Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-27
SENATOR SAVAGE
GETS INDIGNANT
LAWMAKER FROM SAN PEDRO
SLAPS ANGELENO
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
IN LEGISLATURE
One Meaoure to Increase Salary of
State Printer-AssembIy Adopts
Four Proposed
Laws
[By Associated Press.I


SACRAMENTO, Jan. Ex-senator w.
ii. Savage of San Pedro, one of the
holdoVer members of the upper branch.
created turole on the moor of the
house this morning by a denunciatiou
of %. A. Dickson, representative of Los
Angeles Express.
The aged senator arose to a question
OF personal privilege and declared he
ndd been miSrepreSented as having
aligned himself with the race track
senators against the Walker-Otis bill.
| A Few moments later Savage met Dick
son IN the postoffice in the rear of the
senate chamber and struck the news
paper man in the face.
That ended the incident.
Inc senate passed the following:
Joint resolution by Sanford calling
for an investigation of the increase in
railroad freight rates in the state and
appointing a committee to gather data.
With power to summon witnesses.
Senator Sanford introduced his bill
submitting the suffrage question to a
vote or the women themselves at the
next state election.
The senate passed the Wright hill
giving San Diego a new charter.
The finance committee recommended
| IaVofably bill increasing the salary
or the state printer from $4,000 to $4,000
year, and another appropriating $50
Voo 10 equip! the new printing office.
Minimum Wage Scale
The committee on commerce and Ia
| bor reported faVorably on bills prohib-
ltlng the payment of less than SO q. day
on public work, the misuse by unau.
thorlzed persons of union labor buttons
ana establishing an Inauguration bu-
reau.
Burnett introduced a measure per
mltt1ng the presiding superior judge of
| any county or majority of them to
| appoint q judge Of another court to
hold sessions in another county when
ever the necessity arises.
senator ThompsOn's bill to provide
Iof the Incorporation of cooperative
hon-proht agricultural and horticulture
al associations was passed after being
amended so that it would not conflict
with the Cartwright antitrust law.
The assembly passed today the fol-
lowing bills:
By Mott, providing two additional
judges Of the superior court of Alameda
county.
BY Transue, giving Los Angeles
| rights of way over state lands for the
| owens river project by which that city
| VIII secure new water supply
by wilson of Winters, providing for
| the copyrighting of distinctive names
Tor farms, designed for the benefit of
wen hIOWu growers OF fruits.
By Johnson of Sacramento. exempt
ing, growing crops, personal property
and stocks of goods from mortgage.
These bile were introduced: Appro-
priating $4,000 for improvements at the
university farm and the agricultural
! school at Davis.
Appropriating $15O,0OO for establish
ing the Northern California Polytech-
| mic school at Redding.
Providing for the establishment of
highway lighting districts to illuminate
country roads.
Regulating the deposit of state funds,
as follows: Bids shall be solicited for
loans, and loans made to the bank
offering the highest premium, the low
est interest to be considered being 2
| per cent. Not more than one-fifth shall
be deposited in one depository.