Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-12
LOCAL SYNDICATE TO
4 BUY NORMAL SCHOOL
/ FOR HALF A MILLION
TO SECURE BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Legislature Will Build ArmOry in Los Angeles to
1 Cost 100000 and Appropriate Money for
Universal Peace and Commerce Expo
sition to Be Held in 1915

capitalists for the present site of the
Normal school.
s II the proposition strikes a majority
Of the members Of the Legislature as
fsvorably as it did those members who
yesterday attended the conference in
the chamber of commerce the deal will
be completed and within less than two
years the normal school will be housed
III beautiful buildings, surrounded by
spacious grounds, in the suburbs of
Los Angeles.
/ Also the state will erect an armory in
Los Angeles to cost, inclusive of
grounds, Of about 100000.
Also somewhere within the state,
possibly in the southern section, there
viii be erected a reformatory for peo-
pie between the ages of is and 30
years.
. Also money will be appropriated for
the Universal Peace and Commerce ex-
position to be held in Los Angeles in
1915.
And If the wishes of all those who
were heard on various topics are graft
fed there will be passed at the coming
session of the Legislature bills both
numerous and important.
Members Noncommittal
AS to the exact measures, except a
very few, which are favored by the
legislators from Southern California it
Is difficult to determine, for at the very
outset of the conference the meeting
adopted a motion made by Assembly
man Stanton of Los Angeles that no
action be taken on any proposition Of
fered.
3 AS a result, many of those who asked
that certain measures be passed will
be in doubt as to what efforts, If any,
will be made to induce the legislature
to adopt such bills.
4 In some cases, however, propositions
were made which noticeably interested
the legislators, and side remarks and
mods of heads plainly showed that in
dividually the members had become
convinced of the necessity Of the pass
age of the bill suggested.
= This was true in the case of the
normal school, the armory, the geologi-
cal survey in connection with the
Owens river project, appropriations for
the Universal Peace and Commerce ex-
position, the state exhibits at James,
town and at the Alaskan Seattle ex-
position, for a reformatory, amending
Juvenile laws and appropriations for
orphans
AS to some other propositions there
probably might be some uncertainty,
although the presentation of each and
all suggestions was received atten-
lively.
Only Two Absent Members
! With the exception of two out-of-
town members of the coming legisla-
ture, the entire Southern California
delegation attended the conference held
yesterday morning and afternoon in the
Of fI1n1 OH M
ber of commerce, and throughout the
day many representatives of institu-
tions, societies and other bodies came
to urge legislation, then retired to
make room for others.
President w. j. Washburn of the
chamber of commerce called the meet
ing to order, and, on motion of Assem-
blyman Stanton, Senator w. H. Savage
of San Pedro, alluded to as the dean
of the Southern California legislators,
was chosen chairman. Assemblyman
N. w. Thompson of Alhambra was
named as secretary of the conference
and also of the Los Angeles county
delegation. OF this delegation Assem-
blyman ]. P. Transue of Los Angeles
was elected chairman.
The first person heard was Russ
Avery, who pleaded the cause of an IN
creased appropriation for orphan asy-
lums, especially that of the Los An
geIus asylum, and he was followed by
Mrs. D. G. Stephens, president OF the
local institution. Mrs. Stephens spoke
of the small amount now appropriated
for orphans-S1O0 per year for full
orphans and SIS for half orphans-and,
after comparing this with with the ap-
preparation of rs cents per day for the
support of each inmate of the Whittier
institution, asked if it was not worth
more to the state to prevent crime than
II is to reform criminals.
Diphtheria in Orphans Home
This remark seemed to strike the
legislators favorably, and they unani-
mously voted to accept an invitation to
visit the institution in the afternoon;
but this plan was interfered with by
the announcement made later by Mrs.
Stephens that she had been informed
by physicians that four Children who
were supposed to be suffering from
slight ailments had developed cases or
diphtheria.
D. C. King of Ventura, representing
the horticultural commission, urged an
increase in the number and pay OF IN
spectors of fruit trees.
Changes in the laws relating to COM
munity property were urged in an adj
dress by Mrs. Elizabeth l.. Kenney, an
attorney representing the Woman
Parliament of Southern California.
Mrs. Kenney pointed out the injustice
being done to women under the present
laws, and said that community real
estate should not be sold by the hus-
band without the written consent of
the wife. Several other changes also
We're suggested.
Mrs. o. s. Barnum and Mrs X. j.
Waters urged the adoption of pure
food law.
They were followed by Bascom A.
Stephens, who advocated the abolition
of the tax on corporations and dis
tributed among the members brief
containing arguments why this should
be done.
DR.. w. ]. Haney asked the passage
OF a bill legalizing the naturopathiC
profession, which uses electricity mas
sage and occasionally osteopathy' bui
no medicine.
Judges Allan and Taggart of the dis
trict court of appeals asked an appro'
priation Of $4,000 for library and alsC
FOR authority to lease quarters In
hreproof building, where records or th'
court would be safe from destruction
To Permit Consolidation
Walter Haas, representing the Lo
Angeles consolidation commission, thel
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