Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-11

and all other corporations for it to
need reiteration from us now. We
desired to see the bill of the Com
of Transportation pass. !
But the Legislature was too en-
tirely under the dominion of the
railway-especially the Republican
portion of ito make the attain
ment of the aspirations of the
people practicable. The San Fran
cisco Chronicle, having commented
severely upon Gov. TWINS signing
of the Hart bill, Mr.. John Il,
Doyle, one of the Commissioner
of Transportation of California, ad-
dressed to that paper the following
suggestive comments:
The concluding paragraph of
your article on !" Fares and
Freights," published on Friday
last, seems to call for some reply
on my part, especially as ordinary
official reserve must close Governor
TWINS mouth on the subject. |
presume 1 am at liberty to state
that on the morning of the last
day of the session he desired me to
read the Hart bill, as amended in
the Senate, and to give him my
opinion on its practical operation
in various ways, if it became a law,
which 1 did. He did not ask, nor
did 1 offer, any advice as to
whether he should sign it. But 1
am now free to say that if he had
asked me and stated the circum-
stances, I should have unhesitat-
ingly advised him to sign it. The
circumstances were these: The
Hart bill had been some days in
his hands for consideration and he
had given no indication of signing
1t. On the contrary, reports were
rife that he would not do so. The
General Appropriation bill had
not been passed. 1t was entang!ed
In q dispute, as to details, between
the two Houses, on which neither
party would give way, and which
Committees of Conference had
failed to reconcile. Mr.. futile had
during the previous week been
nominated for Insurance Commits
sioner, and was on Monday morn
ing confirmed by the Senate. I'M
mediately afterwards, at the re-
quest of the Governor, and with
his own consent, the confirmation
was reconsidered and the name of
another gentleman substituted, and
now we have Mr.. futile gazetted
as Transportation Commissioner
under the new law. My conjecture
is this: That the differences on the
| appropriation bill were all a sham,
q sort of comedy, enacted under
the direction of lobby stage man.
the Governor was informed by au-
thority that the farce would
be kept up and no appropriation
bill passed unless he approved the
Hart bill and gave the railroad
men the selection of the Commits
sioner. He thus had presented to
him as alternatives: First, to lose
the appropriation bill and under
take to carry on the State govern
ment for year and a half without
dollar of money available to pay
expenses; or, second, to call to-
gether that same Legislature, with
power to sit for an unlimited time,
and do unlimited mischief; or,
third, to sacrifice the Transporta-
ton Commission and consent to
the creation of a new one, to be
nominated by the railroad com pa
MES. Of the three evils he chose
the least. You may not agree with
him, but can You say he did
wrong? Your intimation that he
was influenced by the promise of
the next Senatorship is entirely
repealed by his veto of the Tobin
bill, donating to the railroads the
streets in Mission Bay. There was
bill with "millions in IT," against
which no voice had been raised,
because it slipped through both
houses entirely unobserved. The
people are indebted to Gov. Irwin
for arresting more bad legislation
this year than was ever before pre-
sented to the Executive at once.
Beg st to him, and do not assume,
because you fail to see the eXpla-
nation of an isolated fact, that
there was bad motive for it.