The morning call., 1894-12-07
RETRENCHMENT ALL AROUND
Lavish Public Entertainments
Rebuked.
BUDD DEPARTS FOR STOCKTON.
Democrats Considering the Policy to
Pursue in the Coming Sem
atorial Contest.

Governor-elect Budd has returned to
Stockton. He will not come back to the
city for week or ten days. Before his
departure he reiterated his determi atiou
to refrain from making any promises to
applicants for place until he had ample
time to consider the merits of those who
are anxious to secure State appointments,
and that no men would be named for the
various places to be filed until after his
inauguration.
With reference to appointments on the
Board of Health Mr.. Budd stated that it
would be his effort to select for these
places men who would attend to the duties
political machine.
mo one will be appointed" said he,
whose standing as physician can III any
way be questioned.
In speaking of measures of economy
which might be brought to bear upon the
State government Mr.. Budd stated 10 a
friend that he was very much opposed to
the system of lavish entertainment at the
various public asylums and other State in
stitutions. 1t has grown to be the custom
for the directors Or management to enter
| tain on an eXtravagant scale, quite incom-
patible with democratic ideas. Enter
| tanments are given which would docredit
to the Palace Hotel; but these entertain
meDts have been made on State appropri-
atons. Instead Of being an occasional
incident, these entertainments have de-
veloped into an abuse, into the squander-
! ing of the States money.
After mere cursory examination of the
expenditures by commissions and other
State institutions, the new Governor de-
| clared that at a glance almost he could
readily see where 100000 year could be
saved 10 the State without in any way in
terfering with the efficiency of any of the
administrative departments Of the State.
The talk of contest over the gubernan
toria election has subsidized. Democratic
| politicians assert that there will be none,
| but they declare that if the vote of San
Francisco is to be tested they will insist
! upon recount in Los Angeles. They
claim to have evidence showing that Budd
was disfran chlsed out of many votes in
the city of Los Angeles, and that recount
would materially increase his plurality.
Speculation has quieted down somewhat
as TO the work of the coming Legislature.
! Occasionally politicians discuss the Sena-
| total outlook. The ACCESSIBILITY of unitng
with the Republican minority in case a
| majority Of that party should select for
| the candidate for United States Senator
one who might be regarded as objection
able to the people of the State is talked of
| among Democrats. This would be radi-
cal departure from all precedent, but a
number of Democrats profess to believe
that II might be a wise policy to pursue
under certain con tingeneies. They argue
that a Republican Senator must De elected
In any case, and that IL the Republican
legislators should be anywhere nearly
evenly divided 10 their choice for Senator,
it would be a proper course for the Dsmo-
Gratis in the Legislature to vote for the
man best qualified for the position.
1t is claimed that many Republican leg
islators will refuse to 60 into caucus over
a Senatorial candidate, and that the bal
aDce of power between offering a.piraDts
for the honor may rest with the Democrats
and Populists who Will go to Sacramento.