The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-19
SHERIFF WHELAN And Ills CLAIMS.
They are Severely Criticised by Gov
ernor. Budd.
A Meeting of the State Board of Ex-
aminers at Which the Attorney
General was Not Present.

The State Board of Examiners met yes
tsrday, Governor Budd and Secretary of
State Brown being present.
The miscellaneous claims of the Yo-
semitic Valley Commission, action on
which was deferred from the last meeting
of the board, were allowed. They were
not paid before because they were not
sworn to. General John T. Sheehan,
Secretary of the commission, the Gov
ernOr said. had informed him that the
claims were properly attested.
Governor Budd said that a Notary
Public would be appointed for the Yo-
semitic Valley, so that in the future all the
claims will be sworn to at the proper
time.
When the regular claims for the main
tenance of Stockton Insane Asylum were
read. Governor Budd and Secretary of
State Brown said it was one of the cheap
est conducted institutions in the State.
The bill for the use OF the telephone at
San Quentin Prison was laid over week,
in order that the contract between the
State and the telephone company could
be given thorough looking over.
y bill for Sl4 from superintendent of
L uDIlc luSlIuctlOu blaCk LOT Il SLaDudru
dictionary was laid over for one week.
The Governor said he wanted to know
whether the dictionary is an American
or English compilation.
The claims of Tom Scott for Sl37 80 for
plum blng work in the State Printing
Office were treated IN a like manner. The
Governor said they might be all right
but that they appeared somewhat excess
siye. He said that as the State has so
oh nf hut ind of
plumbers ought TO come down a little in
their prices.
a bill for taking an inmate of the Pres
ton School OF Industry at lone before the
supreme Court on habeas corpus was
also LAID aside. The board wanted some
further explanation IN the matter.
The claim OF the Veterans Home AS
ISOLATION for 1l,250 was referred TO the
Attorney General. The Governor said
he would not like to pass on such large
claim unless it was thoroughly investi-
gated.
Secretary of State Brown informed the
Governor that Attorney-G General FitZ-
gerald had decided that Sheritfs and other
peace officers are not entitled to rewards
offered by the State for the arrest of
criminals.
Governor Budd said be understood that
tho officers would get the reward when
they were compelled to go outside of their
counties.
A number of claims from persons who
have purchased from several counties
their back demands for taking care OF
indigents were referred to Attorney
General Fitzgerald.
The board ordered a telephone placed
In the Secretary of States office.
Secretary Markiey called the boards
attention to the claims of Sheriff Whelan
or san Francisco, aggregatlng a sum be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000, for trans porting
prisoners to the State prisons and insane
patients to the asylums. Whelan was
present with his attorney, w. II. Met
son OF San Francisco.
Mr.. Nelson said that certain prisoners
and patients have been taken to the State
institutions for which Sheriff Whelan
had charged two days travelling ex-
penses. The time charged for in the de-
mands was actually consumed in the
transportation of the prisoners and pa
TENTS. He said the Constitution declared
eight hours TO be a legal days work, and
that ii Whelan left San Francisco with a
charge on one day and returned the next
he had right to charge for two days.
suppose. Mr.. Metson," said Governor
Budd, that the Sheriff walked to Folsom
Prison, or rode In a buggy, would you
expect that he should be paid for each
day consumed in the travel?''
NO, sir" replied Nelson.
The prisoners should be transported
in the least possible time" said the Gov
ernor. There are some who start late in
the day, SO as to run over into the next
day, TOR the purpose OF getting in two
days"
Mr. Nelson replied that Sheriff Whelan
had been instructed to leave San Fran
cisco with prisoners Immediately upon
their being committed.
II can't make Stockton or Napa in one
day." said SheriGf Whelan. The insane
patients are committed at Il O'Clock in
the day. and there is no place in San
Francisco 10 keep them"
Secretary Markley said that in Juno
the Board OF Examiners adopted a reso-
luton requiring that al demands shall
be accompanied by vouchers or receipts.
sheriff Whelan, he said, had ignored the
resolution.
Governor Budd said that San Francisco
ought to provide place 10 keep her
prisoners after having been committed.
1t was not the duty of the State to pro-
vide place, be said.
But the State should not inflict the
consequences of that evil upon the
Sheriff." said Mr.. Nelson. IF tho courts
and Lunacy Commission instruct him to
take his prisoner away without delay,
should he not do so?"
IF W hel2n can save the State SO or S15
for each prisoner he transports, it is his
duty to do it, Aaid tho Governor. k'But
he leaves with his prisoners at an un-
usual hour OF the night. Can he be or
dered 10 take them away? l would like
to see a copy Of the order TO that effect"
Tho city Will not take care of them,D
said Whelan. at is different proDosi-
ton when you compare country Sheriffs
to the Sheriff OF the city and county Of
san Francisco We have from three to
four insane commitments a day in San
Francisco"
Secretary Markley then took another
broadside at Whelan by saying that the
Sheriff charged for meals at san Quentin
and Folsom, when the Wardens OF those
institutions say that they do not charge
The Sheriff or his deputies for meals
taken there. He could not see WHY
Whelan should swear to such state of
facts, which were proven to be contrary.
Whel2n said he took his deputies word
for il that they paid for their meals at the
two institutions. lie said be did not
think it just that the deputies should be
required to ask for receipt for every
meal they consumed. He inIinated
strongly that they should not be looked
upon as q set OF thieves.
Let the board adopt q resolution re-
curing tue officers to eat their meals at
Folsom Prison, and not in the town of
Folsom" said Whelan. land | will see
that they don't charge for meals they
take in the town."
Secretary OF State Brown said that
other Sheriffs send vouchers with their
demands.
''All right" said Whelan, 'if the other
Sheriifs don't charge for meals at the
prisons, cut my claims down"
Secretary Markley said that Whelan
charged 10 cents for dinner at Lathrop,
when he returned 10 San Francisco at 10
O'Clock the morning following the day
he started with his prisoner Whelau
mad charged for meal which he had not
eaten.