able, impartial, and urbane manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of this body during the present long and exhaustive session. Resolved, That the thanks of this Senate are due and are hereby tendered to the President, and President pro tem., for the distinguished ability and uniform courtesy and impartiality with which they have presided over its deliberations. Adopted. Mr. Van Dyke offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Journal Clerk be allowed four days pay, after the adjournment, for writing up the Journal of the Senate; and after the same is written up, it shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate by said Clerk, and the President or Vice-President shall approve the Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate be allowed four days time, and the usual per diem, to settle up his books, accounts, etc., and for delivering to the State Library the books of Senators and public documents in his possession, and that the Controller of State is hereby required to draw his warrants, and the Treasurer of State to pay the same for the said per diem, at the rate of eight dollars per day. Resolved, That the Controller of State be and is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the Contingent Fund of the Senate, for forty-six dollars and eighty cents, in favor of Thomas Hill, Secretary of the Senate, for mileage, in taking to the office of the Secretary of State the books, papers, and documents of the Senate, as required by law. Adopted. Mr. Perkins moved to take up the Chinese memorial. MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR. The following message was received from the Governor : STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, To the Honorable the Senate of California: } I have to inform your honorable body that I have approved Senate bill No. 207, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven; Also, Senate bill No. 474, an Act to appropriate money to pay ex penses incurred in case of the trial of the Impeachment of James H. Hardy, before the Senate of the State of California; Also, Senate bill No. 468, an Act concerning the office of County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco; Also, Senate bill No. 471, an Act making appropriations for a Contingent Fund of the Senate and Assembly; Also, Senate bill No. 197, an Act to amend section twenty-seven of an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; Also, Senate bill No. 191, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; Also, Senate bill No. 378, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; Also, Senate bill No. 434, an Act to amend an Act to regulate descents and distributions, passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty; Also, Senate bill No. 192, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; Also, Senate bill No. 475, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in relation to the Board of Supervisors in and for Butte County, and concerning their powers, passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo; Also, Senate bill No. 470, an Act relating to the levying of taxes; Also, Senate bill No. 467, an Act to provide for the removal of the furniture, books, and stationery, to the Capitol at Sacramento; Also, Senate bill No. 469, an Act to grant the right of way to construct a toll bridge across Bear River, at or near McCourtney's Crossing, in the Counties of Yuba and Placer, and to repeal a certain Act therein named; Also, Senate bill No. 352, an Act to authorize John S. Rutherford and George E. Webber to construct a railroad and railroad wharf in Mendocino County; Also, Senate bill No. 472, an Act to authorize the payment of the rent of the building known as the Merchant's Exchange, in the City and County of San Francisco, now occupied by the Legislature; Also, Senate bill No. 323, an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning conveyances, passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty. LELAND STANFORD, Governor. RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Porter offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the thanks of this Senate are hereby tendered to the Secretaries, Sergeant-at-Arms, and other officers and attachés of this body, for the faithful and efficient manner in which they have each discharged the duties of their several offices during the present session of this body. Resolved, That H. C. Kibbe be allowed fifteen dollars, for freight and expenses for tables and furniture from the Capitol at Sacramento, to San Francisco, March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Adopted. Mr. Perkins offered the following resolution: Resolved, That Charles S. Adams, Postmaster of the Senate, be allowed five days pay to forward letters and papers that may come to the members of the Senate, after its adjournment, to be paid out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate. Adopted. Messrs. Irwin and Kimball were appointed a Committee to wait upon the Governor, to ascertain if he had any further communication to make to the Senate. Mr. Perkins offered concurrent resolution relative to appointing L. B. Drew to take charge of furniture, etc. Lost. Mr. Irwin, from the Committee appointed to wait upon the Governor, reported that His Excellency had no further communication to make to the Senate. Twelve o'clock, M., the hour fixed for adjournment sine die, having ar rived, the President addressed the Senate as follows: SENATORS—I thank you for the flattering expressions with which you have pleased to compliment my endeavors to preside over your deliberations. I cannot permit this session to close, or bring myself to pronounce its final adjournment, until I shall have expressed to each and all of you my obligations for the courtesy and indulgence which you have extended to me at all times. I assumed the duties of President of your honorable body with great distrust and doubts of meeting your just expectations; and if I have, in any manner, succeeded in discharging the duties of the Chair, I feel that it is owing to your kind indulgence upon all occasions. The many laws that have received your sanction during the session, have all been of a character highly essential to the general welfare of the State at large. Though demagogues, aided by a press ever too ready to criticise and condemn, have sought to hamper and throw discredit upon your actions by the hackneyed cry of "special legislation," it is gratifying to reflect that you have fully sustained your own dignity, and vindicated the correct judgment of your constituents in placing you in the honorable position which you occupy, by acting as you deemed the varied interests of the people required, regardless of your own convenience, and at the sacrifice of your earnest desire to be relieved from the irksome duties of a protracted session. The special laws you have passed were evidently demanded by the exigences of the times, and the varied wants of the people you respectively represent; though local in their character, they tend to the more rapid development and improvement of the resources of our youthful but giant State. The general tone of your deliberations has been dignified, earnest, and patriotic. If, in the warmth of animated debate, some scenes have occurred, unwise, I can only hope they have left no trace of unkind feeling, but have been forgotten, or buried in the memories of the past. I trust you have omitted nothing in the way of resolutions, laws, or expressions, which could, in any degree, strengthen and sustain the Government of the United States in this her earnest endeavor to put down the existing conspiracy against the integrity of the Union, and for the maintenance of our most beneficent Government. Your record pledges the State of California, and stamps upon the his tory of the age her determination to stand by the American Union to the last, though traitors turn their fratricidal hands against her, and the world should be combined for her destruction. For the first time in the history of our State, the Senate has been called upon to sit in judgment in a case where a person in high judicial position has been impeached before it. You have carefully examined, and duly weighed, the testimony adduced, and there is every reason to be proud that the honor of the State and the patriotism of the people have been fully vindicated in the just judgment which you have rendered. It is to be hoped, that before the time comes for us to assemble again, peace and prosperity will bless the Nation. Those Senators whom I expect to meet at our next annual session, have my best wishes for their return in health, after a pleasant and profitable interval; and those with whom this may prove a final parting, my kindest wishes for their future success, prosperity, and happiness. I now declare this Senate adjourned sine die. Approved. J. McM. SHAFTER, President pro tem. of the Senate Attest: THOMAS HILL, Secretary of Senate. |