Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-09

and passengers and to prohibit any
proposed increase in rates. 1t provides
punishment by fine or Imprisonment
for violation. Fifty thousand dollars
is appropriated to enforce the pro-
visions of the act.
Attorney Webb, following a confer
! ence of state officials, is drafting a
| bill to be introduced in a few days
! increasing the salaries of stenographers,
clerks and deputies in the employ of
| the state.
| A consultation was held today in the
| governors office, but as there were
conflicting opinions regarding the wis
dom of some steps proposed, it was
! decided to leave the matter in the
hands of the attorney general until
such time as another meeting can be
arranged.
Amendments introduced
| Among the constitutional amend
ments offered in the legislature today
! several have been discussed generally.
| The woman suffrage measure intro
duced by Grove L. Johnson in the as
| sembly has not yet found a champion
in the. senate. although the members
| of the state central committee are in
! teryiewing the senators daily and are
| said to have some of the leaders wa
vering.
! J. w. Struckenbruck of Acampo, who
! has become known at the present SEES
sion as "The Honest Blacksmith ad-
vocates free textbooks; Harmon Of the
Los Angeles delegation has two amend
ments affecting juries. one making
/ three-fourths necessary to convict and
the other providing that grand Jurles
shall have not less than five or more
than fifteen members.
Greer of Sacramento wants constitu-
| A.. sinh n6
elections; Johnson of Sacramento adj
vocates Sunday as a day of rest and
Polsley of Sacramento wants the city
| of Sacramento declared the seat OF
government, providing that removal
shall be by a two-thirds vote.
Committees of Senate
! Lieutenant Governor Porter announced the
| senate committees follows:
| Agriculture and dairying-Rush chairman
Price, Weed, Strobridge, Martlnelh, Holonan'
! Bell.
Banking-Cutten, chairman; Leavitt, Wolfe,
Bates Mccartney, Curtin, Bell.
Commerce and navigation-Wright' chair
man; Welsh, Savage, Bates, Cutten, Martin
| eln Burnett, Kennedy, Hare.
Contingent expenses - Wolfe cnalrman'
| Rush, Kennedy.
Corporations = Bates, chairman; WEIGH,
Wright, Mccartney Burnett, Bills, Walker
| Roseberry, Finn, Miller, Kennedy.
County government-Thompson, chairman
Walker Weed, Willis, Bates, Wright, Price,
| Miller, Campbell
Drainage. swamps and over1owed lands
Lewis chairman; Rush, Walker, Burnett, Bills,
Cutten, Strobridge, Miller, Holohan.
Election and election laws-Estudillo, chair
man; Leavitt, Hartman, Wolfe, Savage
! Wright, Stetson, Kennedy, Hare.
Education-Black, chairman; Willis, Antho-
| n.y. Reilly Estudillo, Roseberry, Birdsall,
Thompson, MartinelI, Caminetti, Cartwright.
Engrossment and enrolment = strobridge'
| chairman; Birdsall, Bell.
Executive communications -Hurd, chairman;
| Bills, Lewis, Finn, Campbell.
Federal relations-Burnett, chairman; Black,
| Sanford.
Finance-Leavitt chairman; Wolfe, WEIGH,
Weed. Hartman, Reilly, Mccartney, Black,
| Price, Boynton Hurd, Burnett, Curtin, San
| ford, Cartwright.
! Fruit and vine interests-Bills, chairman;
Price, Rush, Walker, Estudillo, Strobridge,
Birdsall, Cartwright, Bell.
Fish and game-Welch, chairman; Bates
Willis, Weed, Black, Hartman Finn, San
| ford, Caminetti.
| Hospitals and asyIums-Price. chairman;
Hartman, Reilly, Black, Lewis, Stetson, Stro-
bridge, Roseberry, Martineln Holohan' San
! ford.
Irrigation-WaIker, chairman; Willis, Boyn-
| ton Bills Hurd, Estudillo, Thompson, Cur
| tin, Cartwright.
Judiciary-Wflls, chairman; Wolfe, Wright
Mccartney, Savage, Boynton, Anthony, Bur
nett. Gluten, Estudillo, Martinelr, Roseberry,
Stetson, Thompson, Curtin, Cartwright, Cam
inetti. Miller, Campbelle.
| Labor capital and immigration-Reilly
| chairman; Savage, Wolfe, Boynton, Cutten,
Lewis, Finn, Hare, Bell
| Military affairs-Anthony, chairman; Hurd
! Cutten, Strobridge, Bell.
Mines and mining-Boynton, chairman;
| Weed, Rush, Willis, Birdsall Caminetti Miller
Municipal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, chairman;
| Leavitt, Welch, Boynton, Reilly Lewis, Hare
Printing-Finn, chairman Anthony, Hare.
| Prisons and reformatories-M artinelli, chair
| man; WEIGH, Hartman, Birdsall, Bills, Finn,
/ Thompson Kennedy. Holohan.
! Public buildings and grounds-Stetson chair
man, Strobridge, Reilly, Walker, Anthony,
Bills, Hurd, Hare Campbell.
Public health and quarantine-Roseberry
| chairman; Price, Mccartney, Stetson, Holo-
han.
Public morals-Weed, chairman; Wolfe, Lea
witt, Savage, Kennedy.
| Roads and highways Birdsau, chairman
Rush. Black Hurd, Cutten, Roseberry, Lewis,
Caminetti. Campbell.
Rules-Hartman, chairman; Leavitt, Wolfe,
Thompson, Cartwrightp.
Revenue and MISUNDERSTANDING, chairman;
| Wright, Bates, Anthony, Stetson, Estudillo
Burnett, Curtin, Sanford.