The morning call., 1891-03-20

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THIS Is THE MAN.
Charles n. FELTON, is a native OF New
York, and came to this State in 1S49. He
has been member Of the Legislature and
has represented the State Of California In
the Lower House of Congress.
TEXTBOOK PRINTING.
The Assembly Committee appointed at
the opening of the session to investigate the
truth of certain reports relative to the
manufacture and sale of State school books
made its report to-day, from which it ap-
pears that the committee found 1t necessary
to employ an expert. who found little to
condemn in the management OF The printing
office. The committee stated that the total
appropriations for the completion and
manufacture Of the books amount to $780,
600. The total expenditures from these ap-
propriatnns to February 10, 1891, amount to
S356, $50 35. The expenditures were: On
account of compilation, S2S, 1879 28; cleo
trotyping, S12,943 10; engraving, S13,-
99l 9S; printing, etc., S228, 400 SO; equip
ment S72,9n SO. The item of $685.
400 SO represents the actual amount
expended for wages of employees,
purchase of stock and material. The total
number of books manufactured to February
10, 1891, is 1,139.175 and the actual cost of
manufacture, excluding equipment Is $751;
54l IS. OF this sum S2S3, 5H 10 was eX-
pended from the appropriations for printing
and compilation and S2l3,99T 33 from the
State School book Fund. Considering the
cost of equipment as S72, ,991 90 the total
gross expenditures have been $50, 533 &c.
The State School-book Fund is a revolv-
ing fund, and the moneys drawn therefrOm
are, on the sale of the books, returned TO
the fund The SchOOl-OoOk Fund is fed by
bp tHVf-h0OkS
only source of revenue. The difference
between S213, ,997 33, the amount actually paid
out, and S57O,53 80, the amount expended
from the appropriations made by the State,
represents the money returned by the peO-
pie to the Treasury in exchange tor books,
to be again used in the manufacture of ad-
ditiOnal books. Ten books of the series
have passed tine $4,000 limit and the cost of
all further editions of these books Will be
charged against the State School = book
Fund. The series as now provided en-
brace thirteen books, three of which-the
works on physiology, advanced geography
and civil gOvernment-haye not as yet been
completed. The completed books are; First
reader, second reader, third reader, speiler
(primary number lessons in advanced
arithmetic lessons in language, English
grammar, United States history and ele-
mentary geography. The total number
OF textbooks sold Is 94j,o9l, and the
amount paid into the State Treasury
from such sales is S304, l67 IS. The amount
expended from the State SchUol-book Fund
in the manufacture of additional books Chat
Is, all in addition to the first so, 600 copies of
each book) is S213,997 33. As this fund is
exclusively appropriated to meet the cost of
manufacturing additional books the entire
expenditure represents the wages of EN-
ployes stock, ETC., and is the cost of the
additional books. OF the original amount
appropriated. aggregatlng 100000. but
$3.50, 536 80 has been expended. and the
books sold have yielded S304, lSS 43, an
amount only S95, ,S12 81 short of the entire
cost of the textbook system.
1t is the experts judgment that the State
has made a most satisfactory profit on the
investment considered only as business
proposition, not to mention the great saving
to the people Of the State. The total saving
is S193, ,134.
ADJUSTMENT OF COMMISSIONS.
There was long debate in the Assembly
this morning over the bills providing for
the consolidation or adjustment of the COM
mission, but none of them were passed.
The House voted to adjourn sine die at u
o'clock next Tuesday, but recalled the
resolution at the request Of DiDble, who
stated that the Senate was holding back the
General Appropriation Bill in order that the
House might not have an op ortunity to
strike out the additional appropriations,
amounting to S400, 900, which the Senate has
added.
The Assembly passed the Senate bill ap-
propriaung $4,000 for improvements at the
Stockton Insane Asylum and an act speci-
flying how new counties may be organized.
BILLS SIGNED.
The Governor to-day signed the following
bills: Ragsdale's bill, authorizing the sale of
the Home for eeble-Minded Children in
Santa Clara; Seawell's bill, providing that
a conveyance by married woman shall
have the same effect as conveyance by an
unmarried woman; Carpenters bill, author
izing the Attorney-GenCrdl to appoint three
deputies, who shall receive S2400 per annum
each; CrandalPs bill, which provides that
married woman may be appointed an ex-
eeutrix, and the authority of an ex-
ecutrix, who is unmarried when
appointed, is not extinguished or
affected by her marriage; father
or mother of a minor child under the
charge the duties of guardianship, may be
appointed as guardian of such child; the
person nominated by minor of the age OF
IA years as his guardian, whether married
or unmarried, may, if found by the Court
competent to DISCHARGE the duties of guard
ianship, be appointed as such guardian;
guardians authority is not extinguished by
marriage; De Longs bill, providing that
$50, COO shall be transferred from the estate
of Deceased Persons Fund to the General
Fund; Kellogs's bill, providing that land
sold for taxes may be redeemed within one
year, or at any time prior to the applica-
ton for deed by the purchaser;
MeCalrs bill Increasing the powers of the
Oakland Board of Pubic Works; Matthews
bill approprlatius $4,000 for the Whittier
Reform School aid DE Longs famous
vagrancy bill, which provides that tie
deemed vagrants, and when arrested shall
be punished for misdemeanor: First t.
Every person, except a California Indian,
without visible means of living who has the
physical ability tO work and who does not
seek employment. nor labor when employ
inert is offered him; or, second, every
healthy beggar who soitcits aims as busi-
ness; or. thitd, every person who roams
about from place to Place without any law
ful business; or, fourth, every person known
to be pickpocket, thief, burglar or conf
dence operator, either by his own confession
or by his having been convicted of either of
SAID oftenseS, and having no visible or Law
ful means OF support, when found lettering
around any steamboat landing, railroad de-
pot, banking institution, brokers' office.
place OF public amusement, auction-rOom,
store, shop, or crowded thoroughfare, car or
omnibus, OF at any public gathering or as
sembly; or, fifth, every idle OF dissolute
person, or associate Of known thieves, who
wanders about the streets at unusual hours
OF the night; or, sixth, every person who
lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse,
vessel, or place other than such as ia kept
for lodging purposes without the permission
Of the owner OF party entitled to the DOS
session thereof; or, seventh, every lewd or
dissolute person who lives in and about
houses of ill-fame; or, eight, every person
who acts as a runner or capper for attorneys
In and about police courts or city prisons,
In Incorporated cities or cities and counties |;
or, ninth, every common prostitute and COM
mon drunkard Is vagrant and is punish
able by Imprisonment in the county jail for
not exceeding six months.