Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-12
ASSEMBLY DESKS
ARE PR|ED OPEN
PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS ARE
MISSING
Lawmakers Conclude Labors and Viii
Leave for Home Today-South-
ern Pacific "Takes
Water"
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, March 11.-Today
was practically the last day Of the
thirty-seventh session of the legislature
and both houses were scenes of intense
activity
While the time for adjournment sine
die is not until noon tomorrow the sem
ate adopted a resolution early in the
day that no bills would be passed after
6 o'clock this evening and after that
hour only senate amendments to senate
bills would be considered. BY o'clock
the upper house had practically COM
pleted it's work and comparatively few
bills were allowed to die on the files
The members of the senate immedi-
ately commenced to pack up their files,
books, papers and other articles and to-
night merely concurred in amendments.
In the lower house bills were rushed
through under high pressure until IL
o'clock tonight. A large number of
measures were passed in the closing
hours and the files fairly we'll cleaned
up of all important bills.
| A ripple of excitement was caused by
an announcement by Transue that the
desks of several members had been
broken open and robbed of papers and
documents during the recess this
| evening.
| The speaker instructed the sergeant
alarms to keep three of his assistants
on duty in the chamber after the as.
Sembly adjourned tonight and allow
none but members to enter.
| Tomorrow's work in both houses will
consist principally in speech making
and leave taking. The majority OF
legislators have arranged to leave on
the afternoon and evening trains.
Antitrust Bill Passes
The senate today passed Cartwright's
antitrust bill, which is q copy of the
law that has proved so effective In
Ohio, and the senate sent to the gov
ornor Birdsall's anti-monopoly bill. The
latter is far from as drastic and far
reaching as Senator Cartwright's s
| measure. The last bill passed by the
senate was Wilson's bill making more
stringent the child labor law of the
state and the last action of the upper
house before taking a recess at
O'Clock was to lay on the table mo-
| tion to reconsider Stetson's direct pri-
mary bill.
Although he had given notice Of re-
consideration several days ago Senator
| Keane recognized the futility of trying
to revive the change of venue bill and
| made no attempt to secure a reconsid-
Grafton of the measure, which was de-
feated last week
Leavitt's Oakland water front and
harbor bill died on the assembly file
tonight. This measure has met with
strenuous opposition from Oakland and
| Mayor Mott of that city has been here
several days fighting the bill.
After several conferences today be-
tween Mayor Mott, City Attorney Nc
Elroy of Oakland, Jere G.. Burke, rep
resenting the Southern Pacific, and
Assemblyman Walsh it was decided
late tonight that no further attempt
would be made to put the bill through.
This action. Walsh said, was taken by
the representative of the Southern Pa
| cific in Difference to public opinion, as
the measure did not seem to be prop
erly understood by the people.
Senator Leavitt's bill appropriating
$150,000 for an agricultural building on
the university campus at Berkeley was
defeated in the lower house.