Imperial Valley press., 1915-01-13


pie and can sell bonds that may have
teen voted.
This will be rushed through the
legislature as an emergency measure,
to enable this irrigation district to
finance the work on the levees, where
Chief Engineer C. r. lockwood is
anxious to begin work at the earliest
possible date.
Sacramento, Jan. 13.-Assemblyman
Cary. Progressive, stirred up the first
real fight of the session today over
the ruling on the election content COM
mittee that Ira E. Kramer, elected on
the Progressive and Republican tick
cts from the Fifty ninth district over
H. B. Bagby, Democratic incumbent,
by six votes, would retain his seat.
Cary jumped over party lines and
made strong plea that the ballots
be counted before the assembly. He
received considerable support and the
matter was put over until tomorrow.
Republicans of the assembly are in
censed over the committee appoint
ments. Although there are 33 Repub-
licans in the assembly, they are not
given the craftsmanship of single i'm
portant committee and are in the mi
nority on practically every committee
of Importance.
Sacramento, Jan. 13.-The legisla-
ture sat yesterday for about an hour
and adjourned until today. This is a
brief record of some consequential and
impressive doing.
Of some Importance is the fact, an
nounced with fanfare and accom-
panied by pomp. and circumstance,
that Governor Johnson's inaugural
ceremonies cost just $92, of which
sum SAG is to be paid by the assem-
bly's contingent fund and SAC by the
senate'S. That is all it cost to drape
the assembly chamber, move the fur
niture, fire the loud and inspiring
bombs and hear that octette to sing
"Tipperary" in four tunes and seven
keys.
But, mind you, this $92 was loudly
and even triumphantly contrasted and
compared with the $1,208 that it cost
to set Henry T. Gage on the guber-
Material throne; with the $1,S23 ex-
pended to drape George c. Pardee
with the robes of office; with the ST.
305 which went to place the sceptre
ir the willing hand of James N. Gil
let. The $92 even shows as lean and
shrunken beside the $402 that it cost
to get Hiram w. Johnson into the
habit of being governor.
And it was also an important event
of the days doing that Ben Rush was
peeved.
Now rare Ben Rush of Suisun is
the Nestor of the Senate and for
many years he has had noble privi-
lege that became him as a right.
When the chaplain had prayed S5
worth of prayer and the senators
with chastened spirits raised their
bowed heads to hear the secretary
read the minutes of the journal of the
previous session, Senator Rush would
rise like a slow, aspiring meteor or
rocket from his place against the
westering and say with sonorous SOL
emnity:
81 move that the reading of the
journal be dispensed with"
But there came up to this session
young Pharaohs who knew not the
Joseph of Suisun; precedent was
nothing to them. They waded through
senatorial courtesy with rude mud
splashing fast, and when the prayer
was finished-hardly before the last
comforting echo had died away-one
of them rose and moved that the
reading of the journal be dispensed
with.
Lieutenant Governor Eshleman, be
ing new at the game, did not know
what had happened to cause the
awed hush that fell upon that cham
ber Men shifted uneasily. Ben Rush's
face famed like sunrise over his
own beloved Suisun marsn. The wind
less silence deepened until near new
voice was heard to say:
81 second the motion"
The deed was done. Precedent
had been smashed into thousand
bits. Senatorial courtesy had been
soaked in the nose. Ben Rush's pre-
rogative had been invaded, his privi-
leges overturned.
This morniup Ron Rush was not in