Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
ASSEMBLY, PLANS
SUNDAY SESSIONS
LEGISLATORS WORKING NIGHT
AND DAY
Members Fall to Agree on Many Of
the Measures and the
Result Is Long
Delay
Continued from I.are one.,

surance held by them also legislation
which will validate the acts of public
officers done and performed on legal
holidays proclaimed by the governor
when such acts are otherwise valid;
also legislation as recommended under
No. 27 Of the call. If your honorable
bodies shall see fit to pass today as
emergency matters these Legislative
acts it will prevent great business and
legal confusion for the reason that, un-
less passed before the legal holidays
cease, their effects will be lost.
Over Thirty Subjects
"The objects recommended for your
consideration number thirty odd. OF
these five or more are questions which,
If they meet with your approval, will
require the submission of constitutional
amendments at the general election to
be held next November.
"All the recommendations submitted
to you for your cons 'eration have been
as you will see, very carefully consid-
cred and surrounded with such safe
guards as will, so far as possible, con-
fine them entirely to so-called 'calam-
ity measures Most, if not all, of the
subjects submitted to you are self-ex-
planatory, and the reasons for their
submission to you appear on their face,
and therefore require no explanation
here.
Calls Attention to No. 21
Il desire, however, to call your atten-
tion to subject No. q of the call, which
recommends legislfion to provide for
the protection of the city of Stockton
from flood. etc. If you will remember
the legislature of 1903 appropriated the
sum of 100000 to be used i'm connection
with an appropriation by the United
States for the purpose Of constructing
canal to relieve the city of Stockton
from danger of flood and to keep navi-
gable the river approaches
1.-The rights of way for this canal
have been, as provided by law, pur-
chased by the state, and the work
could now proceed were 1t not that the
United States refuses to proceed there
with unless the title to the rights of
way be vested in itself 1t is found.
however. OH investigation, that there is
no power now granted by law whereby
this title may be transferred to the
United States.
'The recommendation in the call is,
therefore made to you in order that
this transfer of title may be made and
the work proceed. The coming winter
will bring new dangers of overflow to
Stockton, and probably. as has usu-
ally happened, the channel leading tc
the city will be again filled up.
Therefore. the San Francisco COM
mittee, looking upon it as an emer-
gency, If not a calamity resolved,
after careful consideration, to recon-.
mend it to me as worthy of submis-
sion to you for consideration in extra
ordinary session, and, agreeing with
the committee, 1 have submitted it to
you,
San Diego Tide Lands
Recommendation q also relates to
transfer of tide lands in San Diego
bay for a quarantine station, which
proposition was presented to the San
Francisco committee by Senator W. L..
Ward, and upon his explanation, the
committee decided to recommend 1t to
me for incorporation in the call. This
l have done, it appearing that. as in
the case of Stockton, it Is a matter OF
sufficient emergency Importance to be
presented to you for your considera-
tion at this time.
1T being reported to the San Fran
cisco committee that Los Angeles re-
quired a new and ample water sup
ply, which San Francisco's fate rem
dered more apparent, the committee
decided, after listening to commit
tee from Los Angeles, to recommend
to me such amendments to the law of
1903 as would permit Los Angeles and
the surrounding unincorporated coun-
try together with cities and towns in
the vicinity of Los Angeles. to unite
and issue bonds in a sum sufficient to
provide that water supply.
Therefore the San Francisco COM
mittee recommend to me that | in
corporate i'm the call, and / did so in
corporate therein, proposition that
you amend the law of 1908, relating to
water supplies for cities, so that the
city of Los Angeles and the muniei-
pallties surrounding 1t may be able to
gain the water supply which they as
sured the committee and myself was so
necessary for their future prosperity
Compliments National Guard
81 desire also to call your attention
to the Intelligent and excellent service
rendered by the national guard, who
to the number OF 5000 We're concen-
trated in and about San Francisco.