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THE SAN FRANCISC'O CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1899, “SOMETHING TO HAPPEN” TO-DAY SAY BURNS' TOUTS Wild Reports of Changes and Combinations, in the Air. RAILROAD PROGRAMME TO GO THROUGH. “It Must Be the Mexican or No Senator,” Cries the Corpo- ration, and the People Preler That the State Go Unrepresented. : CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Dan- iel _M. Burns will not be the next United States Senator from California. After a nine weeks’ campaign of bluff and bluster he finds that he is at last forced into a position where the lamentable weakness of his following must become apparent. Even his closest friends and most stanch supporters are forced at this, the eleventh hour of the Senatorial contest, to admit that their mas- ter no longer has a chance to win. Of the other candidates, both Barnes a Grant express confidence in their ability to secure election. How much of their confidence is inspired by conditions favorable to either of them will be made plain by the events of the next forty-eight hours. (3 ® -3 3 S 3 (3 @ 53 ® e [ [ lifornia Supreme { counsel of the d Hugh Craig, president 1 Francisco Chan rce, arrived to-night and will sent their views on the Santa Fe to Governor G LEGISLATURE WILL NOT HELP THE RACE GAMBLERS CALL HEADQI'ARTEKS, S MENTO, March 16.—The have none of the prop; pre- bill he Legislature may g reck of olitical a: upporters pr ator.” The rty never cut | | ACRA- Legislature n made i his reinforcements on the ground last night and were are of the situation that they me to the conclusion that their cas ar- concerned. No legislator could be found would stand sponsor for any meas- antagonistic to the interests of the people of the metropolis so far as they are a ed by the pernicious racing game at Ingleside. When they came to Sacramento seek- | ing relief the Ingleside gamblers ex- pected to receive support and comfort from the representatives of the Cali- fornia Jockey Club, who are managing the cing game at Emeryville. In this they w it a merry war is now being waged between the opposing factions, W ipted to d th the advantage on the side of the Em- a eryvil ole who pire to exclu- ¥ s control of the game that is filling X the penitentiaries with criminals, &C ¥ reasons that have actuated the Se. California Jockey Club people to with- )i h their support from the effort being % made - zamblers to set h aside ard of Super- th wcisco are made ap- d that th two trac the provisi e conducted at ting dates during es in May. With the ct will-end any n of a formal nature now ex- en the owners and man- de and Emeryville con- interdicting of bookmaking and i Ingleside will have the ing the track. Then when existing expires the : people will be able to race day in the year and will corral ry the ill-gotten nditions as they now exist s are bonanzas. therefore it ot to be expected that the Emery lle gamblers will “play fair,” and by | doing so surrender an opportunity now afforded to “*hog” the profits and double that | their incom Because of these facts the Emers mblers have refused to aid the Ingleside gamblers, and with the falling Wy comes the opportunity for honest men to come to their dues of th b g GENERAL SCRAMBLE ada Clty AMONG SENATORS o SEERION. | carL HEADQUARTER SACRA- = MENTO, March 16.—The Senate is getting that the i demoralized. Having fixed the hour for djournment, the Senators are all work- ng to secure the passage of thelr indi- 1 measures, it is look for a Senator > delegation of A t attendance lobby : : s filled h underworked Lo Barron was ele { attaches, watching bills which will pro- Call directed its ce dent | vide for their payment, friends of Sena- 1 to poll t To-nisht the | tors who want bills jumped forward = 1 g tel received | the files and brought at once to considera- ALUMA 16.—A careful | ¢jon; more friends of other Senators who, poll of the u\w,:(;‘l ot :{lulxx:?xfh-'\‘ 5 | having kept bills at the lower ends of the an almost unanimous n i . almyiatimine O it ng the greater part of the ses- Gener: T hundred were for C ow want to make sure they will not rise from the several graves so neatly provided for them. They have all been Lere for weeks, but now they have sud- denly jumped into aggressive activity. and every one is constantly on the move. Headed by Charles L. Patton, the San Francisco Exposition delegation distrib- uted itself among the Senators during the afternoon and added to the subdued buzz of versation that played an accome. paniment to the orators who would talk despite the flight of time. The Scott forces—three in number—gathered around Davis’ desk and taiked earnestly. Bett- man between rollcalls polled the Senate or tried to—on Rickurd's “boxing that has lately wandered in aft 2 cring the Assembly; catlon” of teachers tarried long enough to raise ap- lause when the appropriation for the an Franclsco Normal School was passed: | the major and Jake, his man Friday, spend In the lobby ail the time they can approached but of whom met t here. Peta- citizens irant, all recent v = Ba rant and Burns forces sing each other like hawks to st sign of the use of money flu . the election of a Senator. is much activity to-night and a | re in circulation con- some significant movement or | )pment to-morrow. ) rated as one of the| 1 shrewdest politicians in the | d who is favorably inclined to , although he has not taken an active part in the contest, stated to- night that it was a 1-to-10 shot that there would be no Senator elected. Very ltttle significance is attached to the re- ports of changes to-morrow. An effort will be made, no doubt, to prolong the | joint convention beyond the usual time. Among the callers at General Barnes’ headquarters to-day was ex-Chief Jus- together, like a “ringed” tree, the Senate is blossoming furiously before it dies. After considerable discussion the Senate refused to concur in the Assembly amend- ver of Com- | The de- | by vne promoters of the gmbling game 3 Senatop | AT Insleside to enact a law that will only a sneer of have the ct of nuliifying the action e was | taken Monday by the Board of Super mator, ‘and EREt was | s o ban Franc The racing | d to ki : given to understand t it was not until {is hopeless so far as the Legislature is | ere disappointed, and because of | th | " MUNICIPAL BONDS biil, | a delegation of | spare from that of the Assembly, and al- | The ments to Langford's free market bill. amendments were the striking | Assembiy ‘Out the Senate amendments and leaving | the bill where it was before the Senate got to work upon it. The Senate would | not recede from its position, and Lang- | fort, Leavitt and Stratton were appointed & committee to confer with a similar | committee from the Assembly to come to some agreement on the terms in dispute. The Senate amendments changed the location from the block lying between Davis, Pacific and East streets to section 4 of the seawall. The Assembly changed {1t back again. Senator Ashe took a fall out of the | clerk of the Assembly by submitting a | resolution requiring him to do_ his duty and sign all bills which had been pre- nted to him for his signature before | y were sent to enrollment. Ashe said | the bills had been piling up awaiting the clerk’s signature, and he wanted them hurried on withbut delay. The resolu- tion was passed and was sent over to the Al nd_soon after a reply from the Assembly came back, | stating that he had signed all bills for en- {;;Umvnl which had been submitted to m. Th Wi e appropriation bill was called up and put to a vote in order to hurry it to the Assembly and let the As- | semblymen fight over the amendments | the Senate added. It went through with- tion except from Laird who *‘because he sald he did not | The nvict-built road from Sacramento to ‘olsom came up again in the form of As. | There was a hot debats | wedge for the establis | ment of s ghways all over the State. | The bill w ally defeated, Taylor giv- | ing notice of a motion to reconsider. ‘olfe’s bill to raise the Bank Commis- sion from three to five numbers was put to a closing vote. It was lost by 9 ayes Wolfe then changed his vote ve notice of a motion to recon- Boyce's bill to remove the restric- sider. tion by State law on the speed of street cars was passed. It is a_measure to per- mit the rapid running of suburban cars after they leave city lmits and get be- yond the jurisdiction of local ordinances Testricting their speed. Braunhart's in- come tax bill was defeated. The bill was not considered exactly suitable, and the vote on it was to many of the Senators as much an expression of opinion on the subject of an income tax as it was a vote on_the measure Boyce's bill to abolish the Code Com- m! on cut a rift in the monotony of the evening’s proceedings, but only a small one, ill was snowed under. He consider. but announced his cas declared out of s bill Boyce took roast Comm| its labors. There wa: remarks and the bill was s to 7 ayes. Senator Bulla ommissioner was at his cused from voting. for his THREE BALLOTS AND NO CHANGE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, March 16.—To-day’s proceedings in the Jjoint Sena- torial ballot were simply a sam- ple of what is to come on to- morrow and the next day. The Assembly chamber was filled to the green balze doors, the steer- ing committees of the different camps were busy on the floor and three ballots were taken. The crowd that came in the ex- pectancy of a slump from any quarter was disappointed. There was none. The first ballot seérved only to afford opportunity for the daily switch of the Democrats, who cau- caused on their favorites at As- semblyman Boone's desk jusgt be- fore order was called. The second ballot serv: the same purpose. The third,/ which was taken only after a rollcall on adjournment had been demand- ed on motion of Wade of Napa, resulted in nothing but a fiery at- tack by Leavitt of Oakland upon the Democrats, who, Wwith the Grant people, beat out the San Francisco harbor bill, which Mr. Leavitt so carefully nursed to its grave. The first ballot resulted as fol- lows: BARNES 2 ESTEE 5 BURNS 21 GRANT 29 SCOTT . .6 “ROSENFELD (D.) o WHITE (D.)- g PHELAN (D). iz DE VRIES (D.) e 12 ‘The second, which was suggest- ed by Works of San Diego, who votes for Mr. Grant, and the third, showed no change. lutely essential to the validity of any munici- pal bonds that may be attempted to be floated by any that act 'As 1 stated to you this morning Sacramento city is now proceeding with a proposed bond fasue in the sum of $400,000 for some proposed and much-needed improvements, viz: Sewer- age, water main system, new High School, ed that at the last s wharves, ete. It is of the utmost importance that this act, municipality under the provisions of | Icared particularly about. A S e BURNS’ LATEST SCHEME IS TO TAKE A RECESS { | | The Mexican Will Try lllegal Means to Prolong the Joint Convention. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, March 16.—Ome of the last schemes of the Mexican candidate for forcing the Legislature to elect him United States Senator is the prolonga- tion of the joint convention on Satur- { day. If the voting to-morrow does not result in bringing to his standard any new votes he proposes to take several ballots on the last day and force a recess until evening, thus getting a | | final opportunity to threaten and ca-| jole the members. There is considerable doubt, however, { whether under the Federal statute (re- | quiring the Legislature to meet daily and take at least one ballot for Sen- | ator) a candidate chosen after such a recess would be legally elected. There |is no ‘instance where that procedure has been attempted. The purpose of the law is to compel a meeting at noon | on each day. The statute was enacted | | to prevent deadlocks resulting from | different political parties getting con- trol of the houses and refusing to meet | in joint convention. This often hap- | pened where violent partisans pre- | ferred no Senator to the election of one | | belonging to the party which in joint | convention would have a majority. | "No such thing as a recess is con- | templated by the law and no limit is | by it placed upon the number of bal- | lots which shall be taken. There is no doubt that the joint convention may vote as many times as it pleases, and for that purpose it may sit all day, | but whether it can take a recess and meet again is doubtful. Indeed. a recess in parliamentary law is prac- | tically an adjournment. No provision | | is made in the law for a recess. A meeting must be held at noon each | BTt + 10 00 25 Kt et e T P tieti et ot i e i e tieti % 5 2 ¢ B e eTisTi o Ti 0Ty | | | | | | | | | i | PARMER: “We've Got the Rain Now; How About the Senator?” | Oakland. the legislation of their own the Senators .‘gsossogsosaosioseogs»ssosso&iog&o%ofiosso&ogogio&io8%0!8038033082 LEGISLATURE WILL ADJOURN SATURDAY CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, March 16.—The Legisla- ture has committed itself to an adj Assembly concurrent resolution call at midnight of March 18 was take without opposition. The consideration of the resolut up the resolution. Maggard, La Rue—26. Noes—None. Sims—6. through easily. The adoption of the concurrent practically certain. To hold over af! ment and return it to the Senate sembly again for consideration. for this morning immediately after the reading of the journal. It was not five minutes after the Senate convened when Stratton moved to take There was no opposition to Stratton’s motion, and there was a general expression of “no debate,” so without any out- bursts of oratory the resolution was adopted by this vote: Ayes—Bettman, Boyce, Braunhart, Bulla, Burnett, Chapman, Cur- rier, Cutter, Davis, Doty, Dwyer, Feeney, Gillette, Jones, Luchsinger, Nutt, Shortridge, Simpson, Smith, Stratton, Trout, Curtin, Rowell, Prisk, Present and not voting—Flint, Hall, Leavitt, Dickinson, Morehouse, Absent—Ashe, Hoey, Laird, Langford, Pace, Taylor, Wolfe— The unanimous vote on the resolution dees not mean that it went From last night the various factions had been discus- sing what they would 30 wher the resolution came up for considera- tion, and it was only just before the opening of this morning’s session that the Senate became a unit on the subject. Senate would have to ask the Assembly to recall the bill from enroll- have to be amended or defeated and would then have to go to the As- Such a course is now almost impos ble, for if one Senatorial faction should see profit in holding over until Wednesday the others, or in case of a combination the third, would stand in with the Democrats and the necessary majority could not be 0ot tietie R+ RN+ RN ANARIS N ournment on Saturday night. The ing for a cessation of law-making n up by the Senate and was adopted jon had been made a special order resolution makes the adjournment ter the time now finally fixed the for further action. It would then secured. The Legislature has finally fixed the time for its close. MeRetofoti o eR o0 eReReleieti oo e+ aietioeN e R ¢ N+ RN eReR oMok RS R S R SR SR S SR S in any shape or form. Under the provi- slons of the bill, he explained, if per cent of the people of that portion of the county asking for division affixed their names to a petition the wheels of county division commenced to revolve, the in- curring of expense commenced and must be met by the taxpayers whether the ul- timate result was reached or not. g He believed it was an inopportune time to talk of saddling extra expense upon the taxpayers of any county by creatin new places for hungry office-seekers an broken-down politicians, who would re- joice at the passage of the bill. Atten- tion was called to the fact that there was | now upon the files of the House a peti- tion from the people of San Luis Obispo County asking that their taxes be re- mitted, and he was surprised that they should want _additional burdens thrust upon them. Knowiand claimed that was opposed to the bill upon general principles and _further because he be- lieved it would be the stepping-stone for those who desired to annex Alameda, which city_he represented, to the city of Mead said if 8000 people in a | district wanted county division they should have it, but that view of the prop- osition did not seem popular, and after a call of the House the measure was de- feated. Burnett gave notice of a recon- sideration. its indorse- | a byword and urance of de- | mission was ment of any measure an cat. This ion. he said, the commis sion had given the Legislature practically @a copy of the Civil Code, submitting {t| at a time when it was lmpossible to give | {t proper consideration, and there was | following it somewhere in the nands _of‘ the printer a Civil Code that, Beyce said, | euld probably be out in time to_be con” | Sdered by the grandsons of the Senators | Boyce was the only one who | ant. e on the to 12 when I consider Se bill. It was five minutes | \vitt moved that the Senate ate bill This was a bill | fo " pay the contingent expenses of the ¥-ommission. The bill was on the fle of appropriations and claim edings that file al and under the proces was in order. Davis moved to amend th including the entire file, and this gav Bovce an opportunity to object and Jeak, and Boyce has no use for the Code pmmission nor its labors mnor fits ex- penses nor its members nor anything that | IS theirs, and there being but a few minutes more he proceeded to utilize them in words. 'As the few minutes left flew by and still he talked, the friends of the meas- | ure began to grow nervous, and finally a point of order was raised. Boyce was not fpeaking to the question. The point of order was declared a good one and Boyce sat down. The amendment went to a Yes and no vote. The response to the call Was about even and a division was called for. ‘There were eleven ayes and seven | noes, eighteen in the House, and the next | thing was an_ announcement that the House was adjourned until to-morrow at ¥ past nine. There was no quorum. To-morrow the bill for the expenses of the Code Commission wiil be brought up as a claim bill, one exempted from the a1e limiting consideration to Assembly bills. e motion by will now be dropped d business and all com- the Senate bills o unfinishes ordered to return to ittees were ! .{":’L.i ary any bills they may have on hand. It is the beginning of the end. PROBABLY lNVA_LIDATED 1 HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, ch 16—The desire of this city to rebond itself to the extent of $400.000 has had the effect of uncovering an trror in the statutes made by the Legis- lature of 1597 that has probably invall- dated every bond issue made by a munici- pal corporation. The mistake was brought to the atten- tion ot Grove L. Johnson yesterday by James B. Devine, corporation counsel for | tme%ity, and Mr. Johnson at once intro- duced in the Assembly a bill which Saightens the matter out. Under a sus- bension of the provisions of the constitu- e he got it passed through its three Feadings and passage with no voice in dis- sent. St Devine's letter to Mr. Johnson, | which is as follows, fully explains the er- Tor he has discovered and its bearing | upon municipal affairs: SACRAMENTO, March. 18, 1589, Hon. Grove L. Johnson. Assemblyman—Dear | St 1 hand vou herewith an act which I | have prepared for the purpose of restoring to the act of March 19, 1889, commonly known CALL | 4e the *'municipal improvemeént bond act.’ | Eections 6 and 3 thereof, as they stood when Amended by the act of March 1, 1833, found | at page 61, statutes of 1593. These two sections, | 55 T%xplained to you this morning, were, by What was evidently a mistake of the Legisla- | ture, elMminated by the act of 1897, found at page 75, statutes of 1897. ‘he restoration of the tw the general act of March 19, 1859, sections repealed T4 to is abso- which I send you be passed immediately that this city, as well as other citles engaged in the same line of improvement, may safely proceed and hold a spectal election for the jssuance of municipal bonds. Kindly present this matter to the Senate and Assembly at once and oblige. MES B. DEVINE, rporation Attorney. e LIBELOUS ARTICLES MUST BE SIGNED CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 16.—Senator Morehou: little bill designed to compel the down- trodden reporter to sign his own stuff, and, with the proprietor of his paper, as- sume responsibility for it, passed the As- sembly to-day on final passage by a vote of 47 to 20. It did not pass, however, without a good | stiff fight. Melick of Pasadena, Sanford of Mendocino, Feliz of Monterey and a | half dozen others, among them Wade of Napa, all lined up against the measure and fought it until it was carried. Melick offered amendments striking out some of the more radical features of the measure, which were voted down. Sanford made a’play for technical delay, and Fells of Monterey ably seconded him. Johnson of Sacramento made it the o casion for one of his famous anti-news- paper dissertations. He sald the bill was not designed to hurt the bright young men who do the writing: on the contrary, it would improve thelr position. It was, however, designed to compel the ‘“‘cow- ards and assassins” who run the San Francisco dallies and persist in showing up all sorts of legislative crookedness to | take the responsibility. Mr. Valentine of Los Angeles was de- cidedly in favor of the measure, but so tempered his talk that no animus was apparent. Johnson attempted to shut off debate by moving the previous question, but San- ford forced him to withdraw and consent to ten minutes more of argument, when the blll aghin came up at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Then it was passed and or- dered returned to the Senate. ASSEMBLY BILLS ONLY GET SENATE NOTICE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 16.—The Senate has com- mitted the last act which binds it to an adjourrment. It adopted a special joint rule this evening regarding the considera- tion of bills which closes the doors to the consideration of any but Assembly bills. The rule provides that no Assembly bills shall be considered by the Assembly and no Senate bills shall be considered by the Senate, except bills from each House in conference, after midnight to-night. Ex- ceptior is made, however, to the appro- priation bill, the tax levy bill, amend- ments to the county government, consti- tutional amendments and bills detailed by notices of motlons to reconsider. By amendment in the Senate claim bills, for repairs on State bunuings and for the re- lief of State commissions, were also ex- empted from the terms of the rule. As amended the rules were adopted. As a consequence all this evening the Senate was busy rushing Senate bills through on urgency resolutions and off the urgency file. It was the last chance, and business ran past the Senate as fast as the secretary could draw the bills from the desk. The whole special file was finished up, and that included all day, and “if no person receives a ma- | Jority on the first day the joint Assem- | bly shall meet at 12 o’clock noon of each | succeeding day during the session of | the Legislature and shall take at least | | one vote until a Senator is elected.” This law has been held to limit the action of the Legisiature, and in the | absence of provision for a recess none | is legal. | If the Burns touts attempt to bulldoze ’m»mbers in this way their scheme will be stoutly resisted by the followers of | Grant, Barnes and Scott, and if they vote solidly it will not be possible to | carry it out. The suggestion, coming | | as it does from Burns, shows merely | how desperate the Mexican is getting | | in the last hours; like a drowning man, | he is now grabbing at straws, no mat- ter how elusive. No intelligent person | can see what p8ssible good it will do | him to set apart a few hours on the last day in which to exercise his final | dying tactics. Enle s COUNTY DIVISION 1 BILL KILLED CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, March 16.—Assemblyman Bur- | nett's county division bill was Kkilled in the Assembly this afternoon and for an- other two years the warring factions of | San Luis Obispo County will have to con- | sume their own smoke and Kkeep thelr | knives in thelr sleeves. | Incidentally there is now no law, as| there has not been for these two years | past, by which counties rent by inter- necine strife can get away from them- selves by dividing up- their governments. | Mr. Burnett's bill was not lost without | a hard fight and some Interesting debate upon some of its peculiar provisions. One | of its most prominent sectlons is as fol- lows: Section 1—New counties in this State may, from time to time, be formed and created rrom portions of one or more counties already in existence in the manner set forth in this act; provided, however, that no new county shall | be established which shall reduce i to a population of N shall reduce the assessed value of any old | county more than one-half, as shown by the | last assessment thereof made previous to the formation of such mew county: nor shall any new county be formed containing a less popu- lation than 5000, nor shall any line therecf pass within five miles of the county seat of any county proposed to be divided: and every county which shall be enlarged or created from territory taken from any other county or coun- teie shall be liable for a just proportion of the existing debt and liabilities of the county or | counties from which such territory shall be taken. : Mr. Burnett spoke at some length to his | bill, making the basis for his argument | | that the State is at present without law | or means for creating new counties when they may become necessary. He did not emphasize the fact that his measure was drafted primarily for the benefit of his own county, San Luis Obispo. Knowland of Alameda made a 'strong and excellent speech In opposition to the measure. He stated that he believed the bill_had been introduced in the best of faith by the gentleman from San Luis Obispo, Mr. Burnett, part of the people from that county desiring the measure. He believed, however, that an overwhelm- | mitting, San Francisco will have a nor-| | piration of t | MENTO, March 16.—The general appro- | ury was passed | posed to Burns are endeavoring to con- | vince Bulla voters to see the error of SAN FRANCISCO MAY HAVE A NORMAL SCHOOL CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 16.—The Governor per- mal school despite the extinguisher placed upon it by the Board of Education last January. The school will not be an expense to the city, however, for the State will care for it to the extent of $20,000. The bill allow- ing the appropriation and providing for the establishment of the school was pass- ed by the Senate to-day. It was not an easy fight, for the Sen- ate showed a decided unwillingness to allow San Francisco anything more in the State school line. Wolfe supported the bill. It was one of Assemblyman Hoey's measures, and he made the successful fight for it on the floor of the Senate. It came up under an utgency resolution, and when it was put under consideration Cut- ter moved that the bill be denied a sec- . Bulla_seconded the motion, d out of order. then explained how the school came to be kll;yoflsl:led %ggrigg;]s"ofviflz v bei ¢ the su i | papt hcln}g{e‘ru;;iid) t‘he $20,000 the bill pro-| pupil [ Vided would be ample to run the school | for the mext two years, and by the ex-| hat time other arrangements he | these, there are on fille in the same of- fice, awaiting transit to the north, | enough telegrams and letters of even | tenor to make a total of 325. Suggestions | for the transfer of fealty from the Bulla | to the Grant banner come from all quar- | ters, and local managers declare they | could easily secure a majority of the 700 | delegates and expect that the Southern | California delegs n in Sacramento will see by these varfous indications how the | wind blows and swing their support from Bulla to Grant. JOHNSON LOSES A FAT LEGAL FEE HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 16.—Assemblyman John- on’s attempt to lay hold of his legisla- tive bootstraps and lift himself toward a fat attorney’s fee was rudely stopped by the Senate to-day by the denial of a Sec- ond reading for his bill, No. 908. Johnson's bill is to make certain per- sons now classed as Incompetent wit- nesses in certain actions competent when | caLL | called by the executor or administrator of an estate In a suit against such estate. There is not much to the bill until it becomes known that Johnson is attorney for the executors of two big estates now being sued, and, curiously enough, if he could only get the testimony of certain witnesses now incompetent he would stand a much better chance of winning, and if his bill, No. 98, is read correctly it will be found to allow such witnesses as Johnson wants to give testimony. It is good to be both lawyer and legislator. The bill was_denied second reading on the recommendation of the committee that it do not pas: WEEKLY REPORT OF WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 16.—The regular weekly report of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, submitted to-day, shows the following with regard to app: riations: Total referred to committee. $5.750,587 1 total reported favorably, $2.273.399 99; to- tal reported unfavorably, $575,332; total re- ferred to other committees, $408,845; total amount of reductions made by reason of amendments in committee, $526.093 §7; to- tal remalmniln committee, $250,300; total reported without recommendation, $87. 685 97; total reported with recommenda- tion that they be withdrawn, $842,530 34. o b e EXPOSITION BILL BEFORE Dv\'yerh alsob‘wll:!rmly sup- orted the bill, and then ckinson rose {Jo“:)lppuse it: Dickinson declared that the | only ones who wanted the school were the | pupils who are now attending it, who, ha | said, were being stirred into agitation b: the teachers, and the teachers themselves who wished te hold their positions. | “If T thought the 000 would run the school for two )‘;dr;_u said Dlé:l([l,rells_ibx:,enll Vi vote for the bill as an eX i :\th? know it will not. The San Diego hormal school was the cheapest I ever saw, but that started on $50.000 two years ago and here they are up here now ask- ing for $100,000 more.” mith had as much will be made. more to say on the subject and he said it in the line of oppo~ Sinn:‘xn. ‘He called attention to the fact that the bill at first called for $200,000, but | that this had been cut to $20,000. He pre- | dicted, however, that the school would be asking for more from the next Legisla- ture. The State had a sufficient number of normal schools, he believed, and he | was opposed to spending State mo: another in San Francisco or any éise. He believed the State money be expended in schools for. industrial training rather than professional training and he commented severely om the fact that to enter the only industrial schools the State supported a boy or girl mustfirst become a criminal. Burnett and Braun- hart spoke in favor of the measure and | then Wolfe took up the cudgel again and talked twenty-one votes out of the Sen- ate, by which number the bill passed. | The vote was as follows: | A Ashe, Bettman. Braunhart, Bur- Doty, Dwyer, Feeney. Hall, Maggard Morehouse, tratton, Taylor, Wolfe, 2 . Curti Leavitt. avis—21. oes—Boyce, Bulla, Dickinson, Jones, La Rue, Prisk; Powel, Stms, Smith, Trout | —10. It required two calls of the absentees to bring the number up to the necessary twenty-one, and then even then it was secured only after Laird, who had voted “no,” changed over to “ave.” There was great app sult was announc lause when the re- -——— ASSEMBLY ACCEPTS APPROPRIATION BILL HEADQUARTERS, CALL SACRA- priation bill did not require ten minutes in the Assembly to-day for concurrence in the Senate amendments and final pas- sage by the lower House. The amendment created no debate, not even that badly sliced State Fair appro- priation was commented upon. The few Scars left upon the document by the gen- | tlemen of the upper House were cheer- | fully accepted as a matter of course, and the State’s biennial dip Into the treas- with no voice against. it. Tt was brought up by Valentine of Los Angeles, who moved that the Assembly concur in_the Senate's amendments. They | were read, adopted and the State has a | plethoric pocket with which to weather through the forthcoming two years. A NEW MOVE STARTED TO HELP GRANT’S CAUSE 10S ANGELES, March 16.—Grant workers who are most particularly op- their way and go to Grant. Cards bear- ing this brief but significant message, “Having done your duty to Mr. Bulla, you should now support U. S. Grant, a Southern California man,” will be sent | to Sacramento to break the deadlock. These blanks with envelopes for return to Los Angeles were sent to each Repub- lican who was a delggate in the county convention that instructed for Bulla. 3 ing majority of the counties throughout the State were opposed to county division Of these ninety-seven, properly signe have reached the. local. headauarters of this latest Grant movement. Besides THE SENATE FOR PASSAGE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACR. MENTO, March 16.—The “‘exposition bill, providing for an appropriation for the big fair to be held in San Francisco in 191, came before the Senate this afternoon, and after being amended was sent to the Printer, to be ready for copsideration and final action to-morrow. y the amend- LA GRIPPE 1s now reaping a rich harvest. It is draw. ing thousands within its relentless grasp. Medical statistics complled by the best physicians of the world show that over 60 per cent of the cases of ac- quired SUMPTION are due to L GRIPPE. 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