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pany, whom Deputy Donovan did not
know, appeared and told the men to disre
gard the orders of the Street Superin
tendent, and the gangs of men resumed
their labors.
"Go to the office of the Chief of Police
and get as many officers as you may re
quire."' said superintendent Ashworth to
his deputy. "Take three, and if that is not
enough get more. Stop the work at once.
The company has no franchise there. If
the men refuse to obey you have them ar
rested. I want you to stop that work."
In speaking of the matter yesterday aft
ernoon Mr. Eagan said:
"I don't know anything at all about the
abandonment of the franchise, but I sup
pi -s»' the railroad company had good rea
sons for rushing the work through. I put
six hundred men to work here at 6 o'clock
this morning. If there had been room for
more men to work I would have engaged
them. I shall keep a gang of men »t work
all night, and the work of tracklaying and
grading will continue until all is finished
a.- specified in my orders. I will have a
hearing in the Police Court to-morrow, but
that will not cause any delay to the work
in hand."
From early morning until sunset gangs
of men were at work tearing up the street,
laying ties and placing tracks. The crew
(.■•insisted of 800 picked railroad builders
and 125 teams accustomed to such work.
Thomas Egan was in charge of the work
and kept a steady motion all along the
line. By 5 o'clock three-quarters of a mile
of track was in position. From Sixteenth
street to Ridley the work went on. Poles
to carry the wires were placed on either
side of the street as East as the electrical
men could accomplish their work.
Just about the time the men were be
ginning to get hungry Sergeant Hanna,
(npanied by two officers, appeared on
the scene and placed Foreman Egan and
1 it assistant, John Hall, under arrest on a
charge of misdemeanor, preferred by
Deputy Superintendent of Streets Donovan.
llanna started for the Southern police
station with his prisoners, but on the way
downtown met 11. H. Lynch, the superin
tendent of the work, who immediately put
up $20 bail for each man. He promised to
discontinue the work at 6 o'clock and both
prisoners were at once released. They
went back to their duties, and at ti o'clock
erased. But when the workmen had se
cured a bite to eat the prohibited construc
tion went on. All night long headlight
lanterns flashed along the newly laid
track while screws were tightened and ties
tamped by the weary laborers.
The company proposes to hold the line
now that a portion of the track has been
laid, and from the remarks of Foreman
Doyle instructions were issued to go ahead
with the work at all hazards. He said:
■What can a handful of police do with
this. crowd? Suppose they send out ten
men to stop the work. They could only
lake twenty men from here at the best, and
that would not cripple us. We are going
to lay this track even if the entire police
force of San Francisco is sent out here.
The roadbed will not be entirely com
pleted, but it will be a railroad just the
same."
Shortly after 11 o'clock last nigbtoneof
the bobtail cars which have been freely ad
vertised for sale by the company was
taken out Market street and placed on the
weal >ide of the newly laid track. The
precaution of having a passenger on board
the iirst car on the line was not overlooked
by the railroad managers. A man was
placed inside the car with a number of offi
cial:-, and with all due solemnity deposited
a nickel in the slot.
The car was run down the track by hand,
with all its lights burning,' «hd left at the
Sixteenth-street end in charge of one of
the tampers. It will remain there until
this morning, when it will again be pushed
aiong the line in order to substantiate the
technical grounds of the line being in op
eration.
< faptain Lees was asked what action the
Police Department would take in the mat
ter. He said: "When the Superintendent
of Streets calls upon the Police Depart
ment for assistance in the carrying out of
the law, the department will promptly re
spond. Ido not intend to jeopardize the
bondsmen of the Chief by taking any ac
tion not warranted by law. We cannot
stop the work upon any of these ruads un
less called upon to do so by the Superin
tendent of Streets, as we know nothing
about it officially. Mr. Ashworth has not
asked us to take any steps in the matter
as yet. 1 '
'•Would you stop the work if requested
by the chief deputy of the Superinten
dent?" — -^-"
"No, sir. We can only recognize the
Superintendent himself in such a case.
We have a squad of men ready to go out if
Mr. Ashworth calls for them, but he has
not done so to-night."
By daylight this morning the work will
practically be completed, and the Southern
Pacific will be in possession of Church
street.
In regard to the Church-street grab of
the railroad company, Mayor Sutro said
last night that he had ordered the Super
intendent of Streets and the Chief of Police
to see to it that the work was stopped.
When spoken to about the matter Jast
sight, Superintendent of Streets Ashworth
saH that he was told by Clerk Russell of
the Board of Supervisors that the Market
street Company had no franchise on Church
street.
He said he would do nothing about Cali
fornia street, as he did not know whether
the company had a franchise for that
thoroughfare or not.
Tt is very likely that injunctions will be
sued out the first thing this morning to
prevent the railroad company from going
on with their work.
Superintendent of Streets Ashworth did
not know that any work was being done
on Church street until 2 o'clock this morn
ing, when he was informed by his chief
deputy, A. J. Donovan.
He went at once tq the Central police
station and called upon Captain Douglass
for assistance to stop the work. Sergeant
Birdsall was ordered to take squads of men
from the central and north-end stations
and proceed to Church and Market streeti
and stop the work.
POLICE m THE SCEJE.
Eighteen Workmen Arrested and the
Others (Jo Home.
Superintendent Ashworth and Sergeant
Birdsall with his squad reached Church
street at 2:45 this morning. They found
about 600 men at work. Ashworth ordered
them to desist, but they declared they
were not there to obey his orders.
He then turned to Sergeant Hirdsall and
asked him to arrest the men. The police
began at once to place the workmen under
arrest. The patrol wagon was at hand
and eighteen of the men were placed in it
and taken to the Central police station.
At 3 o'clock this morning the men laid
down their tools and the construction
of the railroad ceased. Foreman
Egan and his two assistants vig
orously protested, but finally decided
that the police held the winning hand.
They went with the superintendent to the
City Prison and gave bail for the im
prisoned laborers.
NO LEXOW THIS TIME.
Death of the Scheme of
Investigation.
m FRANCISCO LET ALOE.
To Manage Her Own Affairs in Her
Own Way.
DEATH OF THE BILL IS CAUCUS.
Even the Democrats Supposed to Be
Enthusiastic Deserted the Sinking
S!np at the. Last.
Sacramento, Feb. 7.— The Republican
Senators in caucus this afternoon buried the
corpse of the Lexow commission. There
was not a voice raised against the inter
ment, and this is the last that will be heard
of the inquisition bill at this session un
less some zealous student seeks to resur
rect it as a sort of Frankenstein, in which
event it will turn on its creator. The Re
publicans say that if any further propo
sition is made to bring up the' bill they will
so amend it that the appointing power will
rest with the Legislature and the duties of
the commission will be to recount the
gubernatorial vote in San Francisco.
At the Assembly caucus this evening the
Lexow proposition was not even accorded
a discussion. There was quite a wrangle
over the question of reducing the number of
attaches,but no definite result was reached.
There was to have been a joint Republican
caucus at 8 o'clock to-night, but as only
live Senators appeared the meeting ad
journed about two minutes after it was
called to order. The Lexow proposition
now has scarcely a dozen supporters. The
Democrats even denounce it.
"I would not vote for such a bill. It is
un-Dcmocratic,"' said Senator Gesford of
Napa.a Democrat. The Call in its editorials
expresses my- views of the bill. I do not
want to see any inquisition commission ap
pointed and vested with such autocratic
powers."
Governor Bttdd signed the contingent ex
pense bill to-day, and so the friction be
tween the executive and legislative depart
ments has been finally removed with no re
sultant ill-feeling.
Grove P. Ayers of the Board of Super
visors arrived from San Francisco to-night.
He i« indignant at the mention of the pro
posa] to Lexow San Francisco. "The
proposition is an outrage," said he. "It is
a deliberate insult to San Francisco. We
are able to manage our own affairs, and we
will suffer dictation from no outsiders.
There will be no State inquisition board to
czar it over San Francisco."
Senator Orr's resolution for the appoint
ment of a committee to investigate the
election frauds in San Francisco was on
the Senate calendar as a special order this
morning. On motion of Orr the special
order went over until to-morrow morning.
Smith caused a commotion by offering a
resolution that the Judiciary Committee
be requested to hold but three sessions a
week. He explained that the Judiciary
Committee seemed to be the only one
which was doing any work, and that so
many members of the judiciary were
chairmen and members of other commit
teeg that it was impossible to get these
committees together. He said they inva
riably pleaded a press of work in the Ju
diciary Committee. Senator McGowan,
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, de
sired to explain, and said he could prove
an alibi for several members of the Judi
ciary Committee, who were being accused
of doing too much wArk in his committee.
He said there were several of them who
seldom came into the committee-room,
and if "they claimed to Senator Smith to
the contrary their statements were far
from being truthful. He declared that
Senators Earl, Simpson, Aram and himself
were the only members of the Judiciary
Committee who attended its meetings with
any regularity.
Gesford rose to a question of privilege,
declaring he had attended every meeting
of the Judiciary Committee except on sev
eral days when he had been absent from
the city on other legislative business.
Smith's resolution was finally adopted.
McGowan's bill providing that all prac
ticing attorneys must be admitted before
the State Supreme Court was passed.
The uniform liquor license bill, which
was introduced at the instance of the San
Francisco Liquor-dealers' Association, was
withdrawn upon the request of Mahoney.
The Judiciary Committee was to have
given a hearing to-morrow night to the
various parties interested in this measure.
The liquor men are said to have given up
the fight.
The Committee on Public Buildings re
ported adversely on the bills for the pur
chase of a Governor's mansion in Sacra
mento and for the establishing of a State
Normal School at San Diego on a site do
nated by the citizens. The committee also
recommended appropriations of $92,000 for
the maintenance and improvement of the
normal school at Los Angeles and $105,400
for improvements at Highlands Insane
Asylum near San Bernardino.
Quite a batch of new bills appeared.
Senator Hoyt asked for an appropriation
of |5000 to pay the claim of Philip Bauer,
whose right foot was injured while serving
in the National Guard last July. Senator
Gleaves sent up a bill which provides for
the licensing of public accountants and
authorizes the Governor to appoint a com
mittee of seven to examine and license ap
plicants.
Senator Langford seeks to amend the code
by providing that on the decease of a man
intestate his wife shall inherit all of the
community property. Senator Earl asks
for an appropriation of $10,000 to be held
in trust by the State University and to be
applied to the assistance of such High
schools as maintain a year's laboratory
course in physics and the same in chem
istry.
Senator Toner offered a bill providing
that no child under 14 years of age shall
be employed in any factory, workshop or
mercantile institution, and that a record
of all youths between the ages of 14 and 18
employed in such institutions must be tiled
with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A
bill by Senator Whitehurst provides for the
formation of protection districts for the
improvement and rectification of unnavi
gable streams. The bill authorizes the Su
pervisors to form such districts and to lew
assessments on the property benefited
when petitioned to do so by ten property
holders. The proposition is to protect low
lands from overflow.
Senator Mathews offered a bill which
will fix the municipal elections in cities of
the second class on the second Monday of
THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1895.
March, 1896, and the same date for every
following even numbered year.
A bill authorizing the formation of
county agricultural societies and appropri
ating $11,000 for each association so formed
was introduced by Senator Gleaves..
Senator Franck offered a bill providing
that one inspector of health shall be ap
pointed for every 25,000 people in each city.
Two bills, together appropriating $1700
for the secretary of the Debris Commis
sion, were introduced by Senator Ford.
Senator Hart introduced a bill appro
priating $3000 to pay the claim of the State
Agricultural Society, and another appro
priating blank thousand dollars for the re
lief of August Zimmerman.
THEY LOST THEIR TEMPERS.
All Is Not Harmonious in the Matter
Legislative Retrenchment.
Sacramknto, Feb. 7.— A caucus of the Re
publican members of the Assembly-devel
oped the fact to-night that the resolution
of the Retrenchment Committee and the
Committee on Attaches would not meet
with the approval of the entire house. The
meeting was held with closed doors and a
lively fight ensued, in which many of the
legislators lost their tempers and said
things that they would not have given
utterance to had they not been influenced
by passion.
Brusie of Sacramento made a plea to re-'
tain the attaches. To discharge them, he
urged would be unwise to say the least, as
it would be a virtual admission of the
claim of the minority tbat men had been
put in merely because they had done
political service. This aroused Phelps,
who is one of the strongest advocates for
retrenchment. He wanted right to be
done at any cost, ' and all unnecessary
clerks discharged.
Bettman urged that one or two of the
hardest working clerks in the Assembly
had been put on the list. He mentioned
one man especially who had worked hard
every day. The clerk was a useful man
Mho earned his salary, yet they were going
to drop him.
Spencer here took the floor to state that
they had advised the discharge only of
those who had been declared unnecessary
by the heads of their departments. He
wanted honesty and economy to rule.
This made some- one refer to the number
of people who had been placed at Spencer's
request. lie tried to explain that one of
the clerks had been put in really by Thomas
of Nevada. Hatfield and Weyse at once
objecting to the using of the name of the
gentleman who was absent. Spencer in
sisted on explaining. Chairman Wade
ordered the Lassen Assemblyman to be
orderly. No attention was paid to the
chair, and a hubbub arose and cries of
"Time" and "Order" drowned the Speak
er's gavel. At last Spencer gave up the
struggle to be heard, and wild with indig
nation, grabbed his hat and left the room.
There was no further disturbance.
Belshaw 6f Antioch urged the passage of
the resolution. He wanted retrenchment,
and he protested that if the members had
political debts to pay they should settle
them from their own pockets. Cutter of
Yolo was also a speaker for retrenchment.
Dinkelspiel was in favor of moderation.
He thought discretion should be used in
numbering those to be dropped from the
paylist, and cited an instance of a man
from Solano, a hard worker, and editor of
a paper, and a man who earned his salary,
who was among the unfortunates. He
was unwilling to put that man out and
leave others less worthy in office. There
were many othe; speakers, but the major
ity present showed that they were either
against the resolution in whole or in part.
There was no joint caucus. Fully forty
Republican Assemblymen were present,
but only four Senators put in an appear
ance, and at 8 o'clock, after some time
waiting for a quorum in vain, the meeting
adjourned.
Charles Sonntag is here with a bill which
will be introduced in the lower house by
Assemblyman Dixon to-morrow. Its pur
pose is to amend the code that the San
Francisco charter drafted by the Free
holders may be voted upon at a special
election in April instead of waiting until
the next general election.
Dr. McNutt and Judge Slack of San
Francisco arrived to-night. They are here
to urge the Legislature to make an appro
priation of |250,000 for the erection of a
building in San Francisco for the accom
modation of the affiliated colleges.
There was a crowded gathering of news
paper men and interested spectators in the
Senate chamber to-night when the Senate
Committee on Finance and the Assembly
Committee on Ways and Means met in
joint session to consider the newspaper
bills for advertising the constitutional
amendments voted upon at the last elec
tion. There was quite a discussion as to
what the term "square" meant, partici
pated in by H. L. C. Barnes of the Bulle
tin, Val McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee,
E. B. Willis of the Record-Union, A. J.
Lemmon of the Santa Rosa Democrat and
representatives of the Alameda Argus, the
Santa Cruz Sentinel, the papers published
in foreign languages in San Francisco and
many of the interior publications. The
aggregate of the bills is $109,000. It was
suggested that the papers be separated into
classes, according to circulation and stand
ing. Most of the questions were pro
pounded by Senators Voorheis and Biggy
and Assemblymen Brusie and Laugenour.
Finally the representatives of the vari
ous papers were called to state the basis of
their charges and the circulation of their
papers. Senator Smith created much
amusement by jocosely replying that the
circulation of his paper, the Kern Echo,
was very big. After some remarks by
William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune,
11. P. Squire of the Oakland Times and
Mr. Hicster of the Report, the committee
adjourned, taking the bills under advise
ment.
The Senate Committee on Corporations
decided to report favorably Assemblyman
McKelvey's bill legalizing the creation of
mutual insurance companies. Senator
McGowan's bill on the same mibject will
be reported without recommendation.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary dis
cussed the proposition to-night of the consti
tutionality of applying the postal primary
law to the larger cities of the State only,
such as San Francisco, <. akland and Los
Angeles. ______________
Sacramento Favored by the Pres*.
Sackamexto, Feb. 7.— At a meeting of the
executive committee of the California
Press Association here to-night a resolu
tion was adopted calling on all the papers
connected with the association and request
ing all others to begin an agitation in favor
of having the national political conven
tions of 1896 held in California.
Grand Army Men of Santa Cnit.
Sattta Crfz, Feb. 7.— This evening two
Gr.md Army posts were consolidated. De
partment officers were present, and the
consolidation was followed by a banquet.
Do you ask for a test of SOZODOXT'S power,
.Mist talk to a lady for half an liour;
If her breath is sweet, if her teeth are wliite
If her gums are clran, if her gums are brißht,
If her mouth is pure and her teeth are clean,
She uses the SOZODOKT, then, we wren.
NEXT MONDAY NIGHT
Woman Suffrage Comes
Before the Assembly.
COURTESY TO THE LADIES.
Oiven the Hall for a Meeting on a
Rising Vote.
THEY WILL SPEAK FOR THEIR BILLS.
It Has Come to the Front as the Most
Important Question Before the
Legislature.
Sacramento, Feb. 7.— A request was
made by Dixon of the San Francisco delega
tion this morning that the Assembly cham
ber be given up to-morrow night to the
ladies for a woman-suffrage meeting. Dink
elspiel, also of San Francisco, seconded the
motion, and a quick debate ensued, those
opposing the suffrage movement actively,
both Republicans and Democrats, speaking
spiritedly against the proposed courtesy.
JUDGE SPENCER OF LASSEN, THE CHAMPION OF WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
[Sketched by a "Call" artist.]
A viva voee vote resulted in a howl of
"noes" that created shouts of "division"
and "call the roll" from all sides. The
opposition then dwindled down to seven
votes, and as fifty-three votes were given
in the affirmative, the ladies will speak for
their bill. Among the speakers who have
already signified their intention of deliver
ing ten-minute addresses are Mrs. Laura
de Force Gordon, Mrs. Nellie Holbrook
Blinn, Mrs. Sturtevant Peet, Miss Laura
M. Tilden, attorney-at-law, Mrs. Judge
Spencer, Mme. Sorbier, Mrs. Newsome and
Mrs. Teats.
There was an unusual number of spec
tators in the Assembly this morning who
came in the expectation of hearing a con
tinuance of the woman's suffrage debate.
They were disappointed, however. Spen
cer's bill had been relegated to the line of
•unfinished business, and Barker's consti
tutional amendment, which was also a
special order for yesterday, was sent down
to th« end of the special tile. It was ex
pected that Spencer would attempt to
bring up his bill by a suspension of the
rules. This was not done, and when he
moved that its consideration be made a
special order for Monday evening at 7 :30
o'clock the motion was carried by a hand
some majority.
Swislcr of El Dorado" then moved that
the constitutional amendment of Barker
be also made a special order for Monday
evening. There was a murmur of assent,
but Bachman of Fresno was on his feet in
opposition.
"I voted against Mr. Spencer's bill," he
said, "and am opposed to it. But I helped
push the constitutional amendment
through the committee and will urge its
passage in the House. Now, I don't want
these two mixed up. Let us take them one
at a time."
Barker, who is a stanch supporter of the
extension of the suffrage, urged that the
motion be adopted. He was fearful that
the amendment might be reached before
the bill came to vote. In that case a num
ber of Republicans who are opposed to
women casting the ballot would vote for
the amendment and then refuse to vote for
the bill on the ground that they had car
ried out their pledges. The motion was
carried and both measures will be consid
ered Monday night.
An attempt was made to railroad the gen
eral appropriation bill through the Assem
bly this morning. It was the special order
for the day, but as no copies of the bill'had
been received by the members, Brusie's
motion that the bill be considered at once
was voted down. BJedsoe of Humboldt
claimed that three-fourths of the members
of the House were not acquainted with the
measures of the proposed act. It was too
important a matter to be passed over has
tily. He therefore moved that the bill no
over till Monday. A second to the motion
was at once made by Laugeaour.
Brusie was on his feet at the time. In a
sarcastic way he announced that the gen
tleman from Humboldt was unfortunate.
He thought ample time to consider the
matter had been allowed, as the members
had had the bills on their desks for three
days.
Bachinan declared that he had not seen
the bill till this morning. Spencer ob
jected to forcing a bill on which so much
depended. The Assembly, he urged, could
not afford to rush over in a hurried man
npr the appropriating of the moneys to pay
the expenses of the State institutions. It
was then decided to made the bill the spe
cial order for 11 o'clock to-morrow morn
ing. The bill contains many features to
which a large portion of the Legislature is
decidedly opposed.
Among the important bills introduced
was one from the Judiciary Committee
fixing the legal rate of interest at 6 per cent
instead of 7, as it is at present. The maxi
mum rate of interest to be allowed was
made 10 per cent.
Dinkelspiel of San Francisco introduced
a bill which provides for the payments of
judgments against the city without the
red tape accompanying other bills. It also
demands that the amount due on outstand
ing judgments be included each year in the
tax levy. A second bill by the same gentle
man provides for a one-brigade organiza
tion of the National Guard.
COLONEL IRISH IS MUCH PLEASED.
He Says the Report on the Blind Home
Is Satisfactory.
Sacramento, Feb. 7.— Colonel John P.
Irish says the report of the committee
who visited the Oakland Home for the
Adult Blind will bring joy to the hearts of
the broom-makers of San Francisco who
employ Chinese. These men, he claims,
are getting up a petition to the Legislature
to close the institution because it com
petes with them.
"I am much pleased with the report,"
he said. "It admits that the property we
paid $26,000 for has advanced in value to
$100,000. It also admits that our superin
tendent is a man of marked ability and
that the condition of the buildings and
grounds is good, and therefore the super
intendent should be dismissed and the
management deposed. A dirty bathtub, a
few soiled beds and untidy inmates, and
the complaints of others were considered
to offset the good judgment exhibited by
the management in other particulars."
Colonel Irish insisted that of the directors
George Morrow, N. W. Spaulding and
Frank Leach were in harmony with him.
The only irreconcilable one he says is Fred
A. Campbell.
FIRE AT SALIXAS.
Considerable Damage none at Monterey's
County Seat.
Salinas, Feb. 7.— An alarm of fire was
sounded shortly after noon to-day, the fire
being in the Wonder, a milinery-store
occupied by Mrs. D. Liebrandt. The place
was totally destroyed. The insurance
amounted to $1000. The adjoining cigar
stand, kept by C. F. Sc,huchard and the
real estate office of ,T. W. Rowling were
badly damaged by smoke and water. The
cigar-stand was insured for $300. The real
estate office and 'building belonged to
Elisha Archer and no insurance was upon
it. The total loss was about $2000. The
lire Mas caused by a coal-oil stove in the
milinery-store.
To Reopen a Washington Mine.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 7.— The Co-opera
tive Company is being organized to reopen
the Renton coal mine, ten miles south of
this city, which has been closed for the
last eight years. It was last operated by
Mr. Simpson of San Francisco, but when
his miners struck he closed it and has
never reopened it. The company, with
$100,000 capital stock, will be composed of
miners and consumers, none of whom will
be allowed to vote more than ten shares,
and expects to employ about 300 men.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla is prepared by experienced
pharmacists, and, by reason of its peculiar
combination, proportion and process, it
possesses peculiar curative powers. It
purifies, enriches and vitalizes the blood,
tones the stomach and digestive organs
and builds up the system. Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Has the largest sales in the world, and the
laboratory in which it is prepared is the
largest building on the face, of ( the earth
devoted exclusively to the proprietary
medicine business. This tells more con-
vincingly than volumes of written argu-
ments could do that Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cures
Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner
IMlls. assist digestion, cure headache. 25c.
IT COSTS TOO MUCH
Move to Abolish the State
Printing, Office.
BUDD IS II FAVOR OF IT
As a Measure of Economy for the
,Stak
PROPOSED CIIMGE IX THE MILITIA.
There Will Be '■( a Vanishing of Gold
Lace if the New Law Is
Passed.
. ■ — : ...
Sacramento, Feb. 7.— A strong effort
which has the active support of Governor
Budd is now being made to abolish the
office of Public Printer. This would prob
ably have to be done through a constitu
tional amendment. The printing estab
lishments of San Francisco are in favor of
the abolition of the office. George F. Neal
of Ssm Francisco, manager of the Com
mercial Publishing Company, is here in
the interest of the proposed amendment.
Some time ago he addressed a circular let
ter to every member of the Legislature,
calling attention to the extravagant price
which the State pays for its printing, and
citing the fact that but one other State in
the Union, Nevada, maintained a State
printing office. Mr. Neal called on the
Governor to-day and had a long audience
with him, in which he fortified his position
in favor of the abolition of the office by
masses of statistics.
The Governor has for some time past
been engaged in gathering data on the sub
ject and will probably submit the result
to the Legislature shortly recommending
the abolition of the office.
In a circular addressed to the Legislature
Mr. Neal says: "We will call your atten
tion to one thing, and that is that the city
of San Francisco gets her printing done
for less than one-third of what the State
pays for the same amount of work."
Then Mr. Neal asks: "Why not frame a
law so as to let the work out to the lowest
bidder, allowing him the use of the State
plant to do the work with, and holding the
contractor responsible for any damage that
the plant might receive other than the
natural wear and tear? The public printer
could still be maintained with his $3000 a
year salary as an inspector of work that
might be done by the contractor."
Mr. Neal cites figures to show that
Nevada, with about half the population of
Arizona and maintaining a State printing
office, pays five times as much as the Terri
tory does for its printing. He also cites
figures to substantiate his claim that there
is not a State in the Union which pays
half as much for its printing as California.
He declares his willingness to put up a
bond to do for $50,000 the printing tliat
costs the state $220,000.
These statements have made an impres
sion on the Legislature, so much so that
Assemblyman Phelps has called a special
meeting of the Retrenchment Committee
for Monday night, at which Mr. Neal will
make an address on the waste of State
money through the maintenance of a pub
lic printing ohMce.
The cost of printing for the year 1893-94
in the several States according to figures
in the Governor's possession is as follows:
California, $287,469 15; lowa, $88,738 06;
Massachusetts, including the ballots for
one year and the printing for the city of
Boston, $123,106 54: New Jersey, $49,426' 40;
Ohio, one year, $69,501 61; Wisconsin,
$59,890 05; Texas, $31,837 52.
The Committee on Military Affairs of
the Assembly has appointed a sub-com
mittee of three, consisting of Powers of
San Francisco, McKelvey and Kenyon of
Los Angeles to draft a substitute bill for
the four submitted to the Assembly. They
have decided upon an organization of sev
enty companies, sixty of which are to be
infantry, live in the naval battalion, one in
the cavalry and four to be decided upon by
the sub-committee. With this as a basis
the sub-committee are to draft their bill.
Since both Powers and McKelvey have
bills providing for a one-brigade organiza
tion there is no doubt as to the main
feature that will mark the new bill.
The entire Assembly committee is in
sympathy with that movement. It is the
Senate committee that is divided. Senator
Pedlar wants the Fourth Brigade, that
will give Fresno a general. This is true on
general grounds and because General
Muller of Fresno is his brother-in-law.
Senator Gleaves thinks that if four brig
ades are allowed, a fifth may follow, and
then the veteran Brigadier-General Mont
gomery of Chico will have a chance to
retain his command. The Military Com
mittee will fight Brusie's general appro
priation bill, which has cut off all the
allowances to the National Guard except
about two-thirds of what is needed for
armory rent.
Dr. R. Beverly Cole, \V. R. Searby, Pro
fessor Jones and Professor Soule of the
State University appeared before the Sen
ate Committee on Public Buildings this
afternoon to urge the necessity of the pass
ing of the bill introduced by Senator Bert
appropriating $250,000 for a building for the
affiliated colleges. It was stated that the
medical college, the law college, the dental
college and the college of pharmacy were
absolutely in need of such a building ; that
the present facilities were inadequate, and
that the colleges were seriously hampered
in their work from the lack of suitable
accommodations and facilities. Senator
Burke argued at some length in support of
the bill. After a prolonged difeeusnon it
was decided to report the bill to the
Finance Committee, with a recommenda-
tion that it pa. e s.
The Senate Committee on Finance is
making a record fdr economy. The cost to
the State for aid to the aged indigent is
$400,000 a year. The Senate Finance Com
mittee recommended that this expendi
ture be discontinued, and the Senate
acquiesced. The bill repealing the act
granting this aid has now gone to the As
sembly.
The Finance Committee has given its
disapproval to the Jordan claim for $161,
--000, but strenuous efforts are being made
to get it to reverse its decision.
Edgar Haymond, H. M. Clement and J.
M. Chretien have been here for some days
past in the contested election cases in tne
Assembly. The Committee on Elections
of the lower house will report to-morrow
recommending a recount of the Thirty-first,
Thirty-fourth and Forty-second Assembly
districts in San Francisco, and will request
permission to go to San Francisco and re
count the ballots on Sunday next. Inci
dentally snap shots may be taken on other
votes while the recount is going on.
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