The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-10
SESSION ENDS
With Big BOOST
FOR EXPOSITION
Legislature Adopts Resolution
Urging Congress to Choose
San Francisco
Democrats Take a Joke Serious
Iy and Political WrangIe
in Senate Follows
LSpecial Dispatch 10 The Call


SACRAMENTO. Sept 9.-The special
session OF the thirty ghth California
legislature adjourned sine die at noon
today after the presiding officers of
both houses had affixed their signatures
TO the proposed constitutional amend
ments, which win add $4,000, 600 TO
The Panama Pacific international expo
sition fund. and the unanimous adop-
lion Of Senator Wolfe's joint resolution
nemorializing congress to pass Con-
gresham julius Kahn's resolution
designating san Francisco as the site
Tor the exposition.
The last two hours of the session
in the senate We're enlivened by the in
lection Of a political wrangIe, which
unexpectedly developed from Josh"
resolution introduced for the purpose
of willing away the time until the hour
mEed for adjOurning sine die. 1t was
brought in by Senator John B. Sanford
democrat, Of Ukiah after Senator A
Caminetti- democrat, of Jackson had
been called 10 the chair by Lieutenant
Governor Warren r. Porter.
CONGRATULATE 6. o. p.
The resolution proposed that the re-
publican party be ngratulated upon
seeing the light and taking bodily from
Ihe democratic platform the tenets and
principles long advocated by said demo-
cratic party and long denounced by the
republican party" The resolution
further con era tulated the new insur-
gents upon the amount and quality of
The oil used TO grease the steam roller
10 fIatten out the regulars, and resolved
hat il be the sense Of the senate that
H,-fr he n n
cratic platform" be held in state OF
probation for four years.
senator CartWri gifts serious discus
sion Of the josh resolution immediate
81 drew the IRE Of Senator Wolfe. who
stated that he considered the serious
discussion Of the measure as unfair
after it was understood that the demo-
Gratis We're to Introduce il in fun. But
the democrats insisted on taking ad-
vantage of the little trick. and both
Curtin and Sanford took a rap at the
regular republicans and congratulated
the insurgents on their opposition TO
the machine. Before the situation be-
came too acute the author was granted
leave to withdraw the resolution, and
what might have been a serious debate
WAS avoided
RAP MACKENZIE REPORT
The trouble loving democrats. aided
bv the insurgent republicans, put one
over on Lieutenant Governor Warren
Porter and the other regular republic
cans by tanning through resolution
disapproving of the notorious report re-
Gently made by State Labor Commits
sioner John D. Mackenzie, in which he
expressed the opinion that japanese
laborers were necessary in the state.
Speaker Stanton proved himself a
keener tactician than the president of
the senate by promptly declaring an
Identical resolution out of order when
it was offered by Assemblyman John 3.
Naher Of santa Cruz.
There was the usual wave of Sentl-
ment in the assembly as the hour of
adjournment approached when some of
the members realized that the direct
primary law and other agencies proba-
bly, had forced them into retirement
from legislative activity William ].
Hanlon Of Los Angeles offered reso-
luton that the members Of the thirty
eighth session effect permanent organ
ization- Former Speaker r. L Boards
lee Of Stockton was the only member to
vote TO on the motion that Speaker
stanton name a committee of five to
bring about such an organization w.
p. Grifiths. ". J. Hanlon, Milton i.
Schmitt, J. ". Preston and Grove L.
Johnson were named on the committee.