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Lissner Sums Up
Reform Program
LEGISLATURE HAS
ITSWDRKGUTDUT
Popular Election of Senators and
oman Suffrage Are In
cluded in Plans
PROPOSED LEGISLATION
MEYER LISSNER FAVORS
(onserrntlon of natural resoirrces.
Krgulatlng price of crude oil by com
■Ualoa.
Public serrlce commission, which, may
Include the railroad commission, to liave
jurisdiction over all public service cor
poration*.
Railroad pauses to conform to Inter
state commerce law on subject.
Initiative, referendum and recall ap
plied to otate and countle«.
Mmplificatloß of direct primary law.
Approval of proposed Income tax
amendment to national constitution.
hln.rtrr ballot* by making Home ad
ministrative office* In state and county
appointive Instead of elective,
Submission of amendment for woman
suffrage.
Application of civil service to state
and county clerks and deputies.
Elimination of fee system.
General law to provide for commission
form of government In municipalities.
Reapportionment that will iflve Los
Angeles county largest representation In
state assembly of anj coanty In the
state, and one more congressman.
Legislation that embraces the most
progressive measures, such as the
Initiative, referendum and recall,
popular election of .senators, submission
of constitutional amendments for equal
suffrage to a vote of the people and
state conservation of natural resources
Is on the program for this winter's
work at Sacramento, according to an
address made yesterday to the City
club by Meyer Llssner, chairman of
the Republican state central com
mittee.
"Much has been promised, but the
ability to prepare and digest legislation
In a short session of a little over two
months is limited," said Mr. Llssner.
No legislature has ever passed a con
siderable number of Important meas
ures, and if the n«xt legislature comes
anywhere near passing all the legisla
tion that has been suggested it will be
because It has been more fortunate
than its predecessors In the compila
tion of preparatory data."
Mr. Lissner divided the proposed
legislation into four classes —better
control of public utilities by the people,
legislation that will bring the govern
in. Nt nearer to the people, application
of business methods to public affairs
and humanitarian legislation.
"Under the head of^the control of
public utilities the most Important
legislation concerns the conservation
of natural resources that come under
the Jurisdiction of the state," said the
speaker. "The legislature should at
least pass emergency legislation to pre
vent the further monopolization of such
water power rights as have not passed
into private ownershstp.
FIX PTUCB OF OIL
"Secretary Balllnper fays the etate
of California should declare the con
sumption of crue oil a public use and
pass a law to this effect, placing tho
regulation of the price of crude oil In
the hands of a discreet commission.
"Before we can fix rates for a pub
lic utility we must know the actual
valuation of the property employed in
Its operation. The state should have
something to say about the Issuance of
stocks and bonds by such corporations.
"It is suggested the state enact a law
creating a public service commission,
-which shall have general supervision
over all public service corporations,
similar to those commissions In ex
istence in Now York, Wisconsin and
other pastern states. It may require
a constitutional amendment to effect
this. And It may be that the work of
the railroad commission should be
placed under the Jurisdiction of the
public service commission. At any
rate, we are assured of a real, live
railroad commission for the next four
years.
"In the railroad bill passed by the
legislature last > - ■ r rail] ads were pro- ,
hibited from Issulni . to persoifs |
holding offices of ii mor, mist or profit
under the stat-- but this does not pre
vent tho state and county officials from
asking for passes for th' ir wives and
families. The law should be amended
to make it similar to the Interstate :
commerce act which prohibits the Is- ;
suance of any passes except In well
defined cases.
RATE-FIXTN'G IS DIiTICUI.T
"If a state public service corpora
tion is organized, one of the must del
icate questions to be decided is to
what extent such a commisoin should
have control over rates In cities where
the governing bodies have been accus
tomed to fixing rates for public utili
ties. But any Intelligent Investiga
tion of the matter of rates for some
of these concerns Involves moro com-
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IHuin^jlircys' Seventy-Seven
breaks up Grip and
"Medalla de Oro"
"The Cable brings the news of
Dr. Humphreys' Specifics having
been awarded a Gold Medal at the
International Exhibition of Hy
giene of 1910 of the Argentine
Centenary."
Note. —The Argentina Republlo laws as
to the sale of mcdlolnel are the most strin
gent In tha world.
"Seventy-seven" is a good rem
edy for Coughs, Colds, Grip, In
fluenza and Sore Throat. At all
Drug Stores 25c, or mailed.
Humphreys* Homeo. Medicine Co., coiner
William and Ann streetn. Nuw York.
HP*''
H - ■ m
»u. \.y.n i,i»*.\Kt<
prehenstve Investigation thnn can
usually b« made by a municipality.
The mere taking- of an Inventory now
being in '■ii- by one Of the large elec
tric.ll companies la costing- about
It becomes apparent at once
that the town of Alhambra, for ln
. cannot afford to pay for such
work, it would eeem that .such a
report should more properly be made
by a, state commission.
"Probably the most delicate matter
of legislation to be considered will ln>
to put Into effect constitution.!l amend
ment No. 1, providing for the separa
tion of state and local taxes. While
some of us wore not enthusiastic about
the adoption of this amendment, let
us hope it will work out as Its pro
ponents' have suggested, because ihe
strongest argument in favor of the
amendment Is the fact that it will as
sist In the elimination of corporations
from politics.
TO GIVB PEOPLE A CHANGE
"No better Instruments for bringing
tho government nearer to the people
exist than the initiative, th>- refi
iluni and the recall. In order to ixive
the people the right to initiate legisla
tion and to veto it, It probably will be
necessary to submit to them for their
approval a constitutional amendment
which should provide for the applica
tion of the Initiative and referendum
to all matters of state, county and
municipal legislation. It will prob
aWly h« possible to adopt a law apply
ing tho recall to all elective offlcfala
except those whose terms fire spe
cifically provided for in tho oonstltu
tion. As to those It may require a
conMltutiolnal amendment.
"The direct primary !aw, while a
crrea.t advance over tha old convention
method, needs considerable amend
ment and simplification. Its most se-
Houh defect Is the provision concern-
Ing tho advisory vote on United States
r. Unquestionably, one of the
first things tho next legislature will |
do will lie to make the provisions of
the direct primary law to the el.
of United -ft: 8 senatora so clear that
never again will any one have the
temerity to claim that a candidate re
ceiving the highest number of votes
for th.it office is not tho real popular
choice. The legislature should also
.loin the lonpr roll of states that have
passed resolutions calling on con
gress to call a constitutional conven
tion so that United States senators
may be elected by direct vote of the
c. The constitution provides that
congress must <lo this when two
thirds of the states so request, and I
understand it needs only the action
of four more Btates, Including Cali
fornia, to make this operative.
FAVORS INCOME TAX
"The legislature should also piss b
resolution approving the proposed con
stitutional amendment for the Income
tax, submitted to the legislatures by
tho last congress. When tliis amend
ment has been approved by the legis
latures of three-fourths of the states
It will bo adopted and congress will
then be able to pass a measure tor an
Income tn\- that the supreme court
cannot declare unconstitutional.
'The direct primary law should be
made much easier of application. The
percentage of signatures required for
n petition should be materially re- {
duced. It should not be necessary to I
have a separate nominating petl lon
tor each candidate. Tin- time between
tin- primary and g ineral elei tlon should
be shortens I.
'"Th"i< should b« a restoration of!
tho pure Australian form of i
wherein the names of candidates are ,
classified alphabetically accord'ng to
the various offices and where t!.>
straight ticket and party circle, whii !i
pui- .i premium on ignorance, Is elim- >
mated. Ti.e names of candidate
thH judiciary should be arranged on
such ballot without any party deaiK-!
natli.n -• : itever. The ballot should l>n
ned as much as possible. Siuji
state printer, surveyor g. n- I
eral, clerk of the supreme, court and
,i rintendent of state printing shou d
be in ide api olntive by the govi
and as far as possible a commission
system should be applied to our county
governments by vesting in id b
of supervisors power to appoint such
administrative officers as clerk, ti
urer, tax collector, recorder, public
administrator, coroner, surveyor, con
stables and justices of the peace and
p ii c judges. The direct primary law
cannot be made a success without the
Bhort ballot.
HOW ABOUT SUFFRAGE?
"Under the head of bringing the gov
ernment nearer to the people si
also be included the proposition of
woman suffrage. No matter how we
may differ as to the advisability of
permitting women to vote, certainly no :
fairminded < itizen should obje. t to pi ■■■
mittlriK a majority of the votei '
termini? th t question for themselves |
.i.. th in an opportunity to vote
on a - >n titutlonal amendment permit-
ting woman ■iff rave.
"Prol ibly the greatest Ctor in Iho
establishment of businessliko condi
tions In public nftairs will be tii ap
plication of civil service to state and
county, so thnt ordinary clerks nn.d
deputies may fee] assured 01 tho re
tention of their positions. Six states,
New York, New Jersey, Maaaachu
Illinois, conaln and Colorado have
already ipted civil service.
"Thi vicious fee Byetem ihould, as
far us possible, be eliminated. No one
can defend a system whereby, as in
the county of Log Angeles, it has be
come notorious that a county oili<
whose salary fixi'd by law at $4000 a
years makes $30,000 out of hi.s office.
Publi officials should be well pnld for
their services, but tiuir compensation
should be fixed definitely and the profit
of thfir office! should be turned Into
the public treasury.
"There is no reason why tho coming;
legislature should not adopt' a lav so
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1910.
i that any municipality In California
could adopt a commission form of gov
ernment, us. easily and readily as was
done in the city of Pcs MOIBM.
' "The matter or reapportionment in
('onformity with the new census will
I be one of the most important measures
'to be passed on py the next legisla-
I ture. During the last ten years the
center 01 population has moved con
siderably to the southward. Los An
gelea COU&ty, ivhlch under the old ap
portionment had nine assemblymen
and five senators, will have seventeen
assemblymen und eight senators, while
San Francisco, which now has elffhteiti
assemblymen and ln« senators will
have fourteen assemblymen and seven
senators, giving the county of Los An
geles the greatest representation of any
i county In the state. Los Angeles
1 county will also gain a congressman."
TEXAS COAL AREA
BIG AS MISSOURI
Estimate Total Fuel Supply of
Lone Star State at 31,000,
--000.000 Tons
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 10.—Sig
nificant figures which go to show that
so far as Texas Is concerned there Is
little fe ir of exhausting her natural
resources for many generations to
come have been Issued by Dr. William
D. Phillips, director of the bureau of
economic geology of the University of
Texas.
In a statement of the coal resources
of this state he says: "The latest
estimate of the original supply of
bituminous coal in Texas shows that
we have 8.000,000,000 tons and of lignite
'_'3.000,000.000 tons, or a total fuel gup
ply of 31,000,000,000 tons. If We allow
that each ton of fuel mined represents
a loss of one and one-half tons, the
loss of coal and lignite is 27,299,376
tons, an insignificant proportion of the
original supply. During the last twen
ty-six years the loss of fuel has been
so small, compared with the original
supply, as to be quite negligible in
any estimates affecting the situation.
The workable coal area may be taken
as 8200 square miles, with an addi
tional area of 6800 square miles that
may contain workable seams.
"Since the year ISS4 the production
of coal ami lignite in Texas has been
18,199,584 tons. Since that time the
production of coal has been 10,767,566
tons, valued ut C:2,596,544, or an aver
age of about $2.10 a ton at the mines.
During the same period the produc
tion of lignite tins been 6,488,218 tons.
valued at $4,767,830, or an average of
82.8 centa a ton at the mines. During
these fifteen years the production of
coal has increased so that for each
ton mined in 1595 there were 3.17 tons
mined in 1009. In the year 1905 the
average value of the coal mined was
52.2? and in 1909 $2.37.
"The production of lignite Increased
much more rapidly than that of coal.
For ach ton of lisrnite mined in 1895
there were mined 4.75 tons in 1909, the
value p r ton for the respective years
being 90 cents and 82.8 cents."
The workable lignite area is sriven as
CS.r.OO square miles. The coal and lig
nite area In Texas, proved and prob
ablo, is almost as large as the entire
: state of Missouri.
GIRLS YEARN FOR
TEXAS COWBOYS
Governor's Mail Is Flooded with
Letters from Women Who
Want Simple Life
[Special to The HeraUJ
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 10—
Maidens from New York to Portland,
Oregon, and from Chicago to Kansas
City and St. Louis, are begging for
i Texas cowboys for husbands. Tho mall
of Governor Cambpell at Austin, ana
(if Postmaster Stevens at San Antonio,
Is growing heavier dally with appli
cations, many of them accompanied by
photographs, from women of all ages,
' who want to live on the plains, a
: caro free and healthy life, away from
I "the conventionalities and superfleial
' itu-3 of tho great oltks." So great has
become this Hood of request* that sev
eral Texas cltlaa arc beginning to sit
i up and take notice.
The Beaumont chamber of commerce
I offers to furnish rice, free of charge,
1 to shower Texas brides; a justice of
1 the peace In Van Zandt county offers
to perform the mearrlage ceremony
i free of charge to couples settling in
that comity. The Texan Commercial
tarlea association has prepared
data proving conclusively that a mar
oupla in Texas can live cheaper
than one single person, and some one
has jocularly said that now Cupid
Bhould have smooth sailing in the
Lone Star state if some one will fur
nish tho wedding raiment. By corre
spondence with the San Antonio post
master, or the governor of the state,
any bachelors in Texas can probably
find their atlinities very easily.
LACK OF CITY MANHOOD*
There are photographs by the hun
dreds, ami both offices resemble mat
rimonial bureaus. In one day's mall
there are letters from Maine, Rhode
i Island, Connecticut, lowa, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Ohio. One young
woman declares that "the men of Phil
adelphia are too fast and 1 want to
marry only a genuine man, one not
! vitiated by the life of this terrible
city." Another wants a cowboy hus
band, ami says she is a "natural blonde,
With a loving disposition, a Jolly girl
of twenty-seven." Another desires "a
; real Texas man, at least six feet tall,
weighing two hundred pounds, with
| regular features and smooth shaven
■a ho does not smoke or chew to
bacco."
One young woman from Boston
writes In heavy cream colored paper
to the governor saying: "You may
think this Is an act of a foolish girl,
but if you knew how few the chances
1 are for a girl In New England to
marry the man with whom her heart
tells her she would be happy—in other
words, if you could realize the deplor
able lack here of real manhood still
i Bingle—you would understand the rea
son. Tho man of my choice need not
i be too well educated, but he must be
a man, ready to <lo and dare at all
times, this daring to be based on good
judgment. He must have lived always
in the open, and bo able to appreciate
the passages I would read him from
Robert Louis Btevenson, He must be
young, and a man who can laugh on
the blizasardy, gray and chilly days
while rounding up his cattle, as well
as In the soft southern moonlight,
when i!.. (Julf breeM makes to nod
tho roses of romance,"
BARON AND BANK
CLERK FIGHT DUEL
Germans War Over Housekeeper;
Empty Revolvers-Combat
Proves Bloodless
BARBER FLEES FROM BATTLE
Police Find Two Adversaries
Menacing Each Other
with Smoking Guns
BERLIN, Dec. 10. —A baron and a
bank clerk fought a duel this week
which was none the less furious in
quenca of its complete disregard
tor the elaborate prescriptions of the
code of honor, and perhaps through
its very tempestuousness a,nd infor
mality fortunately proved bloodlesa, In
*I>H^ of the unusual number of shots
exchanged. The affair took the bank
clerk by surprise, as he was reclining .
In an easy chair in his bedroom in a
west end Berlin flat being shaved by
one of the assistants from a neighbor- |
ing barber's shop.
Suddenly the smooth progress of the I
razor over his chin was checked by a i
vigorous rattling at the handle of the
locked door that led to an adjoining
apartment, and peremptory demands
for admittance, coupled with a threat
that the intruder would shoot unlrsa
his wishes were instantly complied
with. The bank clerk seems to be :i
man of nerve, for he was not at all
disconcerted by this menacing Invasion
of liis domestic peace. He replied
coolly that he, too, had a revolver at
hand, and if it came to a question of
shooting would probably prove to be
the better marksman of the two. To
this defiance he added an inquiry as
to who the stranger was and what hia
business might be.
The intruder then announced himself
as Baron yon E., ex-cavalry officer,
und said that he had come to reclaim
a young woman who had formerly act
ed as his housekeeper and had left his
service to enter that of the bank clerk
In a similar capacity.
To this the lady's new employer re
sponded that his interest in her was
not of a nature to justity him in em
barking on an affair of honor on her
account, and he called upon the in
furiated baron to leave the premises
without delay. As the latter's only re
sponse was a renewed effort to get at
his supposed rival, the clerk flung open
the door and commenced the combat
with a shot from his revolver. His
lire was promptly returned^ and ex
changes followed one another in quick
— ion.
Me aiwhile the terrified barber had
inamiyed to dodge through the shower
of bullets and slip out Into the street,
where his shouts of "Murder!" soon
brought the police to the spot. When
they entered the flat where the duel
had taken place they found the two
adversaries lacing one another With
still smoking revolvers in their hands,
and apparently only prevented from
continuing their combat to the death
by the fact that both had expended all
tlifir available ammunition. They
were led away to the nearest police
station to be examined as to their re- ,
sponsibility in the strange affair.
SIX OLYMPIA WOMEN
DRAWN FOR JURY DUTY
Wife of Mayor and Spouse of a
Saloon Keeper Challenged
OL.TMPIA, Wash., Dec. 10.— !
Olympia women, all prominent Buf
i'ragists, were drawn today to serve aa I
Jurors jn a case to be tried before
Justice of the Peace Milton Giles next
Tuesday. The jurors chosen Include I
the private stenographer of Governor j
Hay, a stenographer of the supreme
court, the president of the local hu- :
mane society, a woman preacher, the
wife of the Democratic candidate (or !
the legislature • in this district, and ;
the wife of a prominent Olympla phy
sician. |
Among those rejected were the wffe
of tho mayor, the wife of a saloon
keeper find the wifo of tho county clerk.
Tho six women selected either pay
taxes In their own name or are wives
of taxpayers.
The suit Is over a claim for dam
ages alleged to have been . sustained
by a milkman when contractors im
proving 1 a street set off a blast, as ho
alleges, without warning. The defense
is protesting ngainst tho female jury,
but the plaintiff, the milkman, says
ho li will satisfied.
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