Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-18


has been in the mSrket with view to
It's sale to the State for an Executive
mansion. The fine building in which the
Governor now resides has also been offered
to the State for the same purpose on
several occasions. There is no doubt
that the appropriation was passed with a
view of purchasing one of the buildings.
If $75, 900 is paid for either, there will
be a commission of about one half that
amount to go to somebody. The State
has already had some experience in the
matter of Governors mansion. The
building in which the present State
printing office is located was erected for
that purpose. After spending $4,000
upon it, Governor Haight refused to oc-
oupy it. His reason was sound one.
1t would consume more than the
salary of the Executive to maintain an
establishment on SO grand a scale. The
| Stanford or the Gallatin mansion could
not be kept up at any less outlay than it
would have cost to run the old Cover
nor's building; SO that in selecting gen.
| tlemen to fill the Executive office here
after we shall be called upon to choose
them with view to their wealth. No
poor man, or man of only moderate for
tune, can afford to take the office
with the incumbrance of Cover.
nor's mansion. The regular approp.
ration bill by no means indicates
the amount of money voted out of the
Treasury by the Legislature. 1t will be
found when the list of special claims
acted favorably upon is before the public
that this Legislature has about doubled
the estimate made by the Controller a
the beginning of the last fiscal year. Tht
old debris claims have come up again ii
another shape after the appropriation
made four years ago to settle them. Th,
bill to establish Normal School in Sal
Francisco will incur vast expenditur,
without any need for this additiona
Normal School. The two Nor
NAL Schools already in exist
enee ought to be enough, in al
reason, to meet the needs of this Stat
for the training of new teachers. TIL
home for feeble-minded children i
another institution which is to be pro
> vided with large special and expensive
,establishment. That institution was get
ting along we'll enough in modest wa,
in the building leased for the purpose
Now it is to be set up with great estab
lishment of its own, and it will soon vi
l with the Insane Asylum in the cost of it
maintenance. Each succeeding Legisla
ture seems to surpass its predecessor il
3 extravaganza, and this one ha
reached degree of recklessnes
that ought to open the eye
: of taxpayers to the need of more Gil
T cumspection in the selection of repre-
: sentatives than has heretofore been be
!, slowed in the discharge of that importan
duty. Heretofore the San Francisco de
{ egation has been considered the grea
q Doodle element in the Legislature, an
|, the honest representatives from othe
counties have had to combine to proteC
g the State from its raids. But the lat
Legislature has developed yer
8 serious ramifcation of the boodl
element in the country, and th
g combinations for the passage of sus
Q pieious measures have embraced repre-
sentatives from all parts of the State
Unless the people pay more attention
practical politics hereafter, they will fin,
: their hard-earned money dissipated lik
water by future Legislatures.