The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1897, Page 3

1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1897. APFROPRIATIONS FOR THE PRINTER Dibble’s Bills Providing Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars Passed. Some of the Assembly M:nority Eat Crow by Voting for the Measures. Considerable Filibusteriny Fails to Defeat the Second Rs- lief Eill SACRAMENTO, Car netti was the fi ., Feb. 17. ami- to eat his dish of State printing crow, and he did it to-day with a comic grimace as he voted “aye” on Dib- ble’s bill 863 appropria 00 for the | relief of the Siate Pr ower of San Franeisco and Lan of Sacra- mento also broke away frc » filibusters and voted for t 1 No. 864, also by Dibble, $35 000 for the support of tha « he of the fiscal vear, they 1 no with the rest of the mi ting them- seives in a position of refusing to support measures which they themselves had offered or attempted to offer on the day befor, Caminetti’s action voting for the $40,000 aporopriation and refusing to vote for the 000 appropriation is looked upon by the knowing ones as an indica- tion that Governor Pudd may sign the one and veto the other. e ra the Honse this after- were Dibble’s $63 and S61 Shana- s 865. No. $40,00), entitled “‘An lief of Printing O riation to pa found r the sup- id proval of this scal y appropriation f e for th re support of the mainder of Shanahan’s and is entitled » appropriation for leg- for the thirty-second eakinz on bis bill, said er had spent money ority of law, and that expressly validated the w by the State Printer. he added, ‘‘that State 1 is dishonest, bnt rather at he is mistazen to the law.”" D.bble was quick to set Shanahan right. He said that Sh n's assertion that the bill was intendea to juency in the State ¥ > any de- ng Office or cover int to validate any of the State Printer was entiraly unwarranted by the facts. The purpose of the bill was to appropriate money to pay the wages of employes, who had 1 a dollar from the Siate for several weeks. The ebject of the bill prepared by the gentleman from Shasta was to confine the appropriation to the pavment of bills incarred printing legisiative matter only. Since the open- of the session of the Legisia- ire a large amount of public printing other than | iative, such as reports of State ¢ etc. done, and the ters had not been for that work, had the material 1 it been paid r. The object of the Dibble bill was to provide for the desiciency which had been ed. The peculiar wording was ied to overcome the law passed by the Legisluture. When the appropria- was introduced cn January 12 there cy in the printing office, een created since that time, the deficency hasbeen in technical violation of the law zot recei of sent icers, last was no de ng ad been prepared to meet the incurred by @ technical viola- e statute. It proposed a relief for the State Printing Office, which it was It shoula bz remembered 21l this money the direction of the te ers. Itwas the only way he exigency could be mei. If also, urged must be dis- an and the Democrats associated im desired to refuse payment to the sof the State Printin - Office be d insist on his bill. There ¥ of o1 ing those peorle except L <00 e had finished Cutter of introduced a substituie to the effect Asse biils 863, $64 and 865 pre- d a case of urgency and therefore shouid be read the second and thira time and placed upon final passage. The House went into committee of the whole and the fi ibustering of the minor- ity was proceeded w Shanahan pro- posed an amendment to No. 863 which i destroy it nal, and C: seech 1o the effect behind the contest ing Office matter. of the day was made by wou king it unconsti- made a mysteri- that there was than the State by m, mineut +0ld Man" Dryden of San Diego, a fusion- ist and advocite of some new system of distributi hich apperently does not include the distribution of wages to em- ployes of the State Printing Office. His speech was cauningly parased and was | nieant as a cloak to hide the real partisan motives which impelied him to vote with the Democrats against the printing em- ployes. He becan by saying that he stood between the contending parties ‘that seemed to b> tryinz 10 mwake yolitical cap- ital out of the affair.”’ It was apparent sfterward to his hearers that no matter where he stood he voted early and often for the Democratic programme, The battle raged for several hours, the minority filibustering by offering subs tutes and by resorting to the time-worn devices usual on such occasions until the previous question was called and the bills placed upon final passage. When the roll was called on 863—the $40.000 appropriation—Caminetti did not answer to his name. Landsborough led the bolt from the minorily by voting aye, and he expiained that the bill would re- lieve the distress which existed among the printers in the State office. Power of San Francisco followed. “It is time to settle this thing,” he said. “A preat many people bave been working in 1he State office for three or four weeks and can’t get their money. Therefore I vote for the bill.” : Caminetti rose at the conclusion of the rolicail_and said: **Mr. Speaker, I vote aye.” Then he looked cunning. Hedid not projose that the federated trades should jump on his neck for bill 863. But he and the remainder of the minority voted against No. 864—the $35.000 appro- priniion. Both biils were finaily passed by 45 ayes to 28 noes. Shanahan’s No. 865 was defeated. The bills were ordered transmitted to the Senate, and Caminetti and Shanakan gave notice that to-morrow they would move a reconsideration. The bills were taken up in the Senate in the evening and were passed there. North’s Assembly concurrent resolution 6, ) Legisiature to give. | Senators Dickinson, Gillette and Seawell and Assembiymen Price, Dennery and Caminetti as @ joint com- mittee 1o inveslizate ihe affairs of the | State Printing Office was also passed by | the Assembly and transmitted Lo tbe | Senate. 3 It provides that the commiitee shall | employ two experts on printing, one to be | appointed by the majority of the commit- | tee, and oue by tre minority of the com- | mittee, and two uaccountants to be ap: pointed 1 a similar way. The Senate | amended the resolution and rrovided that | the experis and accountants should be ap- | pointed by the majority of the committee | only. d : | Mead’s amendment calling for an in- vestigaiion by the State Board of Exam- | tners was voted down. | At the night session of the Assembly | State Printer Joinston sent a statement to the House which was received- and or- dered printed in io-morrow’s journal. e followin = are extracts: charges of & wild and fantastic nature been made against me aud the instit my charge, and 1 have hitherto d from answering them, becau who we: familiar with the oflice rges were so rnidiculous that-an answer med unnecessary; but inasmuch as a con- ried attack seems to be de by certain | persons to misrepresent the facts, I have been | #dvised by my friends that it is due to myself | that 1 shall make a statement concerning bese matters in the first place, with the exception of my salary and possibly a few doilars that I may receive for contingent expenses, I do not | handle and under the law couid not handle | one dollar of the State’s money. Every claim | charged aga. for Support Sta 3 rece State Board Examiners, c Governor, a moeret, and of State and It then tate, who, if claim. drews a war- the State sents the claim. paid during my ce has been paid in 2 has received the xuminers. 1t would ible for me, even if I so 1y own purpose one dollar ion of the Boa be bso.ut desired, the State A charge b ns who do 1 beei made that names cf per- exist have been carried on charges, If t § 1 | ana deceptive AN IMMIGRATION | COMMISSION California Should Be Cleared of Some Peculiar Stigmas. Strictures of the Eritish Consul | on Co'on zation Schemes Not | Entirely Merited. Recomm 'ndations of a State Board of Trade Committee Approved by the Governor. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 17.—In de- fense of the reputation of the State of Cali- | fornia and with the object of encouraging | immigration to this State, the State Board | of Trade, through a committee comprising | W. H. Mills, N. P. Chipman, Joseph §. | Emery and J. A. Filcher, to-day presented tne following memorial to Governor Budd : SAN FRANCISCO, Feh, 15, 1897 Sacramento, Cal.—DEAR S1R: Your Exceilency is 10 doubs aware of the fact that in September last @ revort of the Consul-General residing in San | Francisco and revresenting Great Britan in the consular service of that country was transmitted | to Parilament. In general eff.ct that repor: de- | clared that for the most part the colonization schemes projected 1n ihis State were fraudulent The fsovere gn of Great Britain in- 2 e Controllon, whiras1iPOlY documen: to usmit:ed to n 2 the Contraller,twhodeltvert | Lt L nd 4502 e eroni atione thacein et b R D e in a sense the official expressio w any mor 1 this way without com- rict ng 8 forg It is the practice for most | most part & | 3 tutions for the person in in the facts of the case. e warrant and to give his on the markets colony {duals enbitied to the telligent Calltornian wouid ic “nder the law I cannot essed to forelgn Ignoranc ve not foliowed it | And desizicd only for the attention aud p-tronage | " matier how Srail b | OF those whose 12ek. ot 1 en thes S A '\t the | easy viclims of dishonest emes ks oinrainst the | 1 s no part of the present pur, 8ing the appropriation for the | 1oy’ /o ‘present oF expose’ thése sohemes. We. | State Printin ce receives & warrant there- | Tnirefirs, cortont pursdives by tpe aeciaration o | for % facts, for the verification of which we have ample | 1i has been charged that there fs n discrep- | evid The situation herein outiined calls for | ancy betw e Controller's books and mine. | | This is ebso.utely untruc, and in the very e representation made by cof things could noi be.true. The Con- 1 and its ofticial ler is tne bookkeenor of the State and his hie sovereign of that couniry is i ok oheNkuy e | oidemnition of irivauient schsaen; wiil nocse N etimury s consumed ] have madeia | S ohlly Ge extinded 1n 1ia emect 1o the most bens: 2 e aklas InlojconElgers he | S and advantagoous encers ieca e , stock, presswork and binding, | "Gy nouwithstanding its age, IS & country b ot counted as u charke AgAINst | of jarge exsentoccupled by a relatively smali pop the institutions or departments other eX- |juon. Our conaition is such a« to makea re- penses consisting of ght, heating, power, re- | entorcemant of ouc capltal and population mos: yairs and sundry other ‘expenses which' are. desirable. We have natural resources which, charzeable to o asa whole. The developed, will prove o rich reward (o en: laws of the St iaulty in that thev do rise and intelligently directed capital. But our | not require that each depa a officer | representations conceraing these resources and | should pay nut of the appropriation made for | OUT presentation of the iniuce ents they ofter is e Wiing done for nim | oW Vers broadiy discreciied ‘throughout the or his dep r this I have no | WO i o "0 | "l: these representations were wholly false, if | control. 1 Insttations | ey hud no soundation In fact. the case w. . be inting | qyffere but un oriubately the evidence ihat nd UPon | muuy fraudulent schemes have been projected D it has been | and have resal ed_olsa-trously to those Who were the managemen his cffice 1 have fol- | deceived by them glves Lot only color bat | 1 union r nd emploved union men | demonsiration of fraud which, as already ind - | and patd 1he un fwages. 1 am free | cated, will aitach to all répresentations which way | o iconioss harat Ahat desires o inaugu. | be made on behalt of our commonwen.th, | rate s polley of having work done for less than | This sitoation, demands remedies ihe ficyof | Yot accordance with | thesels to estublish some ipsirumentality of an el o oD iai chara ter which will expose 1nd denounce Aving miznt be effccied. but | 4y e projciors of fraudulent and tive colunt I body:1o deter oiaras 17 0 undertakings. the next iustauce, the 1 to 5 1 tne mary unofficial me:nods of tue defeuso of the and as lo he matter is the broaderInferences of :he charges n.Ishali run itas o union ted nre I am aunion prir Ever the fnanguration of the State printing office there has been & concerted attack made by persons and establishments who desire to have the work done by Contract. There have also been frequent atiempts made to prevent State from pub g Stato texi books. Tnese are matters of legislative . Thave 10w, that a joint co houses be arpointed to in- ate Printing Office, when these d, as s can be verified and elaborated in detail. For your information I arpend to this letter astatément from the Controller State, showing that ¢ dollar that has been ex- pended by the State Printing Office has been upon cla:ms audited and_ellowed by the State 30ard of Examiners and paid upon ihe Con- troller's warrants. In many if notin mostof the State institutions, there is contingent fund which is expended by them without being passed upon b Board of Examiners or by tne Controller. This is not the case with the State Printing Office. The State ng Office collecis no money of iis own and handles no money, aud it is absolutely impossibie for auy discrepancy to ex be Ly collusion with the Board of E: ners, State Contreller and State Treasurer. Appended to the communication of the State Printer is a statement by the Con- trolier certifying that all money expended for the State Printing Office has been paid | mpon claims presented to and allowed by the State Board of Examiners and paid upon warrants issued from the office and paid by the State Ireasurer: 1 further cer lects no money fy that the State Printer coi- elf, and that 1t is {mpossi- bie for any mouey to be spent exceptupon claims allowed by the Board of Examiners and by the Controll 1 further ce that the State Printer draws no money nime<slf ex- cept his salary and small items for postage and | aveling expenses, and that all warranis are ssued to the pariv directly who periormed the services or iurnished the supplies, and that warrants are delivered by me 10 such per sons anly or their authorized agen®. I further here are vouehers on file for very s been allowed sgainst the ap propriation for the support of the State P: ing Office, aud that ny books correctly show the amount of money that has been allowed and expended for that purpose, and thnt there is not and cannot be any discrépancy between my nccounts and the accounts of the State | Printer authorized by law 10 be kept. i ———— PRISON-CRUSHED ROCK. Treacy Says Jts Use Will Throw Many Free Men Gut of Wor SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb. 1 part of to-night’s session was consumed in a spirited debate on Senator Doty's | bill 57, entitled “An act to regulate and govern the operations of the rock-crushing plant at the State prison at Folsom, to provide for the sale of crushed rock and | the aisposition of ihe revenues derived berefrom.” Aaderson’s smendment to raise the price of the crushed rock from 30 cents to 60 cents per ton brought Ennis and Sims | of Sacramento and Cutter of Yuba into the thick of the fray. They argued that the convict labor on the rock-crusier did not interfere with free labor. Ennis said that the Folsom reck could not be used in San | Francisco in com petition with other rock | because of the high rate of freight, where- ipon Mahoney inquired how the State nighways could be built with that rock for the production of which the whole State was being taxed. |~ Treacy of Sau F sco made a_violent attack on the bill. Bridgiord asked Treacy whether he was not afrnid that the prison- made rock would interfere with his (Treacy’s) business as u contractor. Treacy replied: *No, sir. I employ fifty men, and I pay them $2 per day, | when some counties pay only $150 per | day.” | _“Has any of this rock been used in San Francisco?” asked Clarke. o, sir. Then what are you kicking against?” | demanded Ciarke. | Treacy made vrompt reply: | kicking against throwing 1500 poor men out of employment—150 me:: in the district rep:esented Ly Mr. Auder<on, 350 men employed by Gray Brothers, 50 men employed by Senator Denizon in Alameda, and 250 men employed on Laundry Farm. I am kicking against men getting the benefit of this rock who do not need it. Give this rock to tue poor farmers free of charge to build their roads, and then you will be doing some good.” The biil was passed to a third reading by an overwhelming majority, Oy g quarry- —A large | in part substa | sufticieut o thie accomplishm | s past Lhe price of richest fruit AL prices whic they mignt be devos farming lands ot ate were held a¢ prices which forbade all expectation ofa reasonable return upon tne capital invested. These ¢ nditions Lave passed away. of the purpose. 1 California has s in the State use to which The general Culifornia in the past has presented an example wherein the price of its real estw € was no; correlated with the In sl cou: densliy of population. been & fixed relation of ries there has ween ihe soil, be the orizinal source of ail weulth, and the density of population OCCUPYINg the couniry embrac.ng hat soil Cal foraia for ed to be an ex- B ger so. Very bigh prices for ti e farming and frult lands of Call- foraiu are 1o louger obtainable, nor even ask The depressed state of business throughout the world has wrought its perfect work in Callior. i the direction of elim Lating fa se factors in < time appe valuations. ‘The average value of all clastes of sgriculural 1and in Culifornia is not to-day 30 per cens of that placed upon it during the aecade be- twcen 1880 and 1890. Meu forego home ties, break up home relations, sever themscives from kindred and from friends ovly because they Lelleve they can better their condition—tinancia'ly, morally and sociaily. The | sober question whichi confronis us in Inviting & | re-entorcement of our population is: Do the con- | gitions ox California, in ihe financial. eaucationa) reiigious, morat social wspects. cfter suerior | inducements Lo those exXisting in Lhe more densely seitled portions of our country? i1 they do not then in the very incipiency of the case an invita. tion extended to people (o break bome ties and | become citizens of our commonwealth is in it nature a deception. We who address you in this communication and the organization We represent believe that Call rnia offers Inducements superior to those o many more dens-ly setued countries. ana enter. | taining that opinion we also entertain the belief | that In inviting immigraton 10 Cadfornia we are 4 fAVOr BoL only upon this common- Who accept that invitation. e in the history of this Stute have the inducemients to immigration been 0 great. Meu di-pose Of the property they have accum- «d and make Investments in new countries in thie hope of requiring the ownership of property in the new location 1n advance of its developed va ue. | | State Fair They expe 1, as th & right, that the incie. ment uf vaitie o0 the property they purchase wiil r e theif own Indust y and omy 10 ac- g wealth. For many ye Tty hupe or tation could not be realized with ret rence o | Cal'fornia. 1 of the State w Al this Js chi values this gro | of that ennanceme: e foflate | prices at which the lands | re be d forvade this expeciation. nged. Lands olonger held at development, and out of y 0f reapiog the reward which will nece:sarily ensue upon ibe more dense settiement of our State. All | the conditicns inciting immigration to this State | lave improved. The rate of (ransportation has o steadlty downward te Cho cost of Livi Ie or vory g Constantiy declines. B urchard has be rire experticnce s o the sc At mgricuiiure atords Coutly mmistaken of wnvra In Lvery aspect of the case the Invitation which | | the' peopie of Laliforaia can Bow extend ro the home-seekers of world has better justification | | than atmoy time in tae history of the cummo. | wenith, At this juncture the reputation of o State as'a desitavie piace for residence has | | ost of plantiag tiy diminighed A nceof horticulture anteo against celved the broadest injury. nrse matters are of the highest importance to | the Siate of California. They are of vasily greater importance than the question of exnibit products of the Siate &l + astern or foreig, funs. We are confron ed b ks DeW HOmes ench vear. | 1 | | s of the representativ-s ot the various coun- fes of the Suate, Las had these matters under oo sideration. and lins appointed. the sizuers of §his COMMURICALION & COmMiliee (0 prasent the me | Ger to vour Excellency, accompanied by a petiiion hat iie facts herein prisented be made the sub- ect of & speciar message 0 the Leglsiaius companied, by, ion hat a com- m ssion of immigraion be crated and esian- ished whose duty 1. shall be to institute fnquiry | 1nto the character of all colonization schemes pro- | jected in this Stats. and to commend or condem ccording (0 Lhe weriLor deme: it of such schemes. | | " The oaly adequate or efieciive defense the State | can vow make agaivst the injurious represantu tious which have received such hgh ofticial m- dursement will be through the deiiberate conclu- sious of an official body, one repr.senting the | Guvernment 0. the State of Caiifornis, and there. | fore charged with u high accountability. 'The testimony of such @ Bigh authority wiil be re- ceived, rispected aud believed, whiie the repre. sen.atfon of the vountary immigration instru- mentall y will be regarded as par:ial, interested and upreliable. We_iherefore have the honor to petition that your Exce lency present to the Legl<iature in the form of a speclal message such statement of the auged aud improved conditions in this state as ‘ar UPON IS nALUrAl Tesources. the opportunities of their development und the general destratility of the State as a s ace of residence We also respectiuily urge upon your thonghttul attention tne snggeston herein made of the creation of Siate Commlission of Immigrat.on, function and oftice of which wouid be to pro- tect the people of Laiifornia sgainst tne injurions resuits of fr.udulent schemes projecied oaly in ihe intereat of privats pecuiation. | Al misrepresentation of this kind can work only injury 10 (his commonweaith, and a State Coni ion, composed of patriotic and honoratle men, ed Wil e s hotliy of the law and represent: | inz in an official capacl:y the people of the State of California, would muke only truthful represeita- tions: and with this bigh official indorsement the truth concerning our State would be recelved and believid. We fur~go further detail of ouline, leaving to, your better understanding of the subject and your better faciilty of suggestion - e elaboration of the plan herein generaliy outlined. Respecifuliy Tepresenting 10 you the gravity of | the situatton. we have the honor to remaln, yours very reipectiully. Wiliam H. Mills, Francisco. P Chipman, president State Board of Trade, Tebama County. Joueph . fimerv, Vice-president State Board of Trade, A ameda County. 3 A" Filcher, zeneral mansger, Placer County. Nirs. E. Shelds, Sacramen to Gouncy. Cruigic Sharpe. Aluméda County, commitzee. In the course of the personal interview bad with the Governor the committee was informed that the suggestions contained in the memorial met with the hearty ap- proval of the chief ex cutive, and that he would send a special message’ on the sub- ject to the Legislature, and would prepare a bill 1o cover toe object desircd—that is, the estublishment of an immigration com- mission. Itis the p se of the Gover- nor to erect the State Board of Agricul- ture into an immigration commission and thus obviate the necessity for any greatly increased appropriation. e SENATE AMND ASSEMBLY. chalrman committee, San N Passage of the Bill to Protect Labovers in Putlic Wor SACRAMENTO, Car. Feb. 17.—In the | Senate this morning the following bills were passed: Henderson’s bill to provide a bond for the protection of laborerson public works; Holloway’s bill regulating the width of tires to be usea on public roads; Voorheis’ bill exempting firemen from jury duty; Stratton’s bill permitting the attachment of the salaries of muni- cipal employes for debt. Wright's bill to give the university a l-cent tax on the $100 was read the second time and passed 10 the third-reading file. Dickinson’s biil to protect dairy interests was under con- sideration when the Senate took a recess | until atternoon. The Senate this afternoon finally passed the Assembly bili authorizing Supervisors to reconstruct and change the location of bridges over navizable streams. Thie Assembly bill revising the fish and game laws was passed, as amended. A number of As:embly bills were read a second time. Stratton’s Senate bill relating to the executions being taken out in_counties other than that in which the judgment was rendered was passed. The Assembly concurrent resolution cresting & com- mittee to investigate the printing office was tuken up and that portion providing for the choosing of an account and a printing expert by the minority, was stricken out. Several bills were introduced : By Strat- ton, to pay the im of J. W. Traver of the Oakland Encinal for the printing of constitational smendmentis; by More- house, for the placing of monuments to mark the brundaries of counties; by Lin- ders, amending sections of the Political Code relating to public schools Albert Searls was appointed assistant history clerk, to take the place of Albert Lindley, who resigned to take the position of bookkeeper in the office of the Secretary of Stat At the morning session of the Assembly a resolution was offered appropriating $636 60 for additional expense in the Huey-Powers contested eleciion case. Referred to ihe Committee on Elections. Arnerich’s bill. reforming the agricul- tural districts of the State and providing for the control of fair associations therein, was sought to be amended so far as the various districts_are concerned, adding Sacramento 0 El Dorado as a district, and thus placing the appropriation for the in_jeopardy. Other amend- ments were offered, but all were defeated and the bill was recommitted to be made the special order for next Tuesday mor: ing. Bills for the relief of the State Printing Office, special orders, were taken up. Dibble had 1wo bills appropriating in the aggregate $75,00). Shanahan had a sub- stitute naming $40,000 for the legislative printing for tie session. Dibble introduced a resolution suspend- ing the constitution and mak emer- gency bills of bis two measures. Cutter offered a substitute, making all three bilis cases of emergency. Aopted. The Assembly went into committee of the whoie to consider the printing office bulls, and aiter some debate decided to re- port favorably Dibble’s two measnres and unfavorably Shanahan’s bill appropriating $40,000. ‘The Dibble bill passed by a vote of 45 to 28, the usual motion for reconsideration being made by Caminetti. On” motion of Dibble, Shanahan’s biil appropriating $40,000 for legisiative print- inz was indefiniteiy posiponed, Shanahan giving notice of reconsideration. The bill appropriating $75,000 for the printing office, introduced by the committee on printing, was withdrawn. The Assembiy concurrent resolution, creating a committee consisting of Sena- tors Dickinson, Jeilette and Seawell and Assemblymen Price, Deanery and Me- Lauren 1o investiate the affairs of the printing office, was amendes by Dibble, bstituting Caminetti for McLauren and viding for the employment of two printing experts and two accountants, one expert and one accountant to be chosen by the minority and the others by the majority. The amendment was accepted North. “T'he minority of the printing committes submivted a Substitute, setting fortn the amount expended during the last six years and directing the Board of Ex- aminers to expert the printing office. The substitute was lost. The pr-vious resolution was carried and sent immediately to the Senate. A. W. Branch was elected assistant clerk, his employment dating from Junu- ary 11, on reconsiderativn of the resoiu- tion lost on Monday. The bill providing for the consoliaation | of San Quentin and Folsom prisons was reported unfavorably. Thera was quite a fight over the rock- crushing plant in the Assembiy this even- ing. Anderson intro'uced amendments to the Senate bill fixing the price of crusiied rock, raising the price from 25 cents to 60 cents. It being the second reading of the bill. members were inatten- tive, and the amendments were voted on and carried. Cutter moved to reconsider and the debate was opened, Godfrey, Treacy and Anderson opposing, Cutter, Bridgeford and Sims supporting. The motion was carried, and upon recon<idera- tion the amendments were lost. Ander- son offered several other amendments, each raising the price of rock, which were voted down. A large number of other Senate biils were read for the second time. Adjourned. —— May Escap Punishment. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 17.—Ascem- blyman L. M. Landsborough, against whom seven indictments were found by the present Grand Jury charging him with fraudulently raising county warrants and forgery, bids lair to escape 21l punish- ment, five of these indictments baving been quashed through legal technicalities, and his counsel—Hyram Johnson, Arthur Seymour and ex-Senator Sprague—having applied for a writ of prohibition to pre- vent the Superior Court in this county from bringing the other cases to trial on claimed illegalities in selecting the pres- ent Grand Jury AT Oakland Wants he State Fair. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 17.—Several days agoa bill passed the Assembly gon- ferting power upon the State Agricultural Society to sell Agricultural Park, where races are held in this city during the State Fair. Craig Sharp, secretary of the Oak- land Board of Trade, and L. Rothenburg of Oakland, sre here in the interestof having the State Fair held in Alameaa County, with authority to offer the Agri- cuitural Society the " QOakland Trotting Park on easy terms. A bill will be intro- duced to-morrow for the purpose. gty Will Budd Veto the Bill? SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 17.—The Governor has privately expressed a deier- | mination to veto the bill passed by the Assembly this afiernoon, appropriating $40,700 to provide for the printing-office detciency incurred up to the time of the pasguge of the bill on the ground of its unconstitutionality. It is said that at the executive meeting of the Board of Ex- aminers beld this afternoon the board aporoved the Governor's proposed action in regard to this particular bill, | SEEING *UNCLE" MEDE PLEASANT Senator Holloway Intro- duces a Bill to Regulate Pawnbrokers. It Will Piace Establishments on a Higher Plane and Benefit the Poor. An Incorporated Company to Be Formed Simi ar to the Oze In N.w York. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 17.—All who find it necessary to regularly or occasional- Iy visit their “uncle’’ will be interested 1 Senate bill 77, introduced by Senator Holloway and passed by the Senate to- day. The measure is designed in the interest of the poor people who are compelled to resort to pawnbrokers at times to keep the wolf from the door. As soon as it passes the Assembly and receives the approval of the Governor, a company will be organizea under it in San Francisco with a capital stock of $100,000, with S. P. Young as the principal stockholder. He will subscribe $50,000. Among other things the bill is intended to place pawnbroking, when by corporations, under the superv the Bank Commissioners. Itis the outgrowth of the success that has attended the corporation known &as the Provident and Savings Loan Society of New York, incorporated by thz Van derbiits largely as a philanthropic meas- ure. That corporation has $200,000 in- vested and has paid its shareholders 6 per cent per annum besides saving the poor people o that city a large amonnt of money in the shape of interest and other charges. The principal features of the bill follow Any corporation which has or shall be in- corporated under tha general incorporation laws of this State, authorized by 1ts art es of incorporation to loan money st interest upon the pledge or morigage of goods, attels, se- curities, and other personal property, and upon mortgages of real estate, and 0 meake in- s 1 stocks, bonds and other securi- shall be granted ali the power and privi- leges necessary for the execution of these pur poses; provided that nothing herein contained shnil ‘suthorize any such corporation to en gagein the business of banking. No busines: sha.lbe trausacted by any such corporation, until all the capital stock of such corporati on of 3 has been actnally and in good faith subscribed and at least 50 per centum thereot shall have been actually paid fo, in cash Such corporations, when they have dispos- able funds, shall loan on sli goods and coat- tels or on allsate securities offered, embraced within its rules and regulations in the order in which they are offered with this_exception that they may always discriminate in favor of small loaiis 10 the indigent. It at amy time any such corporation has dis posable funds. which cannot be loaned readily upon goods and chuttels or upon safe securi- ties, such corporation may make loans of such tunds upon mortgages of real estate and m make investinents of such funds in any stocks, bonds or other securities as the directors thereot may deem advisable. Such corporations shall in no case charge in- terest at a rate exceeding 2 per cent per monthy provided, however, that all loans shall shall be subject 10 one month's interest and no loans shall be settled at a less charge than 15 cents. Allloans by such corporations shall be for a time fixed, and not more than for one year, and the morigagor or pledgor shail have a right to redeem his property morigaged or pledged, et any time before it is sold, on pay- ment of the loan and rate of compensation to the time ot the offer to redeem. Property pledged to such corporations must be heid six months aiter the last date fixed by | contract for redemption. The Board of Bank ‘Commissioners shall | have access o the vaults, books and_papers of sny such corporation, and it shall be their duty to inspect, examine and inquire into its affairs, and take proceedings in regard to it, 1n the same manner and 10 the same extent as if seid corporation were & savings bank or a banking corporation. ALy corporation which shall violate the provisionsof the second section of this act shall be liable to a penalty of 100 for each and every day of the continuance of such vio- iation; and any corporation which shall know- ingly Violate any of the provisicns of any oth- er section of this act shall be liable to a pen- alty of notless than $25 nor more than $100 for every such violation. Sueh corporations shail pay annually in ad- vance license fees as follows: To the Treasurer of State, who shall pay the same in to the “Bank Commissioners’ fuud,” the sum of $25; to the Treasurer of the city, or city and county, in which any such corporation is located the sum of $125. b gt INSPECTION OF DAIRIES. An Important Subject Upon Which Sen- ators Do Not Agree. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 17.—Dairy inspection and incident thereto the extir- pation of cattle infected with bovine tuberculosis, was the subject of quite a lively discussion in the Senate to-day. Senate bill 182 by Dickinson was up for third reading. Dickinson at once took the wind out of | the sails of the sirongest opponents to the measure by offering an amendment stril ing out the clause providing for compen- sation to owners for cattle condemned and slaughtered by authority of the in- spectors. He also asked leave to amend by cutting the $45,000 in half. Braunhart, who sees an opportunity for opposition oratory in everything that emanates from a Republicar, whether in order or not, took the floor and spoke against the measure as a whole. With his Quixot-like imagination he saw danger in the provision fixing the compvensation of veterinary surgeons and inspectors at $5 a day for eacit day actvally employed. His active but faulty mental vision saw each county burdened with $10 a day, though there is no requiremext which makes this possible. Both the number of veterinaries and the number of inspec- tors is left to the discretion of the State Dairy Bureau. He was also opposed to the provision that the work of dairy inspection should be left to the Dairy Burean, who were all dairymen, and who, he claimed. would not be likely to order the condemnation of their own cattle when they were not to receive compensation for the animals slain. Then be assumed to be affrighted at the possibility of a claim against the State for slain cattle, and lastly, entered a protest against the section which repealed all acts in corflict with the one under con- sideration. This provision, he pointed out, would tie the hands of all boards of supervisors and county boards of heaith 0 tar as dairy inspection was concerned. nator Gillette opposed the amend- ment. He cited the States of New York and Messachusetts in which compensation was given for condemned diseased ani- mals, and said thata similar policy should be pursued in Cslifornia. Senator Smith spoke on bebalf of the dairymen of Kern and San Luis Gbispo counties, none of them, he declared, had exypressed themselves in favor of the measure, though a director of the State Dairy Bureau resided in San Luis Obispo County. He believed the danger from tubercolosis was greatly exaggerated, and quoted Professor Alvord of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry to show that even when cattle were affected with tubercolosis they might still be valu- able for breeding purposes, and that their milk might be safely used if sterilized. For this reason he argued that if such cattle are killed they should be paid for. He added that the tuberculin test was conducted | | { SATLORS | | the very purpose of exempting cattle from TheChallenge Of All Challenges! We defy the world to equal its like. For to-day and to-mor- row and Saturday if the quantity holds out. Some 500 Sailor Suits made from good blue chev- iots, with deep sailor col- lars, trimmed with red, white and black soutache braid, with lanyard and whistle; also « limited quantity of long pants sai- lors; awjfully cute little sailors ; agdes S to 12. Challenge price, -~$1.50-- TTETTITTITTTITTATTITTEY) We have a beauwtiful selection of new Spring o o o Novelties in Blous and Waists at --50c— For Larger Boys. Cunsessansennsssansannansd Over 500 of our newest and prettiest Short Trowuser Suwits, ages &5 to 15 years ; in small plaids and Scotehes ; All-1Wool Swits; the trousers are made with double seats and knees—in- cluding An Extra Pair of Trousers. The Suit, including an extra pair of trousers; the two are worth not less than 4 ) oy~ $4.75. Your pick to-day and to- morrow at the Challende price, —$2.50-- s RAPHAEL'S LEATHER (Incorporated), SPECIAL, THE FRISCO BOYS, : --50c-- 9, 11, 13 and 15 Kearny Street acknowledged to_be fallible, and that un- | lantic blockading squadron, 18 der its use great injustice would be done | Weehawken, South Atlantic blockading by slaving cows that were perfectly | squadron, 1863; took part in the different bealthy | actions with Forts Sumter, Wagner, Baau- Dickinson responded by stating that the | reard, etc., from July 10 to Septem b bill was originated by the dairy people for | 1563; commanded monitor Sausus, 18 encaged Howlet’s Battery on th River, June 21 and December 5. 1861; took part in the bombardment of Fort F.sher, December 25, 1864, and its capture Jana. ary 15, 1865; was on special duty at New York in 1866; fleet captain of the South Pacific squadron in 1366-67; commissioned as captain March 2, 1869; commanded tho monitor Dictator in 1869-70 and t flav- ship_ Hariford, Asiatic station, in 1873-74; was in command of the As:atic station for four months; was then transferred to the Richmond, flagship of the South Pacific 73; monitor the tuberculin test, and that the bill con- temnlated the employment of expert; veterinarians 1o report on the condition of dairy bosras. He said the introduction of the pill was due to the fact that last sum- mer a large number of cattle had been siaughtered in the bay counties under the tuberculin test. The dairymen, he said, | were not likely to inaugurate a crusade | against their own interests. | The biil was intended to protect the | people in the large majority of counties | where no provisions had been made by ! station, being in command of her from boards of sapervisors or boards of health | August, 1574, to July, 1875. Commis- in the matter. Smith deprecated the azi- | sioned as commodore April 26, 1876; re- tation on the subject, and said it would | lieved Rear-Admiral John Rodgers, in injure the markets of the dairymen of the State. It was placing in the hands of the producers of vegetable oils a strong weanon 1o be used against natural dairy products with which the vegetable-oil manufactur- ers were 1n keen competition at the pres- ent time. | Senator Gillette favored the bill, but wanted the compensatory clause retained. He held thatunless something of the kind proposed were doue the San Francisco market would be closed to the dairymen of Humboldt and other counties. Braunhart again called atiention to the faet that the bill as it stood would take the matter of dairy inspection out of the hands of all county boards of heaith, in- cluding that of S8an Francisco, and Sen- ator Diesinson agreed to a further amend- ment reading as follows: *‘Provided that nothing herein shall in any manner affect the powers of boards of supervisors or | boards of health.” The amendments were adopted and the bill was ordered re-engrossed. As the bill now stands it gives the dairymen the right to kill their own cattle without al- lowing them any compensation for their | losses, and gives the members of the State’ Dairy Bureau the power to appoint an army of veterinary | surgeons and inspectors at the _ex-| pense of the State, who by virtue of their obligation to the dairymen who ap- | point them would naturally feel delicate about carrying out their duties in the con- scientious manner that the weifare of the people at large would demand. Sochanged | has the measure become under the numer- | ous assaults made upon it since its intro- | duction that Senator Dickinson, whose name is attached to it as its author, felt constrained to disavow his paternity of the measure on the floor of the Senate to-day. command of the navy-yard, Mare island, Cal., April 17, 1877; in command of the yard until Janovary 15, 1881; special duty, 1881-82; promoted to rear-admiral Decem: ber, 1882; retired May 6, 1383, e g 2W0 NEGROES LYNCHED. They Had Eobbed a Farmer and Burned His Howse. MEMPHIS, Tesx., Feb. 17.—Informa- tion of a double lynching that occurred a week ago has just become public. 1t occurred near Webb City a small town in the Mississippi Valley, south of this city. Two negroes, whose names are not known, robbed a farmer and then burned his house. The following day the negroes were caught by the citizens of Webb Cit and after being compelled to dig the own graves, were lynched. s Sugar Barons Hold a Seeret Meeting. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 17-—The di- rectors of the American Sugar Refining Company held a meeting this afternoon. After the adjournment Treasurer Searles declined to state what action the di- rectors took regarding the request of the Lexow committee for permission to ex- amine the company’s books. John E. Parsons also declined to make any state- ment, saying that it would be contempt to the committee for him to do so. SR Walked 4000 Miles in Nine Months, EGG HARBOR, N. J., Feb. 17.—Jacob Echelman was greatly surprised yesterday afternoon when his brother, whom Le supposed to be in Centralia, Wash, walked in upon him. 7The brother e: plained that he had walked the entire distance in nine months, and had covered about 4000 miles. He is 24 years old. ——— e Dare Sullivan Puts Out Patsy Haley. ADMIRAL = CALHOUR - EONE. ;\'EW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 17. — The twenty-five round boxing contest for the 115-pound chamyionship of America be- tween Patsy Haley of Buffalo and Dave Sullivan of Bostoi before the Polo Ath- letic Club resulted in a victory for S van, who knocked Haley out in the thi) teenth round. —_—— Launching of the Rattan Tr BOSTON, Ma: Feb. 17.—The stock- holders of the Wakefield Rattan Com- pany met to-day and agreed to the con- solidation proposed some time ago with the Heywood Bros. Company of Gardner, Mass. The terms are identical with those heretotore published. S Uniform kates to Carson CHICAGO, ILL., Feb. 17.—It is said that all the railroads ranning from Chicazo to Carson, Nev., will to-morrow announce a rate of $76 for the round trip to the Cor- bett-Fitz:immons fight. Death of a Naval Veteran Who Made a Gallant Record in the Mexican | and Civil Wars. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 17.—Rear- Admiral Edmund I. Calhoun, U. S. N. (retired), died in this city io-day. He was 75 years of age. t Edmund R. Calhoun was born in Cham- bersburg, Pa., May 6, 1821; appointed mid- shipman from Missouri, April 1, 1839; at- tached to the sloop Marion, Brazil squad- ron, 1839-41; frigate Congress, Meditera- nean and Brazil squadrons, 1842-44; naval school, Philadelpmia, 1845; vpromoted to passed midshipman Jnly 2, 1845; frigate Cumberland, - home squadron, 1846-47; served in Mexican war, being present at the first attack on Alvarado, under Com- wodore D. Connor, and also under Com- modore M. C. Perry at the capture of | Tobasco; receiving shin at Philadelphi 1850-51; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific A A squadron, 1851-53; resigned June' 27, 185 e e . He re-entered ine navy as acting lien- | DENVER, Coto., Feb. 17.—A bill mak- tenant, | 156L; - commanded . steamers | iDg 1t a punishable offense to wear a high Shawsheen and Hunchback, Nortn | hat at a tbeatrical performance in Col- Atlantic blockading squadron, 1861-62; | orado passed the Assembly to-day by a vote of 44 to 15. —_——— Galreston Streetcar Me NEW ORLEANS, La. was in the foliowing engacements: Roanoke Island, February 7 and 8, 186 capture of Newbern, March 14, 1862: en- gagement on the Black Water River, be- low Franklin, Va., October, 1862; commis- sioned as commander, November 17, 186: commander steamer Ladona, North At- on Strike. Feb. 17.—The motermen and conductors on the street cars in Galveston, Texas, have struck for more Wages.