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WOMEN AFTER VOTES.
They Crowded the Hou§e to
Hear Their Fate.
THE DEMOCRATS OBJECT.
In Amendment to Spenwr's Bill
Offered by Reid.
HE WAITa THE WORD MALE USED.
Spencer Defended His Pet on (he €onsti
-1 tutionai Ground That People In
cluded Women.
Sacramento, Feb. 6.— The Assembly
chamber was crowded this morning when
Speaker Lynch called the lower House to
order. The woman suffrage bill, reported
by the Committee on Elections, was on the
calendar as a special order, and the friends
of woman suffrage were out in force. They
were mostly women. When the session be
gan they had crowded the men out of
nearly all the seats on the floor, and many
women were still standing. Then scores
of chairs were brought in, and tnese were
filled with women, and still many more
were left standing. Soon the galleries were
filled. The male habitues of the gallery
and lobby were driven back and out.
Reid, the Democratic member from Weav
crvilie, precipitated the discussion.
Hardly had the bill been read when he
brought forward an amendment to Spch
cer's bill, which introduced the word male
wherever it had been omitted in the bill
under consideration. Reid announced that
he could see no reason for a discussion
•upon tne constitutionality of the bill. The
members, he thought, had all made up
their minds as to how they should vote,
and he did not want to waste time talking
further.
He then moved the previous question,
which was at once seconded by Laugenour,
the leader of the Democratic minority,
Pendleton of Los Angeles and Cargill of
San Benito.
A point of order was raised that Reid
could not make this motion, and at once a
half dozen Democratic members were on
their feet repeating it. But the Housewas
was wideawake. There was to be no cut
ting off debate. Chairman Lynch put the
question, but before the clerk could get his
roll in order.. Spencer of Lassen, the father
of the threatened bill, was on his feet.
The proposed amendment, lie said, had
precipitated the discussion. He intended
making his argument on constitutional
points lirst. A number of Republicans, he
urged, were standing behind expressed
doubts as to the constitutionality of the
measure a* an excuse for not voting for
woman suffrage and carrying out the
pledges of the Republican platform. He
was going to show that the bill was so
clearly constitutional that no intelligent
thinking man could shield his opposition
to a plank of the platform by such a sub
teffuge.
"To-day the question is being asked:
What shall wo do to prevent election
frauds and wrongs that disfigure and
threaten the safety of our political system?
Let me toll you. Say to the women,
'Come and help us put things aright.' "
The speaker referred at length to the
various counties and States of the Union
wherein women were allowed to vote.
At this juncture Wade of Napa, who is
opposing the movement, created much sur
prise by asking that as the hour for
adjournment was at hand the matter under
discussion be continued at some other
time. But the chair gently informed iliC
interrupting member that it was only 11 :W
o'clock and thai there was a good hour yet
before him. Wade then subsided and
Spencer resumed.
The women, lie urged, were only asking
■what was just and fair. They had been
making steady progress and had never lost
ground.
Bledsoe of Humboldt followed with
the statement that he had a doubt re
garding the constitutionality of the bill,
and believed the Supreme < lourt should be
allowed to decide the question. He con
sidered it tho duty of every Republican to
vote as his platform had promised.
Buiia of Los Angeles was not going to
offer any argument. He did not think it
necessary after a member had promised to
support the Republican platform. Certain
members claimed that they would not vote
for tho suffrage bill because they thought
it unconstitutional. Not one in ten had
made exhaustive research of the question
and the action was merely an evasion.
Way down in their hearts they did. not
want women to vote.
"There is not a Republican here who was
not elected on a platform promising
women the suffrage. We will not do our
duty as men and Republicans unless we
vote for the bill," he said.
Cottar of Yolo asserted that not one
woman in fifty in his county wanted to
vote. The Republican platform had been
drafted by Grove L. Johnson and accepted
as a whole with a hurrah. If the woman
suffrage plank had been voted on he was
Bure it would not have been adopted.
"Not one woman in ten wants to vote,"
he urged.
"What do you say to that 25.000 petition
of two years ago?" asked Bulla.
"Is that a majority of the women?" was
the response. "When the majority of the
women of California want to vote, I will
assent to giving them the suffrage.
"The majority of women would feei de
graded by having the right of voting
thrust upon them," he concluded, "I ob
ject then to stuffing down the throats of
the majority the action demanded by the
minority and make them barter these nn
desired rights for the positions they now
hold as the queen s of our hearts and our
homes."
The fight of the new woman in the
Assembly to-day was long and fierce. At
first it was too much like the proceedings
of a court in which a lawyer pleads his
case. But toward the last dinner was for
gotten in the eagerness to hear what ideas
the next speaker had to bring forward, and
an intense interest developed. The result
was not what the suffragists had hoped.
Had their managers succeeded in getting
the bill to a yote to-day it might have
passed, as they counted forty-two votes
and hoped for nine more. Their forty-two
votes would have been, sufficient to carry
the bill. Now it is problematical when the
bill will again come up for consideration.
It was not made the special order for any
day upon adjournment and so is shelved
with the unfinished business of the House.
Only a two-thirds vote can bring it up out
of its reeular order, and that cannot be ob
tained by any possible chance.
JXhe constitutional amendment of Barker
proposing to submit the right of women to
vote to the people of the State is the spe
cial order for to-morrow morning. This
will carry without doubt, as only a few
Republicans will dare to oppose it. A
number of Democrats will vote for it, and
Bachman of Fresno, one of the most elo
quent and logical opponents of the suffrage
bill on the floor to-day, will urge its pass-
age.
The new rules of the House put special
orders first. The second and third read
ings of bills also precede unfinished busi
ness. The special file is well filled and
bills* are accumulating, so that it may not
be till the close of the session that the bill
discussed to-day will again come up. The
women handling it are satisfied that they
can count on enough strength to carry the
House whenever the time does come.
The ladies who have been working among
the legislators for the past week were all
there. Mrs. Judge Spencer sat near her
husband as he spoke, and from time to
time handed him slips of paper containing
new ideas. Mrs. Nellie Holbrook-Biinn,
Mine. Louise A. Sorbier and her pretty
daughter. Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon,
Mrs. Srurtevant Peet and Mrs. John Bid
well were in the first rank. Mrs. Clara
Foits had assisted in the work, and all had
labored in entire harmony.
Bachman of Fresno announced that he
way bound by no platform, as were the Re
publicans, judge Spencer's remarks to
the young men about the future, he said,
made him think about an experience of
bis youth, when a colonist preacher tried
to scare him into heaven by dangling him
over a brimstone hell. He was opposed to
the bill.
"There is no logic," he continued, "in
Mr. Cutter's statement that he is not
bound to this plank of the Republican
THE HON. JOHN PAY, THE SENATOR FROM NORTH BEACH.
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platform, because it was adopted as a
whole. The Republican Legislature has
so far kept its pledges. It has elected
George C. Perkins United States Senator.
It has protested against the Rcilly funding
OllL It has proceeded on the line of re
trenchment. We must not alter from our
promises now."
Waymire of Alameda was in favor of the
bill. He argued that there could be no
doubt as to the fact that the enfranchising
of women was not forbidden by law. He
urged the voting down of Reid's amend
ment and was warmly applauded as he
took his seat.
Hall of Placer read a set speech, in
which he expressed warm sympathy in the
movement to give women the right to vote.
Spencer and Cutter spoke briefly in
answer to their opponents.
Timothy Gny Phelps of San Jlateo took
the floor. "I shall vote against Reid's
amendment," he said, "and for the bill
because I think it is right. Mr. Spencer's
argument I consider unanswerable. If the
Supreme Court should decide against it no
great harm would be done. I shall also
vote for the constitutional amendment,
not because I think there is a doubt about
the right of women to vote, but to prevent
any future Legislature from taking this
ri^ht away from them."
Several Assemblymen were clamoring
for a hearing at this juncture, but it was 1
o'clock, andZocchiof San Francisco moved
to adjourn.
Wilkinson of the Engrossing Committee
asked to be allowed to present a report.
This was done. As the clerk read the
members began to leave the chambers.
The motion to adjourn went with a shout,
nobody thinking to make the bill the
special order for any time, and the ques
tion was shelved as "unfinished business."
This ended the first skirmish.
The woman suffrage question is to-night
tho liveliest issue before the State Legisla
ture, and to-morrow the struggle is sure to
be resumed. To-night the Assembly
chamber was given over to the champions
of woman's cause, and there Mrs. Nellie
Holbrook Blinn, and Mrs. General Bid
well of Chico addressed an audience of
fully a thousand men and women. Many
members of the Legislature were close lis
teners. In the audience women were in
the great majority, however, and their
hearty applause of the speakers' strong
words went a long way to disprove the as
sertions that had been made on that same
floor during the afternoon by Assembly
men who professed to believe that the
women did not ask for the right of suf
frage.
To-night Assemblyman Reid of Trinity
and Shasta counties, who, with Cutter of
Sutler and Yuba is leading the opposition
to the suffrage bill, declares that he has
with him at least forty-one Assemblymen,
a bare majority of one, and that the bill is
almost certain to be killed. On the other
hand ex-Judge Spencer of Lassen and
Trinity, who is leading the forces in sup
port of the measure, professes to believe
that the bill will pass the Assembly.
An effort will be made to call the meas
ure up again the first thing in the morning,
and then, for at least a few minutes, the
exciting debate of to-day's session is almost
certain to be echoed.
The fishermen along our coasts and in
our waters catch $45,000,000 worth of fish
every year.
THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1895.
SCORES THE TRUSTEES
Affairs at the Blind Asylum of
1 Oakland.
DIRECTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
The Joint Committee Recommend
Many Changes.
\\ ESTIBE SEW BOARD IS HEEDED.
Legislators Are Advised to Sell the
Property and Establish a
Hooie Elsewhere.
Sacramexto, Feb. 6.— John P. Irish and
the Oakland Home for the Adult Blind
will be severely "roasted" by the joint
committee from the Committees on Public
Health and Quarantine and Hospitals and
Asylums to-morrow. Their report was
finished this afternoon. In it they speak
in the most laudatory terms of the Stock
ton asylum for the deaf and dumb and blind.
Several apprepriations for these establish
ments were recommended as absolutely
I necessary. But they will advise that the
i board of trustees of the home at Oakland
be changed, the property sold and a new
home started somewhere else. The part in
regard to the home controlled by Mr. Irish
read as follows :
On January 25 we visited the Industrial
Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult
Blind at Oakland, and we regret the fact that
we cannot make the same commendatory re
port of this institution that we have of the
others visited. In this case, as in the others,
we took the management by surprise and our
investigation was as thorough as we could pos
sibly make it within the limited time allotted.
We separatedj as before, and made personal in
spection of all buildings, shops, outhouses,
stock, supplies, tools, appliances, etc., and in
vestigated the management.
We found the kitchen clean, the stores of
provisions were of good quality and under the
supervision of Mrs. Sanders, the dining tables
were abundantly supplied with wholesome
victuals. The female dormitories were well
kept. The lawns and trees showed skillful at
tention. The old wooden building in which
brooms are made and in which valuable sup
plies are kep>t is open, cold and a disagreeable
place to work in. There is constant danger of
heavy loss to the State by fire.
A visit to the male dormitories revealed the
fact that while there were some beds that were
clean, there were others that were absolutely
filthy. The bath efnd toilet rooms were mostly
in fair condition, but one bathtub was so un
clean as to be a disgusting sight, and the men s
public toilet was in a similar condition to that
of a public toilet at a railroad station. The
smoking-room Is a disgrace lo the State. It has
a cement floor which could not be seen for the
filth, and while the claim is made by the man
agement that this room is hosed out at least
once each week, yet the evidence would mdi.
. cate that it had not been cleaned for many
weeks. Coal for fuel was piled up on the floor,
aud the seats were in a dilapidated and filthy
condition. Many of the inmates seen In the
buildings and about the grounds were wretch
edly clothed, and were so filthy in appearance
as to be absolutely nauseating and repulsive.
The lowest depraved imbecile inmates of the
Stockton Asylum incapable of self-control with
drool oozing from their mouths and noses were
clean compared to some of these. There can
be no possible explanations of this condition
of things other than bad management. Dis
content reigns supreme among the inmates in
regard to the management. The atmosphere
was rife with petty jealousies, and a system
which we are convinced exists of espionage on
the part of the superintendent was generally
complained of. Practical discipline seemed to
be absolutely wanting. But little attention was
paid to the ordinary complaints and mur
murings of individuals, but «. large number of
the inmates, Including practically all of the
women, were from some reason or another
absolutely afraid to talk to members of the
committee, stating that spies were on the alert
and that many times they had been harshly
treated for speaking the truth.
We found the btind superintendent, Mr. San
ders, an active man of unusual intelligence,
with a knowledge of the business entrusted to
him that is truly wonderful. Yet ho seems to
have incurred the ill will of nearly all and ter
rorized many of the inmates. We also found
inharmony among the board of directors, which
has existed for years and appears to be irrecon
cilable.
Reports of inharmony, discontent and bad
management came to us from all quartern out
side of the institute as well as within and from
members of the board of directors themselves.
As previously stated we have given no
credence to the many individual complaints
made to us by inmates and others concerning
the superintendent and the management, and
it is the unanimous opinion of your comittees
that Professor Sanders is a good and efficient
instructor of the blind, that many blind per-,
sons are indebted to him for their ability to be"
self-supporting, and that his knowledge of
business methods is invaluable to an institu
tion of this kind, yet under the existing cir
cumstances, we seriously doubt the advisabil
ity of allowing him to remain in full possession
and control of the duties and the responsi
bilities now entrusted to him. As we regard
this a matter entirely in the hands of
the board of directors we refrain from
further comment in this direction. Yet, in
view of the practically unlimited evidence
of inharmony now existing from the
head to the foot of this institution, we do rec
ommend that all of the members of the present
board of directors be removedand a new board
appointed. We also recommend that the re
quest of the board of directors to buy more
land adjacent to the present location be not
granted, and that no more buildings be
erected on the present site.
John P. Irish, president of said board, ac
knowledged to us that the advisability of
granting such a request was questionable. He
also acknowledged to us that he made a wrong
statement in the public press concerning the
length of time we were visiting and investi
gating this institution, and he offered to make
public acknowledgment to that effect. We
were on the premises three and a half hours,
and have not been dilatory in our search for
truth from that day to this.
We further recommend that the State of Cali
fornia purchase a suitable tract of land outside
the limits of any city or town where land can
be had cheap, where transportation facilities
are good, where the location will be healthful,
pleasant and convenient for the transaction of
business.
The report advised that the property of
the home, which is worth from $75,000 to
$100,000, be sold and the money applied to
the purchase of a new home. It concludes:
No selfish or personal interests have been
considered in this report. We are convinced
that if the entire Legislature should make the
same thorough investigation of this institution
and its management that we have made they
would have reached practically the same
conclusions.
SEVENTEEN BILLS IK THE SENATE.
The San Francisco Barbers Ask for a
Sunday-Closing Act.
Sacramento, Feb. 6.— Seventeen bills
were introduced in the Senate to-day.
Senator Mathews, who had introduced a
bill to repeal the act for selling franchises
to street railroads, telegraph and telephone
companies, sent up to the clerk's desk a
measure intended to take the place of this
bill and to amend the law in conformity
with the desire of Southern California mu
nicipalities.
Senator Orr introduced a bill authorizing
the State Library, whenever there is posses
sion in duplicate of lawbooks, to turn
over one copy to the Attorney-General.
A measure by Senator Franck makes a
change of venue easier to obtain. It pro
vides that where the convenience of wit
nesses will be better subserved, where the
Judge is a relative of a lawyer in the case
and where he is disqualified, a trial
may be changed from one county to an
other.
Another bill by the same author gives
the Coroner of San Francisco four assis
tants with salaries fixed respectively at
$125, $90, $90 and $75, and a stenographer at
a eajary of $150. The third bill by Senator
Franck permits cemetery corporations to
invest bequests in United States, State or
municipal bonds.
Senator Seymour introduced a bill which
appropriates $13,600 to be used for the bene
fit of discharged convicts, and calls for the
appointment of a State agent for the guid
ance to employment of discharged con
victs.
Senator Fay introduced a bill which
directly affects the attaches of the Superior
courts of San Francisco. It provides that
the County Clerk shall assign clerks and
copyists to the departments of the court as
follows: One register clerk for each three
departments at a salary of $150 per month,
one courtroom clerk and one additional
register clerk for each Judge of the Superior
Court, at salaries of $125 and $100 a month
respectively, one assistant clerk for each
six Judges at salaries of $100 a month,
one copyist for each Judge, and one assis
tant copyist for each two Judges at salaries
of $3 a day.
A second bill by Senator Seymour pro
vides that the License Collector, instead of
the Assessor, shall collect poll taxes and
that such taxes shall be collected between
the first Monday in March and the first
Monday in the following January.
Senator G«sford introduced a bill which
provides that no city or town lot shall be
leased for a longer period than fifty years,
and another bill iixing the limit of leases
on agricultural lands at thirty years.
A third bill by the same author provides
that County Supervisors, instead of County
Clerks, shall draw the grand and trial
jurors, and that these jurors drawn must
be men of integrity and intelligence.
Senator McAllister introduced a bill
making it a misdemeanor to keep barber
shops open after the noon hour on Sunday.
Three deficiency bills were introduced.
One by Franck calls for $3000 for heating
and ventilating the Normal School at San
Jose. One by Hart appropriates $4278 86
for the transportation of the insane. An
other by the same author asks for $625 26
for transportation of children to the
Reform School.
Senator Burke introduced a bill by which
errors in assessment rolls may be more
readily corrected.
ABOLISH THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.
A Poll of the Senators Shows Considerable
Uncertainty Among Them.
Sacramento, Feb. 6.— Every Senator has
been polled on the proposition to abolish
the Railroad Commission. The result is:
In favor of abolition 15, against abolition 5,
undecided 20. Those who were absent yes
terday were polled to-day. Those in favor
of abolition are: Biggy, Gesford, Math
ews, Pedlar (with a reservation) and
Whitehurst. Against: Ford. Undecided:
Arms, Rose, Bert, Burke, Shippee and
Toner.
Senators Arms and Androus declared
that they had not considered the matter
yet. Senator Bert wanted to examine the
proposed amendment befo.e giving his
opinion. Senator Biggy is pledged to the
Traffic Association to vote to abolish the
Railroad Commission, and will keep his
pledge. He declares that he doubts the
wisdom of making the Legislature deal
with freights and fares.
"If the commission will do no better in
the future than in the past I say abolish it.
I would like to give the new commission a
trial to see what they will do," said Sen
ator Burke.
"I fought for the abolition of the com
mission two years ago and was beaten. I
favor doing away with the commission,"
declared Senator Gesford.
"At first glance I say yes," remarked
Senator Mathews.
"I opposed the original idea of a rail
road commission in the new constitution.
I think some amendment to the law might
be made which would convert the commis
sion into a useful body," said Senator Ped
lar. "Under the present system the com
mission is useless. lam in favor of doing
away with the commission. The railroad
has always elected two members of the
body. Trie matters which come before the
commission can be attended to just as well
by the Legislature."
MENZIES PERSISTENT.
He Wants the Lexow Corpse
Revived.
BO PACTS WERE PRESENTED.
The Grand Jury Considered a Poor
Prober.
THE COMMITTEE GIVES SOME ADVICE.
A Snggestion That the Purification
Committee Begin on Their Own
Members Offered.
Sacramento, Feb. 6.— The Republicans
of both houses may meet in joint caucus
to-morrow to discuss the Lexow commis
sion bill. The bill is dead, but its few sup
porters do not seem to be aware of this
fact, and although it has passed the third
day, when i§e sanitary precautions it
ought to be buried, they are still using elec
tric efforts to revive the corpse from what
they consider a trance.
Stewart Menzies, H. L. Davis, I. J. Tru
man and Wallace Bradford are here to de
lay the burial of the bill if they can.
The persistent attempts to interfere with
municipal affairs by the appointment of a
State commission to investigate seem, to
use a mild term, strange. Stewart Menzies
was urging the proposition to-night, but
could give no arguments in its behalf
which would stand. He merely reiterated
that the Grand Jury did not probe enough,
but when asked how the commission would
be enabled to probe deeper or better, said,
"We can advise them to do so." He was
asked if he could not give the same advice
to the Grand Jury. It is suggested to-night
that some who are so anxious for investiga
tion might be given a little investigation
themselves, and that instead of saddling a
State commission as inquisitors for San
Francisco, the Grand Jury of that city
might investigate the purification commit
tee and begin with H. E. Highton.
There is one thing which has given the
advocates of the bill a little advantage,
and that' is the lack of concerted action
and leadership on the part of the Repub
licans. There are two or three weak
kneed Republicans who have fallen before
the proposition to so amend the bill that
the Governor shall appoint one Commis
sioner, the President of the Senate a sec
ond and the Speaker of the House the
third; but this will meet with little favor,
and there is no chance of the bill becom
ing a law.
San Francisco can attend to her own
affairs is the slogan of the San Francisco
delegation, and to this there are but two
dissenting voices in that delegation.
BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE.
Many Measures Receive the Satetion of the
Members of the Upper Honse.
Sacbamejcto, Feb. 6.— The special order
in the Senate to-day was Orr's resolution,
introduced early in the session, calling for
a special committee on election frauds.
As the investigation contemplated by this
resolution is similar in scope to that de
manded by Attorney-General Fitzgerald's
bill providing for a roving investigating
commission, action on the resolution was
postponed. Fitzgerald's bill is before the
Judiciary Committee, but a Senate caucus
is called for to-night, when the proposed
bill will be considered and will then doubt
less como up for action in the Senate to
morrow.
Langford's bill repealing the Act of 1883,
providing support foraged indigents, came
up on special order. The Finance Com
mittee recommended the passage of the
bill, the argument being that a saving to
the State of $800,000 for the next two years
would thus be effected. A spirited debate
followed. Langford, Seawell and Mat
thews favored the repeal bill, while Mar
tin and Ford urged that the operation of
the present act simply pays the debt all
Californians owe to the pioneers, many of
whom are now in need of aid, supplied
from the funds of this measure.
The repeal bill was passed by a vote of 26
to 11 and ordered sent to the Assembly im
mediately. Those voting against repeal
were Arem, Bert, Denison. Dunn, Ford,
Hoyt, Mahbney, Martin, McGowan, Mitch
ell and Shine.
McGowan's resolution proposing a con
stitutional amendment to favor woman
suffrage was reached on special file. A
rollcall on its adoption was ordered. Ap
parently the Senators did not propose to
be put on record just yet, and many did
not vote when their names were called.
As soon as McGowan realized the situation
he asked that the resolution be passed on
the tile for the present, and this was so
ordered.
The resolutions by Smith, Kern and Mc-
Gowan proposing constitutional amend
ments providing respectively for the use of
voting machines and exempting vessels
from taxation were adopted unanimously.
The battle of the day was over Voorhies
constitutional amendment to abolish poll
tax. Voorhies of Amador championed the
proposition in the interest of the poor
men, claiming that the operation of the
present law works great injustice. Earl of
Alameda opposed the amendment, arguing
that poll tax is about the only revenue now
derived from Chinese. Gesford and Hart
sided with Voorhies, but on the other side
were Seawell, Seymour, Burke and others.
After the debate, which lasted over an hour,
the proposed amendment was defeated
by 19 ayes to 18 noes. Aram, Beard, Burke,
Earl, Flint, Gleaves, Hollo way, Hoyt,
Langford, Martin, McAllister, Orr, Pedler,
Seawell, Seymour, Shippee, Smith, White
hurst and Washington voting aye.
The constitutional amendment proposed
by Senator Holloway to exempt from tax
ation fruit and nut bearing trees four years
after planting, grapevines two years after
planting in the vineyard, and farm and
household goods to the value of $200, was
adopted.
Senator Fay's bill to permit the employ
ment of nativ.e citizens as interpreters of
Italian in the courts of San Francisco was
passed by a unanimous vote. The present
law provides that such interpreters must
be natives of Italy.
Senator Withington's bill to reduce the
number of Superior Judges for San Diego
County from three to two was passed by a
unanimous vote.
Senator Bert's bill to authorize the
twelve Superior Judges of San Francisco
to employ a clerk to be paid out of the
State treasury provoked considerable oppo
sition. To prevent the defeat of the bill
its supporters had it referred to the San
Francisco delegation, to be amended so
that the city and county of San Francisco
and not the State shall bear the expense.
Senator Seawell's bill defining as grand
larceny the stealing of any horse or cow
or cattle, and defining as petty larceny the
stealing of any other domestic animal or
animals, not of the value of $50, was
passed.
Senator Arms' bill providing for the dis
missal of civil actions when summons
shall not have been served within three
years after issuance, was adopted.
Senator MeGowan's bill for the appoint
ment of an additional Superior Judge for
Humboldt County was passed.
Senator Wellington's bill to prevent the
sale of impure milk, or skim milk, unless
the cans or bottles containing such skim
milk shall be plainly labeled "skim milk,"
was passed.
Senator McAllister's bill to amend the
methods of procedure under the present
law imposing a tax on collateral inherit
ances, was passed.
Senator Burkes bill to permit clerks of
courts to certify to copies of articles of in
corporation when such copies are to be
used as evidence in court, was passed.
Senate bills 182 and 155 by Simpson, to
compel public administrators to file
monthly statements with county clerks
and to turn into county treasuries any nn
claimed funds remaining in their posses
sion, were passed.
Senator MeGowan's bill to prevent
Judges or other judicial officers from ex
acting from court reporters any portion of
the legal fees earned by such reporters was
passed.
Senator Gesford's anti-cigarette bill,
which makes it a misdemeanor to manu
facture, sell, give away or otherwise dis
pose of any cigarettes, was passed by a
unanimous vote, thirty-two Senators vot-
ing.
Senator Gleaves' bill to permit the con
solidation of the Napa College at Napaand
the University of the Pacific at Santa
Clara, both Methodist Episcopal institu
tions, was passed.
Senator Whitehurst's bill providing a
method for the legal adoption of aban
doned children was passed.
At 3:45 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
To Recount the Vat*.
Sacramento, Feb. 6. — In the contested
elections of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty
fifth Assembly Districts the attorneys have
stipulated that the ballots shall be counted.
An effort to have the same stipulation
for the Thirty -sixth District is being made.
It is thought that Kegistrar Hinton may
object to this, as it involves the counting
of 9000 votes. In this event a writ of man
date may be got out to bring the Registrar
before the Superior Court or he may be
brought before the bar of the Assembly.
IX THE JPORTLAMD CIRCUIT COVBT
A. Suit in the Same of Several San Fran-
eisco Firms.
Portland, Feb. 6. — Isaac Hoffman be
gan proceedings in the State Circuit Court
to-day against S. Prager, S. Jacoby and A.
S. Ash, comprising the firm of Jacoby, Ash
& Co., to recover $6320 on assigned claims
of a number of San Francisco houses.
Jacoby, Ash & Co. are a Tacoma firm, who
succeeded Prager Bros. At the time
of the recent failure of the Farmers'
and Mechanics' store, the firm of
Jacoby, Ash & Co. also failed, and a chat
tel mortgage was given to M. S. Jacoby,
father-in-law of Sidney Prager, one of the
firm, for $58,000.
The suit here against the firm of Jacoby,
Ash & Co. appears to be an effort to make
Prager Bros, and Jacoby, Ash & Co.
identical concerns and to find as
sets here to levy upon if none
can be found in Tacoma. It is understood
the $58,000 deed of trust to M. S. Jacoby
holds good under the Washington law
against all other claims.
A TROT AT SACRAMENTO.
Flying Jib and Klamath Go a Quarter
in Fust Time.
Sacramento, Feb. 6.— At Agricultural
Park this morning a large crowd witnessed
a remarkable performance. The Salisbury
horses were receiving their exercise pre
paratory to Friday's races, and Directly,
Flying Jib and Klamath went a quarter of
a mile abreast in 29'^ sees., which was bet
ter than a two-minute gait. It was the
fastest quarter Directly ever covered, and
Andy McDowell is confident the colt will
lower his record of 2-.07J4 made at Fresno.
The track is fast, the horses are all in fine
condition, and it is expected they will lower
their Eastern records. Alix was jogged a
mile in 2:12, and covered one-quarter of it
in 30 seconds easily. The weather is
superb.
A. Closed-Door Case,
Lodi, Feb. 6. —Ah Jim, a Chinaman,
charged with having assaulted Mrs. Rich,
the wife of a prominent merchant here,
with a deadly weapon and having shot at
her, was held fr trial to-day. The case
was heard with closed doors, and it was
hinted that if the defendant had told all he
knew his testimony would have been of a
sensational character. The defendant
swears he will tell the real reason of the
assault if the case against him is pros
ecuted.
Suit Against the Railroads.
Fresno, Feb. 6.— Nap Shay began a suit
against the Southern Pacific and Central
Pacific railroads this morning for $20,000
damages for the loss of an arm. He was
run over in August, 1894.
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