Year: 1866

those institutions had their work done,


and the Legislature had adjourned


then the members had to feel the whip.
| The Speaker of the Assembly was de-


nounced as imbecile and corrupt, the


members as thieves and scoundrels.
wide Sacramento Union.


The first step toward the emancipa-
tion is the removal of the State Capital,
| and this good work alone will repay the
State for the money an extra session
will cost. Let US have an extra session,
and let their first work be to repeal all


Acts levying taxes for the completion of
the Capital buildings-then an Act To-
eating the State Capital at some eligi-
BILE, healthy place. Take it out of the
miasmatic frog pond. With united
vote from this District, this can be ac-
complished, and once accomplished, the.
power of our masters will be broken, and
we may then hope to see the State un-
der the control of the people and gov.
erned by men who can lift themselves
above the levees of Sacramento, and
see something ON the Pacific coast out
side of those levees, advance to her
proper position, and the tide of emigra-
tion that is now, moved by the blighting
influences spoken of, setting from our
borders, returning to them, and filling
our State with the population so much
desired.


Why should We waste our money in
attempting to rear above the swamps of
Sacramento the contemplated building?
The building tax was doubled this year.
All of it if spent, will not advance the
building as fast as the river advances.
Think of it Steamboats, running
aground, and the river eighteen feet
above low water mark The bottom of
the river is rising faster than the walls
of the Capitol Give them the benefit
of tax of Is cents on the $100, a tax
5 cents higher than they now have, and
their most sanguine friends only csti-
mate that such gains can be made upon
the river, that by the time the building
is completed, the cupola alone will be
above the bed of the river. ''But they
are filling up the city," True, they
fill up the streets, leaving the cellars of
their houses, and squares and vacant
lots to be filled with water seeping from
the river above them, and the street |
grades to become boundaries for pools
of stagnant water from which malaria
will exhale disease and death to all with
in its poisonous influence.


We say give US an extra session, and
let rs have firm, united and success
full effort to remove the Capital, and |
thus save the great interests of our great
State from the deadly bHghting infu-
ences that are now preying on her
vitals.


1t may be objected that the action of
the Legislature at called session, must
be confined TO the purposes for which it
was called together. Not so, however.
The Constitution merely provides that
the Governor shall state in the procla-
nation the purposes for which he con-
venes the Legislature, but contains no
clause prohibiting the Legislature from
acting upon other matters. A State
Constitution being limitation of and
not grant of power, it follows that in
the absence of prohibiting provision,
the Legislature is only restricted by its
own discretion.


One word more, and this to the men,
bers of the Legislature by way of eau
ton. Bear in mind that most of you
live in healthy localities, and that if an
extra session is called your presence will
be required at the swamp Capital; that
every day you stay there, it will be at
the imminent peril of your lives, the
dangers attending the going do,cn into
the Capital City being little less than
going into the hold of the cholera ship
European. Therefore have your bills
prepared d-meet-remove the Capital
and yourselves as speedily as possible
Quincy Union.