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

N NACRAMENTO, Jan. 5.-Isador ia
cobs of San Francisco, the lead
~ ing spirit of the peoples legis-
lative bureau, arrived here today with
some of his lieutenants and opened
headquarters for one Of the most novel
Iobbies in the history of California
legislatures.
Jacobs announced purpose is to take
stenographic reports of all the speeches
in both branches of the legislature,
record every vote on every measure
and KEEP such perfect tab on the dOings
of the solons that anyone at any time
can get the form" of each when inl-
portant bills are at issue.
According to Mr.. Jacobs, the stenog-
raphers and a corps of detectives will
be employed throughout the session,
under the direction Of George B. ALI
derson.
Such measures as the initiative, the
anti-race track, railroad, banking and
judicial bills will receive especial at
tention and a huge blackboard will be
maintained in a public place. announc-
ing by bulletin all the committee meet
ings.
Jacobs declares his staff will have no
other interest than to keep the public
in touch with all the events, executive
and public, that may transpire during
the session.
He also is infested in the Islais
creek proposition and any measures of
interest to shippers, particularly in San
Francisco.
Women's Lobby Arrives
Full of enthusiasm over their crusade,
the vanguard of the women who are
expected to furnish much of the spec
tacular lobbying of the session arrived
today, and this evening began a warm
campaign for their woman suffrage
bill, which viii be introduced in the
assembly by Grove L. Johnson of Sac
Iamento.
The delegation, led by the chairman
of the state central committee of the
Woman Suffrage league, Mrs. Lillian
Harris Coffin of Oakland, included the
other members of the committee as
follows: Mrs. Agnes Monihan of San
Francisco, Mrs. Agnes Rae of Oakland,
Mrs Lucy Neeland Of Mill Valley and
Mrs. Mary Sperry.
Mrs. Coffin spent most of the after
noon in the assembly and senate after
the adjournment of those bodies, re-
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the lawmakers.
An unusual program has been
planned by the central committee. SO
soon as their bill is introduced women
from every part of the state will be-
siege the capitol and when the measure
reaches it's critical stage in the pro-
cess of enactment, 1000 Suffra gettes
will be on the scene and a monster
demonstration, including a street pa
rade. will be made downtown and on
the capitol grounds.
Mrs. Coffin has established head
querters near the center of activities
and will have a regular organization
to attend to the work of seeing the
bill through committees.
Among the Caucus
At the caucus of the San Francisco
delegation this afternoon the joint resO-
luton introduced in the senate by
Wolfe of San Francisco this morning,
calling upon the California delegation
at Washington to bend ali it's efforts
toward the ratification by congress of
the federal grant Of water rights to
the city and county of San Francisco
in the Hetch-Hetchy valley, was favor
ably acted upon.
The call for the Republican joint
caucus for the selection Of a United
Stats senator, issued today, had been
signed before nightfall by about forty
members. SiXty-one are necessary to
elect.
The opposition to Senator Perkins
candidacy is centered in Chester H.
RowelI of Fresno. leader of the Lin
coln-RoOseveIt league.
There is a movement on foot among
the anti-Perkins Republicans to nomi-
nate Mr.. ROwell, and his friends are
counting on the support of the Demo-
cratic leaders.
The senate and assembly will take
separate ballots Tuesday, and Wednes-
day will hold joint session to de-
eide the issue.
The Democrats will caucus tomor-
row on the senatorial situation. The
names of James D. Phelan, Theodore
Bell, Franklin K. Lane and Harry P
Flannery are mentioned in connection
with the complimentary vote.
Have Many Disputes
Both branches Of the legislature were
busy all day settling minor disputes
over the clerical forces permanent or
ganiZation, compensation of mem
bers and arranging for the great mass
of bills that will begin to pour in
when the committees are announced.
Tonight lobbyists are on the ground
in force and the hotels are full of men
and women from all over the state who
are anxious to see pet measures made
into laws or disagreeable ones de-
feated
The state central committee of the
Woman's Suffrage league, under the
leadership of Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin
arrived just before Isador Jacobs and
the staff of stenographers and detect
ives who constitute the peoples lob
by.''
The first biennial message of Gov
ernor Gillett was sent to both branches
of the legislature before noon but was
not read in the assembly.
The filing of a contest for the seat oi
Assemblyman Charles A Nelson of Sar
Francisco by Cornelius P. Lyons, Dem
Ocrat, and the fight made by Senator
Curtin for more Democratic patronage
were the only discordant notes in the
second days session, and occasioned
the first open clashes between the min
ority and majority representations.
At the afternoon session the uues-
tion Of the Democratic patronage was
settled, Senator Cutrin making an ap-
peal to the Republicans for more than
the $40 a day allotted by the caucus
but his efforts were unavailing.
The clerks whose names had been