The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-25
Field. Smith was tried in Placer and &C

Field. Smith was tried in Placer and &C
quilted.
Another Assembly bill vetoed that ses-
SION was by Frederick Lux OF Inolumne,
TO grant the Union Bridge Company the
| right to construct bridge across the Stan
islaus River. The general law on the SUI,
| JecC provided that any such Drldge coulu
DC purchased by the county AFTER 1--we
years from its completion. The OIL Oh
Lux contained no such provision. Inc
veto, based on that omission. was unan-
lmouSly sustained, Lux himself being pres
eDt and voting
Early In the next session bill was
passed reducing the salary of the County
| Judge and District Attorney OF Mono
County. The Governor, in approving IL,
salo ne ala so with reluctance, believing II
"Of doubtful constitutonality and
questionable propriety." Senate bill by
Judge james E. Hale of Placer, to amend
an act OF the previous session dividing
| that county into revenue districts, pro-
vlded that the Tax Collector should pay
INT the county treasury 10 per cent lohly)
OF his COLLECTIONS. 1.-The effect OF this
bill. SAID the Governor in vetolng 1t, rs
simply to increase the compensation OF Il
certain lax Collector" The Senate
vetoed this veto by vote of % to 3, and
the Assembly rode over IL by unanimous
vote OF 60, including the Speaker, 1ule OF
Placer.
Mark A. Evans was County Treasurer
i OF San joaquin from October. 1852 to
October. 1861. He was found TO be a de-
faulter In the sum Of 3d. 81 me
suretles, b. w. Bours and others, paid
into the State treasury S10.569 81 on &C
count OF the defalcation. leaving balance
OF S32l3 90. The State sued them Tor THIS
and obtained Judgment A bill to release
this obligation passed both houses at the
session OF 1886. and the Governor vetoed
| a releasing
ties was unjust to The taxpayers, llght-
| ened the regard felt for such obligations,
ana "sureties upon bonds stand upon their
| legal rights, and | can see no reason why
| they should invoke equity to release them
| from their Obligations"
But the Senate, by vote of 81 to 4, and
the Assem- bly, by 56 to Z. passed the bill
over the veto. In this majority 10 the
Assembly were Judge Thomas A. Brown
of Contra Costa and the San Franciscans
Charles Clayton, Michael Hawkins and
George Hearst.
The Governor vetoed bill by Assembly.
man j. +. kidder of Ell Dorado to aid in
the construction of the Placerville and
Sacramento Valley and Western Pacific
Railroads. March 81. 1866. The bill pro-
vided that the State should pay the inter-
est on the companies bonds. to be issued
at per cen. per annum on S750.000, and 6
per cent interest on bonds already Issued
by the Western Pacific Railroad III the
sum of S1,500,000 the interest TO be paid
semi-annually Tor twenty years. To
create fund to pay this interest tax
was to be levied of 10 cents on each 500
of taxable property in the State annually
for twenty years. The interest to be paid
would have amounted to $2,850.00O. 10 re-
turn the companies we're 10 transport free
Of charge public messengers, State prison
convicts in custody, lunatlcs going to
asylums, materials for the construction OF
State buildings. articles for exhibition at
State agricultural fairs and troops and
munitions of war. One of the companies
was to build and equip at least twenty
miles of road each year. the other ten
miles year. One road was 100 miles long,
with nearly twenty built; the other about
forty miles long. with thirty built. We
quote the veto message:
Leaving out of view the legal and cOnsttu-
tiOnal questions involved, cannot reconcile
measures OF mis- character with my settled
convictions OF public policy. Is 1t OF SUFFICIENT
Importance to the people of the whole state
that ten miles of railroad be built between
Single Springs and Placervllle 10 justify
contribution of 81 900, 900? That
there may be no miscOnception In regard 10 the
course adopted by me in the approval OF an
act granting aid 10 the Central Pacific Railroad
Company in 1864 and Withholding my assent
| 10 the bill under cOnsderatl Oh, desire to say
| that when | approved the former act l had III
| view the fact that its acceptance by that COM
| Ddly released the stare from a DONATION OIL
| half million dollars made in time OF war; by
/ The Legislature of 1863. The change In the
| character OF The donation l considered at the
| time advantageous to The State, for the with
| drawal from the treasury within short time,
| of $500. 600 would have seriously embarrassed
! the Stale finances, while larger sum. distrib.
uted through period OF twenty years, could be
| met without serious Inconvenience.
| The Assembly sustained this veto by a
vote of 81 TO Z.
| On May IS 1865, the United States Cir
cult Court for California confirmed to the
city of San Francisco the title of the
| United States to all lands within the city
| limits, with certain reservations aud eX-
ceptons. On March s, 1866. an act of
| Congress was passed IN pursuance OF this
decree of court conveying the lands to the
city upon the following trust: The city
was to convey the granted lands to the
parties who were in the bona-fde actual
possession thereof when the act was
passed, in such quantities and upon such
terms and conditions as the State Legisla-
| ture might prescribe. After this act of
! Congress, and in the same month. the
California Legislature passed an act (by
| Assemblyman c. L. Wiggin OF San Fran
| cisco) to provide for the settlement OF tie
titles to these lands. Governor Low
vetoed this bill. His reasons were that it
Invested the city of the power and trust
confided by Congress, and organized a
|
title, an act which only the city could
| perform, and by ordinance. The Legisla-
ture could only prescribe in what quantl-
| ties and on what terms and conditions the
city should convey. The only participa-
| ton the bill allowed the city was to ap-
prove the bonds of the Commissioners.
pay their salaries, provide them with an
office, clerks, etc. and to appear before
the Comm issoners by attorney. The Gov
ernor made other objections and declared
that the bill, if it became law, would dis
turb AMI unsetle, rather than settle, land
| titles in San Francisco. This veto was
sustained by the Assembly by vote OF 81
| to Is. Among those thirteen, besides wig
| gin, were Henry Dutton and Charles
Clayton. of San Francisco, and ID. Z.
! Cham berlain, then of san Joaquin and
| since receiver of the San francisco Land
! Office, now deceased.
Governor Low was in office when Con-
| gress passed the act donating to this State
the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big
| Tree Grove. In conformity thereto he ap-
pointed commissioners to take charge OF
the property. In the absence OF any APP
| Precipitation for that purpose ne lnducsd
| the United States Surveyor-General TO sur
vey the two tracts, and iG accordance with
| his suggestion acts were passed by the
| Legislature accepting the nation 8 gilt and
providing for the payment for the survey.
The last great drought In our agricul-
tural districts prevailed in the summer TO-
| lowing Governor Lows inauguration. In
| his DaXt bianDial massaQA he urged gen.