Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
RAISE SALARIES
OF EQUALIZERS
ASSEMBLY ADOPTS MEASURE
TO INCREASE PAY
FOUR MEN EACH TO GET $1,000 A
YEAR MORE
Otis Warehouse Lien Bill Also Passed.
Several Hundred Documents
Are Still in COM
mittee
Especial to The Herald.1

SACRAM EMU, fSD. 81 ne UlIl III
crasing the salaries of the four mem
bers of the board of equalization from
$4,000 to $4,000 was passed by the assem-
bly, today
1t originally raised the salaries to
! $4,000, but was amended in committee.
Those who will benefit if it becomes a
law are ]. H Scott of San Francisco,
Alex. Brown of Stockton, Richard E.
| Collins of Redding, and Jefferson Nc
Elvaine Of San Bernardino.
Frank Otis warehouse lien bill, sew
| eral times amended, also was passed.
! 1t is almost entirely a new section and
| is as follows:
! "A depository for hire has lien for
| storage charges and for advances and
| insurance incurred at the request of the
| bailor for money necessarily expended
| in and about the care, preservation and
| keeping of the property stored, and he
| also has lien for money advanced Cat
! the request of the bailor) to discharge
a prior lien and for the expenses of a
sale where default has been made in
! satisfying a valid lien. The rights of
the depository for hire to such lien are
regulated by the title on liens.'
When George Blocks slot machine
| bill, which prohibits the use of all
gambling machines was brought up for
| passage, Florence O'Neil of San Fran
cisco offered an amendment which
ratus, but would prohibit playing back
| checks already won. The amendment
was voted down.
Block said there would be much op-
position to the measure, and as there
was a bare quorum asked that it be
passed on the file.
Many Measures Out
The eighth week of the legislative
session closed today with several hum
dred bills still in committees and many
of the most important Of the session
to be acted upon before adjournment
sine die.
Speaker Stanton and many of the
| committee chairmen in the assembly
are of the opinion that at least three
weeks more will be required to finish
the necessary business on hand, al
though an effort will be made by
some of the senate leaders to force
adjournment a week earlier - on
March Is.
The past week was principally de-
voted to the passage of bills Of purely
local interest, to which little or no op-
position developed, and to the rapid
disposition of second reading files and
committee reports.
Considerable anti-Asiatic sentiment
was expressed in both houses, through
memorials to congress.
To the surprise Of a majority of the
| senators, Lester G. Burnett Of San
Francisco, chairman of the committee
on federal relations, reported a SUBJ
Stitute for four resolutions that had
been referred to his committee, hitting
the Japanese indirectly by an appeal
to congress for a general Asiatic ex-
clusion law.
Faced Issue squareIy
With the issue squarely before it,
the senate adopted the measure by
comfortable majority and it was sent
to the assembly for Endorsement.
A ioint resolution of a militant ma
ture, although it does not mention the
Japanese, was introduced in the as
sembly by Nathan G. Coghlan OF San
Francisco.
It asks congress to establish in Pa
cific waters a fleet strong enough to
resist an attack from any power on
the western ocean.
1t was made a special order of busi-
ness for Wednesday afternoon.
Two bills that arused a storm of op-
position from the lobbyists and whico
were the cause of a fight in the sem
ate lounging room, followed by de-
mands for an investigation of veiled
charges that money had been used by
| their opponents, passed the upper
branch and are now before the San
Francisco delegation in the assembly
These are the measures introduced
early in the session by Senator Rich
ard J. Welch of San Francisco, pro-
viding for the condemnation and pur-
chase of submerged land in Islais creek
basin to be used for the construction of
wharves and docks.
The two houses are deadlocked over
the question of sending to congress
critisim of the methods of the Harri-
man railroad and steamship interests
in raising transcOntinental freight
rates. The senate has gone on record
as favoring the measure, while the as
sembly firmly declines to concur.
Sanford Father of 1t
The resolution was introduced by
Senator J. B. Sanford of Ukiah, DEM
ocrat, and asks the federal govern
ment to establish a line of steamers
between Panama and California to con-
meet with the Panama railroad and the
governments steamers on the Atlantic
to compete with the Pacific Mail COM
pany and check freight rate increases.
The matter will be settled by con-
ference committees.
Assemblyman Grove L. Johnson Of
Sacramento introduced at the request
of the w. G. 7. u. a resolution ask
ing the legislatures Of other states to
join California in an appeal to con-
gress for a convention to amend the
constitution so as to prohibit the prac-
tice of polygamy.
Senator Miguel Estudillos local op-
tion bill was hard hit when it was re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary
after it had been amended in many
ways by the senate. Edward I. Wolfe,
who made the motion to refer, an
nounced at the same time that he was
bitterly opposed to the bill.
George L. Sackett's measure prohib-