The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901. GOVERNORS FIRST USE OF POWER OF VETO DURING SESSION ASSEMBLY UNANIMOUSLY PASSES MINING MEASURE Ralston, Who Fought Casts Hi; Vote It in the Committee, for Its Passage. Special Dispatch to The Call L HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| . Feb. 8.—The bill appro- 50,000 adai 1 for the > was this after- vote. The the biH by at least before uld be ked for this fin However, the 1 the 00,000 from the propriated, and in view vote for the bt ¥ _reported 1 in the EXPENSIVE JUNKETING TRIP NOW PLANNED Savage Introduces Resolution Which Goes to the Extreme of Ab dity. SACRA- Angeles a reso- eme of author- o Morals to t e frequen*- is sought to be s now pending; igation in re- -day by Brown it a felony to S0 as to cause e resolution the a_trip to any c beer halls and simi exist or where there > number of Chiness king dened as it is to ex- and the repeated dupli- to public_instit ldings and Gr e to w O ADVERTISEMENTS. A CAUSE OF HEADACHE. Very Common Cause, Generally Overlooked. is a symptom, s nt or disease in f the head: headache ck of the nd the prompt dis- “treatm a et perience w ogizes St for them from severe i ’Aln‘ back J uf- for years, as the cause of my hally became convinced 3 e case, because the head- always worse whenever 1 had tack of catarrh. rrh Tablets were highly s a safe and plegs- 1 after using a few T procured from my surpriced and delighted rrh and head- | lets are sold by | per package, un- proprietors’ that no cocaine (found no opium (so u nor any | the r fresh mended to me - g is only possible when your feetare cn €he pedal, 20} behind the pasals the reliable HORROW CORSTER BRAKE. Adds one hundred per cent. to the pleasure of g, Bt by 21 datien: | Biet e Eclipse Mig. Co., Manufac'rs, Elmiira, N.Y. ff | For sale by all dealers in bicycles | sundrics. DR. CROSSMAN’S | SPECIFIC MIXTURE of Gomorrhoea. Gleots, ous complaints of Genera Price $1 & bottle. For sale by druggists. tee, spoke in the ground that flable shouid be | | with him to several lottery joints. | T4 San Francisco, S8an Jose, Ever- Monterey. The members of the ttee have leave of absence till Tues- ing trip to n and g AGRICULTURAL PARK BILL PASSES COMMITTEE Is Amended Out of Form and Void and Will Meet Warm Reception When Presented. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- 0, Feb. 8.—The Agricultural Park passed the Senate Finance Com- and Monday it will emerge from orary obscurity and take its place Its best friend will not know however, for it appears in the form of substitute measure. The elaborate for the purchase of land, the of tracks and the erection of s had dwindled down to a plain, ed appropriation to pay the the State Agricultu: Soclety turn over to the State the land ch has been in the soclety’s name. It rovided in shall use the land only for the pur- of a fair grounds and a racetrack. form the bill was favorably voted the committee. mmittee vote does not end mat- , however, for the committeemen, with one or two exceptions, who voted for the measure, will vote against it on the floor House unless amended in accordance with the senti- ment expressed by the committee this evening and the promise of Senator De: lin, the author of the original bill, to se- cure the consent of the members of the society to the proposed change. The change demanded is the unconditional transfer of the property to the State, in fee simple, with no strings or conditions and no promises on either side. Unless this is done the bill will have no chance in the Senate, for the members of the Finance Committee will oppose it bitterly. The original plan of the soclety was to substitute two bills for the original meas- ure, one to appropriate $45.00 to pay the debts, amounting to $43,625 38, and the other to appropriate $35.000 to erect a grandstand _and other buildings on_the grounds. The committee would not hear of the $35,000 appropriation and so the fight was made on the appropriation to submitted the debts. A schedule wed the total losses of the t ten years to be $18.17 the la gains $4551 50. In only two yea there gains. The balance on the wrong side of the ledger, $13.625 33, is repre- b eld by D. O. Mills & for $25,000 and one fa 2,000, and is payable amounting to $65 The action of the committee S, taken into the Senate. GREER INTRODUCES APPORTIONMENT BILL Makes a Number of Radical Changes in Cutter Act Already Under Consideration. CALL HEADQUARTERS, NTO, Feb. 8.—Greer introduced in the this morning an apportionment s a number of chang ed Cutter bill, sent in by The object is to ¢ districts as mapped =0 that Sacramento blymen. Its di - nteenth, Eight- ¢ d eenth in the Greer bill, and the following groupings in districts, different from the Cutter bill, are made, srder to give Sacramento the extra Tenth District, Plac Amador, El Dorado and Alpin y-fifth, Stanislaus and ( Twenty-sixth, Tuolumne, Ma dera and Mono: Twenty Fifty-eighth, SACRA- an Benito and introduced a constitutional for nishing State text- ee of cost to pupils of the common also leaving to the County Su- nt and County Board of Edu- he issuance of cer- of schools within to the front with an. It the hen sropriates $5000 for staluma, of a Poultry Experimen’ rtment of the University ia. Sims introduced the me bill enate Assembly bill 67, Introduced by Fellz, ropriates $4200 and establishes a Board Trustees of the Monterey Customs- -, and provides for the control of that property by the State Higby introdu a bill 96,000 for a State highway from Hollister to Salinas. WITTHAN PLEADS FOR HS the bill, however, that the | to get the bill off the committee | bill for the protection and advance- | apprnnna(lmx' RETURNS BILL INTRODUCED BY ‘ATHERTON S LI | Saus the Act Isa Clear Vio- lation of the State Con- { - stitution- i Bill Had Large Majorities in Both Houses, but May Not f Be Recalled. | LR L | Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 8.—Governor Gage gent his first veto message of the | session to the Assembly this aft- | ernoon. Atherton’s bill, re-enact- |ing in somewhat different form the act by which San Quentin convicts have been | employed on a road across the marsh, was sent to the Governor at 2:15 o'clock. At 3 | o’clock his veto message was sent to the | Assembly. It was as follows: | “Executive Department, State of Califor« nia, Sacramento, Feb. 8, 1801 “To the Assembly of the State of Call- fornia: I herewith return to your honora- | ble body, without my approval, with my objections thereto, Assembly bill No. 88, entitled ‘An act authorizing the State Prison Directors of the State of Califor- nia to employ prisoners in the construc- tion und repair of roads to the State pris- on at San Quentin.’ ““The bill authorizes the State Board of Prison Directors® during the four years next succeeding the passage of the act to employ prisoners dally in the construc- tion and repair of such public roads as have been or shall hereafter be laid out or opened by the Board of Supervisors of Marin County, and which extend from the State prison and grounds of San Quen- tin to Point Tiburon or any railroad sta- | tion in Marin County within four miles of said State prison. By the terms of this bill the prisoners are to be employed In work to be done upon the county roads of Marin County, and such work is there intended for the benefit of the county of Marin, as well as for such incidental bene- fit as might flow to the State. “This act, in my opinion, clearly vio- | 1ates subdivision 7 of section 25 article IV of the State constitution, which, among other things, prohibits the Legislature from passing local or special laws ‘au- thorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or vacating roads, highways, streets, alley town plats, parks, ceme- teries, graveyards or public grounds not owned by the State.’ “This_bill is likewise contrary to the spirit of section 3 of article X of the con- stitution, which reads as follows: “‘After the first day of January, eight- |Claim Is Descri HEADQUARTERS, ENTO, Feb. 8.—Senate bill No. 160, pro- | viding for the payment of the claim of Claus Spreckels against the State, was ternoon in the Assembly aissentine voice. All of the | passed this without a | and the bill will now go to the Governor | for his signature. | 'The claim is for that portion of the fund | of $25,000 placed at the disposal of Gover- nor Budd for the relief of the drought suf- ferers in Monterey and San Luis Obispo | counties which was actually expended by the Commissioners appointed by the Gov- ernor. It is somewhat in excess of $11,000. |and Mr. Spreckels announced some i months ago to Ppesident Benjamin Ide GOVERNOR GAGE OPPOSES COMPETITION BETWEEN FREE AND CONVICT LABOR 3 | + TAKING A LEAN TO IN FRONT OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE AT SACRA- MENTO, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE ON THE SUM STREET IN THE STATE CAPITAL. NY SIDE OF EASY een hundred and eighty-two, the labor of convicts shall not be let out by contract to any person, copartnership, company or corporation, and the Legislature shall by law provide for the working of convicts for the benefit of the State.’ “I, therefore, disapprove of this meas- ure for the additional reason that it is opposed to section 3 ef article X of the constitution, which requires that the work of convicts should be for the benefit of the State only, and because said bill is against the policy of said section of the constitution, which was designed to pre- vent the degradation of honest labor by bringing it in competition with the work of the convicts of the State. “HENRY T. GAGE, “Governor of the State of California.” As a result of the veto, work by, the State must stop on the San Quentin road after March. . propriates money for the completion of a 4 partially finished road wiil fall into decay and will soon be submerged in the marsh. Both the Senate and Assembly gave large majorities for the bill, but it-is doubtful if any attempt will be made to pass it over the Governor's veto. Atherton is inclined to leave the de- Special Dispatch to The Call SACRA- Wheeler that if the clalm were paid by the State he would give its amount to the University of California. When the biil came up for final passage to-day, Melick of Los Angeles said “The character of this claim is it deserves a unanimous vote. such that honor is based was a noble, generous one. It is an example, an inspiration to us al', and in our ‘prlde to have such a citizen in our midst it is certainly fitting that the State should return now the money that was so timely for relief and yet which could be secured for that purpose in no other way.” “I indorse ever: vthing that the gentle- man from Los Angeles has said,” Fellz of | Monterey said, “and on behalf of the pec- R P REPUTATION AND MAKES A FUTILE EFFORT TO CAPTURE A CHINESE ACCUSER Continued from Page Two. Unless Marin County apé | road that benefits the State mainly, the | he act o: | sixty Assemblymen present voted for {*|Claus Spreckels upon which this debt of | I represent,’” X3 |cision of that point to Senator Devlin, and the latter says it will be time enough for the Senate to concern itself when the | Assembly has given the bill a two-thirds majority. - FISK’'S DIVORCE BILL DEFEATED IN ASSEMBLY Believed That Pending Bill Intro- duced by Sheridan Covers the Case More Thoroughly. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. .—Fisk's Assembly bill 53, relating to the granting of divorces, was defeated in the Assembly this morning. | The feature of the bill was the repeal of | the inhibition against remarriage within a ycar after divorce. Fisk made a strong | fight for his bill, but it was defeated mainly because a bill is pending of which | Shéridan is the author which, many be- | lieve, meets the case better than Fisk's measure. The bill appropriating $10,000 for the s An- | completion of buildings at the geles State Normal School was passed this morning. . ple of Monterey County I desire to ex- | ]press their heartfelt thanks to the man who was their benefactor. They want to | e this claim paid and ! ask you on their behalf to express your gratitude by giving | | this bill a unanimous vote.” | “The people of San Luis Obispo, whom | said John, ‘“are equally | grateful. Claus Spreckels nobly came to | their assistance and the money which he gave when none could be had from other sources for distribution by the State was | used for a noble purpose.’” | Applause greeted the remarks of each | speaker and on the roll call the membe.s | voted with a heartiness expressive of their pleasure in supporting the bill. .. The measure recently passed the Senate | by a unantmous vote. | Wittman said that he would bring in the proprietor of that lottery joint even if it took a sledge hammer to get him into court. Meloney and Thompson had. in the meanwhile been out with a deputy she ff in order to hale the offending lot- keeper before the commlittee. Il take all the conseguence med Wittman, “I'll do this cn my own neibility.” lownstairs, got his sledge patrol wagon. Reporters record speed was,made - y joint. One blow of Wittman's hammer resulted in smashing the front door. Everybody rushed in, looking for the game that was not Somebody told the captain that “he” might be in another room, and s0 more doors were smashed. The Cap- tain of Police left the patrol wagon driver in charge, drove the go hammer_bac 1 reported to the com- mittee that the man he expected to find had gone ling or got out the back way into Sullivan alley. = The incident would have been funny if it were not for the dis- comgture of Captain Wittman. His ex- cuses for not finding the elusive lottery man provoked a smile on the faces of the investigators. It will probably cost Cap- tain Wittman about $1 75 in damages to make good his sledge hammer biuff. Grand Juror James H. Barry was the star witness of the night. Unctuously he told how he had been led astray and | tempted to woo the fickle zoddess of for- tune by one Boyle, a journalist. He went T Some- times Boyle pald, sometimes Barry. On Boyle's paid-for tickets Barry won noth- ing. In one place, 723 ~Sacramento street, ‘Barry played a ticket for 15 cents. His employe, A. H. Torres, who also has the habit of buying tickets, cashed in §10 45 as a result of Boyle's markings. Torres described Barry’s as ‘“a I5-cent three-way ticke! Barry claimed that he did mot know what that meant, and greatly perturbed at his adventures with Boyle, because his children called him “a Chinee gambler.” Barry said he zave his winnings to Torres because he thought playing lottery was naughty. Assemblyman Wright of the investigat- ing committee was the last witness of the night. Like the unctuous Barry, he had also gone out with Boyle, but the Hon. Wright played fantan. He wen % 50, which a member of the ¢ommittes remarked sgotto voce, ‘‘Was good for many steams or even a small bottle.” £ht said he had no difficulty in getting into the fantan games, saw no other white men there, and although he could not lay down the rules of Ah Hoyt, still he won the money. He jingled it fondly in his pocket. Evidence was sought by the committee as to the number.of white men and boys and Chinese that visited these games. Barry counted eighteen in one place, the | only time he played the game. Torres saw one less, because therewere only seventeen | present” when he got in. Others ranged in their estimates down to three, not in- cluding the Chinese proprietors. Sergeant of Police Willlam F. Brophy was also on the stand to deny the allega- tion that while in charge of the China- town squad he was the go-between be- tween the Chinese gamblers and the Police Department. He denied absolute- 1y the statement made by a previous wit- ness that “he was worse than Sergeant Mahon in collecting the weekly | tribute. ;) Consul General Ho Yow, who was subpenaed as a witness, declined to re- =pond to the summons until he had con- sulted with his attorney. The inquiry will be resumed this morn- ing at the usual hour. e - PHELAN DEMANDS NAMES OF ACCUSERS Investigating Committee Asked to Examine the Chinese and Whites ‘Who Attacked Officers. It was not to be expected that the a: sertion of John Boyle, the Examiner re- porter, that Chinese and white men had { informed him that the police were accept- ing bribes, would pass unchallenged. He Tefused to give the names, and in a half- hearted way the committee has sustained him. In the following letter Mayor Phe- lan demands that the reporter's inform- ants be summoned and examined: February 8, 1901 Hon. Joseph R. Knowland, Chairman Special | Assembly Committee—Dear Sir: T observe that Mr. Boyle of the Examiner, in glving his testi- mony to-day before your committee, enumer- ated various amounts which he claimed were paid by Chinese to the police as bribe money |40 protect gamblers and others against inter- rence, but ‘he refused to give publicly the sources of his information or the names of his informants, who are Chinese, and who, as he says, pledged him to Secrecy as to their iden- tity. As the witness, however, expressed his willingness to give this information privately to the committee, I respectfully sugkest that the committee cite these persons and compel them to testify. If any money pald to policemen I desire to know jt, and this is an easy and quick way of ascertaining the truth. I will feel very grateful to the committee for any service of this kind. Respectfully yours, JAMES D. PHELAN, Mayor. e GRAND JURORS PROBE INTO CHINESE AFFAIRS G'rhed i}weuuntlon being made b’t the rand Jury into the management of po- lice affairs was resumed yut};d.y after- noon. William J. Biggy, a former mem- ber of the Board of Police Commission- ers, was the only witness examined. He acted as Chief of Police until Colonel W. P. Sullivan was chosen to succeed Chief Lees, who was placed on the retired list. Biggy, in succinct way, told the story of his political rise and fall. Because of his refusal to stand by an agreement en- tered into between Mayor Phelan and the Examiner to make Lieutenant Esola Chlef of Police, he was removed from the com- mission and his place on the board given to ex-Judge Wallace. “I wish it to be understood, gentlemen,” said Biggy after being sworn, “that I am out of politics. I want no public office. If T ever accept another one it will be when I have a competency. I am here in answer to your subpena and at con- siderable cost to my private business af- fairs. 1 will willingly answer all questions asked me and afd you In your investiga- tion. I have no friends to reward nor ene- mies to punish.” Biggy was then asked to tell the jury under what circumstances and conditions he was appointed Police Commissioner by Mayor Phelan. “I did not seek appolntment on the Po- lice Board,” said he. “I wanted a place on the Board of Publlc Works. 1 felt that I would be able to do some good there. “A day or two before Mayor Phelan an- nounced the appointments I received a note from Mr. Lawrence, asking me to call at the Examiner office. I went there. Lawrence told me that he had informa- tion to the effect that 1 was ‘slated’ for the Police Commission instead of the Board of Public Works. That was the first time that I heard my name men- tioned in connection with the Police Com- mission. I asked him to tell me the name of his informant. He refused to do so, sayving that the information was of a con- fidential nature. He assured me, however, that there was no doubt about my ap- D he . ot dets o gl L A e sublect o m; In, Esola Chief of Police was then” broached by him. While T did not make any direct promise to support Esola, I said that I felt favorably inclined toward his candi- dacy. After the appointments were made I received an invitation to attend a caucus in Mayor Phelan's office. I attended it and there was introduced to Esola. When the newspaper attack was made on Esola 1 felt friendly toward him and that friend- 1y feeling existed up to the time he testi- fled before the Police Commission that he had no recollection of the caucus in Mayor Phelan's office. I knew then that he was either a perjurer or a man so men- tally weak that he was not fitted for the important office of Chief of Pélice. I nounced that I would net vote for him, and there the trouble began. - “Mayor Phelan and Mr. Lawrence tried to whip me Into line. I told them that under no_circumstances would I vote for Esola. The rest of the story you know, gentlemen. Mayor Phelan removed me from the board and relegated me to pri- vate life. I am not sorry for that. I | much rather prefer being a private cit- | izen than a public official, if with an of- | fice I must surrender my spirit. I have | never been dictated to by any one nor forced todo what my conscience dictates to_me is not right.” ““Are you friendly with the Mayor?"” asked one cf the jurors. ‘“We have never spoken since the night of my removal from office,” replied Biggy. “While you were acting as Chief of Po- | lice was any attempt made to bribe you?" | was asked. i 'Only on one occasion,” replied Biggy. | “I arrested a Chinaese for a misdemeanor and he slipped $5 into my hand to let him go. I then placed an additional charge of | attempted bribery against him.” | “Did any charges of crookedness on the part of police officers in Chinatown reach | your ears?” “I heard several rumors of crooked- | ness,”” answered Biggy, “but 1 was un- able to find any proof of wrongdoing.” ( “Do you belleve it possible to close the mbling dens and bawdy houses in the | Ehinese quarter?” asked another juror. . | “I do,” answered Biggy. ‘‘When I as-| sumed office as Acting Chief of Police 1 consulted with the police captains and | told them I wanted fifteen men who could | be trusted. They named fifteen policemen | for me. I sent the men into Chinatown and very soon closed up the gambling houses and other dens. There may have been a game running here and there, but | they never ran until the squad had gone | nome for the night.” | “Do you believe that the existing laws | are -sufficlent to do away with the places | conplained of?” | “I do,” replied the witness. “The laws | are amply sufficient. All that is neces- sary to eradicate the evil Is to secure | roper officials to enforce the laws. There [o o trouble about the law. The lack of erforcement is what causes all these ru- mors of crookedness. The men who are sent into Chinatown to close the dens must be men who can resist temptation, for the Chinese are great tempters. With fteen men who will not listen to the tempter, it should be an easy matter to elose all the objectionable houses in the Chinese auarter.” he investigation will be resumed next Monday night. LOTTERY VISITORS FINED.—Ah Toy and Ah Sing, two of the Chinese arrested last Sat- urday night for Visiting a lottery place, pleaded gullty in Judge Fritz's court vesterday and were each fined $25. e i For a Cold in the Head. Zaxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. @itk et ettt e g | MTUCE OPPOSTTION | SENATE BILL PROVIDING TO REIMBURSE | ? CLAUS SPRECKELS IS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED | erable opposition, and there is now under | bed as a Debt of Honor, and After Eulogistic Speeches Assem-| blymen Register Votes in Favor of Its Passage. COMPROMISE-ON FUNDS FOR STATE UNIVERSITY Conference Between Those Who Favor Governor's Plan and Partisans of Rowell’'s Bills. Special Dispatch to The Call ALL HEADQUARTERS, SA(’RAAI MENTO, Feb. 8—~The character of | aid that Is to be extended to the University of* California was put beyond all question at a confer- ence at 2 o'clock this afternoon between Governor Gage and a number of Senators. The result is in the nature of a compr mise between ‘hose in favor of the Gov- ernor’s plan and the partisans of the Rowell bills. The bill carrying a direct appropriation of $200,000 will he passed by the Senate and Assembly and signed by the Governor— such is the assurance given to-day. Of the Rowell bills all will be dropped but one—the measure imposing a tax cn the act of incorporation. This bill will be urged, and If it passes the revenue it ylelds' will be placed in the general fund, while direct appropriations will be drawn from that fund for the support of the university. = Senator Rowell, a Regent of the Univer- sity of California. who Introduced the original bills; Senator Smith of *Kern, chairman of the Finance Committee. and Senators Taylor, Lukens and Leavitt of the Alameda County delegation were pres- | s K ALAMEDANS AGREE ON REAPPORTIONMENT New Assemblyman Will Be Given to | Berkeley and Senator to the Country. CALL HEADQUARTFERS, SACRA-| MENTO, Feb. 8—The Alameda <County delegation met twice to-day and agreed provisionally 1pon the reapportionment lines of the county under the Cutter bill The delegation has hacd irternecine trou- bles in cutting out a new Senatorial and a new Assembly district, but practical agreement was reached at these confer- | ences. | The new Assemblyman will go to Berke- | ley. The northern ends of the Forty-ninth and Fifty-first Gistricts are cut off to | make the new district, which thus com- prises Barkeley and West Berkeley. Little change except this is made in the Assm- | ly districts. A small portion is to be aken frcm the Fiftieth District, which Bliss represents, to add to Kelley's dis- trict, tke Fortv-eighth in order (o con- forni to the new ward lines in Oak'and. The new_Senator will be given to the countyy. The district will comprise Mur- | 1ay, Washingten, Eden and probably | Brooklyn townships. There will be some changes of the lines of the other Senato- rial districts. The Seventh Ward in Oak- land will probably be taken from Lukens’ district and put in Taylor's district, al- though Taylor does not yearn for that stronghold of the Pardee-Dalton forces. The amended Cutter apportionment bill will_precipitate numerous fights, both in the Senate and Assembly. As an {liustra- tion-of this Senator Smith of Kern has expressed his intention of fighting the al- lotment of an extra Senator to Alameda. | | TO BURNETT'S BILL CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, Feb. S.—Burnett's Senate bill | 351, which provides that the name of the | manufacturer and his address must be | plainly marked upon all goods manufac- tured in this State, has aroused consid- consideration an amendment designed to meet and allay the objections that have been urged against the measure. The bill provides that every article manufactured shall bear this imprint, but it further provides that when this is im- possible or impracticable the stamp may be placed on the package or covering in | which the articles are packed. The objection to the bill, however, which it will be attempted to do away with by amendment, lies in the fact that it would prevent the common custom among busi ness men of having goods manufactured | for them especially stamped with the | selling firm's name. Some form of amend- ment which will allow this, while not ax-1 lowing the goods so exempted to be made by Chinese or convict labor and after- ward sold without the tell-tale mark will be drawn, if possible. before the bill comes | up for second reading. The primary object of the bill is to pre- vent the sale of Chinese-made goods without_letting the buyer know that he is purchasing such goods, and also to enabie the proper person to be held re- sponsible .in case of adulteration. The objection to the bill came mainly from | the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation of San Francisco, . and it was | directed not to the principle but to the | operation of the measure. | | lamson spoke from ent at the interview with the Governor this afternon. Governor Gage expressed himself as unequivocally in favor of Hb- eral support of the university. He took the ground that in future aid for the uni- versity, in addition to its fixed Income, should be given by direct appropriations, the university appropsiation to become a recognized part of the budget; the amount of the blennial appropriation. however, to vary according to the university’'s needs. The Governor expressed the view that the amount needed bienniaily would be about $200,00. It was agreed that the form of the bill aporopriating $200,000, which Lukens intro- duced in the Senate and Foster in the As- sembly, should be changed somewhat. In the original bill none of the apFrnprlallon was to be made available until January. 192. This will be amended by making a portion, probabiy $50,000, available at onca. There {s some doubt whether the meas- ure transferring the $8000 in the Gov- | ernor’s mansion fund to the maintenance fund of the university will be a popular bill. It is certain that it will have the opposition of Sacramento, but unless it be withdrawn and a direct APprovrmt!on of $50,000 substituted it will probably be passed in spite of the opposition. e il feieieiels @ FTROTESTS AGAINST GAGE'S HEALTH BILLS Telegation From San Francisco Ap- pears Before Assembly Commit- tee on Judiciary. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 8.—A delegation from San | Francisco was before the Assembly Com- mittee on Judiclary this evening to pro- test against the Govsrnor's health bills. The bills before the committee were As- sembly bills 538 and 59, one to make the publication of the presence of contagious Jiseases a felony, unless the State Board of Health has previously declared the disease to exist, and ihe other compels local health boards o act directly under the authority of the State Board, and giv- ing the State Board control wherever and whenever it cares to cxereise ft. The delegation from San Francisco which came up to oppcse the bills was composed of W. R. Wheeler and Charles E. Naylor, of the Commerce Committee; Hugh Craig and Morric U. Bates, of the Chamber of Commercz: Willlam M. Bun- ker, of the Merchants' Association; H. D. Loveland, of the Board of Trade, and George Plummer, of the Shipowners' As- soclation. The committ.e was accompan- fed by Dr. Willlamson, president of the San_Francisco Board of Health, and Dr. A. P. O'Brien, Health Office of San Fran- cisco. Those who spoke were Naylor, Cralg, Willlamson, Bunker and Wheeler. Nay-: lor argued that, from a legal point of view, the Legislature could not pass a general law to %overn the city when 1t had ratified a charter that gzave to_the &ity a government of its own. Dr. Wil- the standpoint of a physician, describing the better position of the local board of health to find and control disease within the city, and the serious embarrassment-that :ould follow were it made but an appendage of the State body. He referred also to the in- consisteney which made dereliction of duty on the part of a iocal board of health or any of its attaches a felony, and stmi- lar dereliction on the vart of the State Board or any of its attaches, only a mis- demeanor. ‘The delegation was plied with questions as to the city’s objection to the authority of the State Board of Health, and the re- ply that the objection was on the theorv that the city best- knew its own internal needs, drew more questions as to the re- lations between the city and State. But the tables were turned and the dele- gation demanded why the existing order | of things should be upset and the author- ity of a competent board should be sup- pianted by one claimed to be no better. The session closed and the delegation was courteously dismissed. No action was taken upon the bills, that being reserved for a future meeting. - Us:s of Public Land. GELES, Feb. $.—An interesting onsututional Jaw was raised in Judge Wellborn’s court to-day In the case of the United States against Blas- ingame for alleged trespass on_Govern- ment land at Fresno. Judge Wellborn held in a previous decision in the same case, brought at that time as a criminal offénse. that Congress had no power to leave the making of rules and regula- tions governing forest reserve land to the Secretary of Interior. The present suit is brought for trespass and damage. The attorneys for the defense claim that by common law right sheep and cattle are allowed to range on Government prop- erty. 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