The San Francisco call., 1909-01-08
COMMITTEE HEADS
NEARLY ALL CHOSEN
Hughes Anti=Racetrack Bill! !;
Change in Regard to
Penalties
By George Van Smith

CALL HEADQUARTERS. CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. with the announce
ment Of the standing committees the
senate will take up the introduction
Of bills tomorrow morning and at noon
adjourn until Monday when Speaker
Stanton will have the assembly commit
tees completed and both houses can
settle down to the work of the ses-
sion.
Lieutenant Governor Warren Porter
! finished the work of committee build
ing late tonight. Frank w. Leavitt of
Alameda viii head the finance commit
tee and Willis of San Bernardino viii
De chairman or the committee on judi
/ ciary- Clem Bates of Alameda county
/ beat Charlie Cutten for the chairman
ship on the committee on banks and
banking.
To insure against necessity of ap-
4 pointing democrat to the chairman
ship Of a committee or embarrassing
a republican with two chairmanships
the committees ON insurance, water
and forest conservation and oil and oil
industries have disappeared from the
senate list. reducing the whole number
4 OF committees to 80. Insurance and
oil and oil industries are consolidated
with corporations and water and for
estry conservation problems will go 10
Ant on agriculture.
Senator George S. Walker of Santa
Clara county will have charge of the
Hughes anti-racetrack bill in the up-
per house. dozen of the champions of
the measure caucused in one of the COM
mlttee rooms and decided upon a slight
amendment of the Hughes bill which
Walker viii handle in the senate and
Assemblyman Otis in the lower house
The change viii be In the penal pro-
Z visions of ful,
ment for the felony described by the
bill at the discretion of the court and
! the possibility of getting a bookie in
Jail for only one day, the bill as pre-
sented viii provide for a minimum SEN
tence Of 80 days in the county jail and
of the maximum of one year.
Cutten will be a member of the COM
mittee and will have ample opportunity
to represent the special committee and
the measures agreed upon by it and the
banking interests.
Abner Weed. boss OF Siskiyou, will
succeed Irish as chairman of the COM
mite on public morals which will
handle the proposed anti-racetrack
legislation The Craftsmanship of the
committee on elections and election
laws will go to Southern California, but
not to Senator Wright Wright will
be chairman of the committee on COM
merce and navigation.
At the last regular session the work
| OF Patton and Postmaster Arthur
| Fiske, who was drafted Tor the cap
ital removal bill. and Burke and Par
ker OF the railroad forces was espe-
cially raw. But no more OF that sort
of thing. And It was not the work OF
the machine men that caused the
spasm of virtue. The peoples lobby
has come TO town and lobbyists have
at once sunk into disfavor
SO far as democratic complimentary
votes for United States senatorships
are concerned James ID. Phelan has
full and equal rights in the down and
out club with Harry Flannery
Democratic leaders have as a result
of the pleading of some of the San
Francisco union labor bourbons given
over their plan to swipe McNab by
giving their complimentary vote to
Phelan and forcing some of the McNab
men out of the caucus thereby
Senator Marshall Black of Palo Alta
is to champion the cause of parcels
posts. Senator Frank w Leavitt oil
Alameda is to the fore again today
with another reform measure, and trfa1
juries are the subject of his proposed
! legislation. Leavitt is opposed to the
idea of locking up jurors drawn or
! important criminal cases and insists
that the imprisonment of jurors results
| in keeping businessmen and the bet
! ter class of citizens generally off juries