San Andreas independent., 1857-03-14
Veto Message.


nature the appropriation Bill, at late
hour, on Saturday, March 7th; 0his be-
ing its last day of grace,) and had the
bill failed to reach the Senate on that day,
1T would have become law, by limitation.
AS the document is one of the best and
ablest, yet emanating from the Governor,
we copy it, as also the proceedings of the
Senate IN reference to the matter. The
nrmness OF the Speaker prevented nice
little concoction, of shenanigan," to de-
Feat the purposes of the Message. The
following is the record, which commences
after the adjournment of the Imneacb.
ment Court:
Mr.. Cofroth moved that the Senate do
now adjourn
mr. McCallum rose to point of order
Inc PRESIDENT announced the question
TO be on the motion to adjourn.
~ message was announced from his Ex-
cellency the Governor.
The President said when tho mossa,.o
was announced in the usual manner be
would receive it. ~
Mr.. Cofroth appealed from the decision
of the Chair. The decision of the Chair
was sustained by the following vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Ashley, Bynum. Car.
penter, Chase, Cosby, Crandall. De Ia
Guerra, Ferguson, of Sierra, McCallum
McGee, Merritt, Norman, Shaw, Soule
Waite, Wilson, Walkup-17.
Noes-Messrs. Bell, Burnett, Cofrroth.
Dosh, Ferguson, of Sacramento, Fiske,
Goodwin, johnson, of Sacramento, John
son, of El Dorado, Melony, Mesick, Sui
liyan, Taliaferro, Westmoreland-14.
The following message from his Excel
lency the Governor was received:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
SACRAMENTO March 7th, 1857.
To the Senate Of California To
your honorable body, in which the same
originated, [ return without approval, can
Act making appropriations to defray the
civil expenses of the government from the
lst, of February, 1857, to the Both June,
1857, inclusive
In the performance of this official act,
it was my desire to have presented at
length the reasons which induced me to
withhold my approval; but physically in-
disposed as | have been since the same
was delivered to me, this fact must con-
stitute an apology for the brevity with
which SO important a subject is considered
AS to the constitutional power of the
Legislature to make all needful appropri-
ations for the expenses of the State gov
ernment, | entertain not a doubt and the
reasons why | do not approve this Act, are
independent of any such objections. This
Act appropriates two hundred and thirty
two thousand one hundred and sixty-nine
dollars and ninety-nine cts, 1922, ,169 .99),
to be expended from the first of February
to July of the present year, and for the
payment of the warrants SO to be drawn.
the holders OF the same must necessarily
look to the revenues to be paid into the
Treasury during the present fiscal YEAR
This amount, superadded to the necessary
expenditures of the preceding portions Of
the fiscal year, with no further dependence
than the existing revenue laws, will, by
the most liberal calculation, leave def
cheney on the first of July, of an amount
not less than three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, (s350,0O0.) We have,
as State, too long pursued similar sys-
tenn of expenditures, and now our embar
rasscd financial condition is presented as
the unavoidable result It may be too
late to retrieve the errors of the past, but
not to provide security for the present.
At the opening of the present session of
the Legislature, [ presented an exhibit of
the finances of the State, and the proba-
BILE condition of affairs on the first of July
next. BY that exhibit you were informed
that deficiency of at least three hundred
thousand (s300,00O) dollars during the
present fiscal year would exist, unless adj
ditional source of revenue, were rcsorted
to. Various suggestions were also made
of measures that could be adopted where
by the revenue could he increased, In nv
opinion amply sufficient to meet the neces-
sary wants of the government Now,
some two months of the session have clap
'scd, and although with the present Act an
amount exceeding three hundred thousand
dollars (S300, ,0oO) has been appropriated
by the Legislature, no measures as been
adopted whereby these expenditures are
to be met. Is it not quite time that we
should stop and reflect upon the condition
of affairs, and instead of making further
appropriations, first devise ways and means
to mcetthese expenditures Do this as a
preliminary step, aud then pass your APP
preparation bills for such purposes as are
necessary. but prohibiting the Controller
from issuing his warrants on the Treasury
!" any case. unless the money is there to
meet 1T; then will the State, for the first
] time in It's history have attainrd a nash