The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
NOW A BOARD OF HEALTH.
Governor Budd Is to Meet All
the Candidates in
Person.
NOT TO CONTROL PATRONAGE
a Graduate Of the State University
Is Chosen for Code Com
missioner.

Governor Budd is laboring with the
Board of Health problem. Everything
else, except routine matters, is being put
aside until he reaches a decision as to who
shall control the asylums, hospitals and
sanitary system of San Francisco.
INV appointments will be made in the
NEXT week or ten days" said the Governor
7'During the time intervening shall be al
the California Hotel when am not at the
rooms of the Harbor Commissioners on
State business. intend to give every one
a hearing during that time. OF one thing
you can rest assured, 1 will appoint no man
whom l do not know personally, and
whose qualifications I have not investi-
gated.
-. 1T is that 1 may meet the candidates
that 1 have come to San Francisco Were
it not for that I could just as we'll have
staid in Sacramento and made the appoint
ments. Then, too, / wanted to be able to
T. consult with Mayor Sutro, who is ex-officio
a member of the board"
The Governor said he still harbored the
intention of appointing one Republican
mem Der on the board. He had not made
up his mind about the lucky man, though
be spoke of DR.. Morse and said that that
gentleman had been recommended to him
in all quarters, but he had not decided to
appoint him.
1.-THE minor Offices" echoed the Gov
ernor. "The minor offices? Well. you
know the Board of Heath appoints the
men who hold the places under it."
Beyond this he would say nothing of
the patronage. He had not decided upon
any. recommendations he said. MANY
men, a number of them young men OF
high standing, had been spoken Of The
members of the Board of Health would be
among the ablest and most independent
medical men of the City. Their appoint
ments, whatever they might be, he said,
would he was sure be satisfactory to the
people and to himself
But will the Board of Health appoint
DR.. Livingston as Health Officer2" was
asked.
Il do not know, was the answer. "The
appointment rests entirely with the ply
-sicians composing il"
~ have not decided who the third Code
Commissioner shall be" he said, when the
question came up. 1.-THE appointment Of
o. 2. Baldwin has been announced for some
time. The other Democrat on the COM
mission will be Ryland B. Wallace, who
will be appointed in the place of R. Y.
Hayne.
Mr.. Wallace is young man of great
Il
YerSIty, being member of the class OF
1875. l appointed him because knew per-
sonaly his sterling worth and eminent
fitness, through his intensely studious
habits. Though he has not as yet adorned
the bench, / doubt if there is a better-read
lawyer in the State; and then, as l said
before, he is a graduate OF the University
OF California
After disposing of the affairs of the
Board of Health Mr.. Budd says he in
tends deciding the lines for the military
division of the State. The first division
has already been decided upon. This is to
take in all the bay counties and those west
of the Coast Range Mountains as far south
as Monterey and perhaps San Luis Obispo.
Then there is 10 be northern division
and southern division, said the Cover
nor. THAT is what is bothering me. l am
hesitating whether to put Stockton with
Sacramento or make it part of the south.
When [ have decided this my work in that
line will be completed
After the division of the State and the
appointment of the acknowledgements Mr..
Budd says he will attend to filing the
vacancies on the boards of directors of the
various insane asylums. Then he will
take up his inspection of State institutions
with a view OF bringing about those
changes which he pledged himself to In
his inaugural address.
Many OF the Democrats opposed to DR..
Livingston seem to think that he cannot
get an appointment from the Governor.
Others suggest that there is way out of
the difficulty if Budd is bound to Loving
ston which will produce the desired result
without resulting in Levingston's getting
a place.
The Governor. it is suggested, could ap-
point three Levlngston Democrats and a
Republican opposed TO Livingston Rather
than see Levlngston appointed this mem
Der OF the board would refuse to vote for
the removal OF the incumbent, and as
1t takes the votes of all four of the
doctors to remove the head of a depart
ment, DR.. Keeney would retain his place.
This would be perfectly satisfactory to
the gentlemen engineering Levingston's
fight. In either case they Would eniov the
patronage OF the Health Office, as Mr..
Keeney is in with Rainey and the rest of
the men who do" politics for a living.
The odium of the affair would be shifted
upon the shoulders of Republican and
many would be satisfied because Leving-
ston was not appointed.
The Governors assertion that he intend.
ed to leave the patronage pertaining to the
Board OF Health entirely with the phvsi-
clans composing that body is evidently re-
.ceived with scant measure of belief by 1.-The
faithful" They meet Mr.. Budd at every
turn. While he was meeting with the
Harbor Commissioners they gathered in
groups on the neighboring corners, sat in
twos and threes on the stairs and CAPPED
in crowds in the Railways and waiting
room.
Many OF those in attendance were As
semblymen; others had been in the Legis-
lature. All wanted jobs for themselves or
their friends and relatives and were loaded
with letters, not to the Board of Health,
but to the Governor personally, in which
notable persons sang the praises of the
favored applicant.