Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-12
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IN accordance with these figures we subnit
the following, as substitute for the resolution
Res0tred, That the Controller be and he is
hereby direc ed to draw his warrant upop the
contingent fund OF the Assembly for the sum of
one hundred and twenty four dollars and
eighty-seyen and one half cen S lSI24 S7IA in
favor of f. j. Zeehandelsar, Secretarv OF tbe
Joint Commit es on Memorial Exercises as the
Assembly's portion of the expenses of the me-
moral services in respect to the memory of the
late Governor Washington Bartlett held on Feb
rllary 6, 1889.
In offering our report in favor of the amounts
set forth we do not claim that all of the sums
suggested are positively due the Claimants
The -licacy of the question in hand prevents
us from suggesting the extreme eensure which
we believe Is due the authors of some of these
extorionate charges; but we hope that the fact
that the tn asury of the State is considered a
legitimate field for plumber will not prompt
others who desire to fill depleted purses to at
tempt such raids upon it.
We consider, further, that the printing for this
occasion should properly have been executed at
the State Printing Office.
Signed by IaGrave, Wear, Holmes, MuIvey,
Mathews asked to have the report put in the
journal.
Ostrom thought the original bill was exorbi-
tant, but the commit ee had cut it down only
SOL, and. as matter of delicacy which would
not admit of much discussion, he thought the
Assembly had better pay the amount first asked
for and get it out of the way.
The speaker thought the bills had been con-
tracted very careessly, and he also thought
they were outrageously high, and he advised
the members to hurry home and not die in Sac
ramento.
Dobbin wanted the bill paid He said the lob
OF printing the invitations had been given to a
hrstclass san Francisco firm that paid TOP prices
TO its worknen, and they had but a short time
three deys-to ge' that particular job ont
Wear thought the bill was much too high. be-
sides the work could have been done quicker and
cheaper in the State Printing Office where it
properly belonged.
seaweil was convinced that the best disposi-
ton OF the matter was TO pass the resolution to
pay the amount OF the original bill
Holmes thought it was absurd TO get into such
a wTangle over this bill, which had passed
through the hands of the Committee on Public
Printing. 1t looked very much as if the sec
retary of the joint committee on memorial
services mad made snug commission in the
matter
The Speaker said he hated to have any dis
cusslon over so deicate matter, but he had
been looking up prices fer printing on his own
account, and he found that the invitations could
have been printed at job Office in Sacramento
for So They could have gott. n a finer ion for
sl2, and the very best for $40 or $50. The lob
printer had offered TO fit him out with a iull
set of statlUnery-cards billheads letter paper
and envelopes for his Fdendsle kanch-all for
$50 He again advised his hearers not TO die in
SACRAMENTO.
Brierly thought it was peculiarly fitting that
this bill should be carefully scrutinized by the
Assembly. The late Governor Bartlett himself
always looked out and guarded against little
steals as well as big ones. There Nas no i'm
propricty in looking closely into this affair es
pecially when 1t showed such glaring extray-
aganee as paying S2o for a lot ofold secondhand
black drspng.
Mathews said this was but another of the cases
where careless business methods had resulted
in eXtravagance. II was quite probable that
The state was being robbed. But he did not see
how 1t could be prevented at this stage of the
game 1t seemed as if the only thing to do was
to pay the bill.
Ostr IN. on behalf OF the Assembly Committee.
wished to say that they had not been consulted
in the matter. The bills were contracted by the
Secretary of the Joint Committee under direction
OF the committee from the other House. His
own committee did not hesitate to denounce
the wrong doing and extrays gance which had
prevailed IN this matter. The Committee on
Public Printing was deserving of praise because
Il had the moral courage to say what they
thought to be right.
The report of the committee was adopted.
POSTPONED AGAIN
The special order, S. B. 3S2, to appropriate
So 500 for the purpose Of employing and appoint
| ing counsel for the purpose of defending the
Scott Exclusion Act, was taken up, and on
| motion of Storke, the reco,. .sideration of the
vote whereby It was lost was postponed until
tomorrow at O'Clock P. II.
The special file was taken up. and A. B. Sc,
| to furnish children of the public schools with
the free use of ext-boQks, wa; read the second
GMr, Dobbin in the chair
a. b. 54, the omnibus BILL" amending
numerous sections Of the Political Code, relat-
tLnS W thS PuOi1C SciOOisi WAS on moIlOn OF MIR.
Crawford. taken up out of order, read the second
time, and amended.
On motion OF Shapahan, A. B. 54l, appropri-
a Ing $4,000 for the contingent expenses of the
Assembly, was declared case of urgency and
passed.
At sos o'clock the Assembly took recess
until 80 p. NJ.
Evening Session.
Assembly met at 7:35 o'clock, Speaker Howe
in the chair, aud devoted the session to first
reading of bills and receiving reports of stand
ing committees. At $40 O'Clock adjourned un
til tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock