committee gravely
retired to a side room and be it said to