The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24
ASSEMBLY DECIDES
LOBBYISTS MUST GO
Manager of Peoples Bureau
Slated for Examination
as to Detectives
GumshOe Men Prove Particular
ly Objectionable to Many
State Legislators
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


CALL HEADQUARTERS, CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. 2S.-'No quarter for lob
byists" is the battlecry of the assembly
That body today devoted another hour
to erecting defenses, which the lobby
list will scale at the peril of life and
limb Henceforth and hereafter so
long as the thirty eighth assembly
shall endure no lobbyist, fair, false or
masculine, shall set foot within the
portals of the lower house.
George Baker Anderson and the de-
tectives employed by the peoples lobby
did not figure by name or direct refer
ence in the assemblys skirmish with
the lobbyists today. Not an assembly,
man deigned to mention the peoples
legislative bureau or it's agents after t.
d. Johnston of Contra Costa informed
the speaker that the committee on rules
had nothing further TO report on that
head.
ANDERSON UNDER FIRE
Anderson is down for another inqui-
sition on Monday, if he does not refuse
further to spend his time answering
questions about whatever brand of
shadows he is employing. And detect
ives, not the letters TO Wheelan and
Feeley, are what the committeeman
want explained. Some of them admit
frankly that they do not care a rap
about the letters, nor yet about the
records of their legislative acts which
the legislative bureau may send out,
but they do object most strenuous1y to
espionage which embraces their relaxa-
lions and private amusements.
The assemblymen generally admit
that they know of no way in which
they can drive the gumshoe men out
Of town, but they hope to hit upon
some happy solution Of the problem.
Meanwhile the house has INDUCED
itself in another squabble over more
lobbyist rules and has declared by a
decisive vote CAT to 19) that no lobbyist
shall come within the doors of the as
sembIy chamber, whether the house be
in session or not.
NEW RULES FOR FLOOR
Assemblyman Irwin, who has a back
seat supported the new rule because
the seats within the floor rail and i'm
mediately in rear of his desk were, he
said. filled with beautiful ladies most
of the time and their conversation, not
TO mention their beauty, was a source
of constant distraction from the
weighty matters of state. The rule
went through. but the ladies did not
go out.
ANY member may admit friends to
the floor by card, but il the friends IN
duIge in lobbying of a character which
causes any other member to complain
to the speaker the friends cards shall
be Cancelled forthwith. Also and not
by way of elaboration of the rule.
newspapermen who have the privilege
of the floor shall not speak to members
at their desks during the sessions OF
the house.
Peace and concentration shall be the
portion Of the assemblyman, if the
armed forces of General Lauck have to
be called out to patrol the aisles.
JOHNSON REsIsTs PROTESTS
Neither the protests of President
Roosevelt nor yet the agreement be-
tween the governor and the leaders of
the senate that no anti-Japanese legis-
lation shall go through have any ter
rors for Grove l.. Johnson.
He returned to the attack this morn
ing with the introduction of copy of
the Asiatic exclusion joint resolution
introduced in the senate on Thursday
by Senator Caminetti.
Theodore A. Bell. generalissimo of
the new democracy, stopped in Sacra
mento on his way to Auburn and held a
/ conference with the faithful and unter-
rified. On his return next week another
4 conference is to be held and measures
calculated to result in new glory to the