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This Project Gutenberg Etext Prepared by David Schwan

Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
by Franklin Hichborn

The well-being of the State requires that the opponents to the machine
in Senate and Assembly, regardless of party label, organize the
Legislature. But back of this is the even more important requirement
that there be elected to the Legislature American citizens, with the
responsibility of their citizenship upon them, rather than partisans,
burdened, until their good purposes are made negative, by the
responsibility of their partisanship.

San Francisco Press of The James H. Barry Company 1909

CONTENTS

Chapter
I. Breaking Ground II. Organization of the Senate III. Organization of
the Assembly IV. The Machine in Control V. Election of United States
Senator VI. The Anti-Racetrack Gambling Bill VII. Passage of the
Anti-Racetrack Gambling Bill VIII. The Direct Primary Bill IX. The
Machine Defeated in the Senate X. Fight Over the Assembly
Amendments XI. Machine Amends Direct Primary Bill XII. The
Railroad Regulation Issue XIII. Machine Defeats the Stetson Bill XIV.
Railroad Measures XV. Defeat of the Commonwealth Club Bills XVI.
How the Change of Venue Bill Was Passed XVII. Passage of the
Wheelan Bills XVIII. Defeat of the Local Option Bill XIX. Defeat of
the Initiative Amendment XX. Defeat of the Anti-Japanese Bills XXI.
The Rule Against Lobbying XXII. The Machine Lobbyist at Work
XXIII Influence of the San Francisco Delegation XXIV. Attacks on and
Defense of the Fish Commission XXV. The Rewarding of the Faithful
XXVI. The Holdover Senators XXVII. The Retiring Senators XXVIII.
Conclusion Appendix Tables of Votes Postal Direct Primary Dr.
Montgomery's Report The Anti-Japanese Resolution

PREFACE.
In writing the Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909,
the purpose has been, not only to show what was done at Sacramento
last Winter, but, what is by far more important, how it was done. To
this end, the several measures are divided under three heads, namely,
those dealing with moral, with political and with industrial issues.
Instead of scattering on all the measures introduced, or even a
considerable part of them, the principal issue of each group, that which
meant the