The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1897, Page 1

- e et A Pt i T Bk - OPENING OF THi But Ther’elsba‘:’er’y Serious| VOLUME LXXXI. ¢ 7, N2, G Call e T W N\ %, 2 7 o @ \?"( 7 4 2 %, PRICE FIVE CENTS. GISLATUR Question as to Its Organization. JUMBLE IN THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. Peculiar Tacties of Hamilton in Securing a Call for a Caucus. MEMBERS FALSELY TOLD THAT OTHERS- HAD SIGNED. Intense Indignation Exists and the Fierce Fight Begun Will Now Be Waged Until a United States Senator Is Eleeted to' Sueceed PerkKins. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 4.—Manager Hamilton announced to- n’ght that he had secured sixty-two signatures to a call for a Republi- can caucus to-morrow evening on the Senatorial matter, Robinson of | | Nevada County being the last to append his name. After the list had been given to the press Assemblyman Pohlman, whose name was on the list, stated that it had been represented to him that all of the San Fra:cisco delegation had sgned, which was not th: fact, and he thereforz proposed to take his name off. Other Republicans have made statements to the same effect. In- tense indignation exists, and a fierce fight has begun. It will be waged until a United States Senator shail have been elected. Thereis a serious question as to whether the L:gislature was or- ganizzd to-day. The Senate adjourned earlier than did the Assembly, and the resuit was that the Senate was not notified that the Assembly had organized. The Senat: committee could not find the Governor, and the Governor was not.notified- Hence the organization is said to be incomplete, the foregoing essentials not having been present. Samuel M. Shortridge arrived on the late train last night, and was received at his headquarters in the Golden Eagle Hotel by a host of friends. OPENING OF THE SENATE. black clothes and black eravats. Pecullar Omission That May Cause a Postponement of the Sen- atorial Election. and looked to the life most potent, grave and reverend reigneurs. Senator Morebouse of Santa Clara is one of the most distinzuished looking of SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 4 —When |the new members. He wore a white Senatorial caucus, which had met | cravatand in his coat lapel a camellia of a cf the rooms upstairs, ad-’dl‘ep crimson hue. | | | ed shortly before noon to-day, and | Senator Bert, a holdover from San the Senators filed into the well- | Francisco, and Senator Denison of Ala- chamber in which they were to | meda sported four-in-hands of brocaded or the government of the peo- | silk. the three enlivening the gloom most ate, they were followed by a | gayly. The personnel of the Senate com- ho wished to witness the | pares favorably with thatof former ses- session of that distin- | Sions, there being many more than ordi- narily strong men among them. For that reason the present session promises to be one of the most interesting if not impor:- antin the bistory of the State. The first day was as tame as all first days usually are, the business being of the most routine character of preliminary orgamization. Just as the hands of the big clock in the zallery pointed to noon Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Jeter walked up the steps lexding to his chair of weli uphoistered plush. It was such a chair as poets of the doice far niente school would love to loil and doze were filled and in the in the red plush chairs | ground floor were ir most gaudy lliant plumes. The s were not lacking in e dignity and im- A few had their sitting by them and a!l were ap-| pareled as became the dist ed office filled by them. The géntlemen, who put on a most severe expression of | countenance in order to the smiles | in; suggestive of sweet veace and the rest of the good-iooking young women seeking | which belongs to him who possesses positions at the hands of the Senate, wore | neither fame nor care, Mr. Jeter is a fine ators he appreciatio; poriance of the o wivi LUNCH L:‘-L\i B / i \ \ \ \ él]‘y JUDGE CAMPBELL and WARDEN AULL Refresh the Inner Man. gl el W ‘ LIEUTENANT - GOVERNOR JETER Calling the Senate to Otrder for the Session. REFUNDING RESOLUTIONS Proposition Now Pending in Congress Considered in Caucus. | SENTIMENT OF REPUBLI- CAN ASSEMBLYMEN. Foreclosure and Government Ownership of the Pacific Roads Advocated. CAMINETTI OPPOSED ANY EX- TENSION. Urges That the Existing Laws Con- cerning the Bond-Aided Roads 1 Be Rigidly Enforced | SACRAMENTO, Oar., Jan.4—The Re- | publicans of the Assembly caucused dur- ing recess and among other measures con- | sidered the railroad refunding proposi- tion now pending in Congress. Belshaw of Contra Costa and Cutter of Yuba each bad resolutions prepared. The two sets of resolutions were combined and Mr. Belshaw was delegated to present the fol- lowing to the Assembly as the sense of the Republicans: WHEREAS, There is now pending in Congress a bill known as the Powers bill which has for its subject the re- funding of the debts of certain Govern- ment-aided railroads; and whereas, any scheme of refunding the Pacific rail- roads’ indebtedness to the Government | must result in maintaining an excessive capitalization of these roads, thus re- | quiring high rates of fares and freights to meet the interest payments thereon, | to the great burden and disadvantage of the peple of the State of Californ and whereas, a sale of | these roads on foreclosure to any corporation or private person must result in the loss of most of said Govera- ment indebtedness, besides perpetuat- ing the evils of private ownership and management, therefors | Kesolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Semate comowrring, That our Senators be instructed and our Representatives be requested to oppose the refunding of the said in- debtedness in any form, and in lieu thereof to favor legisiation providing for the foreclosure and sale of said roads, upon condition that the Gov- ernment shall b'd on said roads and | operate them as a National enterprise | in the interest and for the benefit of | the whole people, and especially of looking man, ‘tall, dark, in the happy | medium degree, with curly hair and n} sweeping mustache. His are such a [ace | and figure as were seen before these vi:- | laious days of gunpowder, when the good | right arm, the stout heart, the well-tem- pered blade, the quick eye and the supple prist won the way of their possessor to ducats and duchesses. Put upon him the conventional doublet and hose; span the lithe waist with a broad leathern belt, | fasten thereto a basket-hilted hanger of | hand-made Damascus steel and cover tie | squirming dark locks with a wide- brimmed sombrero and you transform the | Lieutenant-Governor of California into a | rollicking biade of the days of all who can kiss pretty maids and drink sack with | equal gusto. But Mr. Jeter is not that kind of a man. Detail with his description has baen gone into because, a general rile, the Lieuten- ant-Governor of a State, like:the Vice- President of the United States, drops into oblivion after election, unjess he elopes with some other man’s wife or murders his mother-in-law, or does something hor- | rible to force the newspapers to notice bim and the people to remember him. However, on this occasion, Mr. Jéter was a personage of consequence in the affairs of the State. The Senate could not have organized without him, had he chosen not to take his seat. That is the opinion of Governor Budd as expressed this afternoon, but it has been stated that the opinion is un- sound. If that were the case the death of a Lieutenant-Governor at an hour or a minute before the opening of the Senate would throw matters into confusion the most inextricable. The call to order was short and sweet— two raps of the gavel and the simple an- nouncement that the session had begun. After the rollcall there was a pause of five | or ten minutes, which interval was occu- pied in couversation with visitors and others ut the desks of the Senators. Senator Dickinson was the first to speak. He presented the temporary rules, the significant one of which was that the standing committees should be appointed @by the Senate, thus conveying to Mr. Jeter's mind in the most delicate man- ner that precedent would not be observed | in this instance for obvious reasons. Senator Bert was the author of the first motion, which was to proceed to the elec- tion of the standing officers. The first joke was perpetrated by Sena- tor Langford of San Joaquin—a good man, but a Democrat. The Senator had been nominated &nd voted for by his colleagues of the Democratic faith for the position of temporary president. It was a party vote of 28 to 12, he getting the full dozen. When the result was announced the Sen- ator rose in his place and inquired inno- cently: “Mr. Chairman, do I understand that I am defeatea?’ His expression was 8o funuy that everybody laughea. The Senate sent a committee of three to. notify the Governor that it had organized and was ready to receive any communica- tion that he might choose to make. The committee returned and reported that the Governor was not in his office, and that the notification, therefore, could not be served upon him. Then the Senate notified the Assembly of the fact of or- ganization and uajourned %n hour or so before the Assembly had completed its organization. The commirtee of that body sent to notify the Senate of course could not fulfill its mission, the Senate not being in session. The omission to notify the Senate was contended by many parliamentarians to | invalidate the organization, two of the essentials of organization—the notifica- | tion to the Governor and the notification ‘ by the Assembly to the Senate—having { been omitted. These things, itis claimed, | are as essential factors of organization as the election of a statutory ofticer of that | body, and the proposition s-t up is that ] an organization had not been established to-day, and that the election of a United | California, who have contributed more States Senator would Lave to be deferred | t0 the suppor of said roads than the for anotber term. | people of any other section, the re- There was no prayer when the Senate | sults of which will much sooner reim- was called toorder. burse the Government for |the advances A roll of holdovers was called. A reso- | made by it In aid of these roads than lution providing for the adoption of rules | by any other method ; and be it further for the Senate was presented by Senntori Resolved, That the Governor be re- quested to immediately transmit by telegraph a cuopy of these resolutions Continued on Second Page. 1 JUDGE JAMES A. WAYMIRE Receives an Ovation Upon His Arrival at Sacramento.