The record-union., 1891-04-07
FIFTY CENT LIMIT.
The Governor Has a Hard Time Keep
ing Within it.
He Does it by Eliminating Various
Appropriations-IIe Gives His
Reasons for His Action.

MS signature, give legality to bills In his
possession passed by the last Legislature.
1t was busy day in the Executive office,
as he had to give audience to number of
members of the Legislature and others
who wished to present arguments in sup
port of measures in which they were in
terested.
There were forty-four unsigned bills in
all, and he attested his signature to
twenty of them.
Police Judge Cravens, City Attorney
Hart and several other Sacramentans
urged the Governor to sign the gambling
license bill, but they were disappointed.
The following were the only ones that
received his approval:
A. B. 747. For the relief of Agnes
Lynch. (Signed on condition that the
money shall be invested to the best adj
vantage, the interest to be used for her
support.)
S. B. 53l. Allowing two deputies to the
Supreme Court at Los Angeles.
A. b. 377. Appropriating $4,000 to pay
for skilled labor heretofore used at Fol-
som Prison.
S. B. y. Appropriation for Reform
School at Whittier.
S. B. $50. Appropriation for Normal
School at Chico.
s. B. "A. Appropriation for improve
ments at Folsom.
). B. 900. Appropriation for Southern
California State Hospital for Insane.
s. b. l3l. Appropriation for Home for
Predetermined.
y. B. rs. Appropriation for claim of G.
b. Montgomery.
5. b. l72. Appropriation for claim of
William 81. Murphy.
:. b. 290. Appropriation for State Nor
NAL School at San Jose.
5. y. ga. Appropriation for the Sacra-
mento Home for Foundlings.
a. b. 1913. Making the Sheriff a receiver
until the appointment of an assignee.
). b. 24. To establish a standard of
weights and measures.
a. b. 7O3. Amending the code in regard
70 pilotage.
5. b. 1913. Authorizing certain corpora
tions TO act as executor, etc.
;. BIS 3, 4 and 3. Amending the road
laws.
a. 3. SCI. General appropriation bill,
except as TO certain items disapproved.
$. b. 695. For the relief of a. j. Bourn,
who lost an arm at San Quentin while
capturing escaped prisoners.
:. b. 304. To pay the expenses of certain
cases to which the State was party.
s. B. 293. For the relief of J. J. Conlin.
I'm approving this bill the Governor says
he did so because it was unanimously
passed by both branches of the Legis-
lature, and had been examined and re-
ported on favorably by the Attorney
General; also, that the Superintendent OF
Streets IN San Francisco had telegraphed
that the sum asked was exactly that
shown on the books of that department.
Furthermore, in a case involving pre-
cisely the same issues the Supreme Court
had decided in favor Of the claimant.
WHAT THE GOVERNOR HAS TO SAY.
In an interview with a RECORD UNION
representative yesterday the Governor
said, among other things, that the great
est difficulty under which he had labored
was the fact that he was not permitted,
under the Constitution of the State to
scale down items Of appropriation in the
general appropriation bill, but must
either approve or disapprove Of each
item as whole. Were he permitted by
the Constitution to exercise his Judgment
and discretion in regard to each item, he
thinks that he could, without doubt. have
brought the total Of the items for all ap-
preparations for the forty-third and forty
fourth fiscal years within the fifty cent
limit, without disappearing any apprO-
priation for the completion or erection of
new buildings for tine various public insti-
tutions, which appropriations, in many
cases, he regards as more meritorious
than the excessive amounts allowed in
many items of the general appropriation
bill.
The appropriations for the State Agri-
cultural Society. for a very large mum Der
of the District Agricultural Associations,
the Mining Bureau, the Niticultural Com
mission and various others not necessary
to enumerate, are entirely beyond what he
deems the necessities of each demand, as
the total amount appropriated for the va
rious departments of agriculture, horti-
culture ETC., aggregate the immense sum
of S2S0.000. 1t is almost within the limit
of probability, had the Senate Finance
Committee not increased SO largely many
items of the general appropriation bill, as
it passed the Assembly, from which in
crease the Senate refused at all times to
recede, the Governor would not have
been compelled to disapprove of so many
special appropriations.
He does not consider that the appropri-
ations made for the deficiencies in the
various offices created by the predecessors
OF the present incumbents, and the apDro-
priatiOns for the various claims which
have accrued against the State III past
years, and which have been approved by
him as Just CLAIMS as a part of the run
ming expenses of the State Government
for the torty-third and forty-fourth fiscal
years; but insists that he should be, and
Is, governed by the Republican platform
on which he was elected, and the pledges
made by his party and himself of the
subject.
III arriving at his conclusions in this
matter, the Governor says that the cash
in the treasury at the present time, or
the amount the Controller estimates will
be IN the treasury on the lst day OF
July, 1891, cuts no figure whatever, and
has not been used by him in his calcula-
tons; nor does he consider himself bound
altogether by the tax levy bill, for il pro-
vides for an allowance of 94 per cent. for
deficiencies and collections, while the
Controllers books show that q per cent.
have htn1 oil
as that IS the average for the years 1886
7-8-9.
The Governor claims that the fact
that has controlled his action in the entire
matter is that the amount appropriated
Tor the purpose of carrying on the State
Government for the forty-third and forty
fourth fiscal years should not exceed 81
cents on each 500 of assessable property
which fact has compelled him to disap-
prove many items which otherwise might
have received his signature. The follow.
ing statement of appropriations and re.
sources was given to the reporter by the
Governor:
AMOUNT OF LEVY FOR FoRrY-THTRD AMI
FoKTY-FoURTH FISCAL YEARS.
General flnd d S43o7 q5-
Orphans, aged indigents etc. 10000
keinburselnent fund................. $50
state Board Of EQUALIZATION 10000
Interest and sinking fund .. 26l7l(
University per cent. fund.-. 2l9.75l
Mendoclno Asylum fund............ 175,0o(
school iund. ......... 3932. 2.34S
New buildings. Improvements,
etc.....-................... so5,11C
$40, ,5o1, Gas
The amount produced by an assessment
of fifty cents on each 500 of assessable
property in forty-third and fortv-fourtl
fiscal years would be $40, ,9g7, ,729. This
viii leave surplus of S406, ,0S0 for delin.
queneies ana cost OF collection, which, at