Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
CONSOLIDATION
BILLISADOPTED
BY LARGE VOTE
LEEDS MAJORITY MEASURE
PASSES ASSEMBLY
SAVAGE AND S. p. DOOMED TO
INEVITABLE DEFEAT
Friends of Los Angeles and San Pedro
Do Good Work in ThWarting
Scheme of Machine
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N ACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.-By vote
of AZ to 2, Leeds majority con-
~ solidation bill passed the h Sc ear
ly this afternoon and it was hoped un-
til then the unreasonable amendments
imposed by Savage would be stricken
out of McCartney,s companion bill in
the senate, but on account of a day
filled with oratory and debate on other
measures the Mccartney bill was not
reached on the long fie.
1t now is believed that tomorrow the
bill will come UP and the obnoxious
amendments which the San Pedro
Savage would attach to the reasonable
measure in order to block the consOli-
dation of Los Angeles and the near
by cities will go down to defeat by a
fair majority vote.
The position of the consolidation
workers is daily strengthened and
everyone now predicts the measure will
be absolutely safe. Former Mayor
Henry Hazard of Los Angeles arrived
today to help out in the fight if neces-
Sary He found conditions good, how
ever, and expressed himself on the sub
ject this evening:
Has No Ak to Grind
L nave 10 personal DIX " SIlIlus Uul
I have the interests of Los Angeles and
San Pedro so at heart that when the
Municipal Waterways association, Of
which I am a member, asked me to
come up here [ had to come.
From what l can learn, the fight
is won, and the workers have done
well.
Where Savage is going to get his
votes from is more than l can see, as
17o %n1I hot Of, Il y,aI1
shows at least 25 votes for the original
majority measure, and fail to see who
is going to give the required support
to the lone senator from the harbor
city"
Leslie r. Hewitt, city attorney of Los
Angeles, has finished correcting the
joint resolutions which approve Of the
amendments to the charter of Los An
geles, and the amendments required to
correct the typographical errors will be
presented to both houses tomorrow. 1t
is expected the amendments will be ap-
proved and the resolutions passed III
few days.
Again Seek Segregation
An unavailing attempt was made late
this afternoon to accomplish by amend
ment to an innocent looking school bill
CA. B. 68S), introduced by George L.
Sackett of Ventura, the segregation of
Japanese pupils in the public schools.
Its intent was to do practically the
same thing sought to be done in Grove
L. JohnsOn's measure that recently
caused President Roosevelt to address
the California legislature through Gov
ernor Gillett.
The Sackett bill is an act to amend
the political code by determining the
number of years of instruction in the
day and evening elementary schools;
determining the age of admission to
such schools and providing for separate
schools for Indian, Mongolian and Chi
nese children.
THE amendment which was offered
by Harry Polsley of Red Bluff was to
insert the word Malay" after Mon
golian.'
Might Include Japanese
This, it was declared by Mr.. Sackett,
who objected to the amendment, might
finally result in the exclusion of Jap
anese children. The latter race he
said, contended that they were Malays,
not MongOlianS, as had been the con-
tention of the San Francisco school
board when it resolved two years ago
to segregate children under that con-
struction of the present law.
Assemblyman F. M. Rutherford of
Truckee was in the chair and the house
ing file when the amendment by Mr..
Polsley came as a shock to those who
recently stood by President Roosevelt
and Governor Gillett in their fight
against the Johnson Japanese school
segregation bill.
A messenger was dispatched at once
in search of Speaker Stanton, who has
tened to the assembly chamber and
seized the gavel just before the ques-
ion J1yaC -IIl7T fnd TO
Speaker Much Worried
johnson of Sacramento, Edward But
Ter of San Rafael, John w. Mott of
Oakland and 7. D. Johnston of Rich
mond, all favoring the amendment, de-
1nanded a roll call, and until the result
was announced the speaker wore an ex-
tremely worried appearance.
The amendment finally was defeated
by vote of q to Is.
Forty-one are necessary to pass a bill
or approve an amendment.
Mr.. Mott called for the absentees, but
was not recognized by the speaker.
Another ripple on the calm of routine
enactment of bills in the assembly to-
day was caused by the opposition Of
Assemblyman A. M. Drew of Fresno
to the reference to the committee on
common carriers of Senator J. B. San
ford's resolution calling for the estab-
lishment of a line of government
owned steamers between California
ports and Panama to compete with the
transcontinental railroads in the trans
portation of freight.
Drew's protest against Speaker Stan
toms action in referring the resolution
to another committee after it had been
favorably reported by the committee on
federal relations finally was needed by
the speaker, and the bill went to the
bottom of the file.
WoIfe's Resolution Passes
The principal business in the senate
was the passage of Senator Wolfe's
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of three senators
to investigate the causes Of the Gin
creased cost of living in California
and appropriating $4,000 for that pur-
pose.
1T was amended so as to strike out
a criticism of the Cartwright anti
trust law, but an effort on the part Of
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