The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1897, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1897. E —_— NGSYLVANIN'S CAPITOL BUAKED An Ancient but Costly Structure Reduced to Ruins. PE Both Branches of the Legislature In Session When the Flames Appear. Lawmakers and N:wspaper Men Com- pelled to Jump From Windows fo Sav: Their Lives. HARRISBURG, -Pa.,- Feb. A fire which started in the rooms of Lieutenant- Governor Lyon some time this morning swept through the ancient Capitol of Pennsylvania and within an hour and a half afier the breaking out of the flames the structure was in ruins. The Senate and House were about to reconvene for their aiternoon session when the fire burs the walls and the lawmakers ven for their lives to the open air. known no one was killed, tut anumber of people were in the building g to save furniture and other effects u the dome fell in, and it is possible that some one may be buried under the ruin Quit bruis: a number of people were cut and by falling debris or smothered by but no one was seriouslf hurt. most vuluable of the State and ive records wnich were in the building were saved, but the records and statistics of the Department of Public In- ction were destroyed. The Legislature find a temporary t ow—the Senate in the rooms of the Supreme Court snd the House in the United States District Court. The lature will at once take steps to have the Capitol repuilt. The total loss is esti- mated at nearly $1,000,000, on which there is an insurance of but $200,000. The origin of the fire is nnknown. Shortly -before I o'clock, as the Presi- dent of the Senate was rapping that body 10 ord:r, a puff of smoke made its way into the chamber. A hastily improvised bucket brigade traced the fire to the apartments of Lieutenant-Governor Lyon on the floor above the Senate chamber, but their efforts were useless. When it seemed that the buildine was in serious danger, the Senate attaches turned their attention to saving the ale and State records, and the handsome furniture, and before this work was com. pleted many of the men were laboring a the risk of their lives, In the opposite wing of the building the House was about to reconvene. By the time the people in the House had realized the seriousness of the situation, they were in peril of the:r lives. The flames and smoke made their way into the chamber and drove the throng headlong before them. sdvance that some people had no time to even make their escape by the doors, but were compeiled to jump from the win- dows to the gronnd. This was the case with the legislative reporters of the United Associated Presses who had remained in the rotunda filing builetins,. While at this work the scal- folding which bad been used by painters | islan L ! lodging-house is in who were decorating the dome f=i! witn a crash. To save their lives slight injury. COKEIN'S LSTATE. AUSTIN Sensational Bill Filed 1n a United States District Court. MACON, Ga., Feb. 2—A sensational bill has been filed before Uni trict Judge Spear by L. F. Felder, formerly of New York and one of the late Austin Corbin's closest confidants, against the Corbin estate and the various English and American loan companies connected with it. A receiver was immediately apnointed and an injunction granted against the Cor- bin Banking Company and the loan com- panies. The receiver, E. P. Williams of Macon, Ga., was dirccted to take charge of all the assets of the Corbin Banking Company and the loan companies in this State, in- volving property, mortzages and money exceeding $1,000,000. The injunction pro- hibiis realizing by the mortgage compa- nies of any of their properties or money “in this State pending finai adjudication, and it 1s held that upon the appearance and answer to the bill by the defendant the iuris; tion of the order and decree of injunction will pertain to the entire United States and this event will tie up the large Corbin banking-house in New York and invest- ments in tie United Statesaggregating many millions of doliars. The complainant is Thomas J. Felder. From 1876 to 1893 he represented the Cor- bin Bunking Company in Georeia, South Carolina and Alabama, with headquarters in Atlanta. He loaned thousands of dol- lars on farm mortgages and -was well known business and social circles, In 1893 Felder went to New York to take entire charge of the Southern business of the Corbin Banking Company and the loan companies for which it acted, or claimed to act, as agent. He had no fined arrangement as to salary, but as_much as $20,000 was passed up to bis credit on the books of the Corbin Banking Company. He now claims large commissions due him. —— KEEELEY CURE DECISION, Counties ot Kesponsible for Treatment of Indigent Inebriates, MADISON, W Feb. 2.—The Supreme Court to-day haunded down a decision which declares unconstitutional the law under which county courts have com- mitted to Keeley institutes throughout the State indigent inebriates for treat- ment at the expense of the county from which they were committed. The test case was on an appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court of Milwaukee, which held that Milwaukee County was liable for the cost of treating a patient com- mittet to the Wisconsin Keeley Ins:itute. The Supreme Court reversed the decision, Milwaukee County alone will be relieved of paying necarly $30,000 for treatment under such commitments, and settlement of claims in many other counties has been held 1n abeyance pending a decision as to the constitutionality of vhe law. - COMPLICATED WILL CaSE. Easy Manncr in Which a Bank Presi- dent Gained a Fortune. VIENNA, G., Feb. 2—The will of Dr. Marvin, disposing of $200,000 worth of property, was admitted to probate yester- day. Dr. Marvin came here from Ne- braska many years ago and married a woman of some wealth in Atlanta. Upon his death, in Crodelle, four years ago, the laay was so disconsolate that she refused | Alderman Thomas J. O'Malley and John Sorapid was their | both men | for g night's lod jumped from a window-and escaped with | ¢, | peTROIT WitHOU ed States Dis- | to allow his body to be buried, but had 1t fixed up with electrical appliances, and kep: it in ber parlor for over a year, when, vpon her marriage to Joseph E. Biven: the president of the Crodelle Bank, she removed the body and had it interred in Macon. Shortly afterward she dropped dead in her home. After the death of Dr. Marvin, a young man appeared upon the scene from Ne- braska, ciaiming to be the son of Dr. Marvin, and set up a claim to his entire estate. This contest was filed vesterd at the same time as the delayed will leaving all the property to the wife. Under the Georgia Jaws the husband is heir to proverty of his wife as well as her children. In case of no children, he is the sole heir. Thus it happans that Presi- dent Bivens was the bepeficiary of the entire amount of Dr. Marvin's estate. Lo WHO SHOT COLIANDER? Guilt of O’ Malley and Santry Now a Matter of Doubt. CHICAGO, IrL., Feb. 2.—In the trial of Santry, charged with the murder of Gus | Coliander at the potling-booth on Oak stréet in November, 1894, Officer Michaels swore positively that O'Malley was pres ent and took a hand in the riot which ended in the death of Coliander. Micaaels, who survived the riot after receiving a painful bullet wound in the knee, swore that he saw a crowd of rioters enter the booth, headed by O'Malley, He heard the command eiven by one of the rioters to hold up their hands. He looked up and saw O'Mafley with a revolver | pointed at his (Michaels’) head. He threw up O'Malley’s arm and the bullet went | 1nto the ceiling. Michaels identified San- | try as being, one of the foremost in the | L Cross-examination, vigorously conduct- ed by the prisoners’ attorn-ys, failed to shake bis evidence. Afier Dr. Henrotin | d given a technical description of the | d which resulted in Coliander's | ath, the defendants’ counsel called Of- r Michaels for the purpose of further cross-examination, and this-time suc- ceeded in securing several important ad- | missions and confusing the officer. The court then took a recess. ! After recess the cross-examination of | Officer Michaels was resumed. He said | that Le drew his own revolver and nolding | his arm close to his side fired two shots. | He could not extend his arm because of | the struggling crowd in the darkness. | Attorney Donabue for tue prisoners said that upon this admission he would at- tempt to prove that Michaels shot Colian- der. O'Malley’s defense is an alibi. = RECEIVEKS APPOINTED. Keystone Manwufacturing Company Council Bluffs in Trouble. COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Feb. Judge Thornell of the District Court to- day appointed James B. Patterson, the | local manager, receiver for the Keystone Manufacturing Company of this City on request of Thomas A. Galt, one of the stockholders who secured the appointment | of E. Leroy Galtand Frank M. Tracy as | | receivers of the home office and factory of | the company at Sterling, IlL. | Galt secured a judgment against the | company in Iilinois for $59,000. which | brought” on the receivership. In the veution filed here Galt claims the liabiii- | ties of the comuany are $510,000 and the assets $400,000. The local stock is valued t $47,300, and other stocksin the State make the total pronerty of the company iu Iowa wortn § of —_— OSTR.sCISM OF TKAMPS New York City Finds It Necessary to Boyoott Weary Willies. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Hence: forth tramps are ostracised in New York. | Every one found brgging is to be arrested and locked up. By arrangementsof Mr. | Rooseveit with the Charity O-ganization | Society Chief Conlin has detailed twelve | vpolicemen for the exclasive daty of run- ning down beggars. When they are cor- | raled the charity men will be sent for to | look them over. The magistrates will be | ed by their advice. Old offenders | v.0 beg by choice will be sent to the | and and made to work. The municipal | ning order and | may apply there g. They geta bath,a| an bed, supper and breakfast. Their clotbes are cleaned and disinfected. - men who have no shelte A4 MAYOR. And the Supreme Court Iefy a Specinl Electro, LANSING, Mici, Feb. 2—The Su-| preme Court tuis mornng refused to | issi the mandamus applied for by Attor- | ney Fred A. Bsker last night, directing | the Common Council of Deiroit to declare | the office of Mayor vacant and order a | special election to fill the vacancy. The | court held that there is plenty of time be- | fore the next election to let the case go through the proper channel—the Wayne Circuit Court.” The contention was that Mayor Pingree, by bis assumption of the | office of Governor of Michigan, had va- cated the office of Mayor of Detroit. ST Strike in a Big Tin Factory. CHICAGO, Irn. Feb. 2.—A strike of | large proportions is on at the big tin- | manufacturing establishment of Norton | Brothers, in Maywood, as the result of a 10 per cent reduction in wages made yesterday. The strikers claim that 100 of | the 900 employes were at work to-day and that in a day or two the factory will be com pelied to shut down entirely. Man- ager Norton, however, asserts that the| strike has not assumed serious propor- | tions, that the compauy employs only | 650 men now and that not more than haif | are on strike, embracing the unskilled | laborers. The strikers behaved threat- | eningly toward all men who applied for | work in their places, and serious trouble is | feared. The new-comers were assailed with ‘insulting epithets and pelted with snowballs on their way to the factory. g e Lady Aberdeen to Be the Orator. CHICAGO, Iir., Feb. 2—President Harper of the University of Chicago an- nounced to-day at the chapel service that the wite of the Governor-General of Can~ ada would be the convocation orator at the university commencement exercises in the Auditorium on April Lady Aberdeen, who ingratiated herself in the good graces of the Chicago people during the World’s Fair, will have ihe honor of being the first woman engaged for such an occasion in this country. President Harper spoke to the students in high praise of Lady Aberdeen’s nobility of character, Ler attainments and charming personality. St e Imprisoned in a Burning Mine. HOUGHTON, Micu., Feb. 2.—The North Tamarack mine i« on fire with five miners cut off from escape. The fire was dis- covered on the ninth level of the main shaft. Heroic efforts are being made to prevent the fire from spreading into No. 3 | shaft, but the men are workine under terrible disadvantage nearly a mile under- ground. It is scarcely possible that the five men can survive the terrible heat, though fresh air is being constantiy pumped to them. e To Retain Present Ra CHICAGO, Irv., Feb. 2.—Freight traffic officials of the Chicago and St. Paul rail- roads beld a meeting to-day to consider the meeting of the 33 per cent reduction in rates from the Atlantic seaboard to St. Paul, via the Soo-Canadian Pacific. The Soo s present at the meeting, which resulted in the St. Paul roads adhering to therrdetermination to retain present rates. pms cegmes SSoud b THOSE severe spasms of choking and gasping for breath, so frecuent in Wbooping Cough, can be speedily chiecked with Jayne’s kx pectorant. For a sour stomach —take Jayne's Sunative Pills {and was surmounted by a fine dome. BUDD AS MUCH T0 BLAME AS ANY ONE Leavitt Speaks About the State Printing Exp:nses. Feeling Created by the Refusal to Sign the Bill for an Appropriation. The Chief Ex-cutive S.ys He Awaits a Report Frem the State Printer Before Acting. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 2.—Consid- erable feeling has been created among the Republican majority by tae declination of the Governor to sign the bill appropriat- ing § to pay the expenses of the State Printing Office. The appropriation was recommended by the Ways and Means Committee and was considered in cancas by the Republi- can party, which caucus suggested that it would be politic to cut down the appro- priation to $30,000 in order that a fight with the Democratic and Populist mi- nority might be avoided. The bill then went to tne Senate, which body after care- ful inquiry raised the appropriation to $75,000. Assemblyman Leavitt moved that the House concur in the Senate amendment and the motion was carried. The bill was | then sent to the Governor for his signa- ture and still remains there. The Governor has called upon the State Printer fora statement that will at least require sixty days to getout. The State Printer has set men at work on this state- ment, and will give the best and most complete that cai be made. In the mean- time the minority have introduced a bill sppropriating $30,000 for the State Printer for the running expenses of his office during the present session. Assemblyman Leavitt of Alameda has the matter in hand for the Republicans. He said to a CALL reporter to-day: “The Governor desires very much to veto the $75,000 appropriation, and the $30,000 bill has been put in by the minor- ity for the purpose of giving the Govornor some grounds or reasons for vetoing the original bill. It is safe to say that the minority will not carry their point. The | Governor is chairman of the State Board | of Examiners, and every cent of money that bas been expended by the State Printer within the last two years and that will be expended as long as the Governor continues in office has been and must be audited by him before 1t is paid, so that if there has been any extravagunce on the partof tha State Printer Budd is just as guilty as any one, because he has signed nd O K'd the bills passed by the Board of Examiners. “There is no valid reason,” continued Mr. Leavitt, “why Budd should refuse to set apart $75,000, as he will have the checking ana auditing power: over every ten cents that will be expended by the | State Printer. The State printing office is simply a machine, Every State officer, commission or State institution has a r.ght to draw upon the State Printer a requisition for printing. He has no dis- cretion in the matter, but must do the printing whenevar requested. The work may cost five cents or a million dollars. He is compelled to do it, no matter what the cost may be. “Ihe expenses of the State printing office have been materially increased by | reason of the extravagance of State offi- the Governor included,” added Mr. avitt with emphasis. “If they would draw up their messages and reports prop- erly in the first place, so that so much matter would not have to be cut out and Teset, and o much time would not have 10 be taken up for the correction of proofs, there would be a great decrease in the amount of money expended for State printing, By the time the city fire department had arrived on the scene the flames were pouring through the roof of the building. There was a driving snowstorm, and a strong northwest wind doumed the build- ing to destruction. Within an hour and a half after the fire broke out the building was in ruins. The State Cavitol was a handsome brick ' structure situated on a knoll in a park of ten acres. It was 180 feet long, 80 feet wide, with a circular lonic portico in front I was begun in 1819 and first occupied on January 28, 1822. The original cost of the | structure, including grounds, was $295,688, bat since its erection it had been fre- quently embellished at large cost. With- 10 the last two years it had been remod- eled at a cost of $150.000, and the hana- some frescoing in the legislative chambars was even yet uncompleted. “This Legislature has been extravagant in many matters of printing which should be cut down, but whatever has been done is not chargeabie to the Printer but to the Legislature and the State officials who or- dered printing in the manner in which they did. “The Governor must sign the $75,000 appropriation or he must put himselfin the position of delaying the work of the Legislature. 1If there has been sny ex- travagance Governor Budd isas guilty as any man on the face of the earth.” Governor Budd was asked by a CALL re- porter to-night for a reply to the remarks of Assemblyman Leavitt. The Governor replied that he had simply met Mr Leavitt and had nothing to do with him directly or indirectly. He did not pro- pose to get into a newspaper discussion | with the gentleman; it would be equiva- lent toa Justice of the Supreme Court quarreling with an attorney. As the bill appropriatine $75,000 for the State Print- ing Office had passed both houses and was then before him for consideration, he deemed it improper to say anything about its merits. *‘Mr. Johnst on is a State officer,” con- tinuea the Governor, “and he has re- ceived the same written notification from me that I have given to every other per- son interested in any bill before me for my signature. I sball be pleased to have him call upon me and state his case and reasons why I should sign the bill. Until Mr. Johnston has made his statement to me with regard 1o the bill, or until he fails to do o, it would be improper and un- fair for me to enter into a newspaper dis- cussion of the matter. What I have to say will be said in my message to the Leg- i;lnm'o when I either sign or veto the il An examination of the minute-book of the State Board of Examiners by TuE CaLy reporter revealed the fact thaton July 81, 1896, Governor Budd declined to Ppass upon any further bills for the Siate Printing Office. He s0 notified the Attor- ney-General in writing, His reasons were stated at the time, but were not transmit- ted to the people through the medium of the press, because the relations between State Printer Johnston and the Governor, so say the friends of the Governor, had always been of the most friendly char- acter. Attaches of the Governor’s office say that he has been grossly misrepre- sented in the press as to the quantity of printing done by his order. It was stated in one of the newspapers (not THE CALL, which does not misrepresent facts) that the Governor had a large quantity of East- ern reports bound at the State bindery at &n expense of $2000 to tue State. The grain of truth in this mountain of misrepresentation is that the Governor had the reports of all public institutions in the State of California from the be- ginning of its history as a State bound ata cost of $500 all told, and this valuable library of reference is now in the Gover- nor’s office for the use of the Governor and his successors and the legislators of this and future sessions. The Governor will gladly purchase the set for $500 cash and will consider that he has made a winning at the bargain counter. It is said by the Governor's friends, for he himself will not talk on the subject, that his attention was first directed toward the affairs of the State Printing Office when Mr. Johnston, on July 20,swore 10 a claim for wages of people empioyed in his ofhce for work done between July 1, 1896, and July 18, 1596, sixteen days. The affidavit is in the following form: ETATE OF CALIFORNIA,) o COUSTY OF SACRAMENTO.§ *% A. J. Johnston, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the Superintendent of State Printing of the State of California ana that the items constituting the 'aims herein ¥ 85 above shown, and that the services herein mentioned were actusily rendered and the money is to be paid as herein mentioned, for the benefit of the State. In accordance with the foregoing affi- davit the bill was allowed by the Board of | Examiners on July 20. A short timeafter this affair it came to the Governor's knowledge that the printing office between the dates mentionea had been shut down for two Sundays, the 4th of July, the 9th of July and a week of vacation, so that it was evident that the State Printer had sworn to a claim for sixteen days’ work when in fact the office had been closed for ten days of that time. The Governor inquired of Mr. Johnston why be had sworn to such a claim. Mr. | Johnston said that it was time that the office bad been closed, but that the bill | ! [ | by political considerations, religious creed or was really put in for overtime, etc., in 1895, the year before. He afterward made | another statement to the effect that his | employes were entitied to two weeks' va- cation each year on full pay. Governor Budd thereapn appointed an expert to go into the matter, but he was not aliowed to look at the books of the thority in the matter. before the Board of Examiners and asked to be allowet to examine the payroll, but he was refused. The Governor's friends contend, for he himself will not talk, that the expenses of the State Printing Office have increased much faster in proportion to the popuia- tion than they should. The legislative printing alone for four years ending June, 1895, during Johnston’s administration cost $120,000 in round numbers, while for any four years prior thereto the cost has | | Budd and to the houorable members of the not exceeded $31,000. Another objection to Johnston’s ac- counts is that he does not furnish irem- ized bills. All that the Board of Examin- ers have to go on is after this model: Name, John Smith; occupation, foreman; regular time six days, rate §5; total $30. The same way in the bindery and in the school-textbook department. It is expected that the Governor will turn himself loose in his message on the matter. On the other hand, the friends of the State Printer allege that Jim Budd is simply doing Democratic poli 4 JOINT BLIDGE. FOE Bill to Enable th= Southern Pacific to Co- operate With the Gorernment. SACRAMENTO, Cav, Feb. 2.—Senator Stratton to-day introduced the bill which is to give the Board of Supervisors of Ala- | meda County the power to enter into an agreement with the Southern Pacific Com- pany for the construction of a joint bridge | that the draw of the bridze or bridges over | across Onklund Creek, in accordance with the orders of the Secretary of War, asking this waterway be increased from 90 to 160 feet. The biil follows: The Board of Supervisors of any county in the State now coutrolling or maintaining by virtue of any statute any bridge acrossany navigable stream within the boundary lines of any municipal corporation is hereby au- thorized and empowered, whenever it may be- come necessary in the interests of commerce, or by reason of any such bridge being out of repair, 1o reconstruct and rebuild any part of | replace sald bridge by a | new structure, or with the consent of the | municipalities such bridge, or governing bodies of such change the location of such bridge to such place on such stream as may be better suited 10 its use or to the use of such navigable stream, and the Board of Supervisors o county’ is hereby authoriz-d to abandon any such existing bridge and rebuild a new bridge ai such changed location, and tue Board of Supervisors of any county so rebuilding and reconstructing said ‘bridge may enter into an agree- ment with, any railroad company or other corporation n ow maintaining any bridge scross any such navigable stream for the building of & joint bridge for the purpose of preventing the impeding of commerce on such navigable streams, ana of apportioning the expense be- tween said county and said railroad corpora- tion or any other corporation, in such man- ner may be agreed upon between said county and said railroad company or other corporations. The expense of said reconstruction, or the building of a new bridge, to be payabie out of the same iund us is now provided by law for the maintenance and repair of any such bridge, provided that in case said county should make such agreement with sa'd rail- road company, or other corporation, for the building “of 'any joint bridge, only the county’s portion of said joint bridge, be setiled by said agreement, shall from the said funds. ezl Bicyeles to Be Transported Free, SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 2.—It will not be long before bicycles will be carried free as baggage by every transpostation company in California. The bill to that effect has already passed the Assembly, be paid and was to-day considered by the Senate | Comnmittee on Corporations, which decided to recommend that it do pass. Arraigned at dan Kafael. SAN RAFAEL, Car, Feb. 2.—The pre- liminary hearing in the case of John Reilly, arrested for assault with intent to Tob on A. B. Thomson, on November 3, on Fourth street in this city, was bad before Justice Gardner to-day. Reilly was ar- rested upon the confession of Jack Moran, alias Morgan, who claims that he and R-illy were the thugs who attacked Thomson. Reilly was held to snswer in $4000 bail. He denies the story and says he will prove an alibi by many credible witnesses. DA Attempted Murder at Portland. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 2.—A discharged waiter named Foster in the Arlington Club, a leading institation of its kind in this city, made a desperaté attempt last night to murder Stewart Leon Sayolea with a revolver. The latter escaped un- injured, and the would-be murderer can- not be found by the police, ere incurred in the manner and on the dates | any | such | as may | BRAVE DEFENSE OF WORKING WOMEN Resolutions Adopted by Sacramz=nto Unicn No. 46 Resentment of an Attack Made Upon Employes of the State Printing Office, Cumpositors and Binders Declare That “ The Examiner ” Is Suborned by Selfish Political Aims. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 2.—At a meeting this evening of the Sacramento Typographical Union No. 46 the following set of resolutions wers draited and adopt- ed and were afterward unanimously indorsed by the Bookbinders' Union and by the Pressmen’s Union: WHEREAS, Through the agency of a sensa- tlonal press, evidently inspired from inter- ested sources, an attack has been made upon the State Printing Office and its management ; and whereas, in an overzealous attempt to make cheap political capital on the one hand and to accomplish selfish interésts on the other, those making such attack have found it necessary to direct their assaults at the labor employed in said printing office and in the smallness of their souls have chosen for their target the women employed; and whereas, many of the women so em- ployed are the widows of brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives in defense of the flag when the life of the Nation was in peril, while many others are the sole dependence of aged parents or of fatherless families; there- fore be it Resolved, By Sacramento Typographical Union No. 46, that while the women em- ployed in said State Printing Office are not members of any labor union (and are there- fore doubtless considered a safe branch of labor for small politicians to attack), this unlon nevertheless takes it upon fiself to de- | fend these workingwomen and to repel and denounce as untrue the statement that their employment has either been unnecessary, that they have not rendered faitaful and ef- flcient Bervice to the State or that their selec- tion for employment has been dictated either by nationality. Resolved, That the published criticisms of the mansgement of the State Printing Office in reference to the number of women employed therein are misleading and untrue, and dis- play a woeful lack of information on the subject, and an utter ignorance of the several | branches ot bindery work performed by the Printer, on the ground that he had no au- | Women employed in said office. The expert went | Resolved, That this union spurns and repels attacks made against faithful wege-earners | (whether they be male or female) by either religious bigots or political shysters. Resolved, That in the opinion of this uuion these continual attacks on the State Printing Office and those employed therein have their | origin with the notorious ‘‘senoolbook ring’ and its agents, and it is our firm belief that all this is being doue in a covert endeavor to again fasten upon the parents of the school- | ehildren of this State the exacting burdens of | the old schoolbool of this combine. Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be furnished to the press, to Governor James H. California Legisiature under the seal of this union, WILLIAM MINER, President. ““When the pubhi press can be suborned 10 furthier the seifish political aims of one man by making a sensational attack upon the employes of the State Printing Office, as was done by the Examiner this morn- ing,” said an influential member of the union te-night, it is time that we take such steps as lay in our power to protect ourselves, for while nominally tnis attack is directed against A. J. Johnson, State Printer, in reality it is being made directly aganst and will only affect the wace- earner, as Mr. Johnson’s office being a statutory one, hi§ salarv will go on whether the State Printing Office is run- ning or not.” NEW AND INTERESTING BILLS. Just Introduced in the Assembdly and Affecting Persons and Corporations. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 2.—Several very interesting bills have been intro- duced in the Assembly daring the last few days and they were received from the printer this morning. As they have been mentioned only by title & synopsis of them is given here. No. 602 by the Committes on Revision of Codes and Statutes: Sec. 106. Hnbitual intemperance Is that de- gree of intemperance from the use of intoxi- cating drinks, morphine, chloral, or other narcotic drugs, whicn disqualifies & person a great portion of the time from properly at- tending to business, or which would reason- ably nflict a course of great mental anguish upon an innocent party. No. 603 by the same committee: Section 268. When any minor who is poor, homeless, cnargeable 10 the county, or an outeast, has no visible means of obtaining an honest livelinood, the Superior Court of the county wikere he is found shall_have power to bind him as an apprentice, subject to the pro- visions of this titie, uniil, if a male, he arrives at the age of 21 years, and if a female, she arrives at the age o1 18 years. No. 604 by the same committee: Section 291. The articles of incorporation of any railroad, wagon-road, telegraph or tele- phone organizationmust also stat, 1. The kind of road, or telegraph, or tele- phone, intended to be constructed. 2. The place from and to which it is in- tended to be run, and all the iutermediate branches. 3. The estimated length of the road, or tele- graph, or telephone line. 4. That at least 10 per centof the capital stock subscribed has been paid in to the treasurer of the intended corporation. No. 605 by the same committee: Sec. 208, Each intended corporation named in section 291, before filing articles of incor- poration, must have actually subscribed to its capital siock, for each mile of the contem- plated work, ‘the following amounts, {0 wit: 1. One thousand dollars per mile of railroad. 2. One hundred dollars per mile of telegraph or telephone lines, 3. Three hundred dollars per mile of wagon rouds. No. 606 by the same committee: Bec. 536. Telegraph or telephone corpora- tions may construc: lines of telegraph or tele- phone xiong and upon any pubiic road or highway, along or across any of the waters or lands within this State, and mas erest poles, posts, piers or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires and other necessars fixtures of their Iines, in such manner and atsuch Ppoints as not 1o incommode the public use of the road or highway, or interrupt the naviga- tion of the waters. No. 609 by Dennery Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful person, firm or corporation, whether con- ducting & wholesale or retail _business, to offer to any purchaser m bonus OF irize as an inducement for the purchase of merchandise from such person, firm or corpora- tion, either in cash, tickets, or by memoran. dum, or byother means o device that will give the purchaser an option to ayply such bonus to the purchase of any article other than the article actunlly purchnsed. All sales or puichases must be made upon a price agreed upon between the parties, without any present or future bonus, or prize of any kind or character. Every person violating the pro- visions of this act shall, upon conyiction of the first offense, be adjudwed o pay a fine mot 1o excced one hundred dollars, and upon con- viction of any violation hereof aiter the first offense and conviction thereof, shail be fined not to exceed one thousand dollars, or by im- prisonment in the county jail not 1o exeed for any | as are now or may | by law, provided that the fees and com- | bill were reported by the Ways and Meaus | | Committee and E'nis moved to make | 9O six months, or by both such fine and imprison- ment. No. 616 by Mead: Section 1. At the expiration of any fran- chise of any character whatever, other than steam railroaas or telegraph lines, held by or granted to any person, compauy Or Corpora- tion by any Board of Supervisors, Board of Trustees, Common Couscil or other governing body of any county, city and €ouUnty or city o this State, the entire plant or propertr, in- cluding roadbed, power-houses, buildings, rails, reservoirs, pipes. conduits, wires, in- struments and any and all otuer property and appurtenances used vy Lhe person, company or corporation under their franchise, and for the purpose of conducting the business for which such franchis: was granted, shall immediately and without condition and without the payment of any money or valuable consideration other “than the original graning of the franchise, become the propérty of the county, city and county or city by the governing or legislative body of which the same was granted. Sec. 2. Franehises to operate cable-cars, electric-cars, or other character of sireetcars, over routes no portion of which are included in any franchise now in existence, may be granted, for & period not to exceed fifty years; 10 other franchise of any character, kind, or description shall be granted for a greater than twenty-five years. Tue provisions of this act shall be cons'rued 10 constitute & part of and be a condition oi sll franchises hereaiter granted, and any frauchise hereafter granted in conflict with the provisions of this act shall be null and void. No. 614 by Emmons: Section 1. The cleaning of all public build- ings shall be given by contract to the lowest bidder atter having advertised for bids in one dauy newspaper for one week in the city where such building or butldings are situated, before the contract is to be given. No. 677, introduced this morning by the Committee on County and Township Gov- ernments, provides the following salaries for counties of the eleventh class: County Clerk, $3600 per annum; Sheriff, $5000 and 10 cents per mile; Recorder, $1500 and 5 cents per folio to be paid out of the| county treasury; Auditor, $1500; Treas- urer, $1500; Tax Collector, $3000; Asses- sor, $3000; District Attorney, $3000; Coro- ner, Public Administrator, Surveyor, no change; Superintendent of Schools, $1800 | per annual and actual traveling expenses; Justices of the Peace, the usual fees, pro- vided that the iees and compensation in criminal proceedings shall not exceed $75 for any one month; constables, sucp fees hereafier be allowed period pensation of any constable ip criminal proceedings shall not exceed $75 for any one month; Supervisors, $1000 per annum each; official reporter, $125 per month and 10 cents per folio for the original and 5 cents per folio for a copy. The foilowing 1s added : “Whenever the services of a reporter are demanded in a civil action or proceeding he shall collect 1n advance from the par- ties thereto and pay into the county treasury the sum of $5 for each day's ser- yice in taking notes. No fees shail be al- lowed the Sher:ff or Tax Collector for col- lecting | censes in counties of this clas Bili 678, by the Committee on Revision of Codes and Statutes, adds a new section to the Political Code to be known as sec- tion 365 “The County Assessor of each county may procure from the Federal Land Office | in his district a transcriot of all cash en- | tries, sales or homestead entries of the | public lands made within his county dur- ing each year. The cost of making such transerint must be a county charge and must be paid from the county general tang.” e IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. Speaier Coombs’ Warning Against Ea- ceasive Appropriations. SACRAMENTO, CaAL., Feb. 2.—In the| Assembly this morning the constitutional | amendments which had been reported by | the committee were made the special or- | der for Thursday, after a spirited debate | over a motion by Shanahan to refer tuem | to the Juaiciary Committee. | Speaker Coombs re.d to the Assembly a | telegram announcing the arrival at San | Francisco of the Swanhilda. The bill to compel the carriaze of bi- cyeles as baggage was passed by a vote of., 67 0 0. Dibule protested against the dilatoriness of the engrossing cierks and declared that the clerks were sending the bills to San | Francisco and sellinz them. | The debris bill and the river-dredging | them the special order for (0-morrow. Dibble opposed giving precedence to bills which appropriated $500,000. Speaker Coombs took the floor and warned the members against the tendency ‘0 excessive appropriations. He said the | Legislature had reached a critical point. | There are pending bills abpropriating | over two million dollars. This overshad- owed all minor matters, and members uld rise to the occasion. Appropria- tions must be considerel as a whole. Before any of the large bills were passed they should be laid side by side ard a de- cision reached as to how much the poople can stand. After discussion the bills were made a special order for Friday morning—47 to 18. Senator Seawell’s two bills relating to papers which may be taken by a retiring Jury were defeated. The Senate this morning rejected the Smith resolution regarding the creation of the office of county expert. Stratton introduced a resolution to ex- empt the Lick School of Mechanical Arts from taxation. Referred to the Commit- tee on Education and Public Morals. A report was received from the visiting committee recommending the removal of girls irom the Whittier home to the Santa Clara location. Pedlar introduced a resolution appropri- ating $5 a day for Blue Canyon water for the use of the Senate. NEW TO-DAY. Bad dreams dis- tress the man whose digestion is out of order. Constipation creates more dreams than are in the infer- nal regions. People who are troubled with constipation sleep badly and restlessly. | Sometimes they can- not sleep at all, and when they do sleep, the dreams come. It doesn't take so very long to wear a man out with that sort of thing. He gets up in the morning feel- ing worse than he did when he went \\m/, to bed. He is listless and without energy. The chances are he is dizzy, has * heart- burn,” palpitation, sees black spots be fore his eyes, has headache and is bilious. ‘What nonsense it is to let a condition of that sort continue. Nine-tenths of all the sickness in the world comes from constipation and neglect of it. It is : simple thing to cure if you go about it right. It's abad thing and a serious thing if you don’t take the right medicine. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are designed for the cure of constipation. The ** Pellets are tiny, sugar-coated granules. One a laxative, two a mild cathartic. Every body who has ever used them has a go word for them, They have prevent more serious illness” than any other remedy ever sold. Druggists sell them; and an honest druggist will not try tc sell you something else. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad wviser is the greatest family doctor book ever published. It explains human physiology and the laws of life and health in plain ye scientific language. It has had a tremen- dous sale; 680,000 copies at $1.50 each, bound in cloth. The present- free edition is the same in all respects except that it is boun in strong manilla paper covers, A copy will be absolutely given away to anyone who sends 21 one-cent stamps to pay cost (s mailing only, to World's Dispensary Mec: jcal Association, No. 663 Main Streer, Buffalo, N. Y. i | | | | 190 |90 Boyce's bill to prevent collusion be- tween employer and emplogment agent passed. HES Bert's bill reappropriating §125,000"for the Affiliated Colleges building in San Francisco was passed. £ § This afternoon the third-reading file was taken up. Senate bill 70, providing for the employ= ment of only citizens on public works, / was amended by strikin: out that portion which provided that the Labor Commis- sion shali enforce its provisions, and passed. Morehouse's amendment to in- clude persons who have declared citigens shipintentions was rejected. Senate bill 62, establishing an eighte hour day on public works was passed, after being amended to except contracts let by municipal corporations. The debate of the aay occurred on the Torrens land bill. Aram proposed an amendment raising the feesto be paid, but it was voted down. Smith of Kern and Gillette spoke against the bill, which was championed by Buila and Withing- ton. The bill provides for decrees of title to be issued by the Superior Cohrt upon proof. The bill was lost—ayes 17, noes 20, Senate biil 1, enabling sehool districts to issue bonds, was passed. Adjourned. 90 90 90 90 per cent man and 10 per cent weakness may not seem very much to the beginner, but if the waste con- tinues the end is certain. It will be 90 20 90 90 90 9/, IO per cent man 90 °/, and go per cent 90 9/, weak‘ness. Don’t 9209/, fa:11 into this con- dition. If youare 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 suffering from a waste or a loss; if you pass ‘sleepless nights, wake tired and listless ; if you are prematurely decayed; if you have the symptoms of failing man- hood, be sure to get that which will cure you. Itisthe remedy treatment, Hudyan Hudyan can be had only from the doctors of the Hud- son Medical Insti- tute. No one else can give you Hud- yan. 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