Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-04
MAY ADJOURN As
SALARY CEASES
LEGISLATORS PREPARING TO
SHUT SHOP
Japanese Question Will Be Made the
Special Order of Business Some
Day This Week at
Sacramento
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, March 3-Within
four days of the sixtieth day of the ses-
sion when the salary of the members
will cease and with 300 measures still
before the senate and $40 in the as
sembly the principal topic today among
legislators was the probable length of
the session.
Leaders in the upper house freely ex
press their opinion that the legislature
will adjourn next Saturday and declare
that it will not be the fault of the
senate If the session extends beyond
this week. In the assembly, however,
it is believed that the Legislature will
not adjourn before a week from next
Wednesday and will in all probability
be in session for two weeks yet. ReSo-
lutions will be introduced in both
houses to fix the end of the session and
a joint conference committee APP
pointed to decide upon the day of ad-
journment.
The assembly has passed and sent
to the senate 447 bills, of which 1913
passed the uper house. The senate sent
to the assembly 342 bills, of which
ninety-four passed the lower house.
Thirty-one assembly and nine senate
bills have been approved by the gov
ernor and forty-seven assembly bills
While there are still a large number
of measures before both houses for con-
sideration with but a few exceptions
the most important bills are out of the
way. The matter which is causing the
leaders the most perplexity Is the
Japanese question. This is especially
true in the senate, where the few
Democrats have repeatedly attempted
to force the issue. Senator Wolfe has
| %hot hn Ton oy1IactiOn
will be made special order of busi-
ness in the senate for some day this
week. In the lower house there Is a
disposition among members to adjourn
and leave the matter in the hands of
President Roosevelt.
The woman's suffrage measure will
come up in the senate tomorrow for
reconsideration. 1t has twice been de-
feated Senator Bell will try to force
Eshelman's anti-race track bill on the
floor by introducing a resolution re-
calling the measure from committee.
where it has been since it was passed
by the assembly. There is very little
likelihood of its being passed by the
upper house.
The most important contest still on
the files is the Fresno-Kings county
controversy, the second round of which
will be fought in the senate Tuesday.
The Orange county division bill and
the bill cutting off slice from Tulare
county and adding it to Fresno are
not taken seriously, as neither house
is in any mood to be trifled with this
late in the session.
The general appropriation bill to
which the senate finance committee
added $125O 900 will meet with opposition
when 1t is returned to the assembly.
One hundred and eight amendments
have been added to the bill since it
came from the committee on ways and
means. The assembly committee has
disagreed with the senate committee
and has added provision to the stan
dard form of policy permitting certain
riders" which were barred by the in
surance committee of the upper house.
To expedite the passage of bills res
olutions will be introduced in both
houses tomorrow limiting debate ex-
cept in special orders to five minutes.