Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-16
LEGISLATORS TO
ENJOY VACATION
AT THEIR HOMES
SPEAKER STANTON RETURNS
TO LOS ANGELES
OTHER LAWMAKERS ALSO REST
AFTER BUSY WEEK
AoIournrnent Taken Until Monday.
Anti-Race Track Bill Expected to
Cause Lively Fight-Appoint-
rents Confirmed
by Associated Press.I

10y associated PreSS.l
ACRAMENTO. Jan. 15-The Iegis-
IN lature closed an active weeks
work this afternoon with the ad-
Journment of both branches until Mon
day and the preliminary organization
OF important committee that met after
oeHdCe ana assembly chambers were
emptled of lawmakers.
A great majority of the members left
tonight for their homes, including
speaker Stanton, who lives in Los
Angeles.
The speakers last word to the assem-
| Dlymen was that their committees wera
dispatching business with unusual
rapld1ty, but he expected even more Of
them next week.
The senate committee on elections or
ganlzed and decided to act as soon as
possible upon the direct primary
measures before it, setting the date for
the first public hearing on Thursday.
Large delegations representing vari-
Gus organizations are expected Paul
Bancroft will represent the board Of
supervisors of San Francisco; Hiram
Johnson the direct primary league and
John w. Sweeney the labor council of
| the metropolis
several Democratic members of the
senate are planning amendments that
Will be fought out on the floor
Inc assembly committee on public
|
Chairman Grimths, did not set a day
for the hearing on the anti-race track
gambling bills
Severaf delegations from San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles are expected to
appear before the body to fight for and
against a favorable report on the
measure.
The assembly ways and means com
mtttee, which will apportion money for
various uses suggested by the governor
and members of the legislature will
meet in the assembly chamber at noon
Monday.
For Department of Banks
The banks and banking committee on
Wednesday will take up the measure
prepared by the governors special COM
mission creating state department OF
banks.
In the senate today the long list OF
appointments made by the governor
was confirmed and numerous bills were
introduced, including a number pre-
pared by the Commonwealth club of
San Francisco as a result of the graft
prosecutions" and designed to expe-
dite the trial of criminal cases. These
also were presented to the assembly
In the lower house Senator Wolfes
joint resolution indorsing the Hetch-
| Hetchy water supply for San Francisco
was adopted after the first serious
affray of the session.
| Assembly Baxter OIL OSe10lC6 valley
| had offered an amendment fixing the
| point of diversion of the waters of the
TuOlumne river, and was supported by
Drew, one of the Republican floor
leaders.
In defending the resolution against
amendment and the consequent compli-
cations entailed, Nathan G. Coghlan Of
San Francisco said he had suspected
that the owners of the present water
supply in his city were maintaining a
lobby in Washington and Sacramento
to secure delay.
This brought Drew to his feet in self
defense, and Speaker Stanton repri-
manded Coghlan, declaring his language
was extremely unparliamentary.
The vote stood % to 81 when the as
sembly adopted the joint senate resolu-
tOn introduced by Senator Wolfe for
the supervisors of San Francisco ask
ing congress to give San Francisco the
Hetch Hetchy water supply.
! The debate during which Nathan G.
Coghlan of San Francisco, in support
ing the resolution and fighting an
amendment offered by Baxter Of Yose-
mite was called to order by Speaker
Stanton for remarks entirely unparlia-
mentary,'' was the first floor fight in
the lower branch.
| COghlan of San Francisco moved the
adoption of the resolution, when Bax-
ter offered an amendment specifying
the point of diversion to be one mile
below the confluence of Jawbone creek.
Baxter said he wanted San Francisco
to have the water, but he wanted also
to be sure that her engineers would not
change their minds about running the
pipe line to Jawbone.
Under the senate resolution, he said,
they could get the water at any point
above Jackson and condemn millions of
dollars worth of mining property that
pollute the water for nearly twenty
miles above that town.
Baxter's amendment was to specify
the point of diversion in the resolution,
and Coghlan, speaking for the San
Francisco delegation, said he had
grave suspicious that there was a
lobby in Washington and another just
outside the assembly chamber, en-
ployed in the interests of the owners
of the present water supply seeking
delay in congress.
Drew of Fresno objected to these re-
marks, as he had already spoken in
favor of the amendment.
| Coghlan shouted back that Drew or
anyone else could take all the eXcep-
tions they wanted, and then repeated
his "suspicions."
Speaker Stanton reprimanded Mr..
Coghlan severely.
In the senate two hours were de-
lvoted to confirmation Of many minor
appointments made in the last few
months by the governor
To Expedite Graft Cases
The bill prepared by the Common
wealth club of San Francisco to ex-
pedite criminal trials growing out of the
graft prosecution were introduced.
Drew spoke in support of Baxter's
amendment and Schmitt and Young
against it.
Coghlan made vigorous speech in
favor of the motion, during which he
was called to order by the speaker for
remarks regarding alleged lobbies at
Washington and in Sacramento work.
ing in the interest of the owners of the
present water supply.
The amendment was lost on roll call,
81 to %, and the resolution adopted by
viva voce vote
Otis presented a resolution drawn by
the board Of regents Of the state uni
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