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

SCANDALFREE, BUT LACKING N ( IS THE THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLA Curtain Rings Down Upon the Tamest Session That California’s Capital Has Witnessed in Several Decades B LT s L Programming and Reckless Trading of Votes the Order in Both S=nate and Assembly Throughout the Term Special Dispatch to The Callk, sweeping and overpower- hd free from the me with cle Occasional started, too, with the best be barrelfuls of T re were 1 be good for the this Legistature and draw pay aw; to dec ment in con- s and to pro- the new Congre: report and made to it, de of good fight i up the morals t t showed a strong 1 cinch bills and let their pres go t did 2 good many more 1ii- d dodged several more. big it was got wholly without Legislature, y to speak of. NEW PRIMARY REGULATIONS. Every Objection of the Supreme Court Has Been Met. w ary y passed was a from varic sesslons of the Elec- both houses. There seven primary laws were boiled dow yihing that did not r such legislation. priniaries for ail ventions shall be held n4 in the same booths; ni shall be given a bal t arty with which . o vote, and which he must mal e names of his party’s delegate ton officers shall " shall be the si: voter IS yoting the primary with the party he will sup- at the next general election. The Assembly enlarged this test-$o”an oath that the voter supported ~the principles set forth in his party’s last platform as well, but the Sepate refused the amend- ment and the bill wept through with' the more simple test The apportionment problem promised a soris of puzzles from. the first, and ¢ now the echoes of the last wrangle in caucus have hardly died away. It took nference after us and caucus after to sette the Congressional . and _‘then there was more troubie over the lines of lesser districts, but it has finally been put through on a scheme guaranteed to return Republicans from each Congressional district, nearly all the Senatorial districts and most of the As- sembly districts—that is, unless there be a change of heart among too many peo- ple. It is acknowledged to be a good piece of work—politicaliy—and also as to allot- ment. The districts, with few exceptions, are @il close in population to the allot- ments decided upon by a division of the State’'s inhabitants under the new census. ; government bill deals main- salaries. It was evolved after suggestions made by county representa- tives, and in all cases their wishes were deferred to as much as possible. There was practically no contest over it on the ficor-of either house. It makes few fm- portant changes in salaries and very few of tijese are reductions. Code revision was the cause of a great deal of worry, first over the magnitude of the work and again because the dis- position to discuss each amendment upon the fioor of each house, indicated that the Legislature would sit until October next, But word was passed around that those bills had to go through, and like a thor- oughbred touched with the whip. they suddenly speeded up, bounded through both houses, and went to the Governor. The revision consisted of removing the dead clauses and sections; reconciling contradictory provisions of eliminating the more useless: clarifying the language: ) taking out those portions which were but | ordinary oatmeal is lumpy— titution, an them are rev! the next two t; for and ag beaten. Code_and The Political Code, the | the four codes and the revision | tutes were left for the commis- g out provisions that went id pruning an what in ap; ised—the * Civil the Code of yedrs, after a e the commission had been ainst, and had TAX LEVY IS KEPT DOWN. General Appropriation Bill Less Than That of Two Years Ago. ppropriatiol It called - $41.000 le: two 3 al Tre i The be seen through it "." rticular impor nce iners, ¢ fourth fiscal y the 1800 valuation of $L1: 9,506 for the f of the State. d e humdrum legis! were there for the made. ing the appropriations for agricul- fairs by 25 per cent each, and al- | ving $8000 more to the Board of Exam- | anges which added about $50,000 to al, it passed very nearly a n is the usual for the appro- two years to s than the bill d it contained included in the hand of the Governor can | Indeed, it to the commit- hat he “‘didn’t want it" was Nor were any Beyond it was levy cents 2 for is on and will fifty-third and | r the fifty-fourth years for all ation was the rule, several bills that broke the monotony of proceedings in both houses whenever they came up, and they practi- cally fought their way thro important of these were t g the lease of the China of the fere wi Davis ateo in the House. h it. u throtgh on the part of the opposit There was talk o do It was told to one of the opj $10 could buy both houses Le allowed to die on file bef: put up. It the push was downed in ti of Kern and Da two of the best speeches in support of the and the fight in the Senate after the evening sessi ' In the Assembly s er, but not yin on bi ject, and a_constitutional well. but these were all file, as they are not of mu The other bills are in hands. ugh. The most he bills ratify a Basin to th ata Fe and altering certain provisions | -odes =o that nothing could inter- | TLe bills were the Senate and by introduced by Brown of 8an It was Davis’' meas- s, however, that got the lead and went ¢ a ‘‘stand up” ion, but not a r of Santa Fe meney could -be found. osition that if e bills would ore it would be t as a clean, hard fight, and he end. vis of Amador delivered of the session ratification measure, ‘was won only on had nearly the fight was so_long. The = bills followed the ratifica- s without much opposition. There another bill bearing on the same sub- amendment as owed to die on ch importance. the Governor’s The bill introduced in the Senate by Simpson and in the Assembly by Brough Toil ealls and negat It h ative days. pal provision is that when put up for eompetition and received, the bidding does It may be continued in tion until one bidder wins raflroad measure, and was the corporation with the control of the franchise field. -ome @ law by the lapse of ten legislative aays, Angther hard fought piece of legislation ssembly constitutional amendment wag A No. 28 introduced by Laird bers which will over rates on. gas, water, light and power, telephones providing means whereby. street rail- ranchises might be ‘beught and sold nother that Yeft a-trail of wrecked ive votes in ifs become a law by the lapse The bill's princi- a franchise {s sealed bids are not stop there. open out. drawn to give longest purse It has be- of Bakersfield. it provides for a_commission of five mem. have complete control electricity for and tele- grams, expressage and express compa- nies, sleeping ' éar and all companies, raflroads other commeon carriers, and to have general control over those compa- nies. The amendment slipped through the Assembly without much opposition, but it It has got to pass a vote It was known as a railroa bitterly fought in the Senate down gh final passage and reconsideration. of the people, d measure, but | all corporate influences were behind it. . FIGHT OVER HEALTH BILLS. Bitter Antagonls—;; to Measures Fa- vored by the Governor. The bubonic plague bills introduced by Speaker Pendleton but accepted from the the Governor's m voked one of the stubborn fights of the The one appropriating $100,000 for first as session. the State Board of Health, dealing with the plague thfough easily easures, , to be used in problem, went but one of the other meas- ures met with furious opposition. was the bill making it a fel by writing or printing, that Asiatic chol- era, bubonic plague or other infectious or ony to publish, contagiotis disease exists or has recently existed within the State unless the fact of Health and entered up eases” and “or has previ and permitting local has been ‘determined by the Staf Board on its minutes. | The opposition was so strong that amend- ments were finally accepted cutting out “or other infectious or contagious dis- ously existed, health officers to make their regular reports. it passed it is not regarded as a menace In the form to freedom of speech or of the press. The last of the stubborn contests came on the Curtin franchise a |1t was not well understood, and during the course of the fight members frequeni- 1y changed frdm one side to the other and back again, now convinced that it was was a ?lece ot bil | equitable and now that it | most_wicious legislation. the Governor's hands. that the ket-gtreet ssessment bill. The is in It is a measure ks wanted and that the Mav- aliway wanted. As amend. ed, the assessable value of a franchise must be determined by sul the full cash value of th btracting from e corporation’s capital stock the full cash value of ail other property assessed to corresponding to eign corporations, were o versity of California revenue bills; non-assessable property held by it. The tax on lncurgornlon. with a scale the amount of cap stock, and its companion bill o it, and also the riginally l}%}: but after the change in policy made neces- sary by the Governor's stand, they were passed as general revenue teas: b e that the: i 'd:'-‘.‘vm | Smith of Kern, Taylor and | Senate committee appointed two 2go to prepare a report on ures, would return to tl {-n.mo biennialiappras pon: for tax the untversity, . 0 nacurad- Sims, the the Bllle;l tax system and to make recommendations 1o new sources of revenue, presented th | report. The report s a stamp tax, but as no bill was based upon the report no legislation resulted. license “of Nelson’s bill fixing a State the sale r vear for |’§o§:‘ " ¢ from | finance, but on accourit of of liquors was 3 it i kad for local option petitions were seut pro- This ‘ Legislators Lose No Sacramento. Relapses Into “Recess” Q ALL HEADQUARTERS, BAC- RAMENTO, =March ,17.—With few exceptions, the - legislators and their friends are’ speeding homeward, or have already ar- rived there, and Sacramento is relapsing into a-quietude char- acteristic of the’ legislative There are no more crowds in' front of the hotels; it--is-—possible- to- get a good seat in the dining rooms and to be served In-decent season, and the town has set Itself to forgetting the session | just passed and to planning for the next to come. _recess. | —_— It was a rlotous-evening in both houses last pight. while , the hour for adjourn- ment was approaching,” but, after it had come and ‘gone and the statesmen scat- tered from. the Capitol, there was an in- crease rather. than: a diminution in the general hilarity. ; There were many who would wait in town no longer than the morning train at 5 o'clock, and, fearing .to' oversieep, they stayed up ali night. There were more who did not intend to ‘catch any train before this afternoon, and £o it; Was hot necessary for them to seek bed and sleep, so a good half of the tranglent population whiled away the 1% CAPITAL, AS KODAKED BY A in by hundreds from the temperance peo gle of the State, and the bill dled on th enate file. 6 RAILROAD E WELL TREATED. Four of Its Pet Schemes Enacted by the Lawmakers. The raflroad has hardly missed a trick this session. It had innumerable small bills, but,#t had four biz ones, all of whick went through. One of these was the street-raflway franchise b a second was amendment 2§; a third was a blil giving the Governor the right to make po- lice out of the train hands and railroad employes, and a fourth, and by far ths most important of all, was a bill to pro- vide for the consolidation of railroad companies in this State. The last two are in the Governor's hands. Just what the possibilities of the con- solidation bill are is something only time can prove. It allows railroads to' come together and for each to acquire all tho rights and privileges, franchises, proper- ty, stock and rights of way of the other. I'ie other measure is ostensibly to allow rafiroad employes police powers on the company’s property, so as better to pco- tect passengers; but, as Davis pointed out on the floor of the Senate, in time of strikes every employe could be made a oliceman, and every striker who _did Pis bidaing would be adding ‘resisting an officer in the discharge of his duty” to hig other troubles. There was an attempt to pass a bill providing that delinquen:: tax titles could not be acquired by the State when the land taxed was in tie name of the United States, a measure which would allow the railroad to retain thousands of acres upon which it paid no taxes during the years in which it was acquiring title to it from the Federal Government. The bill was beaten in the . 2nate after a hard parliamentary fight. The banking laws were not touched to any great extemt. A bill to allow the stockholders of an Insolvent bank to elect a receiver passed both houses and is now with the Governor. There was also a bill to abolish the Bank Commission, but that was defeated early in the session. In insurance the only bill of real im portance was that providing for the pay- ment of the face values of ] olicies in case of total loss by fire. This was amended to make such payment contingent upon agreement between insurer and insurcd. The Governor now has the bill. Legislation affecting the courts was confined mostly to the county govern- ment bill, which fixed Judges' salaries, to bills relating to the Supreme Court and to constitutional amendments providins courts of appeal. The idea of intermediate courts of appeal found but little favor, for committees in both houses = fiddled over amendments until late in the ses- ston, and then one constitutional amend- ment was sent into each houes. They were both practically the old - idea of three courts of appeal of three Judges each, and each to have jurisdiction over a district. The Assembly amendment went forward the quicker, and met defeat In the Senate. The well-known bill to knock out tha Supreme Court Commission came up again, and was defeated. A measure tu increase the Judges of the Supreme Court to ten, with three departments, was alss passed. up to third readine, where it remained. The ..ea was that the ten Judges could clear up the calendar, and ihen, In two or four vears, three of them could be dropped. ere were also a number of little bills regarding procedure, and a bill by Ashe, regarding the fees of Public Administrators, was passed with much effort through the Senate, but 1t died in the Assembly. S sy AFFECTING MUNICIPALITIES. Several Important Measures Placed Upon the Statutes. The law of municipal corporations has ved a good deal of attention, mostly from Taylor of Alameda, and some new and valuable legislation s the result. A bill to provide a new method of strect assessment has been signed by the Gov- ernor. It provides that the assessment may be collected in advance, so that wher the bids are made the money is waiting, and extra charge for risk of non- payment is not figured into the bids by the contractors. e biil provides, also, that if the assessment cannot be collected at Bl it gm-yno?e paid tl; lntl:-lhnenu reaching over more than ten years, The city issving bonds for the wosk. in eantime. ; he m % P nother “bili, also signed b{ the Gov- ernor, allows the ‘ssuance of muniecipal bonds for forty years or less, instead of {tg n||ore no:’ I::u tmn t:;ty years, as w: e law, and simplifies the procedure and Lessens the cost Of tiie 18sue. b Another important measure, which be- . A Month’s Test Free. It you haveRheumatism.writeDr. Shoop, Racine, ‘Wis.,box137, for six bottles of hisRheumat express paid. Send no money. Pay $5.50 if cured® LAWMAKERS AND THEIR SATELLITES IN FLIGHT FROM THE CARTOONIST AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. came a law by limitation, provides for the raising of money by special tax for some specific_purpose or public improvement. The bill provides that the question of levying this special tax may be submitted to the people, who, by a two-thirds vote, may decide upon the levy, the money to be Traised in one, twe, three or as many years as may be deemed proper. In a city such as San Francisco, where the $§1 limit is supposed to rule, this will enable the people to vote to raise money without is- suing bonds and witnout raising the limit. Another bill, also signed, provides for the establishment ‘of libraries. in cities; another, in the hands of the Governor, aims to knock out civil service; another, in the hands of the Governor, provides a method by which the amounts necessary to pay judgments against a city may be included in the tax ievy. These last two are aimed at San Francisco. The last one provides ~means whereby the ‘“city’s creditors” and the unpaid teachers may get their money. Another important bill now a law limits the hours of police duty in cities of the first class, except in cases of emergency, to eight a day. EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION. State University Well Cared For in 2 Financial Way. The State University has fared well financially, but the support comes mainly i the form of special appropriations, a plan which has never found favor in the eyes of the friends of the institution, At the beginning of the session there were several bills to provide new taxes to swell "the university fund. One was a tax on irect inheritances. Another was a tax n naturalization, and a thitd was a grad- uated tax on incorporations. It soon be- came Kknown, however, that these bills would never pas§ the Governor, so_ there was much conferring and caucusing, and finally all were abandoned for a bill ap- propriating $200.000 straight, another ap- propriating $50,000, whaich mi; if necessary to pay uny deficiency in the endowment caused by losses in the Turner mortgage, and a third bill declaring the institution a permanent charge in the gen- eral appropriation bill. The vernor wished to add the $48,000 remaini®g in the fund for the Governor's mansion fund, but after a wail from Sacramento this idea was abandoned. The bill putting the uni- versity into the general appropriation bill to the extent of $100,000 a year was ob- jected to as am effort to bind future Legis- latures, and it was amended 80 as to be a declaration of the policy of this Legisla- ture. Then all the bills went through and all have been signed. The bill pro- viding for a tax on incdrporations was re- le.:ed sty feeder for the general fund of Stanford Uniyersity got all it asked." It was allowed full corporate privileges, which will allow It tc accept l.ng hold the Stanford lands and dollars, its bonds were exempted from taxation and its college buildings and equipment as well. The most important of the educational bills passed is the committes substitute for Senate bill §13—tne text-book measure. It creates the Text-book Commission, to consist of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Printer, and gives the commission various powers, sub- gct to the approval of the State Board of ducation. The most Important innova- tion embodied in the bill is the authority to purchase copyrights or plates of texi- bglql s from Fntex"g pl‘xblluhem he general certification bill, prepared biy the California Educational %nnvunl - slon, passed the Ascembly as Assembly bill 706, by Dunlap. All existing teacher: certificate are protected and provisions are made for their renewal. Primary ade certificates are abolished, making t necessary for,all teachers to be able to .pass the examination for grammar grade certificates. By way of tompensation, a grammar grade certificate is slo be recog- nized in any county of the State. Chandler's Assembly bill 433 authorizes the formation of Union High Schoot dis- tricts from territory in two counties. Pre- vg:mdllg;l a dmtmgo might no_‘t‘ h:x end be- nd the county boundary. ove inl signed this bill. £ s The compuisory education bill, duced by Tayior in the Senate an Melick in the Assembly, is now in the hands of the Governer. It establishes both compulsory education in a not too drastic form and “‘parental schools” " for | in the truants, that term was act. omnibus bill enlar; and de- fining the powers of Coun intend- ents died on the second le of the Assembly. Knowland’s Assembly bill 136 remodeled the course of ctudy and abolished home study sn 2s flflmlr{ and grammar ut bea $chools. were concerned, provided for home reading. This w ten once after @ hot debate, but the unfavorable action was reconsidered and the bill finally passed. rovidea for 1n The kenersl approptietion eral a ) N :.m-na in addition nearly every one of Francisco State "Normal. School Fer ceives §100,00 for a building. — zens Turn Out to Speed the Parting Guests, ani uietude S hours of the early morning In ways that best plegsed them. The early afternoon train took most of the legislative' contingent away, and what was left followed on the later trains. Governor Gage left for the city with’ the early ones. He will return within a day or two. » ‘The usual number of attaches have been left behind to clean up the commit- tee rooms and the Senate and Assembly chambers, and to compile the final his- torfes, the journals and the chapters. Nearly every one else has gone. There was some little demonstration on the part of the Sacramentans which in one instance went as far as a brass band and a car full of cheering citizens and legislators, but most of the people con- tented themselves with going as far as the depot and there saying ‘“‘good-by’ and “come again”—an admonition most of, the statesmen wish to see verified. Angeles Normal School was given $10,000 for improvements. but the Governor has vetoed the bill. The San Diego Normal School asked for a $30.000 appropriation, but the bill was withdrawn upon recom- mendation. A 25,000 appropriation for the Chico Normal has gone to the Governor. and an Assembly bill appropriating $55,000 for the San Jose Normal is also in the hands of the Governor. The California Fducational Commiis- sion's plan for a State Normal School Board did not meet with legislative ap- proval. The two most important forestry meas- ures passed were the Sempervirens Club bill appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of the magnificent redwood forest of the Big Basin tract, in Santa Cruz County, and its maintenance as a State park, and the “‘water and forestry” bill, appropriat- ng for the investigation of the State’s water resources and the best meth- ods for the preservation of our forests, to be conducted under the supervision of the United States Geological Survey, by which a like sum will be expended. he Big Basin purchase bill has been signed and the other has been vetoed, as the Governor did not want to pass two such large appropriations on ‘similar subjects. Rl DIVORCES REVOLUTIONIZED. Sheridan’s Bill Now in the Hands of Governor Gage. The Sheridan divorce bill will revolu- tionize divorces in this State if it meets with the approval of the Governor, . in whose hands it now is. ‘It provides for an interlocutory decree npon the hearing of the evidence in the suit, the decree to be final as to the existence of a ground for divorce, alimony, property division and custody of children. At the end of six menths, if the decree has not been re- versed on appeal or a new trial granted, a final decree is issued dissolving the bonds of matrimony. Either party has then the status of a single person and may marry again. By implication the act repeals the act prohibiting vemarriage within a year after divorce. Fisk's bill specifically re- pealing the latter act was defeated In the enate. Nutt's bill {0 make uniform the di- voree laws of the varfous States by pro- hibiting divorces on causes which were not grounds for divorce in the State where the cause arose passed the Senate, but the Assembly Judiciary Committee got hold of it and has kept it ever since. Many bills relating to public morals were introduced and most of them died in committee or on file or were defeated on the floor of one house or the other. Such was the fate of the anti-poolselling bills, Ashe's bill restricting racing to forty days in the year, the local option bills and the anti-cigarette bills. Knowland's Chinese slavery bills passed both houses without opposition. One makes a felony of holding a ersgn in bondage, and the other pro- vided for the temporary guardianship of minors—an attempt to facilitate the res- cue of Chinese slave girls. The guardian- ship bill was vetoed, while the other was signed, Several bills were directed toward rigorous punishment of .crimes against children. One of these, by Sutro, i3 now in the hands of the Governor. ot IN THE INTEREST OF LABOR. Nelson’s Bill Prevents the Employ- ¥ ment of Children. On the labor oills, Senator Nelson's measure relating to the employment of child labor is in the Governor’'s hands. It prohibits the employment in factorles, workshops and mercantile establishments of children under 14 years of age and re- stricts the hours of labor for children un- der 16 years of age to nine hours per day. Guilfoyle's bill for the Inspection of scaf- folding upon complaint alleging it to be dangerous has received the vernor's approval. The “barbers” bill'" has also been . It estabiishes a system of certification. 11's bill making it un- lawful to pay off employes in a saloon or restaurant both houses and is with tr Vernor. It was drawn. the interests 'of the stevedores. jourigan’s Assembly bill 669, providing for the insertion in public contracts of a stipulation that laborers employed on the work shall not be work more than elght hours per day, was €d by both houses and went to the Governor March 1i. Hanen's bill restricting the hours of labor in nmber miils, shake mills andJog- ng camps on the Senate file, ana and constitutional amendment to wvide for a full hour at noon for lum- rmen were beaten in the Senate, several of oriant electis; A entions,” wi of them. It gt nes a convention g R S ation of the prim. cases where th . mahflimhwl:m. s e B il . To Prevent Pneumonia and Grip. Gover; clause The with readin duced. Commi ment bris River, cation ernor; irsure years. ticing. fession, and an licensi Ashe i ants in & be appointed. nia, all got pret having been to di 0 but the Assembly amended the enacting pointive instead cept in the general a deadly upon a guard or a fellow-prisoner. establishing a paroie commission and al- lowing the varole of prisoners has been signed by the Governor. maintenance. impounding died on the file. plugging of water flowing wells in order to prevent the water from working into the oil bearing sands has gone to the Gov- als? (fine r;gulanng n: of ofl products. e peneral appropriation bill allows the State Mining Bureau such a sum as will investigation of the State's oil resources during the next two case of the dent I R o Seen racoRnized as a pro- cen B e % an examining board and the has been provided for. duced a bill to regulate account- | similar manner, but the meas- G IN GREAT DEEDS, TURES RECORD Time in Seeking Home---Citi= Corporation Men Dominate the As- sembly and Governor Gage Dictates the Policy of the Upper House Though Many Useless Bills Are Put Through, the Sum Total of Appropri- ations Is Kept Well Within Bounds datory. Elsewhere nor. those at de out of the bill. prisons recei wes a little sppropriation bill. The | prisoners have beea given a law which | makes punishable by death any assault con by a life-termer Bpecial Dispat the delegates may It is in the hands of the The bill empowering Election Commis- | sioners to declare lzgal holidays for spe- cial elections has gonc to the Governor. A constitutional amendment offered by | Senator Smith of boards of supervisors the optional power of adopting voting machines, was passed. Devlin’s bill making it a misdemeanor | to publish or distribute anonymous cam- | palgn literature has been signed by the Governor. Public_institutions fared well. sands of dollars have been appropriated to erect mew buildings, repair_old ones and equip both old and new. The ton School of Industry, the Whittler, the five State hospitals S Agnews, Stockton and Southern Califor v much what they wani- ed. 'San Luis Obispo County was presented with a_polytechnic high school and 330, 000 to start it with. San Jacinto, in River- side County, was given by the Senate a new reformatory for girls to accommo- Vhittier, rn, giving ‘Thou- Pres- Mendocino, Napa, the intention the Whittier school, A bill to - make the State Printer an ap- of an elective office now before the Governor; also a bill to appropriate money eaough to transform the office, now somdwhat antiquated, into one equipped with is dern machinery. ttention ex- A bill NO MONEY FOR HIGHWAYS. Veto Awaits All Bills of This Natur2 That Passed. ess. As it wa ittee which system The subjeet of highways caused a great deal of discussion, for it was feared to open up the question because of the num- ber of bills which were being held in bills praviding for the appropriation of $1,.200,00 were intro- It was finally & few of them go through, but the Gev- ernor has vetoed the first and most im- portant, the Yosemite road bill, and in doing so he has declared he will veto all others. The gist of the State highway matter was summed up by the Senate Finance in a constitutional passed Under the present law’ the State can- not aid a county road. the State can do is to take possession of the road, make it a State highway and pay all expenses of construction, care and By the amendment rosed the State is allowed to aid county Toads without going further than that. ‘The mining debris bill $150,000 for co-operation with the Federal Government in the construction of a de- on the Yuba | decided to let only amend- both houses. The only thing pro- appropriating was a bone of contention for a of oll claims A a_thorough time, but finally was triumphantly passed and received the Governor's signature. | The salary of the Debris Commissioner was reduced from $3000 per year to $600. A bill creating a State Mines was defeated in the Assembly. A bill providing for the provisional lo- Inspector of pending _discovery bill compelling the the proper Great care wa# devoted by the irriga- tion committeesjof the two houses to the study of the problem of how to furnish a method by which irrigation districts or- ganized under the Wright act might be dissolved. Senator Nutt's bill passed both houses, but was vetoed by the Governor. The Assembly commitee also prepared a bill providing for the refunding of the bonds of irrigation districts, but it failed to get further than simply on the file. The cuestion of woman's suffrage at scheol electioms came up through the As- sembly as far as the Senate, where it was killed after a hot fight. The osteopaths have been recognized as a branch of the medical profession by a bill which has become a law. The old pharmacy law has been over- turned and a new one has supplanted it providing for a board of examining phar- macists and the licensing of those prac- | The same has been done in the ng of barbers ntro ure died on file. KIDNAPING MADE A FELONY. Twenty Years’ Imprisonment May Be Inflicted. ists, but the bill is still The stealing of a child, “kidnaping,” is years' imprisonment. made a felony, punishable by twenty The omnibus coyote bill, carrying and appropriating over $200,000, was vetoed. The Governor recommended that judg- ment on the claims be first secured. Cutter’s constitutional amendment to al- low socl s to be held in churches with- out forfeiting the right to exemption from taxation, was beaten in the Senate. Taylor's amendment exempting State and municipal bonds from taxation, the same to the people. | ite that was defeated at the fast election, passed both houses and will be submitted An amendment to allow High Schools to be inciuded in the tax levy, one to provide for amending char- ters, one to divide the State into fish and game districts, one to_make elght hours a day the limit on State work, were ado; will also to the peol e ehsa with which Corporation ahd ad- ministration measures ~went stamped the character of as a whole. The Assem through the Legislature bly was a rank r:l;ro-d house and the Senate belonged to tl Governor. It was boasted more than once, and verified in dozens of roll cal that there were forty-seven sure rail votes in the Assembly and twenty-four sure votes for the Governor in_the ate; and the powers interchan ever the Governor bas want slature has received, he exception was grammed it has not plete with other others. {ted, and no more than t Slous question moved a was in.marks oratory. but perhaps I‘;I the Senate earnestly Necessarily where In the ssien a five-minute nS“. was Sen- t- from this and what the rall- after was given all pro- been a session re- Assembly early ight harm in | débate was not Ifm- hrice was the nd carried. ed contrast to the Assembly, where the previous question was a favor- of every ‘The The Los | Laxative Bromo-Quinine removes the cause. * ey did when hé w: minorities cut not motion. In the Senate, Smith of K Amador were t Johnson led until session, and Davis he leaders: In the House toward the end of the as passed aside and but little figure. nor did they vote one went his own way. ch to The Call. jasa unit on anything but purely partisan | measures, such as apportionment. | ks nd i LIST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Bills Signed By or in the Hands of Governor Gage. Appropriation bills have not been lack- ing either in number or amount, but the rein of economy seems to have been keot drawn tight upon them all. None but those Immediately necessary have been made payable until next year. The ap- propriations which have become effective {are as follows: $30.000 for the new polytechnic school for San Luis Obispo; 75 for postage and expenses of the Attorney General: $47 75 for the claim of 0. 0. Webber; $§7,000 for the Supreme Court | Commissioners’ salaries; $300 for the claim of | E. Blakeley: 35063 for the deficit in the | fund 'for the (ransportation of the $25 2 for the claim of T. Walsh ; | repairs to the Whittier School; $0,000 for legis- lutive printing; $i60 for the expenses of Presi- dential Electors: 320,000 for the contingent ex- | penses of the Senate 00 for contingent ex- | penses of the Assembly; %60 for improvements | t- the Preston Schaol: 320 75 for the claim of | | Jobn E. Roker; §1030 for the claim of the City ¢ Sacramento: $130.000 for the Debris Com- nission: $11.673 82 for the claim of Claus | Spreckeis: s for stationery, fuel, etc., for State offices for the forty-eighth and forty- rinth fiscal year; $998 03 for repairs to the Capitol for the fiftieth fiscal year: $5000 for stationery, fuel, etc., for the State offices for the fiftieth fiscal year: §250 for books for the Preston_School: §360 for the elaim of A. L. d; $800 for lumber for the Preston School: 00 for contingent expenses of the Assem- $23,250 for public printing, binding ete.: ear for National Guard companies of ;33290 45 for salaries and expenses of the Commissioner of Public Works; $1360 for the claim of J Ed: $250 for the claim of John S. Wilkins; 300 for the contingent expenses of the Senate: $50,000 for the versity of California; $2000 for the propagation $1000 for the claim of E. E. Leake: $197 01 for the‘claim of the Board of Horticuiture; $i3,000 for the claim of J. C. Daly; 31015 for the claim of T. W. Riordan: 32500 for the erection of monuments over the graves of certaln deceased | officers of the Stat for the clatm of the American Type Foundry; $200.000 for the main- tenance of the University of California; $4830 & in the State Printing g cterans’ Home, an increase of or $230,000 to purchase the ¢ | redwoods: $4206 for Monterey custom-house | trustees: ~ statutory salaries for additional clerks for the Secretary of State: | salaries of Supreme Court officers; | of certain Superior Judges. The best estimate of appropriations made and attempted is shown by the | report of the Ways and Means Committes of the Assembly, to which all appropria- statutory salaries tion bills have gone. The report is a3 follows: Total appropriationsreferred to com- mittee . o 15,187,076 83 Total ap report. - ably 2,403,198 38 Total favorably i - 713,000 00 Total appropriations reported with- out recommendation ... 547,338 40 Bills returned ... 10,000 00 Total appropriations reported back. with recommendation that they be WIthdrawn ......... +.$1,802,732 61 The following appropriation bills in the hands of the Governor: Providing $5000 for the claim of Jose Ramon | Pico; $50,000 for pairs to the State Normal at San Diego; $1. 67 for the claim of Louise Rienzi; $100,000 for a building for the State Normal School at San Franciseo; $2500 for the claim of C. F. Wells: to pa of the State Agricuitural Soclety the claim of Willlam Cronan; $6iL. are 5.464.95 for 30 for the clalm of F. Phillips; §20.000 for text book com- mission; $30,000 expended by the Board of orks -on river and harbor improve- 0,000 for repairs to the State Hospital pa; $50,000 for the Governor's mansion, a reappropriation; 33000 for a lighting system for the State Hospital at the claim of Bateman Bros.: $5000 to build a blacksmith shop at Whittie . struct and maintain Lake Tahoe road: $%,000 for a hospital for the Yountville Vet- erans’ Home; $7000 for repairs to the Preston | School: $15.000 for improvements for the Home | for_Aduit Blind: $35.000 for the construction of a State road from Sacramento to ¥ 000 for repairs for the Mendocino tal; $85,000 for the County highway: § Forbes: $1000 for the Cahuenga monument; $30.- 000 for the examination relative to purity of foods: for machinery for the Stockton State Hospital: $15.000 for repairs for Stockton State Hospital; $4000 for further repairs for Stockton State Hospital: $1200 for salary of Debris Commissioner; $404.45 for conveyance of children to the Home for the Feeble Minded $Ti0_for legal expenses in State suits: 30,0 for building for the insane at the Folsom S Prison; $10.000 for the Alameda-Contra Costa | highway; $1125 for the payment of additional | clerks in’ the office of the State Board of Ex- aminers; $200 postage and contingent expenses. clerk of the Supreme Court, fiftieth flscal year: $2500 for repairs to Stockton State Hospital: $i82 for expenses of funeral of Lifeutenant Hartley R. Hodgson: $3000 for repairs Wom- an’s Relief Corps Home: $4000 for Mendocino State Hospital ice plant: $80 for claim of Wili- | jam J. Elder; $5,000 for Wbrary building for tate Normal School; $50.000 for im- Napa: $4,041 50 for $500 for books for Whittier State School: $500 for repairs Whittler State School: $12.000 | for deficiency Veterans' Home: $500 for water | tanks Agnews State Hospital: $7000 for equip- ! e Hospit A. Bell: § ing grounds of Agnews State for cottage for Agnews State Hospital; $500 for equipment for Whittier State School: $9000 for 000 for Hospital; equipment Folsom State Prison: $2500 for ma- chinery Stockton State Hospital: §25.000 for bullding for Chico State Normal School; $3000 for claim of C. B. Lightfoot; $15.000 for work- shop Indhs‘rial Home of the Adult Blind. emme————— Combating San Jose Scale. 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