The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1899, Page 2

[ THE SAN NDAY, FEBRUARY 19, ' 1899. e e ————————————————————— e ——— BURNS FORCES GIVE EVIDENCE OF WEAKENING A Break From Corral Expected Early in the Coming ONLY A FEW DAYS OF GRACE Herrin and the Southern Pacific Ready to Drop the Mexican for Some Can- didate Who Can Be Elected. h eight v f Ver changed from oxeitement r as it was not lercurrent of com- icérning the signs of ning -in the Burns line. .The t'break from Burns may occur early S e |at Grant’s headquarters that the Candelaria Week. | several times, was going to stating positively join the Grant for believed the statements. Grant, however, was not so credulous, and expressed hi doubts as to the sincerity of the Sena- tor. Cutter instantly responded: “Do | vou think Senator Simpson would lie (U‘l me?” Grant did not answer. He pre- | ferred to refer the matter to Simpson and allow the Senator to answer for | h 1f. Cutter has the answer now. Grant is fully advised of the efforts on the part of the Candelaria agents to break into his fold and during the past week has acquired some information of an important character. Burns in his desperation is D e R SR S e o e R e o R iR i S I RO SECHR S B SE S0 S B SR W r 0 S S S0 N SO Tl S T o A e Seancie = THE GOOD BEAST DRAWS T wéek: The -shrewdest politicians ) around assert that the break is fnevitable and cannot- be long delayed. 5 not sure proposition that Burns Will be wble :to*hold' Beecher and Jilson, and.it has:been known for some days thatthere dre serfous complaints in the San. Francisco. burich. of Burns sup- port Promises and wise looks will nof :éourit much longer. The boast that Dan-ean:snap-his fingers and bring to the: carral six- 1 from the Barnes camp- and five: froin thé Bulla follow- ing is discounted.. The discreditable manner in which pooriold Simpson was dragied out singl vinces the touts who- kribw “something without being ‘o light -that Beecher was to vote for Burns by George 1t is presumed that the rail- ked the influence of years ago. Stanford ere -nterested in the At railroad headquart- regarded-as a safe and n: who -wields great in- haste County. In order to i into’ the Burns corral Dr. s sent for. The story goes -Lindley advised that the sheep business, A pl people ekpect to gain four ek, but no surprise would if they lost Merrill g seems to disturb Grant. He is surely. the most remarkable figure in this struggle, He can give Burns points when it comes to-coolness and uncon- cern when qthers are excited and anx- jous: Grant néver has a harsh thing to say of any man who Igaves his camp. He assumes that good reasons for go- ing were shown, and that in due time the. wanderer may return to the fold. He s not easily deceived either. Afler Simpson of Pasadena had been winning strength. torial contest one of Grant’s advisers laid a wager that Burns would never get more than thirty-two Republican was scarcely a and there were almost as many pairs as votes. and Grant a tie, with 27 yotes ?\‘lxl\amrh\l contest when the ul await Monday to see how the tally sheet signed to destro; | San Francisco s | killed with no delay. Committee on and as soon as pointed out the bill was so amended by | the committee as to eliminate the objec- | tionable features. | teachers for the ensuing school ure to comply with th continue the teachers their positions yea declining to_be continued in said tions, or City tively, to appoint teachers to fill said po- ,rting to methods that | sitions for the ensuing school year. They O e e e S e g B ot ok S Sl e o o ol e e e i @4—@—*@—«0%«@&—@. Early in the Sena- votes. To-night the man who proposed the bet expressed the opimion that he would win. GREENWELL VOTES FOR BARD. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—As The Call announced this morning, Assemblyman C. B. Green- well of Ventura changed his vote from Ulysses 8. Grant to Thomas R. Bard, the Ventura olive grower and statesman, in the joint ballot for United States Sen- ator to-day. No other change was recorded. There uorum in either house, Mr. Greenwell's defection leaves Burns ch, in the poll their legislators strength, and anxious [P R e 2 ROSENFELD .’ JETER RETAIN THEIR POSITIONS HEADQUARTERS, SACRA CALL MENTO, Feb. 18.—The little joker that tucked aw in Assembly bill 639, de- the tenure in office of hool teachers, has been The committee that arrived here last | night, composed of C. H. Murphy and W. | . Kingsbur: met with the Assembly Sducation this morni he section in the bill The section that was eliminated reads | as follows: “Provided, That on or before the twenti- eth day of June, of any year, the Board of School Trustees, or City Board of Edy- ation, shall meet and by ballot elect vear. Fail- {s provision last employed in for the ensuing school and in the event of said teachers pos it_shall be the duty of the (‘n‘umy Superintendent of Schools, respec- {TO MEET STATE DEMANDS | MENTO, Feb. 18.—Governor Gage sent GOVERNOR ASKS AUTHORITY T0 TRANSFER FUNDS Peculiar .Message to the Legislature. EXISTING STATUTES GIVE HIM FULL POWER TO ACT. What He Wants Authorization to Do Has Been.Done Every Year and Almost Every Month. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- a message to the Legislature ; to-day asking for authorization to direct the Controller to transfer $400,000 from other funds to the general fund, to meet a deficiency that will occur between the end of the present fiscal year to next December, when the next install- ment of State taxes becomes avaliable. There is some speculation as to the Governor's purpose in asking for this authorization, as it is well known that he has the power under existing stat- utes to transfer money from one fund to another to meet temporary demands. Having already warrant of law, it seems unnecessary for him to ask for what he already has. “Under existing statutes,” sald Con- troller Colgan, to-night, “the Governor | has the power to direct me to transfer money from one fund to another. This has been done and is being done every vear and almost every month.” ment for five months from July 1 to November 30, 1899, may be placed at $280,000 per month, or $1,400,000. De- @ucting from this the sum of $370.888 91, on hand July 1, and there will be the usual deficiency of $1,029,181 09. It is to secure money to meet the de- mands on the State during the five months beginning July 1 that it be- comes necessary to temporarjly trans- fer money to the genergl fund. In De- cember, When tax money js available, this money will be returned to the fund from which it was taken. Pursuant to the suggestion made by Governor Gage in his message, the Ways and Means Committee of the As- sembly introduced a bill which directs the Controller to inform both the execu- tive and Treasurer as soon as a defi- clency appears in any of the State funds, and the Governor is authorized to cause to be transferred money from other funds to the one depleted, pro- viding that such money shall be re- placed as soon as the next settlements are made. The Governor’s message is as follows: i To the Assembly of thé State of Cali- yimNKS THE NEW CHARTER fornia: 1 have the honor to call the attention of your honorable body to the State's finances. | The condition of the treasury is such that if everything be paid which the gen- eral fund is chargeable with (even if not a single dollar be appropriated by your honorable body at this session of the Leg- islature) still at the end of his fiscal year there will be the enormous deficiency in the general fund of about $900,000. T most respectfully direct your attention to this condition of the finances, in order to correct the delusive statements which have been put abroad in reference to the plethoric condition of our ‘treasury; and | most respectfully urge upon you the great necessity for economy, and that you make only such appropriations as are of the most urgent character; and such appro- priations should be made payable only, S0 far as possible. on and after the 1st day of January, 1990, at which time there | wiil be an additional installment of State; t axes. If there be transferred, at the proper | time, to the general fund from —other | funds, $400,000, then, in view of the fact| that Some of the existing demands may | not_be presented, I think it safe to pro- | ceed on the basis that, with the transfer of $400,000, we will have sufficient money with which to meet and manage our financial _liabilities until the incoming taxes of January next. | 1 therefore respectfully request your | honorable body to pass an act directly au- | thorizing for and during this year, when in his opinion the nece sity arises, to order the Controller to di- | Tect the transfer of $400,000 from other | funds to the general fund: but this amount so transferred shall be returned | to the fund or funds from which it be transferred as soon as there is sufficient | money in the general fund. While I am decidedly opposed as a gen- eral proposition to this transfer of funds, T am confronted by a condition, for which ihis administration is in no responsi- ble; and I trust that our finances may be B N S e R e S i S 2 e i e o e S i e i o e 0—@—0—@4—&»@0—@+<H—&M+@+@-0—®+®+0 HE LINE AT SUCH A BURDEN N S S R o R e e e will produce a reaction. Burns will make his biggest effort of the campaign next week. There was an arrangement with the Southern Pa. cific that he should show elements of strength this week that would justify a continuation of the railroad support or retire in favor of some candidate who would displav winning qualities. Dan has not made much of a showing. He has gained only one vote, but he has kept up such a boasting and shout- ing of what he can do next week that Herrin will doubtless grant the exten- sion of time desired. The people of California can hardly comprehend the magnitude and far- reaching phases of the effort put for- ward this week to advance the cause of Burns. All the railroad newspapers were lined up to shout in chorus that a Senator should be elected without de- lay. Swarms of touts were brought here to swell the permanent army of the “colonel’s” followers. The party organization displayed an activity that would have commandea attention in a Presidential campaign. Promises were made to reward friends and punish enemies. Every string that could be pulled, every wire that could be manipulated and every secret influ- ence possible to sway the judgment ot the legislators were uscd to boost the colonel’'s candidacy, and the whole re- sult was the single gain of Simpson’s vote. Profound quiet reigns in the Burns camp to-night. The scene of activity, as far as the touts ate concerned, has been transferred to San Francisco. U. 8. Grant went to the theater this evening. It is given out to-night that Assemblyman Merrill will not leave the Grant forces as predicted, but will stay to the finish. There is a good deal of talk to the effect that the anti-Burns men in the Republican ranks may decide to give Thomas R. Bard a chance to develop shall also employ janitors and other em- s of the school, and fix and order paid the compensation of all employes. unless the same be otherwise prescribed by law: provided further, that no Board of Trustees or City Board of Education shall enter into any contract with such employes to extend beyond the thirtieth day of June, next ensuing, except in the employment of teachers, as above provid- ed in this subdivision. Opposed to State Roads. CALL HEADQUARTERS. MENTO Feb. 18.—A big delegation of the Supervisors who are here in biennial con- vention met last night with the Assem- bly committee on Roads and Highways to discuss Assembly bill 602, introduced by Melick. The bill provides that fifty per cent of the road fund of every county be set aside each year for permanent road work, and. when an expenditure of more than $2000 is contemplated the State Bu- reau of Highways shall have supervision of_the plans. x The Supervisors are against it to a man. their county vn by their own judment of the counties’ needs. They argued at length against the bill and to- night at times the debate was heated. Wil Ashe of the Bureau of Highways accused the Supervisors of having con- spired when in convention in Napa last May to down any law_that looked to per- manent road work and the supervision by the State bureau of any county work. No action on the measure was taken by the committee and anotheér conference will be held to-morrow night. - Of Benefit to Railroads. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—Brown of San Mateo fntroduced a bill in the Assembly yes- terday which provides that every steam railroad heretofore organized under the Jaws of the State which has expended in urchasing materials, rights of way, mak- e survess, grading ov other Drelldingry work the sum of 3$25000 and which has not completed its road prior to the pase- age of the bill, is authorized to complete its road as described in its articles of in- corporation and notwithstanding it may not_have begun the comstruction of its road within two years after flin; its original articies of incorporation and may not have completed and put in operation five miles of its road eacH year there- after. The bill was referred to the Committee on Corporations. SACRA- | The statute to which the Controller | referred is as follow CHAPTER CCCXLV. An act to authorize the transfer to the general fund of money in other funds of the State Treasury and the return thereof to such_ funds. (Approved March 21, 1872. The people of the State of California, rep- resented in Senate and Assembly, do en- act as follows: Section 1. Whenever the general fund of the State Treasury becomes exhausted and there i{s money in other funds not required to meet any accrued demands against sald funds, or demands to accrue against sald funds, the Controller shall report the fact to the Governor and Treas- urer; and if the Governor and Treasurer find that the money is not needed in such other funds, the Governor shall order the Controller fo direct the transfer thereof to the general fund. All money o trans- ferred to the general fund shall be re- turned to the fund from which it was transferred as soon as_therc is sufficient money in the general fund to return the same. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to order or warrant the transfer of any money from any fund so as to in any manner interfere with the object for which such fund was created. - :c,‘ 2. This act shall take effect imme- ately. The balance in the general fund Feb- ruary 1, 1869, was $2,064,619 88. % The estimated receipts are: Second installment property tax, ~$782.037 94; second installment railroad taxes. $49.- 947 85; balance received on account of war claims, $44,472 70; from estimated receipts Whittier School, Preston School, Home for Feeble-Minded and fees of State officers, $50,000; total, $2,- 991,077 85. Against this sum may be charged ap- propriations, $2,120,258 94: estimated ex- penditures on account of orphans, $400,- 000; additional appropriations for legis- lative purposes, $25,000; for State print- ing office, §75,000; total, $2,620,258 94. Deducting this total from the sum of $2,991,077 85, there remaing $370.878 S1, which would be the amount remaining in the general fund on July 1, 1899. The amount required to meet the or- dinary expcnses of the State govern- &3 s0 maraged under this administration as to avold a repetition of such a necessity. ENRY T. G. Governor of the State of California. NO SEWER SYSTEM FOR FOLSOM PRISON M%AV['}L HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- NTO, Feb. 18.—Besides vetoing the San Francisco hospital bill tD-da)zn%overnor Gage also put the seal of his official dis- approval on a bill that directly affects the health of the geoplg of Sacramento, name- 1y, Assembl. ill No. 2, which appropriates $15,000 for the construction of a sewerage system at the State Prison at Folsom. Under the present condition the refuse of the entire prison is emptied into the American River and a few hours later is umped up by the city pumps here to come a part of the city’'s water supply. During last summer the condition became 80 bad that residents of this city would not use the city water for household pur- roses and in Assembly bill 2, which was ntroduced by Johnson, they Hoped to find | county, some rellet. Siar r. Gage's reasons for Killing the bill are included in the following m%ssa;e: L To the Assembly of the State of Californla: 1 herewith return to your honorable body, without my approval, Assembly bill No. 2, with my_objections thereto. “This bill provides for the immediate appro- priation of the sum of $15,000, to be paid to the State Board of Prison Directors, to be ex- pended by them, at the Folsom State Prison, in the construction of such a dispose of the sewage of the Folsom State Prison without polluting tie waters of the American River. While 1 am of the opinfon urpose for which this very large sum = a laudable one, I disapprove of the present bill for the following reason: Tirst—The letting of the contract, the entire work of construction and the determination of the amount of the items of expenditure, are left to the Board of State Prison Directors, without any check whatsoever, the Board of Examiners being merely the ‘agent of the directors for the approval of the bills. Second—There is no limit to the amount for which the directors may contract in the con- struction of such work, and demands may hereafter, in consequence thereof, be made upon the Legislature for deficiency appropria- tione, Thira_The money is appropriated Immediate- ly out of the moneys of the general fund for the present fiscal year. There |8 not sufficient money in the general fund to justify this ap- p::nfllflo'ilu“““‘(;?;. nor J.;) :Vll'falll N ey apecial Appropriation until January, 1 HENRY T GAGE, Governor of the State of California. GAGE DENIES SAN FRANCISCO A NEW HOSPITAL Vetoesthe Bill Provid- ing for One. \ REASONS FOR HIS ACTION WILL GIVE AUTHORITY. The Bill Offered by Sullivan Had Passed Both Houses Without the Least Opposition From Any Quarter. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb 18.—Governor Gage has de- cided that the people of San Francisco have no right to build a decent hospital for the city and county’s sick. He im- parted this information to the Legislature in a message sent to both houses to-day, announcing that he had vetoed Assembly bill 243, and giving his reasons for so do- ing. The bill was introduced by Assembly- man E. D. Sullivan early in the session and experfenced no difficulty in its pass- age through the Legislature. It was ac- cepted as a request from the people of San Francisco, who desixed to build a new hos- pital and could not do so without the permission of the State. The Board of Supervisors of that city decided to do the work some months ago and proceeded as far as having competitive pians drawn before it discovered that without legisla- tive enactment it had no right to proceed. The bill introduced by Assemblyman Sul- livan was designed to remedy this defect in the law. Governor Gage's message is self-explan- atory and reads as follows: Executive Department, State of California. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17, 1899. To the Assembly of the State of California: I herewith return to your honorable body, With- out my approval, Assembly bill No. 243, with my_objections thereto. This bill gives power to the common Coun- cil or other governing body of municipal cor- porations of the first class to erect and fur- nish, at the expense of such corporations, a municipal hospital, and to levy and colfect an ad valorem property tax on all property, real and persopal, within the limits of such municipal corporations, the limits of such ex- penditures being $300,000, and providing for the levying of the tax for such purpose in the fitty-first fiscal year, and not otherwise. It I8 apparent from the tenor of the bill that the object in fixing the limit of expendi- ture at $300,000 was to avold the effect of see- tion 1, article XVI, of the State constitution, which’ reads as follows: “The Legislature shall not, in any man- ner, create any debt or debts, or Habllity or Mabilities, which shall singly’ or in the ag- gregate with any previous debts or liabilities, exceed the sum of $300,009, except in case of war to repel invasfon or to suppress insurrec- tion, unless the same shall be authorized by law or some single object or work to be dis- tinetly specified therein, which law shall pro- vide ways and means exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest of such debt or Hability as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt or lla- bility within twenty yvears of the time of the contracting thereof, and shall be irrepealable until the principal and interest thereon shall be paid and discharged; but no such law shall take effect untll, at & general election, It shall have been submitted to the people and shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election; and all moneys raised by authority of such law shall be applied -only to the specific object therein stated, or to the payment of the debt thereby created, and such law shall be pub- lished In at least one newspaper in each or city and county, If one be pub- Itshed therein, throughout the State, for three months next ‘preceding the election at which it is submitted to the people. The Legisla- | ture may at any time after the approval of such law by the people, if no debts shall have contracted in pursuance thereof, repeal the same.” As the city and county of San Francisco is in the first class it was undoubtedly the design in_requiring this tax levy to be made fn the fifty-first_fiscal year to evade the provisions of_the new charter. Tt was likewise the object of this bill, in view of the proposed large expenditure, to es- cape the effect of section 18 of article 11 of the constitution, which reads as follows: “No county, city, town, township, Board ot Bducation or school district shall incur any indebtedness or Mability, in any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such vear without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor uniess before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness provision -shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficlent to pay the interest on Such indebtedness as it falls due, and alsa pro- Vision to constitute a sinking fund for the pay- ment of the principal thereof on or before ma- turity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same. Any indebt- edness or llabllity incurred contrary to this provision shall be void.” Tt these were not the objects, and if the bill was not designed to apply to San Francisco only, then the bill is whoily idle, because by subdivision 34, section 64, article 3, of “"An act to provide for the oreshization, incorporation and government of municipal’ corporations’ (approved March 13, 1583), municipal corpora- tions of the first class already have the power 1o establish a municipal hospital. Said sub- division reads as follow. “To establish and maintain an almshouse, a city and county hospital, @ smalipox hospi: fal and such other institutions of the same character as are or may be necessary, and to perpetuate such institutions as may have been heretofore established in such cities or cities and counties heretofore incorporated.”’ Again, the power of taxation is vested in municipal corporations as an cssentlal at- {ribute for all the purposes of existence, unless its exercise be in express terms prohibited- Security Savings Bank and Trust Company v Hinton, 97 Cal., 219, The city and county of San Francisco did not. by organizing thereunder, accept the ad- Vantages offered by the above act of March 13, 1853, relating to municipal corporations of the first class, to which classification Assembly bill No. 243 pretends to apply in general terms. Moreover, by the provisions of an act entitled “An act authorizing the incurring of indebted- ness by cities, towns of municipal corporations, Incorporated under the laws of this State for the constructlon of water Works, sewers and all necessary public improvements, or for any «wTHE .. GLOVE HOUSE Eighth Weekly Special! FOR 95¢ A Ladies' 2-Cl:sp Kid, in all colors and new design embroidery. Elegant goods. Every pair fitted. THIS SPEOIAL PRICE FOR WEEK ONLY 800 Market Street, COR. GRANT AVE. «MAIL ORDERS FILLED.. 4040404040904 04040404040+ NEW WESTERN HOTEL, gEAKNY .Antzn WASHINGTON STS. 5 i T, Tk Free baths; ot purpose_whatever, and to repeal the &ct aj proved March 9, 1885, entitled ‘An act tofl 7 thorize municipal corporations of the, fifth class, containing more than 3000 and less than 10,000 inhabitants, to obtain water work: also to repeal an act approved March 15, 1887, entitled an act authorizing the incurring -of indebtedness by cities, towns and municipal corporations, incorporated under the laws of this State” (approved March 19, 1889), the right is given to all municipalities (including’ San Francisco) to comstruct and complete any .- municipal buflding after a vote of two-thirds of the members of the municipal Council, the approval of the city’s executive, and a two-- thirds vote of the people of the city, in cases. where the cost of such copstriction and com- pletion is too great to be paid out of the or- dinary annual income and revenue of the city. But this bill itself, , in my opinioi a general law, inasmuch as it provided specifl ally the limit of the amount to be raised by the city, and that such amount shall be raised in the fifty-first fiscal year, and is, therefore, unconstitutional—being in contravention of seo- tion 12 of article X1 and of the tenth.sub- ‘dhi&\nn of section 25 of article IV of .the’ con- | stitution of the State. Section 12 of article XI reads as follows: { " “‘The Legislature shall have no power t¢ m- ] pose taxes upon counties, cities, TOWNS. -Of | other public or muniecipal corporations. OF UPC the inhabitants or property thergof, for county, city, town or other municipal purposes, but may by general laws vest in the corporate au- thorities thereof the power to assess and to collect taxes for such purposes.’” The tenth subdivision of section 25 of article | IV of the constitution of the State reads as | follows: “The Legislature shall not pass local or spe- clal laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say’” * * * “‘Tenth—For the assessment or colléction of taxes.'’ But, independently of the illegality "of the act, I believe its policy to be wrong, for it seems to me manifestly unfair for the Leg. islature to vest in the municipal Council or governing body the power to tax the people of a municipality for such large expenditures, without giving the people of the city the right to vote upon the tax or to appear before the Council for the purpose of remonstrance. If the erection of a municipal hospital be de- | sired by the city at so great a cost it can now ! be easily accomplished without this legislation, by getting the consent of its c tizens e: 'prfs;«.d at the polls. HENRY T. GAGE, Governor of the State of California. | !TO REGULATE CHARGES | FOR TELEPHONE SERVICE CALL, HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, b. 18.—Senator Nutt is on hand with another whack at the telephone companies in_the shape of a bill to regu- late telephone tolls. In his measure he provides that 13 charge for a telephone shall be more than $3 a month in full, and that there shall be no charges for switches, and there shall be no nickel-in-the-siot device attached, and that where more than one telephone is in use by the same person or firm the price shall be reduced to $250 for each. The bill further provides that there shall be no_ additional charge _for switches in the same county,” OF where the switch called for is within thirty miles from the person calling for the switch. For switches at a distance more than thirty and less tham fifty miles the bili allows a charge of 25 cents for the first two minutes, this to be Increased 5 cents for every twenty-five miles over fifty, providing, however, that no switch-shall cost more than $1 for the first two min- utes. There is no provision for conver- sations lasting over two minutes. The bill provides as a penalty a fine of $25 to $250 for any violation of the act. Pastor’s Study Looted. STOCKTON, Feb. 18.—Burglaries ars being committed withy alarming frequency in Stockton lately. Last night the private study of Rev. Dr. Evans in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church was looted. The burglars evidentky were atter cash collections amounting to some hundreds of dollars, the receipt of which had been announced in the church paper, the Week- ly Reminder. The money was not there, however, and and a purse containing railroad tickets were all that the burglars obtained. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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