Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-06
PEOPLES LOBBY
AT SACRAMENTO
PLAYSC ERBERUS
S0L0NS WILL BE SHADOWED
AND ACTS RECORDED
IsADoR JACOBS AND DETECTIVES
ON HAND TO KEEP TAB
Governors Message Presented-RaiI-
roads and Rebates Are Among
Themes-Patronage Partly
Divided


presented at the morning session were
sworn in and signed the pay roll.
Senator Leroy A Wright Of San
Diego, chairman of the senate caucus,
Will divide with Senator Leavitt of
Alameda, who is slated to be chairman
of the committee on finance, and with
Speaker Protein Edward J. Wolfe of
San Francisco the task of managing
the affairs of the Republicans on the
floor of the upper branch.
AS chairman of the caucus Wolfe will
assume leadership on many important
matters, leaving to Leavitt the even
more onerous duties attached to such
an important committee as that on
finance.
Leavitt is assured of this chairman
ship unless some unusual disturbance
takes place in the affairs of the ma
jority.
Senator Wright, who is strongly in
favor of an anti-race track bill, said
today he did not attach any special i'm
portance to the reports that he had
been made floor leader in place of Sena-
tor Leavitt, who acted as Republican
whip at the last session.
Will Execute Plans
AS chairman of the caucus he would
carry out the wishes Of his Republican
as -ociates as nearly as possible on the
floor of the senate.
Senator Leavitt when asked regard
ing the matter, said that there was no
change in his relations with his col
leagues and that reports that he was
persona no grata in the organization
were mere speculation.
Senator Wolfe of San Francisco into
duced joint resolution calling upon
the California delegation in congress to
secure the adoption of the Hetch
Hetchy reservoir resolution:
The reports from the caucus settling
the distribution Of patronage was re-
ceived in the form Of two resolutions,
one providing for the pay of constitu-
tional officers and the other for COM
mittee clerks. On the latter there was
a misunderstanding
After providing $40 for two steno-
graphers for the Democrats there is
SIS day for each Republican, but by
a mistake in the distribution some
member, probably Hurd of Los Angeles.
will probably be out 81 a day on the
session.
The commission on revenue and taxa
ton was summoned by Governor Gill
lett this afternoon to amend the con-
stitutional amendment recently submit
ted to a vote Of the people and defeated,
which provided for a change in the tax
laws
Inc COuluHlSSIOn consisting OF the
governor, Senators J. B. Curtin, H. S.
G. Mccartney, u. L. Ward, E. A.
Treadwell and Professor Carl G. PIehn
of Berkeley, is in favor of framing
more flexible amendment preserving,
however, the main feature of the one
rejected, separating state and local
taxes. A joint resolution will be intor-
duced in the legislature, and if passed,
the matter will be submitted to the
ople in 1910.
Governors Message
The first biennial message of Gov
ernor Gillett was sent to the legisla-
ture this forenoon shortly after the as
sembly convened at il o'clock.
In his communication to the law MAX
ers the governor discusses state hospi-
tails, San Francisco harbor, prisons,
banks, highways, equalization, insur-
ance and railroads.
He devotes considerable space in his
message to the last named subject, de-
Claring that California has not kept
pace with the majority of states in the
enactment of laws regulating common
carriers.
The governor in his message re-
viewed the subject of railroad rebates
and the work of the railroad commits
sion. He said:
Our state has not kept pace with the ma
jority of the states of the Union in the en-
actment of laws regulating railroads and
their business as common carriers
Section II. article XII of the constitution,
provides that mo discrimination in charges
or facilities for transportation shall be made