The San Francisco call., 1907-02-08
Law to Bring About Honest
Nominations Fathered by
Republicans and Passed
CAMINETTI RAILS.
BUT is SQUELCHED
Amador Statesman Displays
Very Bad Temper and Is
Told to Sit and Be Good
By George A. Van Smith
CALL HEADQUARTERS,
1907 EIGHTH STREET

0AOINT1N-G G4N ~ ICD. - 1C OCH
ate passed the He1d-Wright direct
primary constitutional amendment to-
day by a unanimous vote, after a
partisan tempest in a teapot, which
resulted in the Lieutenant Governor
advising Senator Canlinevi by direct
inference that the Amador lstatesnan
was not gentleman and ordering the
sergeant at arms to force the insistent
Democrat into his seat.
For the first time in the memory
Of veteran Senators the previous ques-
ton was moved today in the Senate.
This unusual procedure was the cul-
rninadon CT an exhibition of partisan
bitterness engendered by the remarks
OF Senator Caninetti, construed and
resensed by the Republicans as gratui-
tcus partisan insult.
As forecasted by The Call. the Held
Wright amendment was made a party
measure in Republican caucus this
morning. and that after a fight. sena-
tors Wright and Leavitt led the fight
for the adoption of the proposition as
passed by the Assembly and amended
by the Senate committee on elections
and election laws There was opposi-
ton and plenty OF suggested altera-
tions and a proposition to draft a new
amendment. which should be known
simply as q party measure. When the
Leavitt had won the Republicans filed
into the Senate. prepared to listen good
naturedly TO the attempts of Caminetti
to participate in the framing of prop
osition as suggested by his announced
programme. The good humor was
promptly knocked out of the Repub-
licans by Caminettis charge that they
did not represent majority of the
people, but a machine; that they were
acting in bad faith. and finally by the
suggestion that the secretary and not
the Lieutenant Governor was conduct
ing the proceedings of the Senate.
CAMINETTT sQUELCHED
Caminetti broke into his partisan
play with an attempt to name specifi-
caIIy the nomination Of United States
Senators in the amendment to be sub
mitted. Recognizing it as an attempt
TO make political capital through the
foregone defeat OF an unnecessary spe-
cialization. the majority laughingly
voted the proposition down, after San
ford had added an inpassioned speech,
in which he charged the Republicans
with bad faith toward the efforts of
CaminettL
Caminetti came back with another
amendment which obviously had as
its only purpose the creation of further
opportunity for oratory. 1t was then
that he paid his respects to the major
ity in a manner that raised bad blood.
He charged the Republicans with rep
resenting the machine" and not the
people, after telling them to hasten
Republican" for this would be the
last Republican Legislature for many
a year. His remarks stirred Leavitt
TO move the previous question and the
Republicans insisted upon it being put.
Porter shared fully in the Republican
anger. and when in the face of the
motion for the previous question Cami-
netti sought unanimous consent to ex-
plain further his proposed amendment
he added the last straw TO the presid-
ing officers load by shouting:
II ask unanimous consent I ask
that my appeal from the Senate be put
10 the Senate and ask the president,
not the secretary
Take your seat" thundered the big
voice Of the Lieutenant Governor.
Caminetti declined to hear the COM
msnd, and banging his gavel Porter
shouted:
Sergeant at arms. set him down."
NO DISSENTING VOTE
The sergeant at arms was apparently
otherwise engaged. In any event, the
statesman from Anador was not sub
jected to physical violence. Senator
Curtin managed finally to secure recog-