Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-18
LEGISLATORS OPEN
SEVENTH WEEK
MEMBERS WANT TO ADJOURN
ON SlXTlETH DAY
Sunday Rest Amendment Comes Up
Today--Anti-Rae Track Measure
Due Tuesday--Prize Fight
Bill Moves Along
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SACRAMENTO Cal, Feb. 1.-THE
seventh week of the Legislature which
begins tomorrow will bring much inn
portant legislation before both houses.
Comparatively few important meas
ures have so far been acted upon, but
tomorrow will find over 400 bills on
the assembly file for consideration in
the lower house.
The senate has worked more expe-
dltiously and has caught up with its
file, but in the assembly there is more
of a tendency to talk and debate
measures and the lower house will find
1t necessary to hold night sessions in
order to transact the immense amount
of work that is before 1t this week.
The intention is to press legislation
as fast as possible in order to adjourn
on the sixtieth day.
Tomorrow afternoon Johnson's pro-
posed amendment for a Sunday rest
law will be up for consideration. The
measure has been so amended that IT
defeats the original purpose so far as
the observance of the Sabbath and
general cessation from all work and
business on the first day of the week
is concerned. The measure now mere
ly provides that the legislature shall
enact a law for one day of rest in
seven. Tuesday morning the lower
house will take up the consideration
OF Eshlemans anti-raCetrack bill, pro-
hibiting all betting and pool selling
on races and if enacted would practi-
oally suppress all racing in the state.
AS a concession to the county fairs
the measure has been so amended as
to allow pool selling on races not eX-
ceeding ten days a year in any one
county. Eshleman hopes that with
this concession his bill will pass the
lower house.
In the senate another anti-gambling
measure, Hartman's anti-prze fight
BILL will come up for passage this week.
Hartman has declared that he lacks
hut three votes to pass the bill.
The constitutional amendment for
woman's suffrage, introduced by Grove
L. Johnson, has been made a special
order of business in the lower house
for Tuesday.
The proposed amendment extends to
women the right to vote at all cleo
tions. The measure has been favor
ably reported in both houses and much
interest is being manifested in it.
Johnson's eight-hour bill for en-
ployes of street railways and his mo
seat, no fare measure are also special
orders for the week in the assembly.
The Fresno Kings county contro-
versy, so far the bitterest fight of the
session, will be renewed in the senate
this wee!-. The anneXationists, en-
couraged by their victory in the lower
house, are making every effort to win
in the senate, while the opposition is
determined to block the measure in
the upper house.
Vaccination Fight On
The vaccination fight will also be re-
newed this week Twice defeated, the
Observation-Disclosures are endeavoring to
reach an agreement with the champions
of incubation by which vaccination as
a prerequisite to the schools is to be
removed and give the state board of
health authority to enforce a general
compulsory vaccination law all over
the state.
All other important legislation this
week is the passage of a score of bills
effecting reforms in the life and in
demnity insurance business. the Held
direct primary law and the adminis-
tration measures for the creation of a
state department of engineering; the
insurance committees also expect to
finish their work on a standard form
fire insurance policy this week
The $3,000,000 worlds fair bill which
mas passed III the senate VIII De taken
up in the lower house this week.
Senator Wolfe will call a meeting of
the entire San Francisco delegation in
the assembly Tuesday to consider the
bill.
The 100000 bond issue for the San
Francisco water front will come up in
both houses during the week.
Under the expeditions work of Chair
man EstudillO the committee on ways
and means is making rapid progress
on the general appropriations bill
The early adjournment of the legisla-
ture largely depends upon the early
completion of this bill and its passage
by the lower house.