Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-09
THE 1NAUGoRATIoN-rHE ADDRESS,

Governor II. III. Markham was yester-
day, with due ceremonial, indicted into
the high Office of Chief Magistrate of the
State of California.
There is general and most gratifying
feeling of confidence in Governor MARI.
ham. The people freely express them
selves as expecting at his hands clean
economic and firm administration of STATE
affairs. He is looked upon as ono Who
comes to the discharge of the great trust
committed to him, untrammeled by politi.
cal entanglements and not bound mn bv
pledges and obligations to Influences with
only selfish ends to accomplish.
We have every reason for entertaining
high hope that all that is expected of
Governor Markham will be realized. He
certainly himself invites the entertain
ment CT such expectation by the most SOL
emn and emphatic expressions of purity of
purpose and intention to conserve the true
interests of the State and its people. be-
fore any and all things.
Governor Markham's inapoural address
is modest, hopeful and pleasant paper.
lie urges upon the Legislature rigid econ
omy, advises the entertainment of a reason
able sum beyond which there shall be no
expenditure, and that all appropriations
be rIgldly confined within such limit.
lie favors aid to the California exhibit to
the Worlds Fair, and suggests that the
sum to be appropriated for that purpose
may be properly treated as extraordinary
and not within the aggregate of expeudi-
ture for support of the State Government
lie insists that the Legislature shall
make the new apportionment upon a
OASIS OF fairness and justice, so as to
give the people as nearly as is possible
true representation. The bills for the
exclusion of the Chinese should be fos-
tered in Congress, useless Commissions
should be abandoned, and the Federal
Government urged to expend means for
the discovery of some method by which
hydraulic mining can be prosecuted with
out infringement Of the laws and the edicts
of the Courts.
He does not commit himself to any
form OF reform ballot system, but advises
that whatever of good there is in our
system be retained, and all the best feat
ures of the best reform system be added.
lie advises renewed attention to the for
estry question, that irrigation supply
sources may be preserved.
Governor Markham indicates his in
tentlon to address the Legislature on
several topics in special communications.
1t is to be hoped that in one of these, at a
very early day, he will call the attention
OF the Legislature to the deplorable condi-
ton of our navigable rivers, and notably
OF the Feather and Sacramento rivers, and
advise the Legislature to do all that can
be done to promote the awakening inter-
est by the Federal Government in the
matter of river restoration The Federal
Engineers will be in this city in few
days more, to sit as Government Com
mission upon this very subject, and it is OF
high Importance that the Legislature
should promote their labors, and that the
good work of examination done by the
State River Commission should be fully
availed of, as was intended when the State
ordered the examination made.
This is the sum of the address, which
is brief, in plain and understandable Ian
guage, and expressed with becoming dig
nifty and vigor. 1t is marked by SINGER
ity and warmth of feeling, indicative of
purity of purpose and an earnest desire
to promote the highest and best inter-
ests of the people.