The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1901, Page 2

[&] THE SAN FR CISCO CALL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1901 ALAMEDA DELEGATION YIELDS TO GOVERN EMPLOYES MUST PROVE ABILITY Assembly Committee to Inquire as to the Competency of Stenographers, £ } e | #5i0 Tor a water system st the Breston Behoot | 154 B Stawart of Amador—Appropriating % | | 1.—A bombshell was thr the at- s who hold favor and T ¢ ney by a - r by Webber of Napa. It ee of three to ex- on of the Assembly are, where they and other at- the investigation Webber him- nt in xowed itlon Webber said mbers could not required when they appo! nderstood t anything at were true knew Mateo and held a afternoon, but vestigation 1l condnet an amination in imittee wi service ex: offered by Kelley, the mittee was increased from members and the Speaker n and Webber to complete k asked to be relieved from t of his-duties Committee, and n his stead. on extending an invi- to President McKinley to be pres- t aunching of the Ohio w. n nimously adopted. were introduced at « = : ervis- « ax ish a ' iing $10.000 for displays at § A r foreign expositions. 5 inging thy lose et el ASSEMBLY PRESENT LONG LIST OF BILLS FOR CONSIDERATION heridan in- mendment pro- law relative to The following ‘ ®h n—Relative crimes and < Bissiting he oot o £ of summonses and zhlin—Amending se PARIS INVEST | | government or it | enough of the| $500, far books for the Preston School. B Btewart of Amador—Appropriati 1o nt gt the Preston School Knowland—Amending the county L of 1897, . Kelley—Creating a fifeman’s relief, insurance and pension fund. |~ A workshop at the In | ical Trades for the Adult Blind. A. B. 21, A pay Hakeo. A Hubbara asta County Savage—A ) street work Concerning stray ant- display county products. A 2 age the claim of T. H. Blakeley. A 2 Clarke—Appropriating $223 to pay T. O. Toland. Ray—F ghway 1 Merced Falls to Yo- Cromwell—Amending the ‘Political section 357 ustees and appropriating $2500 for , Feliz—Amending section 626 of the . Feliz—Providing for a State road nterey to San Lufs Obispo and ap- i for the purpose. ilfoyle—To regulate the estab- aintenance of public laundries. Roberts—Amending the law rela- officers and jurors and wit- —Defining the eastern bound- Appropriating $§5 Forbes. Butler—Providing for the use of ng machines. 284, Butler—Providing for the appoint- a State quarantine officer by the State Health Butler—Amending the Code of lidays. & the Code of relating guardlan and Sutler—Same title: Milice—Amending the Civil Code E . M toxicating liquors. A B. 300, Milice—Amending municipal cor- poration act relating to election of officers. A. B. 301 Melice—Supplementary to the ir- rigation act. A. 'B. 302, Chandler—Relating to ‘the plugging water wells in oil territory. B. 308, Johneon—Relating to furnishing photos and descriptions of convicts by war- Gens of State prisons. A. B, 34, ~Relative to the sale of in- of A the completion of the State Normal School at San Diego. Bames—Amending section 655 of Civil procedure. Code. McWade—Appropriating $412 50 to . B. 3 the clai B. 308, McWade—Appropriating $325 65 to the claim of H. Tinderman. 308 ¢ —To secure native-born and d_citizens exclusive right to labor © works. 210, Carter—Amending section 1634 of od Johnson—Regulating the sale of Stewart of San Diego—A! v the claim of A. L. W Brown of San Mateo—Relative to ances. Johnson—Amending the Political - the giving by administrators, executors, et als A. B. 316, Broughton—Amending the act for the incorporation of co-operative associations. A Broughton—Amending the Civil | express trusts. ting 18, spealing section 2032 ghton—Amending the act reg- of artesian wells. lick——Amending the Politicd) ‘enues and taxes Regulating width of tires nding act for form: r Amending section 36 of the Political Cod: Amending_section 15 ment act of 18t Regulating he hours of wimills, ete jsors to levy special tax for the pur- the products of any county reign expositions. GATION RECEIVES ITS QUIETUS Committee Unable to Make Recommenda- tions Owing to Absence of Vouchers. HEADQUARTERS SACRA- an. 17.—The proposed investi Californis apparentl raing in the A Commissions a w report ement that the ke further report while nmissioners was 1 &b tate and the vouchers and the commission were not commit- om the report filed o recom: mendations are made,” Grova | T commented, “and there is Rrvn do with the committee’s report | e it. erstand it,” sald Speaker Pen- e will pass to the next order | of the committee is as fol- | Speaker: Your Committee on Commis- ¢ and Public Expenditures on January 10 hed, by the recommendation of a special com- mittee, mssigned to it the portion of Governor Gage's biennial message referring to the Paris Exposition Commission. On the 14th of January Governor Gage in & special message presented to the Assembly the eliminary report of two Pari Expo- missioners (Truman mot slgning), attention to the fact that po hers of such expenditures have yet bees with the State ‘ontroller This special | rmessage and prelimin ry report were also re- this committee. com: nittee studied the messages Gage and the preliminary report of commissioners, Controller Colgan before the committes at its Tequest, a representative of the Secretary of Stat Y committer also took cognizance | re that are afloat committee therefore presents the fol- Pept of 1—The Legislature of 189 appropriated | $130.30 “to collect, prepare, forward, install and maintain an exhibit of the products of | State of California at the Paris Expo. approved March 20, 1 PAGES OF SENATE 1 AND ASSEMELY FORM LEGISLATORS’ CLUB . HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- , Jan. 17.—The pages of the Sen- ate and Assembly have organized a club known as “The Young Legislators.” officers are as follows: Shields of L6s Angeles; vice president, Forest J. Swears of S8an Francisco; secre- tary, Esmond M. Smith of Oakland: treas- urer, Sam Wacholder of San Francisco; minute clerk, Francis Springer of Santa Barbara: sergeant-at-arms, Dannie Love of San Francisco. The remaining members are as follows: Monroe Gilman, Willie Lardner, William Eaunders, Elwood Feeney, Emmett Rhoads, Dean W. Hasson. Woodburn Lamphrey. Ralph Schiuer, Reed Baxter, Fidon Wickham, Edward Roeder, Earle | yron and Wilpur ..anktree. | vouchers to be ————— made 1t the duty of the Governor *‘to appoint work, one from the northern, one central and one from the southern®portion of the State” who were to have the exclustve harge and control of the expenditure of all nevs appropriat 2 o required to file a b unt of $10,000 State. Each commis- sioner was to have $5000 for his services as oommissioner. The act made $25,000 available on the passage of the act and $105,000 avail- able December 1, 158, The act exempted the payment of the' moneys from section 612 of the Political Code, #0 the State Board of Ex- niners had nothing to do with it. 2—Under the above act your committee finds thet Governor Gage appointed Hons. Ben. C. Truman of Los Angeles, W. W. Foote of San Francisco and E. W. Runyon of Red Bluff as said Paris Ex tion Commissioners. Their bonds are regularly filed with the Secretary of State and the commissioners duly qualified and procesded to thelr work abroad. —The only direct knowledge your commit- tee has of the work of the Commissioners. ia Parie is by the partial preliminary report which the Governor communicated to the As- sembly on January 14, 10l Your commiites has not had flled with it any communication nor_ch regarding the work of this Paris Commisston. the Con- with the Secretary 4—Until the vouchers are flled with troller of California and until a full official report is made, your committes is unable to present to the Aesembly a full report as to when, bow or where the money appropriated was spent. There is no law requiring the Paris Commissioners to return and file final vouchers and reports in a specified time. = An exsmination of the vouchers In the State Controller's office of State expenditures for xposition purposes at Chicago, Guatemala nd Hamburg show that it is not usual for flled until several months after an exposition in closed; In fact, former prece- dents give from six to sighteen months for commissioners to file final vouchers. Therefore. Mr. Speaker, from the above facts 4 _condjtions, your committee on ommis- ne and Public Expenditures cannot make forther report while one of the commissioners has not yet returned to the State, and while he vouchers for expenditures and the com- mission’s report are not filed. BOARD OF PENSIONS - FOR FIREMEN IN THE SMALLER CITIES HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- Jan. 17.—Kelley in the Assembly Senate have in | | caLL | MENTO, | towns ‘having no fire commissioners. The bill makes the treasurer of the county, city and county, city or incorporated town, |and the chief engineer of the fire depagt- ment a board of trustees to handle the |fund. It is provided that firemen may r‘i(lre on half pay after twenty years' ser- vice or upon being disabled, and n- gnl{o ofe m!el.llird n:‘ hlnupay to the w&%w u e | man killed in the ":,,',,,"’:".',,?_‘ ki e ) China exports 11,000,000 fans yearly. e | ppropriating $15.000 for = { ustrial Home of Mechan- | Hubbard— Appropriating $256 7 to a—Repealing. section 2652 | , Hubbard—Amending the Civil Code | roads to construct and maintain iending the law reld- Savage—Enabling Supervisors to Appropriating $300 to pay iding for ‘the construc- m of the Oakland Water Com- | ppropriat- Wood " | Section 1 Chandler—Empowering Boards of | three commissioners experienced in exposition | from the | nmissioner was | |— | I8 1 | i | i ®*T.CARL JPELLING, THE AcroBamc BiLLiaRD PLAYER AND LAVYER. + - PRI 2 PaLRoad commissionNER EDSON DREPPED v To SEE WHATS Do’ SERGEANT= AT-ARMS Biiy Barnxs —\'\/:.-»-.:. s TrcommanTs o J ASSEMBLNYMAN TJT.BERRNY HAS STILL Gev MILEAGE o~ THE BRAIN * - ©* ASSEMBLYMAN BARNES oF 5AN DIEGO JusT LiIsTENS e e CALL CARTOONIST MAKES OBSERVATIONS AT SACRAMENTO. / -+ ROWELL’S APPROPRIATION MENTO, Jan. 17.—The Alameda County delegation held another caucus this afternon in regard to the University of California bills. | As & result of the meeting President | | Wheeler and Senator Rowell and Assem- blyman Anderson, who introduced the | measures in the Senate and Assembly, re- spectively, will be invited to a conference on Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Senator | Lukens' rooms at the Capital Hotel. While there was not much expression of | individual opinion at the meeting this afternoon as to the merits of the meas- ures favored by Governor Gage as against | | | { ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- { | | the delegation agreed that a common sense course, one that would produce re- sults, should be adopted. A majority at least of the delegation are champions of the Rowell bills, but Governor Gage's an- tagonism makes their passage hopeless beyond question, and the conference for Monday night bas been arranged with a view to see If compromise measures can- not be formulated. It is the plan of the Alameda members of the Lefiislamre to discuss fully at the meeting Ménday night the needs of the university and the proposed methods of raising revenue for it, If possible a course will be agreed upon that will stand a chance of the (Governor's approval. The main purpose of the meeting, it is BILLS WILL MEET DEFEAT Members of Alameda Delegation Not Willing to Lose All by> De- { manding Everything or Nothing. Batnes—Appropriating $50,000 for | what have come to be known as the Rowell bilis that they cannot possibly be- come laws in view of the Governor's atti- tude, and that the only wise course to adopt ix to withdraw them and substitute measures appropriating directly $200,000 for the maintenance of the university for the next two fiscal years, amending the act establishing the 2 per cent tax by making it all available for maintenance and transferring the $0,00 in the Gov- ernor's mansion fund to the maintenance fund of the university. Members of the Alameda delegation as- sert that they do not favor one plan or the other, but that they appreciate the grav- ity of the situation that confronts the Rowell bills and are not willing to lose those already introduced, the members of ' evident, is to convince the sponsors of | everything by demanding all or nothing. @il s e sl oo e et oot oot @) PROPOSED MEASURE [ FOR PUNISHMENT OF | CRIME OF KIDNAPING SACRA- | CALL HEADQUARTERS, { MENTO, Jan. 17.—Senator Corlett has brought the subject of kidnaping before the Senate in two bills, one describing the | crime and the other fixing the penalty. He makes the sentence upon conviction | “not_more nor less than twenty years. Following is the text of the first bill: Seotion 207 of the Penal Code is amended as follows Sec. 207. Any person who shall kidnap or take, steal and carry away another person | | with' intent to do b harm or deprive the | | person of his liberty or with Intent of de- manding or exacting from him or from any pe Bon a reward or ransom or money or a thing of value or to compel any person to or perform any thing or act against his will, or any person attempting or planning or conniv- | ing at any of said things, shall be gullty of kidnap 3 Any person who exacts or demands of another or in a general way exacts and de- | mands a ransom or reward for the release of any person in confinement and restraint or de- prived of his liberty is guilty of kidnaping. Any person threatens another with bodily harm or threatens in any manner that he wiil do unto another bodily harm or that he will do bodily harm unto any person oF persons not | naming them for the purpose of exacting | money or other consideration or for the pur- pose of compelling any person to do or per- form an act‘against his will or for the pur- | pose of preventing the discovery of crime or | for the purpose of preventing the recovery of any person kidnaped, stolen or carried away, shall be guilty of kidnaping. Any person other than the father or mother who shall take, steal and carry away a | minor, or who shall hide or secrete from the | person having the legal charge thereof a | minor. shall be guilty of kidnaping Any person who shall bring Into this State from another State any person kidnaped or stolen or carried away in any of the ways above set forth, though the same shall have been done in another State, shall be guilty of kidnaping, and in such case the offense shall be triable in the county where the person kid- naped shall be found, or in any county where he shall have been proven to have been while under restraint as id. —_———— ASSEMBLY URGES IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE GROUT BILL CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—Assemblyman Myers this mornjng introduced a joint resolution urging upon Congress the ;auucnd :: :‘h: Grout bill. It adopted and orde trm“ctmmed to Yh‘: Een:tto immediately. Following is the resolution: Whereas, There is pending inl the Senate of the United States a bill known as the Grouf bill, baving for its purpose the regulation of the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine or oleomargarine butter; and . Whereas, The dairymen of California are vitally interested in the passage of surh bill. the operation of which would be very beneficial to the dalrying industry of the State; there- fore be it Resolved, by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California, That we respectfully urge the Semate of the United States to enact said bill at its present session. Resolved, That the chief clerk of the As- sembly and secretary of the Senats be directed to immediately mail this resolution to the honorable dent of the Senate of the United States and algo to each of the Senators from the State of California in the United States Senate. Boaisy s For Ball g Machine. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17.—Butler of San Francisco introduced in the Assembly to- day a bill making mandatory the use of “automatic vote rsmorln, and recording machines at all elections,” The bill was introduced at the request of a San Fran- cisco inventor, who was in the Assembl: chamber this morning with a sample ma- chine, showing the legislators how it worked. While the machine is one of the latest improved, the bill is so drawn that other -machines \woulc not answer o the requirements of' the law, and in its pres- ent form the measure is not likely to be- come a law. Vanderbilt Visits Canada. MONTREAL, Jan. 17.—Alfred G. Van- Gerbilt and his bride arrived in Montreal via the Delaware and Hudson express from Albany this evening, occupying a arlor compartment in the regular draw- -room = car. The; roq'-teud at the dsor. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt are en route to Quebec and will probably leave here to-morrow. JOINT RESOLUTION REQUESTING ACTION ON MINERAL LANDS BILL CALL, HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—The followin - joint resolution relating to the California min- eral lands bill was introduced In the As- sembly this morning by Ralston and was passed by unanimous vote and ordered | transmitted tmmediately to the Senate: Resolved, by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate concurring, That the Cengress of the United States be respectfully and earnestly requested to Immediately pass that certain bill known. as ‘“the California mineral lands bill,"" and being the same bill drafted by the Hon. Binger Hermann, Commis- sioner of the General Land Office, and in- dorsed by the Hor. E. A. Hitcheocl cretary of the Interfor, looking to the classification and segregation of the mineral lands within the rajlroad land grants of the State of Cali- fornia: that the immediate passage of said bill is to the utmost degree important: that with- out the relief sought through the bill in ques- tion mineral titles will remain unsettled, min- eral rights incapable of satisfactory adjust- ment and the mineral resources within such grants undeveloped; capital will not seek in- vestment under existing conditions and the consequent loss to the industrial resources in this State is almost incalculable; in short, the necessity for the desired relief is immediate, urgent and Imperative. Resolved, further, That the secretary of the Senate and the chief clerks of the Assembly be directed to immediately telegraph these resolutions to the honorable President of the Senate and the honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States through our Senators and |Representatives of California in Washington, In the Senate the resolution was taken up out of order and under suspension, a proceeding which caused some sharp de- bate, and was passed. NOT ENOUGH CARS TO HANDLE ORANGE CROP LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17.—The orange situation is causing great anxiety among shippers. With less than one hundred carloads of fruit going out of Southern California since the holidays there is a shortage of cars even at the present time, while the shippers now declare that dur- ing the next fifty dayvs two hundred cars & day ought to be started for the East, as the condition and quantity of the fruit is such as to make desirable rapid move- ment. “With this requirement for the shipment of about two hundred car day the capacity of the two railroads is estimated at one hundred and fifty cars @ day with the cars all moving freely. That makes it look as though there were about 200 carloads more of oranges in Southern California that ought to be moved than the roads have capacity for. In spite of the best efforts of rallway mpanies shippers are looking forward with expectations of a blockade, which they fear may be much worse than tha* of last year.” Realizing that there was a much greater crop to be harvested th's year than ever before, the railroads set about the task of improving their ser- vice, and the Santa Fe Company bought and had bullt 750 cars to supplément it3 previous equipment, while it is understood that over 1000 more cars are in the ser- vice now than last year on the two roads. The car equipment of the two roads and of the private car lines oper: in the Btate is sufficient to meet all demands if the cars could be kept in steady mo- tion, but the roads experience a it deal of inconvenience thros uu.m- rolmm of the 8 to side- rack fruit cars and hold them for west- bound freight through their lon t hauling empties. o PRI ol Brakeman'’s Narrow Escape. SAN JOSE, Jan. 17.—Phil a brakeman on the narrow-gauge railroad, had a miraculous escape from death yes- terday. While &daht in a car on a train near W; it's n in some unknown way he lost his balance and feil headlong out of the The car was pas: over a high trestle and Maguire was thrown to the und below, a dis- tance of forty-five feet. In the ‘fall he struck on the trestle, rebounded and land- ed in the bed of the creek. The train was stopped and Maguire picked up and ht 4 o AR’ ‘Badis Wi ccaton shouiter And gevere bruising and shaking up, but will be all right in a few weeks. | TYRRELL FORMULATES BILL TO PUNISH THE ADULTERATORS OF FOOD CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA MENTO, Jan. 17.—Senator Tyrrell of San Francisco has introduced a bill to stop the adulteration of foods and to provide a penalty for any attempt to violate the provisions of the act. The bill empowers the State Board of Health to “take cognizance of the pub- lic health in the sale of drugs and foods and the adulteration thereof, and to enforce all laws of this State relating to foods, drinks and drugs, and prohibit- ing the sophistication and adulteration thereof.” It also empowers the board to employ expert and professional assistance when necessary, the mm]]'nensallon to be fixed by the board. Willfully obstruct- in# investigations made under the act is made a misdemeanor. It iIs provided that whenever an analy sls is commenced, a portion of the drug or food to be analyzed shall be reserved and sealed in a bottle or package, and in ecase any person is charged because of the impurity of the drug or food or drink, the sealed sample shall be given to him or his attorney. An appropriation of $30,000 is provided for in the bill to carry out its purposes for the next two vears % g - MEASURE REGULATING THE HOURS OF WORK IN ALL LAUNDRIES CALL HEADQUARTERS., SACRA:- MENTO, Jan. 17.—Guilfoyle of San Fran- cisco to-day introduced in the Assembly a measure providing for the ranitary regu- lation of laundries. As its application is to any ‘‘city and county” it is directed to- ward the inspection of San Francisco laundries. By its provisions laundries must be reg- ularly inspected by the health officer of the Board of Health. and any proprietor who is not abls to shqw a certificate from the health officer is guilty of a misde- meanor. The measure goes further and aims at the regulation of the hours of labor. It is made unlawful for a proprietor or man- ager to employ any one to wash, mangle or iron between the hours of 7 p. m. and 6 a. m., or at any hour on Sund Butler of San 0 int ced the old_bill prcvxdlna for the appointment of a arantine officer by the State Board of Health, to supersede the quar- antine officer of the city and county of San Francisco, and aboiishing the l'ay(tar office. s e s Changing Jury SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17.—Assemblyman Sheridan, representing Colusa, Glenn and Lake counties, introduced to-day a pro- posed constitutional amendment rela; to jurfes in civil cases and Grand Julsij:‘e!. By its provisions three-fourths of a jury may render a verdict in any civil case, a unanimous verdict still-being necessary’in criminal cases. The amendment provides further that three-fourths of a Grand Jury may return presentments or indict- ments, and that a Grand Jury may con- sigt of any number not less than five nor more than fifteen, as may b, the constitution. S S ey S——— Hill Pays His Fine, SANTA ANA, Jan. 17.—Samuel Hill, one of Santa Ana's prominent citizens, who yesterday decided to go to jail rather than a fine of §20, reversed his decision paid his fi late t eveni ne and released. fine was lmpom?.:nb‘:é'f count of his refusal to remove shade trees in front of his residence whose roots wera alle to be a menace to the public sew- er . He was required to do this in compliance with a general order recently issued by the City Council. Th r Hill has paid his fine, the question :s not vet settled. as he es he will ncither remove the trees nor permit them to be removed, and the controversy wij) doubtless be carried into court. b i ‘To Investigate Mine Strike. DENVER, Jan. 17.—~Both branch, the Legislature to-day adopted a r::ol:!- 1 RRLPLUE, (92 Jent Somptces o ing coal miners and if possible suggest some basis of a settlement. T pSenate passed a resolution ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA. MENTO, Jan, 17.—The Senate had its first oratory this morning, when the concurrent resolution | for the ratification of the Fresno | charter came up for passage. The action | is a mere matter of form, but still Short- | ridge objected to ratifying a charter of | which the Senate knew nothing, and he | referred to the ratification of the vlmrler? of San Francisco when two years ago the | ratitying a | measure that, said Shortridge, has shown | itself full of visionary schemes impossible | of execution, and had placed at the head | of the city government a little martinet. | Wolfe spoke in a similar strain, saying | that he voted for the ratification of the | charter two vears ago because his con- | stituency wished it, but he finds now his | people are sorry he did. | The resolution passed, however, and the Pasadena charter was called up out | of order and also passed. | Luchsinger presented a bill providing | that all gubllc advertising be done in pa- | pers within the township where the sub- Ject matter of the advertisement exists, In the nearest paper. This is a measu: that will be fought bitterly by the vario official county papers and by the papers | not official in the larger tow | Senator Leavitt introduced a bill pro- | viding machinery for establishing fire- men’'s pension and relief funds in cities having no Fire Commissioners. | Senator Selvage introduced a bill allow- ing the Secretary of State two more clerks, at a salary of $1600 a year each. | Senator Caldwell introduced a bill to | provide local option for cities of the fifth and sixth classes, and providing how the question of licensing or prohibiting the sale of liquor shall be submitted to the people, TWENTY NEW BILLS ARE INTRODUCED | IN THE SENATE SACRAMENTO, Jan. I7.—Twenty bills were introduced in the Senate. They were: B. 249, Leavitt—Creating a firemen's relief health, life insurance and pension fund. 8. B. 250, Caldwell-Amending section 752 of the Municipal Corporation Act of 188, 8. B. 251, Caldwell-Amending section 2055 of the Civil Code. S. B. 252 (no author)—Regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors. S, lB. 253, Sims—Amending section 2935 of the Civil 't 5. B. 24, Selvage—Concerning the cancella- Measure Introduced by Gamblers Has Little CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—The Belshaw pool-se!l-l ing bill was thrashed out before the Sen- ate Committee on Corporations and Public Morals this afternoon by a delegation | from Sausalito which came to back up | the measure. There were Archie J. Treat, Jchn T. Harmes, Francis Avery and Louis Beedy. "All but Beedy were allowed to address the committee. Their arguments were good ones against the selling of pools on or off tracks, but they were taken as backing Belshaw's measure. | Belshaw explained his bill, adding some | words on the demoralizing effects.of the buying and selling of pools, and gave good | reasons why the business should be stop- | ped altogether. | Mr. Treat followed on the legal aspect | of the bill. He said to his mind the bill was constitutional, and that it did not prohibit counties and cities from making such local regulations on the subject as they saw fit. He described pool-seiling as a menace to the moral health of a commu- nity, no matter how or where it was con- ducted, and particularly, to the integrity | of employes to whom the temptation to bet was aggravated by the convenience | of the opportunity. From an economical standpoint, he said, the man who accepts money without giving something in_re- | turn is a dangerous member of society A laborer when he receives his mone: has given his work and the effect is ev I BILLS CARRYING A.P?BOPEIATIOND FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—Another grist of appro- priation bills was a feature of the meas- ures launched in the Assembly to-day. State highways and normal schools were, as usual, to the front. Barnes introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 for the completion and equipment of the building now under course of con- struction for the San Diego State Normal School. Feliz of Monterey introduced a bill ap- propriating $50,000 for the construction of a State highway between Salinas and San Miguel. Ray is sponsor for another meas- ure appropriating $0,000 for a State high- way from a point near Merced Falls to the boundary line of Yosemite National Park at_a point where it crosses the Merced River. The bill provides for the repeal of the act of March 26, 1885, by which $50,000 was ropriated for the Mariposa road, but which was never car- ried out. Feliz reintroduced his measure of the last session appropriating $2500 to uire 157 the Btate the Colton Hall properss s Monterey. S?mn of Amador introduced biils ap- ‘propriatin, for improvement of the water system, $1500 for an ice plant and $00 for ks at the Preston School of In- dustry at Ione. Bliss .introduced a bill carrying with it ?pmmtlon of $15,000 for a workshop at the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind. Senator Selvage introduced a bill appro- priating $5000 for the construction of flood- tes and a flume at the mouth of Lake sarl, in Del Norte County. Senator Nutt introduced a bill ating $50,000 for the State Norm: in n Diego, and duced a bill providi an appropri- | nlpflchool | Senator Wolfe intro- for an a ria- tion of $100,000 for the State Ncrm:fr:cphool in San Francisco. Semator Shortridge submitted & bill g‘ prpyide to pay the cl of dson, and Senator Cutter was persuaded to put in Long John Wilkins' claim for $450 for services as messenger to the Board of Health. —_————— 'UCATORS VISIT SACRAMENTO IN AI‘ OF SCHOOL LEGISLATION CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—C. W. Mark of the San Francisco Board of Education, R. H. | Webster, Superintendent of Schools, and | W. D. Kingsbury, assistant superintend- | ent of schools of San Francisco, and J. W. McClymonds, Superintendent of Schools of Oakland, arrived t: to look after he 4 mhwmn . the l::‘iihthn chambers te pany with members of the Alameda dele- gation. . Dockery came from San n-mcg‘(oml::ua is 1?;:;: ted in the passage ure billL 1 h&‘mt r:oh':.uon asking Sreasioua) investigation "into R, ot of District Judge Noyes of Cape Nome. He in the em) of the firm of Campbell & Metson. . then a similar one for the ratificatfon of | | | wedge for its reappearance upen a SENATE RATIFIES FRESNO CHARTER Discussion Provokes First Burst of Qratory \ of the Session. * | | BLI3S | N THE L tion of certificates of sale under vold assess- ments for taxes, or when a deed made to the tate under a sale of lands to the State for the non-payment of taxes wou 4 be v e cancel the same. B Selvage—Appropriating t place a flume and floodgates a mouth Del Norte Count ling the e mending of the to_kidnaping . B. 258. Maggard—Regulating the pr of medicine and surgery. 8. B, 29, Shortridge—Appropriating $3000 1 pay the claim of J. E. Edson S. B. 260 (no®author)—Appropriating for the completion of the building mow constructed for the San Diego Scheol. 5 §. B. 21 (no author)—Amending section 103 of_the Code of Civil Procedure. S, B. 262, Currier—Adding new sections to the Politieal Code, relative to revenue taxes. and fixing the time within which claims for refunds of taxes must be made. y S._B. 2. Seivage_ Authorizing the Secrotary an ctiee 0,00 of State to appoint two additional repealing section f l.h- 8 B. 4 Tyrrell of San Francisco- riating $30,000 for the inspection of Arieks. ste., under the direction of the Board of Health s 265, 3 . 265, Wolfe—Appropriating $100,000 the erectlon of buildings for the use of tha San Francisco State Normal School S. B. 266. Luchsinger—Providing for the pub- lication of legal or official advertising. S.UB. 267, Byrnes—Amending section | of the Act Mutual, Béneflcial and Relief Associations of 1574 S. B. 263, Cutter—Appropriati the claim of John 8. Wilkins. ® M50 to p il Sl et e e O COMMITTEE WILL KILL POOLSELLERS’ BILL Belshaw for Benefit of Chance of Passage. dent, but a man who sells pools gives nothing but an element of moral danger to all his surroundings. Mr. Harmes spoke of the effect of the Ppool-selling business on real estate. In six years, he sald, it had seen values in Saus- alito go down more than 3 per eent, and there was no compensating advantage He declared the poolsellers were a nuis- ance from every standpoint. Mr. Avery added his testimony to what had been said and then Belslaw spoka again in favor of the bill. Knowing noth- ing about the bill, from the arguments used in its favor one would have though it wiped pool selling from the face of the earth instead of providing the entering fering community. Belshaw stated that he did not believe the bill would allow the Ingleside tracik 10 be reopened regardiess of the wishes of the people of San Francisco, but in or der that the measure should not serve as a prop to any weakening Board of Su visors he was willing to add a section reading “Provided that nothing in act shall be construed as ~—prohibit counties. cities and counties, cities : towns from prohibiting pool selling wit in their limits should they see fit." - consideration of the bill by the committ went no farther than the hearing of | advocates. It will be _aken up again Mo day, when it understood more argu ments will be heard uron it It is known in Sacramento to-night that the committee will report adversely to th passage of the bill. L e e T B i R wa O SRR COMMITTEE ON CODE REVISION GETS DOWN TO ACTUAL BUSINESS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 17.—The joint committee on code revision,' composed of the commit- tees for that purpose from both the As- sembly and the Senaté, got down to b ness this evening and proceeded throt the first chapter of the Code of Civil F cedure. The three code commissioner: Freeman, Van Fleet and Denis, wer present to assist and explain the reasous for each alteration suggested. The sub ject matter dealt with was the Supreme, Superior and Justices' courts. In making its revisions the Code Com- mission has eliminated from the codes ail sections where the provisions of the con- stitution are set forth, believing that in such cases the constitution speaks plain- ly enough, and. further interpretation in different phraseology in the codes lead. to distressing and serious complicatio and they have eliminated all sections in conflict with the constitution om the theory that In the first case they are un- necessary and in the second they are in- valld, anyway. point was developed dur- s, ing the diseus ng the ussion over the removal from the Code of Civil Procedure - o o to the-Penal practice befors a Justice's Court. It “leem that lthggd have Mnevar been a part Penal le, where all o inal tice s Included. - ore_the Senate Judicta to-day, Wolfe’s Senate bill ferred to a s ry Committee No. § was re- clal committee of three composed of Senators Wolfe, Devlin an 8. C. Smith. to simplify the machinery of enforcing its provisions. It fs a biil that prohibits the sale by a merchant of his entire stock, except in the ordinary course of trade and unless after due Dotice to the vendor's creditors. There will be a delegation from San Francisco to_support the bill when next it comes before the committee. Davis’ Senate bill 3, to make it to Interfere with electric Ii demeanor at the option of the Devlin's bill to make it a felony to .J:l current was amended to ke the crimo a misd % in that shape was recommended for passag The Senate Finance Committes decided to m! in favor of Smith of Kern's bill pro; g for the vayment of Sheriffs’ claims for taking prisoners to the Stats ns and insane persons to the asylums. é claims amount in all to about $9000. Assembly Committes on Roads and Highways had under discussion this after- the bill for the construction of a noon State highway between Sacramento and Folsom. It was decided to await action goul J. L. Maude, State Commissioner ot iways, could be present. Assembly Committee on Swamp and ed Land and River Im ents met this afternoon and decided to reeo: mend for passage Assembly bill No. 25 Ing_the act which declared Lake working | Earl, in Del Norte County, navigable. o -ty To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al g.ummmunmuu-n E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. e. *