Senate Bill No. 83-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March 12, 1872, by amending section three thousand two hundred and forty-five, relating to eight hours being a legal day's work.

MOTIONS.

Senator Carpenter moved that as this day at two o'clock P. M. was the time set for the consideration of the appointments made by the Governor, that the nominations be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

So ordered.

Senator Goucher moved that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to investigate and report upon the question as to whether the Governor has power to withdraw names sent to the Senate by his predecessor for confirmation before the Senate has acted thereon, and that the Chairman of said committee secure and report the Attorney-General's opinion upon the same question.

So ordered.

ADJOURNMENT.

Senator Fraser moved to adjourn.

Roll call demanded by Senators McGowan, Goucher, and Berry.
The roll was called, with the following result:

AYES-Messrs. Bailey, Banks, Britt, Broderick, Byrnes, Campbell of Solano, Campbell of Siskiyou, Carpenter, Crandall, Dargie, De Long, Denison, Dray, Everett, Fraser, Hamill, Heacock, Maher, McComas, Mead, Ragsdale, Shippee, Simpson, Sprague, Streeter, Voorhies, and Williams (Geo. H.)-27.

NOES-Messrs. Berry, Goucher, Harp, McGowan, Ostrom, Seawell, Welch, Williams (Wm. H.), and Wilson-9.

Whereupon, at twelve o'clock M., the President declared the Senate adjourned.

IN SENATE.

SENATE CHAMBER,

Wednesday, January 21, 1891.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
President pro tem. Fraser in the chair.
Roll called, and the following Senators answered to their names:

Messrs. Bailey, Banks, Berry, Broderick, Byrnes, Campbell of Solano, Campbell of Siskiyou, Carpenter, Crandall, Dargie, De Long, Denison, Dray, Everett, Flint, Fraser, Goucher, Hamill, Harp, Heacock, Langford, Mahoney, McComas, McGowan, Mead, Ostrom, Preston, Ragsdale, Seawell, Shippee, Simpson, Streeter, Voorhies, Welch, Williams (Wm. H.), Williams (Geo. H.), and Wilson.

Quorum present.

PRAYER.

Prayer by the Rev. A. C. Herrick.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS (OUT OF ORDER).

Senator De Long requested, and he was granted the privilege of introducing a number of deficiency bills, so that they might be referred to the proper committees.

By Senator De Long (at the request of State Board of Examiners): Senate Bill No. 303-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for stationery, supplies, fuel, and lights for Legislature and State officers for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 304-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for costs and expenses of suits in which the State is a party in interest, for the forty-first fiscal year. Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 305-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for payment of costs and expenses of trials of persons violating the laws for preservation of fish, for the thirty-ninth, fortieth, and forty-first fiscal years.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 306-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for payment of costs and expenses of trials of persons violating the laws for preservation of fish, for the forty-second fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 307-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for arrest of criminals without the limits of the State, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 308-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for repairs to the State Capitol building and furniture, for the forty-first fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 309-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for repairs to the State Capitol and furniture, for the forty-second fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 310-An act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for postage, expressage, and contingent expenses of Attorney-General, for the fortieth fiscal year. Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 311-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for postage and expressage of the Supreme Court, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 312-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the improvement of the State Capitol grounds, for the forty-second fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 313-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for construction of granite steps in State Capitol grounds, for the forty-first and forty-second fiscal years. Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 314-An Act making an appropriation to pay

the deficiency in the appropriation for salary of Commissioner of Bureau of State Statistics, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 315-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for salary of Deputy Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 316-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for salary of Secretary of State Engineer, for the fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second fiscal years. Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 317-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the Insane Asylum at Stockton, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 318-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for payment of claims incurred in an Act entitled "An Act to promote drainage," approved April 23, 1880. Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 319-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for fuel, lights, postage, and incidental expenses of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, for the fortieth fiscal year.

Referred to Committe on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 320-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for use of library at State Normal School at San José, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 321-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for use of the State Board of Forestry, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 322-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase of ballot paper, for the forty-second fiscal year.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

Also: Senate Bill No. 323-An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses of Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics, for fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second fiscal years.

Referred to Committee on Finance.

READING OF JOURNAL.

Journal of yesterday read, corrected, and approved.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

The following reports from standing committees were read:

ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS OTHER THAN PRISON BUILDINGS.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 20, 1891.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Public Buildings other than Prison Buildings, to whom was referred the following resolution, viz.:

Resolved, That the Senate Committee on Public Buildings be and said committee is hereby instructed to consider, and report to the Senate within ten days after the adoption of this resolution, upon the advisability of materially reducing the number of Boards, Commissions, Trustees, and other public officers heretofore created by legisla tive enactment, and now discharging duties and trusts under the State Government, and said committee is further instructed to report to the Senate within the time herein before specified the names of such Boards, Commissions, Trustees, and other officers as may be either abolished or consolidated without injury to the State.

Have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, on the ground that said resolution, in the opinion of the committee, was improperly or inadvertently referred to them for their consideration.

BANKS, Chairman.

Report adopted, and resolution referred to Committee on Finance.

ON EDUCATION AND PUBLIC MORALS.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 20, 1891. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Education and Public Morals, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 45. Also: Senate Bill No. 154.

Also: Senate Bill No. 113-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back and recommend that they do pass.

ON HOSPITALS.

DENISON, Chairman.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 21, 1891. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Hospitals, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 84-An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons in the State of California-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass.

ON FINANCE.

SIMPSON, Chairman.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 21, 1891.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Finance, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 41-An Act to amend section four thousand one hundred and sixty-one of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March 12, 1872, relating to depositing public funds-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass as amended.

Also: Senate Bill No. 72-An Act regulating the form of requisitions for stationery made by the members of the Legislature, and the officers and employés thereof, upon the Secretary of State-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass.

Also: Senate Bill No. 91-An Act to provide for the issuance and sale of State bonds to create a fund for the construction and furnishing, by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners, of a general ferry and passenger depot in the city and county of San Francisco; to create a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds, and providing for the submission of this Act to a vote of the people-have had the same under consideration, and report the same back, and recommend that it do pass.

Also: Senate Bill No. 64-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Claims.

DE LONG, Chairman.

There being objection, Senate Bill No. 64 was referred to the Committee. on Claims.

On motion of Senator De Long, Senate Bill No. 41 was ordered printed as amended.

ON COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 20, 1891. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Commerce and Navigation, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 9-An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the repairs upon the quarantine launch “Governor Perkins"-have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass.

MAHONEY, Chairman.

ON CORPORATIONS.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 21, 1891.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Corporations, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 121-An Act authorizing the formation of county mutual insurance companies, regulating the transaction of their business, and defining the duties of the officers thereofhave had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass.

CARPENTER, Chairman.

MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY.

The following message from the Assembly was read:

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 19, 1891.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on this day, passed Assembly Bill No. 20—An Act to amend section four hundred and eight of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 54-An Act to amend section eight hundred and forty-nine of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the service of summons in actions in Justice's Courts.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 56-An Act to amend section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Civil Code of the State of California, relative to actions in divorce cases.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 132-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to certain deputies, assistants, and copyists of County Clerks," approved April 2, 1880. Also: Assembly Bill No. 52-An Act to amend sections fifty-eight and seven hundred and ninety-two of the Political Code, so as to authorize the appointment of women as Notaries Public.

Also: Assembly Bill No. 53-An Act to amend section two thousand and twenty-four of the Code of Civil Procedure, relative to the manner of taking depositions out of the State. H. A. MASON, Clerk.

Referred to Judiciary Committee.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

The following bills were introduced, read by title, and referred to committees, as follows:

By Senator W. H. Williams: Senate Bill No. 324-An Act to create a State Board of Funeral Directors, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the practice of undertaking and funeral direction, and to more effectually protect the people against contagious diseases. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

By Senator Harp: Senate Bill No. 325-An Act to provide for the redemption of property which has been heretofore sold to irrigation districts for delinquent assessments.

Referred to Committee on Irrigation.

By Senator Voorhies: Senate Bill No. 326-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for compiling, illustrating, electrotyping, printing, binding, copyrighting, and distributing certain books of a State series of school text-books, and appropriating money therefor," approved March 15, 1887.

Referred to Committee on Education and Public Morals.

By Senator Dargie: Senate Bill No. 327-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Civil Procedure," approved March 11, 1872, and to add a new section thereto, to be known as section one thousand eight hundred and ten, relating to the power of guardians to settle and compromise claims against the estates of their wards.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.