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CONTENTS. ix
CHAPTER XIV.
CHINK8B, THE LABOR AGITATION, AND POLITICS.
1868-1877.
PAQB
Coming of the Mongolians—Not Welcome in California—Attitude of the
• Miners—Disgusting and Altogether Damnable—Long but Powerless
Legislation Against Them—Treaties and Commissions—Our Masters
of the Hod and Shovel—Kearneyism—Monopolists Denounced—
Sandlot Speeches—Riots and Arrests—Safety Committee—Labor
Organizations—The Workingmen's Party Becomes a Power—Decline
of Communisms-More Elections, Legislatures, and Kepresentatives 335
CHAPTER XV.
THE Ni:W CONSTITUTION.
1078-1879.
Proposed Constitut.onal Convention—Defects of tho Constitution of 1849
—Something Different Deaircd by the Free-and-easy Ruling Foreigners—Licence
Versus Liberty—Attitude of Kearney and His
Workingmen's Party—Acta of the Convention—Provisions of the
New Constitution—Bill of Rights—Legislature—Appropriations-
Divorces—Lotteries—Public Debts—Bribery—Executive—Judiciary
—Taxation—Corporations—Railways—Chinese—Education—Labor
—Municipalities—Adoption and Workings of the New Constitution-
Personnel of tho Convention 370
CHAPTER XVI.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
1879-1889.
Under the New Constitution—State Elections—San Francisco Charter
—Municipal Matters—Our Imported Rulers—Legislation under the
New Regime—Irrigation and Riparian Rights—An Elective Judiciary—Extra
Session of the Legislature—Party Issues—Grave
Questions—Contest for the Uuited State* Senatorship—Brief Period
of Quiet—California as a Type—Diiturbancc of the Public Mind—
Names of Counties—Finances—Fccbral Expenditures—Industrial
Enterprise—Immigration—New Era of Development 407