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By Senator Anderson:

Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be allowed $170 for services rendered after the close of the session for checking up, branding, and storing furniture of the Senate, and performing other necessary work, and the Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for the same, payable out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate.

Resolution read, and referred to Committee on Contingent Expenses.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

The following reports of standing committees were received and read:

ON ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 7, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment have examined the following Senate bills:

Senate Bill No. 260--An Act to authorize the appointment of an interpreter of the Spanish language, in criminal proceedings, in counties of the second class.

Senate Bill No. 167-An Act to repeal Section 310%, relative to the keeping open and conducting of barber shops, hair-dressing establishments, and bath houses on Sundays and legal holidays.

Senate Bill No. 252--An Act to amend and renumber Section 654, as approved March 30, 1874, of the Penal Code, relating to the abuse of teachers of the public schools.

Senate Bill No. 458-An Act to amend Sections 529, 530, 532, 537%, and 538, as approved March 9, 1893, of the Penal Code, to renumber Sections 537% and 538, as approved March 11, 1893, thereof, to repeal Sections 543% and 537, as approved March 9, 1893, thereof, and to add a new section thereto, to be numbered 5386, all relating to false personation and cheats.

Senate Bill No 477-An Act to amend Sections 954, 1004, 1008, and 1020 of the Penal Code, and to add two new sections thereto, to be numbered 969 and 1025, all relating to pleadings in criminal cases.

Senate Bill No. 486-An Act to amend Sections 1235, 1238, 1240, 1241, 1245, and 1264 of the Penal Code, all relating to appeals in criminal cases.

Senate Bill No. 135-An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be numbered 74a, relating to the retention or diversion by an officer of any part of the salary or fees allowed to his subordinate officer.

Senate Bill No. 225-An Act to provide for the erection of an additional building at the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children, for equipping and furnishing the same, and to appropriate money therefor.

Senate Bill No. 228-An Act to provide for the completion of the main building at the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children, for equipping and furnishing the same, and to appropriate money therefor.

Senate Bill No. 601-An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of the County of El Dorado against the State of California.

Senate Bill No. 264-An Act to aid the County of Modoc in the construction of permanent work on the county road between Alturas and Cedarville, and making an appropriation therefor.

Senate Bill No. 736-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments,' approved April 1, 1897, by amending certain sections thereof, repealing certain other sections, and adding certain sections thereto," approved March 23, 1901, by amending Section 21 thereof, relating to counties of the seventeenth class.

Senate Bill No. 508-An Act to appropriate $40,000 for the purchase of additional land for the use of the Stockton State Hospital.

Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 2-To propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to Article XX, Section 16 of the Constitution, to provide for legislation concerning the term of officers or commissioners and certain employés whose terms of office are not provided for in the Constitution.

Senate Bill No. 8-An Act for the relief of purchasers of State lands by legalizing patents heretofore issued for such lands, and to confirm the title of purchasers thereof. Senate Bill No. 17--An Act permitting all ex-Union soldiers and sailors of the Civil War honorably discharged from the military or marine service of the United States, the right to vend, hawk, and peddle goods, wares, fruits, or merchandise not prohibited by law, in any county, town, village, incorporated city or municipality in the State of California, without paying a license.

Senate Bill No. 144-An Act making an appropriation of $915.94 to pay the claim of George H. Shaw against the State of California.

Senate Bill No. 334--An Act to provide for an appropriation for the preservation, protection, and improvement of the Monterey Custom House property.

Senate Bill No. 506-An Act to amend Sections 1830, 1831, 1832, 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1839 of the Political Code, relating to district school tax.

Senate Bill No. 749-An Act to amend Section 3881 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to correcting of errors, omissions, defects in forms or in descriptions, erroneous or double assessments in any assessment roll.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 9-Relative to retention of the old Spanish names given to cities, towns, and villages in this State.

Senate Bill No. 192-An Act to amend Section 855 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the defendant's pleadings in justices' courts.

Senate Bill No. 208-An Act to amend Section 853 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to plaintiff's pleadings in justices' courts.

Senate Bill No. 369-An Act to amend Section 948 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to justification of sureties on undertakings on appeal. Senate Bill No. 707-An Act to authorize actions against any board or commission of the State in certain cases and regulating procedure therein.

Senate Bill No. 316-An Act to amend Section 1361 of the Political Code, relating to primary elections.

Senate Bill No. 460-An Act to add twelve new sections to the Political Code of the State of California, to be known as Sections 635a, 635b, 635c, 635d, 635e, 635ƒ, 635g, 635h, 635i, 635j, 635k, and 635l, all defining bond investment companies and regulating and governing corporations, companies, associations, co-partnerships, and individuals engaged in the business of placing or selling bonds, debentures, or certificates of investment by whatsoever name such bonds, debentures, or certificates of investment may be designated or known as a money or merchandise paying contract when placed or sold on the partial payment or installment plan, wherein or whereby the holder or holders of such bonds, debentures, or certificates of investment are or may become entitled to claim or receive from such corporation, company, or association, co-partnership or individual, a return either at a definite or indefinite time in cash, or in merchandise, or in property for the installments of money so paid, and wherein or whereby the holders may be subject to a forfeiture, fine or penalty for non-payment of installments, and to protect the holders thereof.

Senate Bill No. 33-An Act to provide for the joint investigation with the Federal Government of the water resources of the State, and the best methods of preserving the forests thereof; and to make an appropriation for the expenses of such investigations. Senate Bill No. 774-An Act to amend Section 2584 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the establishment of a Board of State Harbor Commissioners for the Bay of San Diego.

Senate Bill No. 766-An Act to add a new section to the Political Code, to be numbered 2524a, relating to the powers of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners. Senate Bill No. 645-An Act to amend Section 8, and to repeal Section 13 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the planting, maintenance, and care of shade trees upon streets, lanes, alleys, courts, and places within municipalities, and of hedges upon the lines thereof; also for the eradication of certain weeds within city limits," approved March 11, 1893.

Senate Bill No. 600-An Act to regulate the operation of motor vehicles on public highways, and making an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act.

Senate Bill No. 821-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to protect stockholders and persons dealing with corporations in this State," approved March 29, 1878, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith.

Senate Bill No. 133-An Act making an appropriation for the construction and furnishing of a domestic science building at the California Polytechnic School.

Senate Bill No. 148-An Act to provide for certain improvements at the California Polytechnic School, and making an appropriation therefor.

Senate Bill No. 245-An Act appropriating the sum of $10,000 for the purchase and installment of a heating plant for the use of the State Normal School at Chico, and for the new roofing and repainting of said school.

Senate Bill No. 231---An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, and amended March 23, 1901, by amending Section 165 thereof, relating to the salaries and fees of county and township officers in counties of the eighth class.

Senate Bill No. 608-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, amended March 23, 1901, by amending Section 194 thereof, relating to the compensations of officers of counties of the thirty-seventh class.

Senate Bill No. 226-An Act to provide for the erection of additional buildings at the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children, and to appropriate money therefor.

And report that the same have been correctly enrolled; and presented the same to the Governor on this 6th day of March, 1905, at ten o'clock and thirty minutes P. M.

ON FINANCE.

KEANE, Chairman.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 7, 1905.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Finance has had referred to itAssembly Bill No. 286-An Act making an appropriation to pay for bituminous pavement of the street in front of the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind, Oakland, California.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 290-An Act making an appropriation to pay a deficiency in the appropriation for support of the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind for the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth fiscal years.

We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass.

BELSHAW, Chairman.

Assembly Bills Nos. 286 and 290 ordered on special Assembly file.

ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 7, 1905.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on County Government has had referred to itAssembly Bill No. 793-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, and amended March 23, 1901, by amending Section 183 thereof, relating to salaries and fees of county and township officers in counties of the twenty-sixth class.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 1156-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," by adding a new section to said Act, to be known as Section 331⁄2, relating to the power of the board of supervisors to appropriate from the general fund of the county moneys to aid in and carry on the work of the preservation of forests, reforestration, and the protection of forests against fire.

Also: Senate Bill No. 867-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, and amended March 23, 1901, by amending Section 184 thereof, relating to the compensation of the recorder and the auditor in counties of the twenty-seventh class.

We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass.

SELVAGE, Chairman.

Assembly Bills Nos. 793 and 1156 ordered on special file of County Government bills for second reading.

Senate Bill No. 867 ordered on special file of County Government bills for second reading.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE.

The following report of committee of conference was received:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee of conference on Assembly Bill No. 36 beg leave to report that they have met a like committee from the Assembly, composed of Messrs. Burke, Weyand, and Transue, and that we cannot agree, and ask that a committee of free conference be appointed thereon.

LEAVITT,

BAUER,
HASKINS,
Committee.

Report read and adopted.

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE OF FREE CONFERENCE.

In accordance with the above report of committee of conference, the President announced that he had appointed Senators Carter, Lukens, and Selvage as such committee of free conference.

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RESOLUTION (OUT OF ORDER).

The following resolution was offered:

By Senator Belshaw:

Resolved, That Assembly Bills Nos. 745, 290, 286, and 1178 present a case of urgency, as that term is used in Section 15 of Article IV of the Constitution, and the provision of that section requiring that the bills shall be read on three several days in each house, is hereby dispensed with, and it is ordered that said bills be read the first, second, and third times, and placed upon their passage.

Resolution read.

The question being on the adoption of the same.

The roll was called, and Section 15 of Article IV of the Constitution suspended, and resolution adopted by the following vote:

AYES-Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Coggins, Diggs, Greenwell, Haskins, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Markey, Mattos, McKee, Muenter,

Nelson, Pendleton, Rambo, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Shortridge, Simpson, Ward, and Wolfe-27.

NOES-None.

Assembly Bill No. 745-An Act making an appropriation to pay assessments for sewers on street frontage at the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind, Oakland, California.

Bill read second time.

Read third time.

The question being on the passage of the bill.

The roll was called, and Assembly Bill No. 745 finally passed by the following vote:

AYES Senators Anderson, Belshaw, Broughton, Coggins, Diggs, Haskins, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Mattos, McKee, Nelson, Pendleton, Ralston, Rambo, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Shortridge, Simpson, and Wolfe-23.

NOES-None.

Title read and approved.

Bill ordered transmitted to the Assembly.

Assembly Bill No. 290-An Act making an appropriation to pay a deficiency in the appropriation for support of the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind for the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth fiscal years.

Bill read second time.

Read third time.

The question being on the passage of the bill.

The roll was called, and Assembly Bill No. 290 finally passed by the following vote:

AYES-Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Coggins, Diggs, Greenwell, Hahn, Haskins, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Markey, Mattos, McKee, Muenter, Pendleton, Rambo, Rowell, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Shortridge, Simpson, Ward, Woodward, and Wolfe-29.

NOES-None.

Title read and approved.

Bill ordered transmitted to the Assembly.

Assembly Bill No. 286-An Act making an appropriation to pay for bituminous pavement of the street in front of the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind, Oakland, California.

Bill read second time.

Read third time.

The question being on the passage of the bill.

The roll was called, and Assembly Bill No. 286 finally passed by the following vote:

AYES-Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Coggins, Diggs, Greenwell, Hahn, Haskins, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Mattos, McKee, Pendleton, Ralston, Rowell, Rush, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Simpson, Ward, Wolfe, and Woodward--26. NOES-None.

Title read and approved.

Bill ordered transmitted to the Assembly.

Assembly Bill No. 1178-An Act authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of California to exchange the tract of land now constituting the Santa Monica Forestry Station.

Bill read second time.

Read third time.

The question being on the passage of the bill.

The roll was called, and Assembly Bill No. 1178 finally passed by the following vote:

AYES--Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Coggins, Diggs, Greenwell, Hahn, Haskins, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Mattos, McKee, Nelson, Pendleton, Ralston, Rush, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Simpson, and Ward-25. NOES-None.

Title read and approved.

Bill ordered transmitted to the Assembly.

CONSIDERATION OF SPECIAL ORDER.

The hour having arrived for the consideration of the special order heretofore set, being the consideration of the following resolution, the same was taken up:

WHEREAS, There have been a number of bills passed by this Legislature carrying large sums of money for the purpose of enlarging and increasing the capacity of our State prisons; and

WHEREAS, The best modern facilities on penology advise the classification of prisoners in order that reformation of convicts may be accomplished; and

WHEREAS, Our present prison facilities do not permit of this desired reformation of persons convicted of crime; therefore, be it

Resolved, That a committee of three holdover Senators be appointed by the President of the Senate, to act in conjunction with the State Board of Prison Directors, for the purpose of considering and reporting on the matter of the construction of a new penitentiary, and the selection of a suitable site therefor; and that the members of said committee shall be allowed their actual necessary expenses, payable out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate.

Resolution read.

Senator Belshaw moved that the resolution be adopted.

The following amendments to the resolution were offered by Senator Sanford:

Amend line 9 by adding after the word "directors" the following: “and the wardens of the two State prisons.'

Amendment lost.

Also: Amend line 8 by striking out the word "holdover."

Amendment lost.

Senator Lukens moved that further consideration of the resolution be indefinitely postponed.

Motion lost.

The question being on the adoption of the resolution.

The roll was called, and the resolution adopted by the following vote: AYES-Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Carter, Coggins, Curtin, Diggs, Greenwell, Irish, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Mattos, McKee, Muenter, Nelson, Sanford, Savage, Selvage, Simpson, Ward, and Woodward-25. NOES-Senators Hahn, Haskins, Ralston, and Rush-4.

CONSIDERATION OF DAILY FILE-THIRD READING OF BILLS.

Senate Bill No. 128-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation of the support fund, occasioned by the burning of the trades building at the Preston School of Industry. Read third time.

The question being on the passage of the bill.

The roll was called, and Senate Bill No. 128 passed by the following vote: AYES Senators Anderson, Bauer, Belshaw, Broughton, Carter, Coggins, Diggs, Greenwell, Hahn, Haskins, Irish, Keane, Leavitt, Leeke, Lukens, Markey, Muenter, Nelson, Ralston, Rowell, Rush, Selvage, Ward, Wolfe, and Woodward-25.

NOES-None.

Title read and approved.

Bill ordered transmitted to the Assembly.

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