Whole number of votes cast, one hundred and one. Neither candidate having received a sufficient number of votes cast to elect, the convention proceeded to another ballot, with the following reresult: Whole number of votes cast, one hundred and one. Mr. II. S. Foushee, having received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared by the President pro tem. duly elected Trustee of the State Reform School. The objects for which the convention convened having been accomplished, the convention adjourned, and the Senate returned to its Cham ber. IN SENATE. President pro tem. in the Chair. Roll called. Quorum present. Mr. Redman, Chairman of the Senate Committee of Free Conference, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT:-The Committee of Free Conference, appointed by the Senate and Assembly, to consider Senate Bill, No. 310, An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County to subscribe to the Capital Stock of the San Francisco and San José Railroad Company, for the purpose of adjusting the differences between the two Houses, recommend that the Assembly recede from its amendments, and that the bill be amended as follows: Amend section three by striking out of the second line thereof the words "two-thirds," and insert in lieu thereof, the words "three-fifths." R. A. REDMAN, Ch'n Senate Committee. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Mr. Leet, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to provide for a Convention to Revise and Change the Constitution of the State of California. Read first and second times, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Logan, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act appropriating Money to complete certain Wells on the Colorado Desert. Read first and second times. Mr. Sharp moved to suspend the rules, and consider the bill now. The bill was then placed on file. Mr. Wheeler moved that the Senate do now adjourn. Upon which the ayes and noes were demanded, by Messrs. Vance, Bradley, and Denver, and taken with the following result: Ayes, 19noes, 12: AYES-Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Chase, Crittenden, Dent, Dickinson, Franklin, Kirkpatrick, Lansing, Leet, McDonald, Merritt, O'Farrell, Parker, Parks, Peachy, Phelps, Watkins, and Wheeler-19. NOES-Messrs. Ballou, Clark, De la Guerra, Denver, Eagon, Haynes, Logan, Pico, Redman, Ryan, Sharp, and Vance-12. Journal of yesterday read and approved. On motion of Mr. Bradley, the papers in the claim of W. A. Cornwall, was re-referred to the Committee on Claims. INTRODUCTION OF BILL'S. Mr. Logan, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act for the Payment of certain Deficiencies. Read first and second times. On motion of Mr. Logan, the rules were suspended, and the bill consid ered in Committee of the Whole. IN SENATE. On motion of Mr. Logan, the rules were further suspended, the bill considerered engrossed, read a third time and passed, and the bill transmitted to the Assembly. Mr. Clark, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Appointment of a Reporter of the Supreme Court, and to define his Duties and Compensation," passed April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. Read first and second times, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Chase, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act for the Relief of G. W. Whitman. Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. O'Farrell, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act relative to the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County. Read first and second times. On motion of Mr. O'Farrell, the rules were suspended, and the bill considered in Committee of the Whole. IN SENATE. On motion of Mr. O'Farrell, the rules were further suspended, the bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed, and the bill transmitted to the Assembly. Mr. Ballou, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to authorize the Sale of a portion of the Real Estate of the late James Williams, deceased. Read first and second times. On motion of Mr. Ballou, the rules were suspended, and the bill considered in Committee of the Whole. IN SENATE. On motion of Mr. Ballou, the rules were further suspended, the bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed, and the bill transmitted to the Assembly. REPORTS. Mr. Lansing, Chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT:-Your Committee on Contingent Expenses, to whom were referred certain accounts herein set forth, have examined the same, and recommend the payment thereof, out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate. |