Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-11
SESSION MAY END
BY MID-MARCH
STATE SENATE TO MEET AT
NIGHT, TOO
Sacramento Legislators Are swsmped
by 1900 Measures, Of Which
but Few Have Been
Acted On
Rv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 1O-To-
morrow the sixth week of the legis-
lature will begin and some Of the
most important bills introduced VIII
come up for consideration.
Fifteen hundred measures have been
introduced, of which but few of any
importance have been acted upon' put
the opinion Is expressed that there Will
from now on be decided falling off
in the number of bills introduced
daily.
Commencing tomorrow night the SEN
ate will hold night sessions and TINS
example will probably be followed by
the assembly. Some of the leaders in
both houses freely express their pc
lief that the work of this session Will
be finished by the middle of March.
The introduction yesterday by AS
semblyman Stanton of bill which mas
for its purpose the carving of slice
from Orange county and ADDING IL 10
Los Angeles county has created SEN
sation in the Southern California dele
CATION and promises to develop into q
6sht second only to that between
Fresno and Kings county over the at
tempt of the latter to annex the Vaiu-
able Coalinga oil district. The COM
mittees of the two houses on counties
andcounty boundaries have not yet
taken action on the measure, but what
ever their recommendation may be 1t
will be followed by hard fight on
both floors.
AntI-Vaccinationist Busy
The Observation-Disclosures, who were
temporarily defeated in the assembly
last week. have by no means given up
the fight to have the law repealed or
so amended that vaccination, will not
be requirement to admission In the
schools. Wednesday has been set for
a reconsideration of the vote by which
Sackett's anti-Yaccination bill was lost
in the assembly. Should 1t again meet
defeat Eshlemans bill will bring up
the question again and Senator LeaVitt
of Oakland, the anti-vaccination lead
er In the senate, has bill in the up
per house.
The four track railroad bill, fathered
by Transue in the assembly and Sem
ator Anderson in the senate, was de-
feated in the senate, and action on 1t
proposed in the assembly has been
made a special order of business in
both houses for this week.
Senator Curtin's bill, making it a
crime to dock horses tails, which was
unanimously passed by the senate, has
stirred up opposition in the southern
part of the state. Numerous protests
are being received from Southern Cali
fornia against the enactment of the
measure on the ground it's provisions
prohibited the Importation of docked
horses except for breeding purposes
will affect many wealthy tourists who
spend their winters in Southern Cali
fornia and bring their carriage animals
with them. The bill has been favor
ably reported out of committee in the
assembly.
Johnson's proposed amendment to
the constitution, granting suffrage to
women and extending to them the
elective franchise in all elections, will
come up for passage in the assembly
this week. McCartney's pure food bill,
drawn in conformance with the pure
food act passed by congress, is sched-
uled in the senate for tomorrow.
Senator Lukens' return fresh from
Japan will add renewed interest to the
Japanese question and an expression
of his views is being eagerly looked for
by members of both houses.
Both life and fire insurance legisla-
ton will be among the most important
work of the Legislature this week The
bills prepared by Insurance Commits
sioner Wolfe and introduced last week
will effect considerable reform in the
life, casualty and indemnity insurance
business in this state and will be
adopted with little or no change.
The committees on insurance, with
the aid of Commissioner Wolfe, Attor-
ney Coogan of the underwriters and
Insurance Expert Jones hope to finish
the task of drawing up a standard
policy satisfactory to all by the end of
the week.