The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1897, Page 1

T ——————— N — —e -—.‘.—. L Th VOLUME LXXXIL-NO. 4: PRICE FIVE CENTS, TN Assembly and Senate De- clare the Election of Perkins. APPRECIATION OF THE “ SENATOR. Says He Will Werk With Re- newed Z:al in the Interests of the People. HUNDREDS OF BILLS DUMPED IN, BEING Many Plans to Benefit Workingmen Are Submitted o the Legislature. vention in the Assembly ber todeclare the result of yester- United States Senator. Flint, President pro t e part of ti ited the following by wire from Senator ad to the joint conve c Brandou, secretary of the red is made more dis- possibitity ce upon yourac- | tncredses Wwithin“me the feeling of which the high office brings thens my ambition to work !f possi- | with more for the interests of the rave so often honored me with r to act in the future s in GEORG use was evoked by the offisial of Mr. Perkins’ election, or by nowledging the honor joint convention ad- e IN THE SENATE. | | NT CONVENTION questing the Federal Government to establish a National asylum on the coast for lepers was referred to the Committee on Hospitals. Secretary Brandon read a telezram from Senator White acknowledgi he receipt of the concurrent resolutions relating to the protection of California fruit indus- mong the billsreported by the Finance Committee are the following: Making appropriations to pay the claims of the Tribune Publishing Company of Oakland; James McClatchy & Co., Sacramento; Herald Publishing Company, Los Ange- les; Daily Report Publishing Companv, San Francisco; the Merced Sun; the Bul- letin Company, San Francisco; James H. Barry of the San Francisco Star, and the San Francisco Examiner, ali for publish- ing constitutional amendments. Other bills were introduced as follows: Making appropriations to cover a defi- y for postage and telegraphing, Su- preme Court, $8 74; claim of Clarence S. Merrl) as reporter in court of inquiry, XNational Guard, $1131 60; claim of W. C. Conway for conveying children to Whittier, §98 50; deficiency in appropria- tion for State forestry stations, §899 30; im of S. Dierssen for supplies fur- hed the National ard 3 13; deficiency in appropriation for o State Caritol building and fur- 00; claim of Jonn Mullan for rendered the State, $15,616 30; §5000 for the purpose of sending an expert to Australia and New Zealand and to collect and import into this State parasites and predaciors insects; provid- ing for increasing the efliciency of fire de- partments within municipalities; amend- ing an act to establish the f:es of conunty, township and other officers and of jurors and witnesses in the State; amending the Code of Civil Procedure relative to the ex- pense of bonds of administrators; amend- ing an act relating to the issuing of bonds by reclamation districts; fixing the mini- mum compeasation for labor on public work; requiring convict-madg gooas to be plainly marked as such; making appro- priations to pay the expenses of eleciors of President and Vice-President, $500. IN THE ASSEMBLY. Many Witnesses Required In the San Francisco Contested Elec- tion Cases. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Jan. 13.—Speaker Coombs announced upon calling the As- rep nit services | sembly to order this morning that he had Motion Adopted Asking the Assem- | bly to Change Its Position as to Library Trustees. 7O, CAL., Jan. 13.—When reached the regular order of orning President (pro tem.) announced that the g had organized boney as chairman and Senat n 2 The Senate resolution, calling for a joint on of the Senate and Assembly to be held Wednesday, February 3, for the purpose of electr 3 ary Trus- tees, reported back from the Assembly with the amendment of the date of holding the vanced to Thursday, Jan > A motion was carried requesting the Assembly to recede from its position. C an Voorheis introduced a num- ession be ad- ber of bills providing for the payment of cert m n claims against the State, asrecom- 1ded by the State Board ot Examiners. ator Luchsinger offered a joint r lution urging the California delegation in Congress to secure &n ample appropriation complete the dredging and improve- San Pablo Bay channel. r Dickinson’s joint resolution re- nt of £ | authorizing House that | conversed with Chairman Kenyon of the Committee on Contested Etections regard- ing the contested election cases at San Francisco, and was informed that thirty witnesses would have to be subpenaed if an investigation were made. He had therefore requested the committee to in- quire more thoroughly into the mutter and decide as to the necessity foran inves- tigation. Resolutions were introduced calling upon the Secretary of State to provide an- other room for the use of committees, so that the ladies’ waiting-room need mnot be used by committees; and asking the appointment of a committee to visit the asylums at Ukiah and Napa, so that in- telligent action could be taken on pro- posed legislation affecting those institu- tions. Bridgford introduced a bill providing that in all cases where an assessment shall be levied for swamp reclamation purposes and the assessment afterward be declared invalid, credit shall be given the person paying such tax on any later as- sessment. North of Alameda introduced a bill the issuance of municipal bonds to cover deficiencies in any fiscal vear, at any time prior to the day on which the last installment of taxes be- comes delinquent. e LT GENERAL LEGISLATION. Many Bllls Introduced to Amend Present Laws and Protect Workingmen, SACRAMENTO, Can, Jan. 13— Alt ough the Senate was tardy in getting to the consideration of bills, the lost time was more than made up on Monday, when 169 bills were put in. On Tuesday, owin to the interposition of the Senatorial elec- tion, but twenty-nine bills were intro- | duced and to-day seventy-four, making a grand total for the Senate alone of 272. Among the bills introduced by Senator Bert was one authorizing the appointment of an interpreter of the Japanese language in criminal proceedings in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants. The bill carries with it the significant fact of the increase of the Japanese population of S8an Francisco. The same gentleman has also introduced two bills prescribing conditions upon o7 516 BETTMAN, CUSTODIAN OF Py aLS’ BLICMORALS PRCULATES A ;;:r_mom_"-.__\ MO in 1894, Joint Session of the. Legislature Declaring the Election of George C. Perkins as United States Senator. which certain foreign insurance corpora- tions may be permitted to transact in- surance business in this State. The bll to amend the police pension fund law, so as to allow Chief of Police Crowley to retire, was also presented yesterday and was referred to the City Governments committee. His other bills define the duties and respontibilities of employment agents, prohibit collusion between..ems ployers of labor.and employment azents, provide for the proper sanitary condition of bakeries and restaurants and for the appointment of a bakehouse inspector. Senator Boyce introduced a bill author- jzing the employment of a specialist in socialogical education in counties and cities. Senator Braunhart’s bill for the elention of governing commitees or governing bodies of the political parties at the gen- eral electiof instead of at primaries will come before the Committee on Elections to-morrow. The bill to reduce the rates of fares on street railroads will be taken | up by the Committee on Corporations. Senator Bulla’s Torrens land transfer act is now before the Committee on Judi- ciary. The same committee will pass upon the bill concerning the filing of me- chanics’ liens bv adding a proviso that the owner of real property must give notice of the completion of improvements thereon. Senator Dickinson is looking out for the interest of dairymen in his district, and has introtluced a billdefining the difterent grades of cheese and for branding the same manufactured in 'California; also another bill to prevent deception in the manufacture and =ale of butterand cheese. Senator Dwyer's bill conferring power upon the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco to provide for the erection’ of a municipal hospital and to levy & tax there- for will be taken up by the Committee on City Governments. Senator Feeney has put in & bill requir- ing the State Harbor Commissioners to complete the construction of the seawall south of Market street. Benator Hall comes to the rescue of men employed in bakeries, and has a bill be- fore the Committee on Labor and Cupital to regulate the Lours of labor of men em- ployed in bakeries. It is likely that the question of constitutionality will be raised with respect to this humane bill. The same committee will handle the bill to enforce prompt payment of the wages of laborers in lawiul money of the United States. This bill strikes at firms which make their employes wait a month or more for their wages, as isdone by the railroad company in its Sacramento shops. Iv also aims to do away with tne system of paying the men in sawmill and other dis- tricts in orders or checks which the men are forced to shave. ‘Senator Henderson has a bill in provid- ing for a bond for the protection of labor- ers on public work. Senator Jones, on behalf of farmers and stock-raisers, an act relating to estrays. Senator Langford has contributed a bil providing for a State constabulary for the apprehension of murderers and other felons. Sepator La Rue will attempt to make a law prohibiting the adulteration of wine and to prevent the manufacture and sale of such adulterated product. The title of the bitl, which 1s “‘An act to amend an act entiiled ‘an act to prohibit the sophistica- tion and adulteration of wine and to pre- vent the manufacture and sale thereof,’ " 1s ambiguous, for it reads that the manu- facture and sale of wine should be pr.- vented. There are several bills before both houces empowering municipalities to acquire and condemn water, and to sell the same to their inhabitants. Senator Luchsinger is the author of one of these. Thereisa strong feeling among the members of the Legislature in favor of municipal owner- ship of lizht and water, the Populists being for it, of course, and Republicans and Democrats alike having a favorable opinion of it. It is not and cannot bea party measure by any means. Senator Beard of Alameda hasa bill to aliow cities and towns to own and operate their own lighting plants and to sell light to the inhabitants. There are several bills in both houses proposing -new methods of holding 1 simary elections, most of them providing that primaries be heid on the same day. and under control of election: officers. reptresenting all the pelitical parties™ + ‘Thélaws of general interést apart from Jocal influence may be summarized into very few, and the summary will indicate the pervading sentiment of the member- ship of the present session. These laws provide for a reduction of the bours of labor among bakers and other toilers, for whom there is allowed but little rest. Labor will be protected in the collec- tion of its earnings in money and promptly. Employment offices and pawn- brokers (the two seem to go together somehow or other) will be placed under stricter regulations for the protection of the pocr from the labor-sweater and the three-ball shark. Reforms will be insti- tuted in the method : of primary elections. Some commissions will be abolished and the appropriations for others will be cut down, for this is a Legislature of economy, it is said; but there are many persons here who do not belleve it. Particular attention will be paid to the prevention of the sale of adulterated milk, cheese and butter, and the dairymen’s interests generally will be looked after. Supervisor King of San Francisco came up to-day to look after a bill authorizing himself and his associates to condemn and purchase the remaining two lots on the site of the old City Hall in San Francisco, 8o that the new building may have the benefit of the entire half block. S nator Braunhart will be after the shorthand reporters in the Police courts with a sharp stick. He says that they earn too much money. For instance, the following sums were paid to the stenog- raphers,of the four Police Courts for one year’s work, according to the last munici- pal report: Police Court 1, $6519 45; No. 2, $6213 70; No. 3, $4020; No. 4, $4622 85. ““I propose to reform the Police Court,” said the Senator to the writer to-day, ‘'by providing for three Judges to be appointed by the Mayor after the expiration of the terms of office of the incumbents, and to change the law so that the Police Court clerks shall be appointed by the County Clerk and be under his management and control; also that the prosecuting attor- neys of the Police courts shall be appoint- ed by t! e District Attorney. At least one of the courts must be i1 session each day until 5 p. M. The Superior courts con- tinue in session until that hour, and there is no reason why Police Court officia's should go out 1o the races in the after- noons when Superior Judges must remain in their courts and do business. Police Court stenographers should receive a fixed salary of $200 per month. The stenog- rapher in the Coroner’s office transcrites the testimony at all inquests for $150 per month, and he does more work than all the Police. Court reporters put together.” The Senator’s declaration of intention will be likely to cause much commotion in the ranks of the shorthand fraternity in San Francisco. Major Jose Ramon Pico’s claim goes to the Committee on Claims, and the major has furnished the following circular to each member of the commitiee: To the Representatives of the Assembly and Senate of the State of California: Major Jose Ramon Pico organized four companies of the Callfornia native cavalry at an expense of several thousand dollars, of which expenses he has never received & dollar from this State. He was the first captain in California to enlist men for the war. He is now & poor man, ha: ing lost his money in business failures. H: father, the late Governor Pico, gave the State of California property enough to make & large fortune. He gave the ground for the location of the State prison at San Quentin, Stockton Insane Asylum, and at Sau Jose for the loca- tion of the State Capitol, and others; $1000 for the cornerstone of the Capitol buiiding, $1000 for the sufferers of the Sacramento flood in 1861 and 1862, §5000 to Archbishop Alemany for St. Mary’s Cathedral, $5000 to belp build Santa Ciare College and other do- 8 nations. The major is wounded, and it is but proper that the State of California should pay him what he asks for in his old age for his honorable services rendered for the Unionand the Stafe of California. Your most obedient | servant, NEWTON BOOTH. Assemblyman Treacy of San Francisco ‘has putin e bill that will canse no end of | talk; ‘mot only in the Legislature but throughout the State. It provides that thé mihimum wages for labor om public work, whether the work be done'directly by the State or the municipalities or let out by them on contract, shall be $2 per day. Treacy argues that should the bill become a law contractors will put in their bids on public work on the basis of $2 per day for common laborers and that noone will be injured thereby. The money will be expended in the community, as labor- ers’ and mechanics’ wagesalways are, with the result that trad> will be livelier and the money will be put at once into general circulation. Treacy says thatlaborerson certain pub- lic work in San Francisco are paid by the contractors 90 cents per day or $5 40 per week and out of this miserable pittance earned by the sweat of his brow the poor siave of the sewer must pay for his board and lodging, and if he be married must support his family. A five-dollar-and-forty-cent family is a terrible thing to contemplate in these days of civilization in California. It is more terrible than pitiable when one looks into the future and speculates upon the destiny of the children belonging'to that family. There will be an opportunity for many eloquent arguments when the bill shall come up for passage and the speeches will no doubt be eloquent, even though they may be homaly, rugged and uncouth. Why? Because the voice of charity, the voice - that speaks on behalf of down- trodden humanity, will sound in the ears of the hopeless gutter slave.as sweetly and as blessedly as an angel’s song. S. K. Thornton, & well-known mining man' of Sierra County, came up from San Francisco this evening. He will look after sevaral mining bills in the committees. Senator Braunhart of San Francisco has in preparation a bill to fix the salaries of county officers in S8an Francisco. He says that since the decision of the Supreme Court to the effect that the officials men- tioned are county officers, it will be neces- sary for the Legislature to fix their sal- aries, the consolidation act not being applicable. His bill proposes to cut down expenses of the County Clerk to $6000 per moith. The following1s a digest of his bill: County Clerk, $4000 per annumj; chief depaty, $3000 per annum. For all departments of the Superior Court, depu- ties as follows: One register clerk for every three departments of the Judges of the ' Superior Court, salary $150 per month instead of $175; for each Judge or department of the Superior Court one courtroom clerk at $125 instead of $150; one additional register clerk for each de- partment of the Superior Court, salary $125 : per month; one copyist ‘for each Judge and one additional register clerk for every two Judges, salary $100 per month., When not employed at their duties to do other work in the office. No changes in the Sheriff’s office except that the bookkeeper receives $200 instead of $250 per month, and assistant book- keeper $150 instead of $100 per month. Nochanges in Disirict Attorney's office. No changes .in Assessor's office. No changes in Coroner's office. No changes in the salaries of the Recorder or his deputies; 10 cents instead of 12 cents per folio, and provides against the disparity in the payments allowe to copy- iste, who shall average about $100 per month. At present some copyists are making $200 a montn, and others are mak- ing about $60 or $70 per'month. A separate bill has been introduced in reference to the Public Administrator, re- ducing fees, which is to take effect two years hence. No changes in Superintend- entof Schools, Supervisors are prohibited from allowing additional or creating addi- tional compensation for their offices. County Olerk Curry and Alexander | Truman lett for San Francisco this atter- noon. e TO AMEND THE CODE. Ennls Has a Bill to Regulate the Appointment of Employes of the Haalth Board. SBACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 13.—A bill was introduced to-day by Assemblyman Ennis of Sacramento amending section 1 3009 of the Political Code, relating to the appointment of officers and employes of the Board of Health of San Franeisco. The section as amenaed provides that the board must appoint a quarantine «fficer, a secretary, assistant secretary, six health inspectors, one market inspector, one messenger; also one superintendent physician, one resident physician, one steward, one matron, one apothecary and three visiting physicians as officers of the City and County Hospital. One of said visiting physicians shall be nominated by the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco, one by the faculty of the medical department of the University of California and one by the Cooper Medical College. Two recently graduated physicians shall be appointed by the board as internes. The board is also authorized to appoint an engineer for the hospital. For the Almshouse, the board is author- ized to appoint one superintendent, one matron, one resident physician and such other employes as are now authorized by law. The board is empowered to appoint one City physician and one assistant City physician, . who shall be designated as police surgeens. The board is also empowered ‘‘to ap- point such employes and such medical attendants as they may deem necessary in the Health Department and 1n all the various institutions which are by placed under their supervision, and the compensation of such emvloyes and medical attendants shall ke fixed by the Board of Health. Tle appointing power aforesaid is vested solely in the Board of Health, and said board shall not remove the same without just cause.’’ To remove heads of departments a con. currence of four members of the Board of Health is required. The bill was referred to the Committee Continued on Second Page. law|(; NOW READY 10 PAY (P Union Pacific Stockholders Abandon Hope of Friend- ly Legislation. MAEKE OVERTURES FOR A SETTLEMENT. Terms of More Advantage to the Government Than the Powers Bill. | OFFER CASH PAYMENTS AND INCREASED INTEREST. Collis P. Huntingtcn, However, Has Nct Yet Giv n Up All Hope of Relief From Congress. WASHINGTOX, D. C,, Jan. 13.—It can be definitely stated that the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad bave finally abandoned all further hope of obtaining | friendly iegislation at the hands of Con- gress. ‘They are reported to have made over- tures to President Cleveland looking toa settlement of the road’s indebtedness to the Government. What the details of the proposition of the stockholders are cannot be stated, since the proposition is still largely tentative in its nature. Itisun- derstood, however, that it involves cash payments, either of a lump sum in settle- ment of the indebtedness or payment in installments, the first payment to be a major fraction of the entire debt, the rest to be paid within five years, the unpaid portions to bear interest at a rate of be- tween 3 and 34 per cent. The proposition is understood to be de- cidedly more advantageous to the Gov- ernment than was the Powers funding bill, which the House slaughtered on Monday. Mr. Huntington, however, representing the_ Central Pacific. will not co-operate with the Union Pacific. He still believes that something can be obtained from Con- gress, and he will make no proposition until every effort at legislative relief has been abandored. This information eomes from Senator Brice of Ohio, a stockholder of the Union Pacific, and it was imparted to a brother Senator to-day. Huntington left Washington last night and is now in New York City. It can be stated upon excellent authority that he will make the most strenuous eiforts to sacure the passage of some kind of a bill at this session of Congress to prevent fore- closure on the Uentral Pacific. The Central and Union Pacific people were very much alarmed to-day on ac- count of a conference held between Presi- dent Cievelana aud Attorney-General Harmon. The latter was instructed to file his foreclosure suits immediately. This report induced the Union Pacific people to make their tentative offer of settlement. Mr. Huntington will, how- ever, fight to the lastditch. He has de- spaired of the hope of passing a refunding bill, and is said to favor the bill intro- duced by Senator Gear to-day, providing for a commission to settle the indebted- ness of the roads. —_——— AN 4 NEW BILL. PUWEKS Chairman Powers wants to see some- done, and he does not feel like 4 ascertain the attitude of the President. He thinks a new bill could be prepared which would suit the House. The California members of the House do not think there will be any further action on the question. “While I will not commit myself to it,"* said Chairman Powers to-night, “I have thought that there were some good points in the proposition for a commission to settle this question. The idea was pro- posed heretofore, but the majority of the committee thought the Government would be better protected under the bill which SOMTHTRER CHIEF CLERK OF THE ASSEMBLY, DUCKWORTH WHO READS ON ANDONAND ON INA n:m’mnus mNMM:NF_—