The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 3

_troduced by the TRUSTS' METHODS PARTLY EXPOSED Lexow Committee Continues I's Investigation of Monopolies. Operation of the Contract of the National Wall Paper Company. Masner in Which the United States Rubber Company’s Stock Was D:stributed NEW YORK, N. Y, e joint legis tiee appointed to investigate e of trusts and monopolies in N sumed its ses- sions this mc as 10:30 0 e Sy ped for order. Henry Burn, president of the National Wall-paper Company, Who Wwas on the W be session adjourned yester- day, was ced a copy of or the ‘“‘factors xow termed 1t. agents to han- the National Wall- reply to a question that his company had an th the iabor unions by which es worked eleven months of s ator T he agreement Lold through the 1 every one of our factories. said when the company ed it comprised twenty-four anies and seven competing fac- ries were left out. Ten factories were C n two years after the consoli- dation. This, the witness admitted, aused a decrease of 10 per centin the oved. The factories were closed t the rate of wages was not de- er consolidation except to make yrm. Thke company had abso- hing required the The witnesses said they em- cent more salesmen and okkeepers than before consolida- ces to the consumer had de- very ow here announced that p the United State: s affairs. The other I-paper business were excuse I thix afternoon les R. Flint was questioned about ution of the stock of the United States Rubber Company 1o the various panie: I want state, he said, that the United States Rubber Company has, asa corporation, no knowle the distribu- tion of ck by the bankers. [ know, however, that the stock was distributed assets and ccmmon stock for trademarks, patents,’”’ etc Mr. Fiint handed in the orig ori on whicli the distribution of schedule of values pany it. In repl essed that he had not n the ber shoes since lenied that r Company had vecuiators ate prices of goods 5! railronds, because mach. He aid not wise move the State to buy up all industriais and run a paternal form of at, and he saw > other way by whick e State could ilateprice he promoti $400,000 had been y that ng the $100,000 and Mr . Fiint object of the coi was 1o ¥ the natural la He red into a long as to ject of centralizatio us- The afternoon session was held in a city courtroom, the Alde where the ccmmitiee had be , being required for & ard of Aldermen, t 100k the 3tand. i to-da vears previo e said that were lower than for nine s zation of tne United States Rubber Company. He also stated that the price list was iower now than ever belore. How can the prices be lower when the prices you give are higher?” ‘Because the discoun higher before the organization of the c pany.” The explanation of the witness caused a lau Tnat means, does it not, that ther» was a greater profit to your orsanizat Mr. Flint dissented. He declined to admit that there was any agreement be- tween the United States Rubber Company and the bankers previous to September 6, 1892. An adjournment was taken until to- morrow. n?’ IN SEMATE AND 158 EMBLY. Zawmakers Entertained by the Press Club Quartet AMENTO, Can, Feb. 19.—The this passed D contracts of more than $5000 on public work, which was refused a third reading morring reconsidered and Voorheis’ bill permitting Mrs. Stanford to devise tate to the university was passed, as was al-o the county gov- ernment act. The Senate bill exempting the Stanford esiate from taxation was taken up and @iscussed for some time. The Senate at its afterncon session ap- proved ihe titie a cd by the As- rembly of thebili fixing the penalty for selling liquor to habiiual drunkards and Intians The discussion of Treacy’s Assembly bill fixing minimum wages on all works a day occupied the greater part of roon, and on motion of Gilleite a al committee was appointed to amend the bill 0 as to provide that the act should not apply to State, county or municipal institutions. The enacting clause of Dibble’s bill to U the exaction of pledges from can- es other than those required by the tective and amended. The gpecial committee appointed to in- ligate the sanitary condition of the tol building reported, proposing an amendment to the Doty biil appropriat- $2500 for renovaung and ventilating the building and taking the supervision of the work out of the hands of the Secretary of State and giving it to the Capitol Com- Assembly bill makin - the fiual decree of the court ageinst real estate as effective as deed and providing for the recording of :the same, and piving power and making 1t a dutv to commence actions against cor- Jorations violating their charier, were re- used passage. When the Senate convened to-night the San Francisco Press Ciub Quart t was in- Lieutenant-Governor. were making inferior goods. 10 jobbers was er’s bill for the segrezation of | charge of Police Matron Gray. nz convention was found (o be | | Thev rendered a sone and wers encored | twice. Wolie thea moved an adjournment | 10 aliow the Senators to atiend a minstrel | show, but the motion was defeatzc. | | | Assembly messages were then taken up, and the Senate receded from their amend- nents to the game law which protected the lark, and which was refused by the Senate. The Committee on Military Affairs were authorized to vroceed to San cisco to inspect ibe San Francisco National ‘ Guard. The second reading file was then tak and shortly thereaiter the Sen- ate adjourned until (0-moirow. At this morning’s ses3ion of the A-sem- ahan introduced a resoluiion | ordering all the committees which have bad bills over ten days to report forth- with. Lost s. Sue Porter-Carpenter, daughter of Commodore Porter, was made janitress of the cloakroom. Among the bills introduced were the otiowing: By Wricht—To provide for the estab- hment of public lights in samtary dis- ts. 3y Toland—To pay the claim of Met- fe avainst the State. | By the Committee on Retrenchment— | Relatine to the printing of reports by | Stare officers. By Treacy—Amending the act relating | to streets and sewers within municipal corporations. By Waymire—To provide for the correc- | tion of omissions and irregularities in the authorization, issuance, saie or transfer of bonds, etc., in irrigation distriets. By Treacy—Prohibiting all labor in | State_prisons where machinery of any | description is used. | . Cutter’s constitutional amendment abol- | ishing the Railroad Commission was lost. When the rock-crushinz bill reached the third reading file in the Assembly this | afternoon, Anderson moved that a special | committee be appointed to amend the biil | | le making the price of rock 40 cents to county” and municipal corporations, and | gi g 1t 10 rontractors ut the cost of pro- | duction, 20 per cent added. The motion was carried and the biil was so_amended and sent to be engrossed, 35 to 23. The following Senae bills were finally | passed: Granting power to Boards of Su- pervisors and City Councils 1o _condemn | land under tbe public domain act to | erect municipal buiidings; permitting the destruction of municipal bouds remaining unsold. | The seneral | duced by G Hardly appropriation bill intro- v was read for the first time. third of the membership attended to-night's session, and mere routine work and the reading of tue second file occupied the evening. Ordered kicrorted Back. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 19.—Em- mons of Kern this afternoon asked the Speaker to inforce an order made two | weeks ago to require the Committee on Morals to report back Emmons' bill 33. This bill probibits horseraces at certain seasons of the year and for more than thirty days in the summer in any one county. He saide tnat toe bill had been | calied a cinch bill and he knew that it was | looked upon with suspicion. For that | reason he made the motion, as he did not | wish to be held responsibie for the hiber- nation of his bill in the Committee on Morals. Ou motion of Dibble the committee was ordered to report the bill back next | Weanesday. —_— PASADENA HOTEL PROJECT. rominent Citizens Think of Establishing o Resort Superior to Any in | Southern California. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Feb. project of building a fine tourist hotel is | being quietly canvassed among prominent citizens of Pasadena. Sirong assurances of financial support buve slready been given, and it is velieved by those who have actively interested themselves in | terprise that there will be no difficulty in securing suflicient capital. The plan con- tempiates a hotel that shall be superior to any in Southern California. Necessarily, the rates will be high; but | sesson brings an increasing number of wealtby tourists, who demand accom- modutions superior to auything that is now afforded. A fine hotel, equipped with all the luxuries that this class of visitors expect and situated in an ai- tractive part of lovely Paadena, handsome grounds and surroundings, would give the city an_enviable reputa: tion throughout the East. It would, moreo’ , be more than a mere stopping- place en route to other resoris. Visitors would come for the season, as they 2o to the Fiagler hotels at St. Augustine, Fla. The one which seems to meet with the greatest favor 1s Mrs. Green's place, Car melita. Proiessor Lowe’s place on South Orange Grove avenue has also been sug- gested, but ivis thought to be too remote from the heart of the city. There can be n0 question thar Pasadena needs greater lotel accommodations. The Green is aiready well filled and most of the smaller stels” have little or no room to spare. Every day brings newcorers from the Ea-t, and many of them have goneon to Coronado because unable to find suitable the accommodations in “‘crown of valiey.” the | ror ASSAULL UPON Edwin F. Green, a Horse-Trainer, Ar- resind at Lox Angeles. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Feb. 19.—A Santa | Anx hor ner known as *‘Professor’ Eiwin F. Green was arrested here to-day on a caarge of assault upon a little girl. The complaint upon which Green was ar- rested was filed in Orange County and was made by his wife. The victim is Rubie Fitch, a girl between 12 and 13 years of uge. Her paren:s reside at The Neeales, her father being a swiich engineer at that | place. It iscluimed that the girl was liv- lug With the Greens, doing light work and attending school. Green, according to accoants mede public by his own wife, 15 of & low, depraved and vicious nature. The ci.ild was located on East Thirty- second street in this city and is now in Green leit Santa Ana Fricay lasi, leaving his wite A CHILD, -tra | and family desiiute. ' He was sccom- | panied by bis victim. | Mrs. Green says her husband has been | inumate with the girl for the past six montus. The accused is quitea sporty- | looking man and about 30 years of age. ~ | MURPHY " NCH SALE. Vatunble Property Ihat Will Shorily Be Open for Setctement. SAN JOSE, Cav, Feb. 19.—C. M. Woos- | ter of the real estate firm of Wooster & Whitton of this city wis scen by a Cary, | reporter to-day. He confirmed the report | which appeared in THE CALL of the sale of the J. T. Murphy ranch, near Templeton, | €an' Luis Obispo County. The land in- volved was 14.000 acres and the price { agreed upon $220,000. | "“Tne purcuaser is J. H. Henry, the weil- | known electric-railroad ‘man of this city, who made a thorough investigation of the |land last week in company with Mr. | Wooster. The rapid development of that | section, the richness of the soil and mla- the climate, togetber with ihe | ness of | prospect of south and east, all acted to influence Mr, Henry in his selection. The sale was made by Wooster & Whition, Easton, Eidridge & Co. having the contract on the land. Mr. Henry will develop the prop. erty and at the proper time open it for seitlement. RS Snowhalling at Santa C(rus, SANTA CRUZ, CAL, Feb. 19.—Santa Cruz streets presented a picturesque winter scene this morning. Pacific avenue par- ticularly was filled with parties snow- pailing each other. It began hailing ar 9:30 o’ clock and lasted jor twenty minutes, The rainfall for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o’clock this morning was.63 of an inch. 19.—The | the en- | with | soon having a through line | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1897 CLOSE CALL FOR THE COMMISSION Lively Discussion in the Assembly Over Cuiter's [ Resolution. Confidence in the Present Rail- road-Rate Fixers Is Express-d. So the Attemp: to Abolish the State Bo.rd Is Defeated by a C ose Vote. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Feb. 19.—There | was a lively discussion in the Assembly | to-day over Assembly concurrent resolu- | tion 23, introduced by Cutter of Yuba, to | abolish the Reilroad Commission. When it was reached on the file Toland made a vigorous speech againstit, He knew, he said, that the commission had been cuiarged with never baving accomplished | anything in the line of tueir duty for the benefit of the people, and there was prob- | ably much truth in the charge, but the people this time had Commissioners who ara standing by the interests of the peo- ple, and he believed that in the future it would be possible to get officers who may | do as well. They had met with great dii- ficuity in enforcing their action on ac- count of the action of the courts. While the commission nad not been altogether a success, the genilemen who upheld the resolution bad suggesied nothing better. The obstacles which stood in the way of | the people controlling the railroads had been met one by one ana gradually over- come, and it was but a matter of time when the solution of the problem wili be obtained. Cutter congratulated the gentleman from Ventura on the fact that his bump of hope was as large us it was. For seven- teen years that commission had existed, and 2il the benefit derived from it by the | State had been in the payment of $500,000 | for the support of the commission. Now they propose to come into this Legislature with a bill for $30,000, for a starter. Ex- verience had shown that the commission | was ornamental, not useful. The resolu- tion proposed to give to the people an op- | portunity to say whether that commission | should be continued or not. | I had supposed from his speech of ves- terday,” added Mr. Cutter, “that the gen- tleman was in favor of the referendum, but it seems that to-day he is mot. 1 would not submit to the people an amend- ment that I knew they would vote down by a larce majority, butitis my auty to aliow the people to vote for such an or- ganiclaw as they wish. I think that the people do desire to abolish this commis- Bridgford (Fusionist) eaid that the reso- | lution was a general proposition to take restraint from- the railroad com- That wouid be the result if the proposition were submitted to the people | and carried. Past experience had taught that it was absolutely necessary that there |should be some governin: body; some power that controlled. The State had at- temped to control the railroad company by a commission, and it was true that they had not been as successiul as had been hoped. He could show where the com- mission had done some good, and that was when the Ireight on wheut from Colusa by way of Knights Landing, re- shipped on boats to Valiejo, was $1 50, and | at the same time the freight irom Wood- land to Vallejo, a much shorter distance, wa- $3. | The commission regulated that condi tion of things, and the town of Woodland had profited largely by that action of the '| Railroad Commissioners. “Wiil the gentleman tell me,” asked Cutter, *how it is that if the Railroad | Commission cffected such a saving there they didn’t effect a like one in the valley | of the 8an Joaquin? Was it not some- | thing outside of the commission that had helped the San Joaquin Valley 2 Bridgford repiied that nothing could be regulated completely by law. Tnere were | laxs against murder and theft, but mur- | der and theit went on. | Caminetti, who_afterwara silently stole | away from the rollcall, remarked that the | commission was not responsible for the | decision of the courts. Oi late vears the | people had been bordering upon a Gov- ernment made by decisions of the United | States courts. “We have._ entered into a | Government by injunction,” he added, +'and that was ine trouble that could not be remedied under the constitution. The powers given to tne Railroad Com- mission were ample to meet the ue, but in past vears the majority of that power has never been willinz unul to-day to do their duty, which the people expected | them todo. Now that we bave a power willing to carry out the wishes of the people, we find that power enjoined by | the courts of the United States. Let us arm the commission with all the authority that we have a right to confer upon them. Then, and not until we have tried such legislation, will it be time to consider the question of abolishing the commission or not.” Cutter came 0 the front again. “The | gentieman has no evidence,” he said, | “that the people don’t want the com- mission, and now he refuses o allow the people to say whether they want them or not. He is in the same position he was in the State Printing Office matter.” “There nbas been no petition,” said Camiretti. Dennery failed to find a solitary argu- | ment against submitting the question to | the people. If they were to make their argument before the people, there might | be some justice in the statement. *If we | pass ibis amendment, it will not abolish | the commission. As the people have created this commission, they should be allowed to say whether it should be per- petuated or not.” Belshaw of Contra Costa said that it seemed 10 him from the argument that the people are in favor of atolishine the commission, and that the genilemen cn the other side are afraid to submit it to the people, for fear that they would ubol- ishit. The decision of Judge McKenna was that they were an illegal body and had no power. If that was so the com- mission should be abolished. Shanaban said that in times past he had voted 10 abolish the commission, because he believea that there was no hope to be | looked ior from that direction. It had co<t the people $350 000. That was a heavy tux and if no good could come out of it it oucht to be a ohished. *‘Now that we bave a commission thatis doinz its duty to the people it is no time to abolish it.”” So far as Judge McKenna’s decision was concerned 1t » ould be remembered that the Commissiv. rs appealed to the Su- preme Court of tue United States, Dibble said that up to this time he had always voted aguinst the abolition of ihe Raiiroad Commission and he propos-d to continue to do so. He believed that the management of railroad freights and fares could not be saf ly trusted to the Legisla- ture in a sixty days' session. It wasa matter that sbould receive the most care- fal consideration. The commission had worked well since the adoption of the new constitution up to the present time. If an amendment was to be sug:ested it should be to elect the Railroad Commis- sioners at laree throughout the Siate in- stead of by distriets as now. Valentine of Los Angeles said that he in favor of the amendment for the simple reason that he did not believe it was now or had ever been of auy prac- tical utility in_this State. For the seven- teen years during which period the people had been indulging in the luxury ot a commission which had not accomptished anything they had not undcrtaken to re- duce the rates of freights and fares in the San Josquin Valley. “There hzve been hundreds of thousands of instances,” continued Valentine, “‘where if they desired to carry ou: the purposes for which they were created they would be of vast benerit to this State, but they didn't do it and they would not bave attempted to do what they did had it not been because of the existence of a rivai railroad company—the Valley road. The opponents of the resolutions cannot show a single instance in which the Rai road Commiss oners have been success:ul in granting relief to the people.” Melick of Los Angeles while not in favor of abolishing the commission was in favor of submitting the amendment to the people. The commission was created when sandlot oratory was ablaze in the lana. Dryden made a long talk in favor of re- taining the ¢ mmission. “The Populist- show their utter incon- sistency by syeaking against the principal plank in t e plat.orm of their party—ihe reierendum,’’ said Cutter. Burnham said he wou'd vote to submit the resolution to the people. “If you can show any evidence,” said Cross, ‘“that the railroad company has ever been controiled by thisuseless, blood- sucking Rairoad Coinmission I should lixe to see it. The people in my part of the State are heartily sick of it.” The resolution was defeated by the fol- lowing vote: Ases—Anderson, nett, Burnham, mon, Denner Houghton, Hu! Bur- Arnerich, Belshaw, Cauavan, Cross, Cutter, unie. Fontana, Foremen, on, Keegan, Keuyon, Leavi Metleilun, McLaurin, Price, Sims, wlentine—26. Aldri Allen, Boone, Bridgeford, Cartwright, Chynoweth, Clark, Dibble, Dolan, Elliott, Emmons, Godirey, Jones, dsborough, 'Lendenberger, Mead, Mul® McCandis crevy, ) , Norih of Yoio, Power of Placer, Sahiford, Shanaharn, Toland, Treacy, Wuymire, Coom bs— Absent—Ausiin, beitman, Breiling, Cami- ne, Gately, Goodhue, Guy, Harris, Henry, Heables, Kelly, Lacy, Maboney, Malcolm, Mouttrie, North'of Alameda, Ponlman, Power of San Francisco, Robinson, Ryan, Soward, Stansell, Vosburg, Wrigni—24. ntand not votmg, Goffi—1. e FOR BIG APPROPRIATIONS. Guy Intends to Liberally Provide for State Institutions, SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 1 Guy of San Diego, just before recess this after- noon, presented the several appropriation bills. Among the principal items are the following: Otticers and clerks of the Sen- ate, $18,000; ofiicers and clerks of the Assembly, $21.000; contingent expenses of the Senate, $12,000; contingent expenses | of the Assembly, $17.000; postage and con- tingent expenses of the Supreme Court, $500; ditto for clerk of the Supreme Court, $300; expenses of the Supreme Court, $37,- | 000; contingent expenses of the Supreme Court Commissioners, $200; Governor's pecial contingent fund (secret service), $10,000; postage, expressage, telegraphing and contingent expenses of the Governor's office, §2000; rewards offered by the Gov- ernor, $5000; rewards offered for the | detection of illegal voting, $300; re- wards for the capture of highway robbers, $5000; expenses for arrests of criminals outside of the boundary of the Siate, $10,000; expert for Board of Exam- iners, §4000; traveling expenses of sait ex- pert, $1000; boring well in Siate Capito. | grounds, §5000; electric-light plant, $2500; care, etc., of grounds, $10,000; repairs 10 furnitare, etc., $7000; carpets, furnitare, etc., $3000; employes Capitoi grounds, $55.360; water for Capitol building, $1200 armory rent, $155,600; target practice, $8000; traveling expenses of officers of N. G. C. on detail duty, $4000. i iprort of the State Printinz Office, 75.000; school textbook department, §40,000; Stockton asyium. $351,000; Napa wsylum, $349,380; Mendocino ssylum, $153,300; Southern Californin Hospital for Insane and Inebriates, $173,862; Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum at Berkeley, $119,300; Home for Feebe-minded Cnil- dren, $147.762; Veterans’ Home at Yount- ville, $60,000; Home for the Adult Blind, $45,000; transportation of insane. $50,000; State prison at San Quentin, $300,000; Fol- som prison, $219,000; transporiation of prisoners to State prisons and children to Whaittier Scthool and Preston School of Industry and to Santa Clara State School, | $70.000;" support of Whittier School, §180,000; band instruments for Whittier School, $500; books for library, $500; re- plac ng worn-out furniture at’ Whittier, $10,000. Preston School of Industry, $112,500; Santa Clara State School, $35,000; San Jose Normal School, §90,000; Librarv, museum, etc., same, )0; care of grounds, ditto, School, $90,500; 500; Los Augelés Normal library, museum, scien- tific purpose for same, $2500; care of grounds, $2000; Chico Normal School, 000; library, museum, etc., $1000} zrounds, §2000; salary of assistants and contingent burean of labor; $7500. Department of Viticulture State Univer- sity $5000; forestry stations, $5000; resto- ration and_preservation of vame, $5000; ditto fish, $500; batcheries, $15.000; costs for prosecuting violation of game laws, 2000; mining bureau, $25,000; official ad- vertising, $3000; traveling expenses State Board of lucation, $500: State burial grounds, $200; pure’ wines labels, $200; interest on $100,000 of Hastings College of Law, $4,000; rent of rooms for same, $2400; State Agricultural Society, $40,000; iotal appropriation, exclusive of agricui: tural associations and other items to be settied by the Assembly, $9,606,102 66. —_—— TO COVER 4 DEFICIENCY. The Bill Appropriating $20,000 for an Awylum Huny Uy, SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 19.—While the Assembly strained itself almost to the point of disraption over a matter of $4000 in connection with the pay of temporary attaches, it swalowed without an appa- rent effort & bill improperly appropriating $20,000 for the insane asylum at San Ber- nardino, known ss Assembly bill 108. As<emblyman Goff was the father of the | measure whica bears “the titie, “An act making an appropriation to pay for the support of the Southern Caiifornia State Asylum for the Insane and Inebriates for the remainder of the forty-eighth fiscal year.” This fiscal year ends June 30, 1897. Nothing amiss was noticed in relation to the bill until it had passed the Assem- bt as sent 1o the SBenate and there re- ferred 1o the Committee on Finance. Here attention was attracted to the fact that the $20.000 asked for was a deficiency, and tnat it had not been submitted to the Board of Examiners and approved by that body, as required by law. The resultis that the Senate Finance Committee has decided 1o ‘“bang up” the bill, which means that it wili not again see daylight in its present shape. Assemblyman Goff claims that the ap- propriation is not for a deficiency as co templkted by law, as the institution on whose behalf it is asked still has iunds on hand, but not enough to carry it to the end of the present fiscal year. ‘The situation is tie same, in fact, that confronted the State Printing Office when he bill appropriating $75,000 for that establishment threw its first disturbing rays into the Assembly chamber. Goff. however, clzims tnat the law governing the Ftate Printing Office and other State insiiiutions 1s not the same. As the matler now stands his opinion is at variance with that of the Finance Com- mittee, with the legislative machinery under ‘control of the latter. Interesting developments may iollow, in the course of which the management of the San Ber- nardino Asylum may be called upon to explain the cause of this great deficiency. { | 10 _encourage such | $20 000,000 MBS, STANFORD'S WAY MADE EASIER Now the Noble Woman Can Leave Her Estate to the University. Legal Obstructions to the Course Proposed Removed by the Legislature. Passage of the First of the Three Bills in the Interests of the Palo Alto Institution SACRAMENTO, CarL., Feb. 19.—Stan- ford University held the fioor of the Sen- ate this morning. The programme of the friends of the university was to secure the passage of three bills in the interest of that institution. clear the way of legal obstructions, so that Mrs. Jane Stanford can leave the whole of her estate to the university bearing the title of her deceased son. The second was to exempt the $20,000,000 en- dowment to the institution from taxation and the third was to apportion the loss thus sustained to the State and to the counties in whici the property included in the endowment 1s located among all the counties of the State. President David Starr Jordan has been here for several days in the interest of these measures. The first of these measures passed with Iittie opposi ion, the second went over as unfinished business until Tuesday after an interesting and somewhat heated de- bate, while the third was not reached on the file. Voorheis’ Sevate bill 273 brought the matter on the boards. Tuis provides for amending the Civil Code relative to re- strictions on the power of devise to char- itable use: Under the existing law only a third of an estate can be bequeathed to this use. The amendment provides that devises to educational institutions in this State in which tuition is free and equally open toall and without seciarian bias or control shall be excepted from the opera- tion of the existing law. provided there is no surviving husband or wife or lineal descendants of the testator. The object of the measure is to permit Mrs. Jane Stanford, who has no lineal de- scendants, to bequeath all of her property to the Stanford University, which, 1t was explained by Senator Voorheis, she pur- poses doing. The bill passed, with but little debate, by a vote of 32 noes. Next in order on the third reading file was another measure fathered by Voor- beis, known as Senate bill 274, and entitled An act to establish as public schools technical schools endowed by pr vate gift, coming within certain requirements, and eniowments.” The object of the bill, Senator Voorheis ex- plained, was to exempt the Stanford University from taxation, and thus save %o that institution the sum of $30,000 a year, which might be applied to educa- tional purposes. Braunhart made an indirect attack on the measure by moving to strike out the words “without sectarian bias or conirol.” The resuit of the adoption of the amend- ment wouid have been the exemption of all sectarian institutions in whica tuition is free, from taxation. Morehouse made a forcible argument against the adoption of the amendment. He pointed out that Stanford University stood alone of its kind in the State; that its benefits accrued to the whole people of the State; that it was a public institution in all respects, except that it was osten- sibly under the control of a generous- minded and public-spirited woman, the widow of a man who had set aside for the creation and main- tenance of a great educational institution for the ben-fit of the youth of California. He thought it was a small thing to ask of the State exemption frem the payment of $30,000 8 year, which sum wouid be ap- plied to the education of the 1500 students now attending that universi He added that the State was contributing nothing | to the institution. It was only a question of time, he concluded, wheu the entire property of the university as well as that of Mrs. Stanford would fall to the State. For these reasons he saw no reason for any opposition to the bill or for the adop- tion of the amendment. The amendmeut wis defeated. Gillette attacked the bill on the ground that 1t was unconstiiutional. He quot d irom the code to show that public schools were those that were supported by the | State by means of taxation, und that must be under State control. H:s opposition was also due to tbe fact that the Vina ranch, part of the Stanford University | endowment, was located in Tehama County, and that this b.ll would deprive the county of $12,000 each year now col- lected as taxes oi this property. He was aware, he said, that it was proposed to apportion this loss among all the counties of the State, but he did not think it fair to make other counties contribute to the loss any one county mizht sustain by the withdrawal of taxable property through the bill under aiscussion. Jones opvosed the meoasure for the reason, he stated, that 1t would impose additional taxation on all the counties of the State to the exteut of the amount that would be lost by exempting the Stan- ford University. During the afternoon session the further consideration of the subject was deferred, | | as several of the Senators who desired to participate in the debate and to vote on the bills would not be present again until Tuesday. Seuator Dwyer, who voted in favor of Senate bill 273, gave notice of recons dera- tion on the suggestion of Senator Wolle, who was absent when the vote on it was taken and who desires to speak against the measure on sectarian grounds. This bill, like the one remaining as un- finished business, applies only to institu- tions “‘without sectarian bias or control,” and Wolfe proposes to move to <trike out the clause of limitation so &s to bring sec- tarian schools under the operation of the proposed law, Wolie's attitude may lead to some exciting debate on religious lines. Among those who have already an- nounced their intention to participate in the debate are Senators Morchouse, Simp- son, Smith and Stratton, all able speak- ers and good fighters. st FIS JORNSTON'S STATEMENT. The State Printer *aplains the Condi- | Grear American Tuportine Tex Co. | MONEY SAVING STORES: th Street. 218 Third Street. 2008 Fillmore Street. 965 Market Street. 3006 Sixteenth Street. tion of Bis Office. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 19.—In ac- cordence with the programme agreea upon yesterday at the conference between the Governor and the Siate Printer, the latter sent the following communication to the State Board of Examiners to-day: SaCRAMENTO, Feb. 19, 1887, To the Honoreble State Board of Examiners— GENTLEMEN: Idesire to pre<ent for your con- sideration the foilowing fact<: Oa July 1, 1896, there was availabie in the State Treasury for the support and muintenance oi the State Printing Office for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1896, and ending June 30, 1897, the total sum of $103,999 41.5 The Legisiature of the State of Calitornia met in Sacramento on the 4ih day of January, 1897. Prior to that time for work that hed been ordered through the regular channels, One of these was to| | sour nonorable bods atiowed claims aggrégat- n ,231 That left in the fund ava sbe for'the support of the printing off the baiance of the year the sum of $12,767 58 In this connection” it ght to be stated that ! the sum of about $1000 was expended on | claims allowed by your honorab.e body in reparation for the Legisiaiure. Since the Legisl#ture convened the State Printing Office has printed bilis ths have been introluced, as provided by the constitution and ott work as ordered by the Legisiature and State officers, the total amonntof elaims for which 1S (o sum of about ¥3%,000, Your honarable body has allowed, since the bezi ng of this vear, cla:ms aggregating | $11, 40, which leaves in the treasury for he s of (he State Printing Office the sim of 54278, T s di | estimate the amount that will be required’ to | be expended for the necessary usesof the | Legisiature, but I will say, however, for your | | information, that the amount expended’ for | this purpose two years ago was the sum of | 78,000, und 1 presime 1t will be fair to estl- mate that a like amount will be necessary this year. possible, to esthua 758 the amouni of money that will bo required o supply the demands of the Siato nstitntions and officers for the mainder of this fisca year. 1f | could now te in aavence whet th make aD apDroximately sccuraie estimate. It would be fair to estimate under normal circumsiances, that the demands upon this office for this purpose for the balance of the year would be £15,000, but it will probably be greater than this sum, because all the depart- menis and sending e their orders, knowing thet I am | unabie’ to 1l them, not only from lack of | funds, but aiso the demands made upon me by the Législature are sogreat that 1 can attend 10 nothing else, and it will be fair to estimate, therefore, that the demands will approximate $15,000. I order to carry on the work required by | the Legislature it will be necessary to have an additional appropriation of $75,000, and in | order to run the State Printing Office so as to do the work required by re other depart- ments of the Government uniil the first day of July, 1897, At'the beginning of the session of this Legis- lature there was no deficiency, and the Legis- lature undertook to provide additional appro- priations, which, for reasons known to you, have not become laws. There are now pending in the Legislature two bills, known respectively as Assembly bills 863 and 864, meking appropriations of money for the purposes described. 1 respect.ully your honorable bod . sk you to give them alt, if not impossible, to | Respectiully, lioms would bel could | year. Very respect E: P, institutions are refrainiug irom | place these matters before | your careful attention,to authorize the creation of indebtedness for the purposes 1 have men- tioned, and to take such other steps as it may be your duty or provinceto do in the premises. I desire o state to you that it is absoluiely ary that the appropriatons named should be made in order taat the State Print- ing Offic- may be carried on and the work desired may be performed. For your information I attach to this state- menta certificate from the State Controller showing the condition of the Controller's books and showing the baiance on hand to the credit of the State Printing Office for ifs sup- port and maintenance, and also & statement ot the ageregate amount of claims that bave Dbeen allowed against that fund on claims audited and ailowed by your honorable body. A.J. JOHNSTON, Superintendent State Printing Office. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 19, 1897. le State Board of Ezaminers— 1 hereby certily that the balance OPTIALION fOT SUDPOTL Of State printing July 1, 1896, was %103,999 41, To_the Honoral GENTLEMEN: of app available It wiil be cqually daifficuit, if not im- | against which warrants for claims, approved b" your honorable hoard, sggregating $102,- 757 23 nave been drawn, leaving the sum of 1242 18 now availablé for support of State printing for remainder of forty-eightn fiscal yourobedientservant, 5AN, State Controller. STATE Juy 1. 1896, balance available. .. .....$103,999 41 February 19, 1897, warrants drawn... 102,757 23 Baiance availabl $1.242 18 This, it is believed, will put an end to all further controversy in connection with the State Printing Office, and will give tbat establishment all the funds it re- | quires to the end of the fiscal year and to | pay the back wa-es that have gone un- ‘ liquidated for four week: e ‘49 ER DEAD, ‘ CALIFORNIA Pioneer Dies in the rast, and Leaves a Fortune of $200,000. NEWBURGH, N. Y., Feb. 19.—William | Wait died here to-day, aged 78 years. He was one of the California '49ers. | Afterward he invested his money in | lands in Chicago and Lincoln, Nebr., and | leaves a fortune estimated at $200,000. A parcel of bonds and securities amount- ing to $100,000 was found in his room after | bis death. He was unmarried. - TEA, - SHIC Cts PURCHASE TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES, Any of Following FREE Articles : 3 Plates, Decorated. White Cups and Saucers, Plate Set, Decorated. 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